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Ben: ''First stab—let's iterate. Shooting for clarity and friendliness:''
''Second shot at the 'about' page, trying to keep friendliness while pulling on already widely read / supported content.''


===What is Drumbeat?===
Mozilla Drumbeat is a global community of people making the internet better. More open. More participatory. More decentralized. More generative. This is the web we want. It's the web we're building.


Mozilla Drumbeat is a movement to nurture and improve the web.
== What exactly is it that you're doing? ==


The web is cool technology. But more importantly, it's people, ideas, and action.
The Drumbeat community is filled with people who are *doing* things to make the internet better. They may be:


We love the web—you probably do too. That's why we want to make it even better. The web gets better when people have more access. The web gets better when people use it in new and interesting ways. Most importantly, the web gets better when people are empowered and connected to do great things.
* Using open source and cheap hardware to create 'village telcos' in Africa
* Inventing a visual language to make it easy for people to understand online privacy
* Running a campaign to promote open web standards by eliminating IE6
* Dreaming up new business models that bring fairness and openness to the mobile web  
* Simply explaining the 'better internet' idea to their class, their friends, their neighbors


We all depend on the web—it's a public resource. Together, we can make it better.
These people gather at the annual Drumbeat Festival to share ideas and help each other. They also connect online, generating new ideas, working on designs and inviting a much broader community get involved and take action.  


You're here, so you probably already love and cherish the web. Help us get a rhythm going!
== What is a 'better internet'? ==


===How to join in===
The internet has become our global commons: a critical public resource that more than a billion people use every day to learn, innovate, trade, befriend and play.
(kind of contingent on site design)


There's lots of ways to join the Drumbeat.
Four key characteristics have helped it become such a rich resource. The internet is


Just sharing the web with others makes the Drumbeat louder. But that's only the beginning.
* '''Open'''. Built on technologies that anyone can study, use or improve without asking permission.
* '''Participatory''', fueled by the ideas and energy of 100s of millions of people.
* '''Decentralized''' in both architecture and control, ensuring continued choice and diversity.
* '''Generative'''. Evolving and improving as we each remix existing parts of the internet into something that is our own.  


If you're a big picture person, Drumbeat needs your campaign ideas. How can we drum up support for the open web? If you like to tinker, Drumbeat needs your expertise. How can we solve common web problems? If you're a dreamer, Drumbeat needs your passion. How will the web look fifty years from now?
By explaining, protecting and building things around these characteristics, we create a better internet. We make it even richer and more resilient. This is what the Mozilla Drumbeat community is doing.  


In the scheme of things, the web is still relatively new. Together, we can strengthen and steward it for years to come.
''see also: http://www.mozilla.org/causes/better.html, which we may want to evolve to match whatever we use for Drumbeat''
 
''possibly link to Jesse Dylan video in here?''
 
== So what? Isn't the internet already great? ==
 
Yes, the internet is already great. But '''its open, participatory nature regularly faces challenges'''.
 
Current examples: control over our digital identities and data is centralizing; internet providers are threatening 'net neutrality' and the growing mobile internet is far less open than the one on our desktop. And, simply explaining 'better internet' is a challenge: few people take the time to consider how important and fragile the internet commons is. They simply take it for granted, like air.
 
How do we ensure the internet remains open and participatory 100 years from now? This is the key question that Mozilla Drumbeat is here to answer.
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