MozFest 2016: Staff Info

This wiki page is for Mozilla staff interested in attending Mozilla Festival. It addresses travel, accommodation, registration and other logistical details specific to staff. Please note there are different processes for MoCo and MoFo staff, described below.

More information, including schedule, program, volunteering and more is available at the main festival site, mozillafestival.org. If you have a question that's not answered here, please let the festival team know at festival@mozilla.org.

MozFest

MozFest is dedicated to forging the future of the open Web. It is a place to collaborate with a global network of passionate advocates for a free, open and decentralized Web. Taking place over 3 days the festival will offer workshops, learning labs, design sprints, demos, keynotes and debates on a way range of topics, issues and skills. Our Website is the best resourse for information on themes we will be exploring, speaker lists and schedule. Please visit mozfest.org

Weekend Outline (TBC)

MozFest Venue

MozFest 2016 is being held for it's 6th year at Ravensbourne, 6 Penrose Way, London, SE10 0EW.

It's easy to get to Ravensbourne, it's right next to The O2 Arena. By Tube take the Jubilee Line to North Greenwich Station. You can also take mainline services from London Bridge, Charing Cross, Canon Street and Waterloo East to Charlton and take the 486 bus. If you fancy something a little different you can take the Thames Clipper riverboat services from central London to North Greenwich Pier or take the Emirates Airline cable car to Emirates Greenwich Peninsula.

When you arrive in London make sure you grab yourself an Oyster Card. You can either get one at any London Underground station or you can order one in advance on the Transport for London website. You will need to either pay £3 for the card (plus postage) online or pay a refundable £5 deposit at a Tube station. You should put £5 credit on to your card as well as a 7-day travel card for Zones 1 and 2. It comes to a total of £32.10 but it includes unlimited travel around Central London, so it's well worth it.

Deliveries

If you wish to get something delivered to Ravensbourne for use at the festival we can help with the process. Please make sure you've filled out the deliveries form for each delivery to the venue. It makes everything run a lot smoother on-site if we know in advance!

Ravensbourne will be unable to receive parcels before the October 24th so please do not send anything before that. Please note deliveries that get stuck in customs or redirected are the senders responsibility. Please collect your parcel on Friday the 28th Oct from the Supplies room.

MozFest 2016 Deliveries Form

When sending your parcel to Ravensbourne it is important to use the following address format:

MozFest - Your Name
C/O Claire Selby
Ravensbourne
6 Penrose Way
London
SE10 0EW

Contact number - +44 (0) 203 040 3830

Creche Facilites

We have an on-site creche on the Saturday and Sunday of the festival.

The creche will be open: Saturday - 10am until 5pm Sunday - 11am until 4pm

If you wish to use the facility please use fill out this form:

MozFest 2016 Creche Registration

Printing

We have two printing companies to recommend this year.

The first is for more generic printing, so anything from posters to vinyls to stickers. Aspect Press are amazing to work with and they are a local company based just down the road from Ravensbourne. If you want anything professionally printed contact Marc Walsh and he'll do the necessary introductions.

If you require extra large or rigid printing we'd recommend you use PixartPrinting. They are a European printing company, but are extremely cheap for anything printed on cardboard, fomex, wood or aluminium. Make sure you leave plently of time of delivery as even with a next day service, as they are delivering from mainland Europe it can be subject to delays.

General Travel Information

There are loads of ways to get to London from around the world and you have different ways of getting to your hotel from the airport.

London Heathrow
Take the Picadilly Line service towards Cockfosters, and change at Green Park for the Jubilee Line towards Stratford and exit at London Bridge.

London Gatwick
Take a Thameslink train towards Bedford, exit at London Bridge station. (Oyster Cards cannot be used on this route.)

London Luton
Take the Shuttlebus to Luton Airport Parkway station and then catch a southbound Thameslink train (normally towards Brighton). Change at St. Pancras International station and change for the Northern Line via Bank and exit at London Bridge.

London Stansted
Take the Greater Anglia train towards London Liverpool Street. Change at Liverpool Street and jump on the 47 bus towards Bellingham and get off at London Bridge Station.

London City
Take the Docklands Light Railway towards Bank and change at Canning Town for the Jubilee Line towards Stanmore and exit at London Bridge.

