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''Draft 'about' page for Drumbeat website.'' | ''Draft 'about' page for Drumbeat website.'' | ||
Mozilla Drumbeat is a global community of people making the internet better | 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. | |||
== What is Drumbeat? == | == What is Drumbeat? == | ||
The Drumbeat community is filled with people | The Drumbeat community is filled with people like you - some are *doing* things to make the internet better, others offer financial support, others serve as supporters, trying to find ways to help however they can. This community is seeking to advance projects like: | ||
* Creating software that [[Drumbeat/Challenges/Censor_Caching|makes accessible blocked and censored content]] | * Creating software that [[Drumbeat/Challenges/Censor_Caching|makes accessible blocked and censored content]] | ||
* [[Drumbeat/Challenges/Privacy_Icons| | * [[Drumbeat/Challenges/Privacy_Icons|Designing some simple icons]] to make it easier to understand online privacy | ||
* Running a campaign to promote open web standards by eliminating IE6 | * Running a campaign to promote open web standards by eliminating IE6 | ||
* Dreaming up [[Drumbeat/Challenges/Mobile_Access_Index|a new mechanism]] to educate consumers about the accessibility and openness of the mobile web | * Dreaming up [[Drumbeat/Challenges/Mobile_Access_Index|a new mechanism]] to educate consumers about the accessibility and openness of the mobile web | ||
* [[Drumbeat/Challenges/Ultimate Presentation Challenge|Simply explaining what a 'better internet' looks like]] to their class, their friends, their neighbors | * [[Drumbeat/Challenges/Ultimate Presentation Challenge|Simply explaining what a 'better internet' looks like]] to their class, their friends, their neighbors | ||
Drumbeat helps people | Drumbeat helps people who care about the open web come together and support one another. | ||
== What is a 'better internet'? == | == What is a 'better internet'? == | ||
Increasingly, the internet is becoming our [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_commons global commons:] a critical public resource over a billion people use every day to learn, innovate, trade, befriend and play. | |||
We believe | We believe four key characteristics have helped build and make this global commons great: | ||
* '''Open'''. Built on technologies that anyone can study, use or improve | * '''Open'''. Built on technologies that anyone, without permission, can study, use or improve. | ||
* '''Participatory''' | * '''Participatory'''. fueled by the ideas and energy of more than a billion people. | ||
* '''Decentralized''' in both architecture and control, ensuring continued choice and diversity. | * '''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. | * '''Generative'''. Evolving and improving as we each remix existing parts of the internet into something that is our own. | ||
By explaining, protecting and building things around these characteristics, we create a better internet. | By explaining, protecting and building things around these characteristics, we create a better internet. An internet that is even richer and more resilient. This is what the Mozilla Drumbeat community is doing | ||
See also: | See also: | ||
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Yes, the internet is already great. But '''the open, participatory nature of the internet regularly faces challenges'''. | Yes, the internet is already great. But '''the open, participatory nature of the internet regularly faces challenges'''. | ||
For example: 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? By continuing to invent, innovate and educate using the four 'better internet' characteristics above. That's what Drumbeat is about. | How do we ensure the internet remains open and participatory 100 years from now? By continuing to invent, innovate and educate using the four 'better internet' characteristics above. That's what Drumbeat is about. | ||