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/><b>Learn the basics of coding and the web by making and building together. </b><br | /><b>Learn the basics of coding and the web by making and building together. </b><br | ||
/><b>With tools, resources and events that make it easy, social and fun. </b><br | /><b>With tools, resources and events that make it easy, social and fun. </b><br | ||
/><br><ul><li><b>Learn by making something amazing fast. </b>Take something you're already passionate about, and use that as a jumping off point for learning more about code and the web. | /><br><ul><li><b>Learn by making something amazing – fast. </b>Take something you're already passionate about, and use that as a jumping off point for learning more about code and the web. For example...<ul><li><em><b>Make your blog more awesome</b>. Tweak your Tumblr or WordPress blog by customizing the HTML and CSS in your templates, using Mozilla tools and how tos to make it easier. | ||
<li><b>Make an interactive video</b>. Take any video on the web and supercharge it by adding pop-ups, commentary and interactivity | <li><b>Make a new webpage</b>. Just started something with your friends (a band, club, etc.)? Use Mozilla tools to create a web presence that you really *made* for yourselves. | ||
<li><b>Host your own informal teach-in</b>. Invite teens to gather around a kitchen table and do a Hackasaurus mission | <li><b>Make an interactive video</b>. Take any video on the web and supercharge it by adding pop-ups, commentary and interactivity, with tools like Mozilla Popcorn. | ||
<li><b>Host your own informal teach-in</b>. Invite teens to gather around a kitchen table and do a Hackasaurus mission, sharing what you make together. | |||
<li><b>"Webify" something</b>. Take a story or blog post and mark it up using HTML. | <li><b>"Webify" something</b>. Take a story or blog post and mark it up using HTML. | ||
<li><b>Go deeper</b>. Create a killer app, new web site, or web-based game.</em></ul | <li><b>Go deeper</b>. Create a killer app, new web site, or web-based game.</em></ul | ||
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<li><b>Open to anyone</b>. All are welcome to participate | <li><b>Open to anyone</b>. All are welcome to participate, and we'll be using a broad mix of tools and platforms, not just Mozilla software. </li | ||
><li><b>Earn recognition and Mozilla badges. </b>Public recognition for your new skills | ><li><b>Earn recognition and Mozilla badges. </b>Public recognition for your new skills (plus cool party swag and goodie bags.)</li | ||
><li><b>Collaborate with others around the world</b>. Share what you've made. Be inspired by what others have made. Hack and remix it together.<br/><br | ><li><b>Collaborate with others around the world</b>. Share what you've made. Be inspired by what others have made. Hack and remix it together.<br/><br | ||
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<b><h3>What exactly are we doing?</h3></b><b>events | <b><h3>What exactly are we doing?</h3></b><b>Creating a winning combination of events, learning tools & resources, and local & global partners</b><br | ||
/>Think | />Think summer festival meets webmaker summer camp, with a lot of more informal events along the way. There will be organized, free courses, camps and teach-ins around the world, and easy ways for small groups to plug in.<br> Concretely, we're organizing: <br | ||
/><ul><li><b>1) Learning events and hackfests</b>. Get excited and make things at local design jams, learning labs and code camps.</li | /><ul><li><b>1) Learning events and hackfests</b>. Get excited and make things at local design jams, learning labs and code camps, both large and small.</li | ||
><li><b>2) Awesome tools and starter-kits</b>. New webmaking and learning tools from Mozilla | ><li><b>2) Awesome tools and starter-kits</b>. New webmaking and learning tools from Mozilla and others, plus kits, curricula and how tos. </li | ||
><li><b>3) Local partners and communities</b>. Like-minded organizations around the world are | ><li><b>3) Local partners and communities</b>. Like-minded organizations around the world are planning great summer events and learning opportunities, so we want to help get everyone under one, connected umbrella.<br/><br | ||
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<h3><b>Creating a more web literate planet. Together.</b></h3> | <h3><b>Creating a more web-literate planet. Together.</b></h3> | ||
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/><b>The Summer Code Party is a party with a mission:</b> | /><b>The Summer Code Party is a party with a mission:</b> Provide free web skills to the world.</b> This year, we're making a big commitment to software and resources that help the world learn the web. Not just <i>using</i> the web -- but <i>making and building with the web</i>: to help people understand it, take it apart, and make their own amazing things with it. <br | ||
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/><br><b> | /><br><b>And we're building a global community of web instructors</b><br | ||
/ | />We can't do it alone. We want to work with you to build a global community of partners and community-based web instructors -- not just this summer, but beyond. So that we can inspire a new generation of inventors, makers and open source innovators together. <br> | ||