Eurostar
If your service stops at Stratford International, exit there and walk the short distance to Stratford station and take the Jubilee Line towards Stanmore and exit at London Bridge.

If you service only stops at St. Pancras International, change there for the Northern Line via Bank and exit at London Bridge.

Dover Ferry Terminal
Take HS1 line towards St. Pancras International and change at Stratford International, exit there and walk the short distance to Stratford station and take the Jubilee Line towards Stanmore and exit at London Bridge.

Visa for Entry to the UK

Are you unsure if you need a visa to enter into the UK? The easiest way to check is to go the the Gov.UK Website and complete the online form.

If you would like a visa invitation letter to help your application process please fill out this form.

If you have any questions about traveling to MozFest or visa related questions please email us festival@mozilla.org

MoCo Registration Information

If you're bringing contributors and would like to waive the registration fee for them, please contact the MozFest Team.

MoCo Travel and Accommodation

Travel and accommodation are the responsibility of your teams so please confirm with your manager that you can attend. Book your travel using Egencia, we recommend arriving Thursday the 27th Oct and departing Monday the 31st Oct.

Accommodation is also your responsibility to arrange but we can recommend three hotels that are being use for Mozilla Foundation staff and MozFest participants, we are currently negotiating rate with these hotels and will have more information how to book these rooms soon.

Hilton London Bankside
2-8 Great Suffolk St, London SE1 0UG
Hilton London Bankside Website

Hilton London Tower Bridge
5 More London Place, Tooley Street, London SE1 2BY
Hilton London Tower Bridge Website A special MozFest rate is available if you use this booking page

citizenM hotel London Bankside
20 Lavington St, London SE1 0NZ
citizenM hotel London Bankside Website You can get 10% off your stay at the citizenM hotel if you sign up to be Citizen. (Which is free to do!)

The hotels are few a minutes walk from each other and around 5 - 10 minutes to London Bridge station which is on the Jubilee Line, Northern Line, National Rail and it will take you around 15 minutes to get to Ravensbourne.

MoFo Travellers

MoFo staff should arrive in London on the Wednesday, Oct 26th and depart on Monday, Oct 31st.

Book your flights through Egencia and give us your flight information with the form below. After that we will reserve your hotel room. All flights must be booked before the 5th of September

Mozilla London has a new office space which is not as large as our previous office in Covent Garden. Due to the high volume of people in London for MozFest and the relatively small size of the Mozspace, we kindly ask you to consider meetings outside of the office for your comfort and guaranteed space.

Venue Suggestions

Here are recommended alternative venues for meetings and fringe events. If you're planning a fringe event, please add it to our Fringe events page on the MozFest website so we can share it further with our network and festival participants

• Citizen M - selection of various sizes of office meeting rooms for hire
• South Bank - Famous multi-purpose venue along the South Bank of the river

Suggested Restaurants

If you have further suggestions, please add below

• Padella - Fresh pasta made onsite each morning, worth the queue
• St Johns - Famous English Restaurant not suitable for Vegetarians or Vegans. They have a private room for hire that fits 12
• Dishoom - Bombay street food, with one restaurant in Covent Garden and the other in Shoreditch. Both have private rooms for hire
• The Grill on the Market - A little bit more expensive, but an incredible steak house near Smithfields Market, if that's what you fancy.
• Anchor and Hope Pub - An incredible pub serving up proper British grub just stones throw from the hotels.
• Mildred's - A vegetarian restaurant that is still popular with omnivores and serves up food from local businesses and small suppliers.

Weird and Wonderful London

There's so many unique places to visit in London, here's just a little list of some quirky things to get up to when you arrive.

• Grab a late night bagel on Brick Lane. The Brick Lane Beigel Bake is open 24 hours a day, so if you ever get a craving head on down!
• Start raving at 7am, with cereal! The Cereal Killer Cafe in Shoreditch often holds breakfast raves, and is a cafe that serves nothing but cereal, what more could you want?
• Grab a coffee in a loo... An old victorian public toilet called The Attendant that's been renevated into a coffee shop, you'll never be caught short for coffee again!
• Visit the imfamous singing ticket barrier at Canary Wharf Underground Station - [1]
• Take a black cab! You can't visit London without jumping in a black cab but beware they are pricey. You can hail them from the street or download an app like Hailo or if you want something cheaper Uber is available all around London.

More information about this to come...