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*Geeks alone cannot keep the web open for the long haul. We also need teachers, artists, lawyers, journalists and everyone else who works and plays online to get involved. This is why we’ve started Mozilla Drumbeat: a nascent effort to engage ‘the people formerly known as users’ in the process of innovating and shaping the future of the web. | *Geeks alone cannot keep the web open for the long haul. We also need teachers, artists, lawyers, journalists and everyone else who works and plays online to get involved. This is why we’ve started Mozilla Drumbeat: a nascent effort to engage ‘the people formerly known as users’ in the process of innovating and shaping the future of the web. | ||
*At the same time, it is not journalists alone who will reinvent journalism. There is also a need to engage radical and entrepreneurial technologists who want to build new tools and techniques around the core civic values of journalism. The ideas that will reinvigorate news will, at least in part, flow from the technology and culture of the open web. | *At the same time, it is not journalists alone who will reinvent journalism. There is also a need to engage radical and entrepreneurial technologists who want to build new tools and techniques around the core civic values of journalism. The ideas that will reinvigorate news will, at least in part, flow from the technology and culture of the open web. | ||
*We are not just searching for promising "programmer-journalists" and "media hackers," we are looking to promote and grow the field beyond the choir. We are looking for the "outliers" – those web programmers, mobile application developers, user interface designers, artists, and thinkers – that will bring completely new and innovative thinking to the news industry. We are also looking for those journalists who are trying to push the boundaries of the medium and are experimenting with new ideas through technology. | |||
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*The process is designed to cast a very wide net for participants at the beginning and then slowly narrow down the field to a very small group of dynamic and talented individuals that are offered a fellowship. At each step that we are proposing – a design challenge, an online course, a face-to-face prototype-building event – participants would be competing by demonstrating their ability to bring innovative thinking and practical development skills to the challenges of tomorrow's news ecosystem, and the open web. | *The process is designed to cast a very wide net for participants at the beginning and then slowly narrow down the field to a very small group of dynamic and talented individuals that are offered a fellowship. At each step that we are proposing – a design challenge, an online course, a face-to-face prototype-building event – participants would be competing by demonstrating their ability to bring innovative thinking and practical development skills to the challenges of tomorrow's news ecosystem, and the open web. | ||