Webmakers/Community Calls/Feb 14

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Tuesday, Feb 14

Notes from last week's call: http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/what-are-we-working-on-feb7/

Blog and press roundup (read only) http://www.netvibes.com/mozmaker#Mozilla_Web_Makers Anything not listed there already? Please add here: "Web (De)Construction With Hackasaurus" http://hackeducation.com/2012/02/09/web-deconstruction-with-hackasaurus/ "Science, Software Carpentry, and the Discipline to Hack" http://hackeducation.com/2012/02/09/science-software-carpentry-and-the-discipline-to-hack/ Popcorn and Documentary http://mozillapopcorn.org/popcorn-and-documentary/ Come work with me for the Mozilla Foundation - http://www.thecssdiv.co.uk/2012/02/08/come-work-with-me-at-mozilla/ Popcorn Remote for iPhone: Linkontrol http://www.tpbafk.tv/2012/02/introducing-the-linkontrol/ Popcorn.js in Google Creative Sandbox https://plus.google.com/101977577738512604757/posts/ZB5tNX89cLs "2012 Mozilla Open Badges Update": https://carlacasilli.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/2012-mozilla-open-badges-update/

Housekeeping Join us in WebEx for demos in today's call Instructions in line 20 above

Getting practical on webmakers (10 mins) Mark Surman https://commonspace.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/getting-practical-on-web-makers/

Notes, Questions & Follow-up Getting our project roadmaps on the main Moz wiki roadmaps page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Roadmap Project participation in Monday All Hands Need to start doing regular project updates there. Let's decide and plot next steps. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates

Events and Engagement Plan update Mark Surman

Tow Truck Demo (Simon Wex) (5 mins) An Educational HTML/CSS/JavaScript collaborative editor. Prototype screencast: https://vimeo.com/36754286

OpenNews news (Dan) @OpenNews is now the default Twitter account for the project. Webmaking 101 for Journalists sprint week NYC a success Jess Klein's week-in-review blog: http://jessicaklein.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-heck-is-mvp.html February 25: Chicago Civic IdeaHack co-sponsored by OpenNews seeking developers to spend a day hacking on civic data http://chicivicideahack.eventbrite.com We want to sponsor journalism hackdays with YOU let us know what you're up to here: https://donate.mozilla.org/page/s/knight-mozilla-news-hack-day

Popcorn Maker User Storyies deep-dive (10 min) 60 seconds about how to use Lighthouse Feedback on user stories! https://webmademovies.lighthouseapp.com/projects/80723/tickets/286-popcorn-maker-user-stories Bobby will share the developer "heat map" he developed to see where work load falls with each release

Hive Toronto update (Heather P) (3 mins) http://torontoyouthhackjam.eventbrite.com/

Software Carpentry (Greg Wilson) (3 mins) Or watch "Software Carpentry in 90 Seconds", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztRoeTrlQ6A)

Africa Open Days (Cliff and Alex) https://wiki.mozilla.org/AfricaOpenDays https://etherpad.mozilla.org/AOD-WorkGroup-Feb-2012

SXSW Co-ordination Let's ensure we're all on the same page around a) what we're doing, b) press strategy, c) co-ordination with MoCo

What is Knight-Mozilla OpenNews doing at SXSW? Mozilla Science Fair Mar 10 6pm-10pm w. 18 exhibitors + party Open Badges to exhibit at the Science Fair (If open to non-news projects, I'd be interested in participating - Philipp Schmidt) co-sponsored with Knight Foundation & MIT Media Lab (link? <-- none yet) w/music curated by WFMU And a panel March 11: Open Web, Open News http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP11939 with Andrew Leimdorfer (BBC), Mohame Nanabhay (Al Jazeera English), Emily Bell (Columbia University), and Dan Sinker (OpenNews)

What is Mozilla Popcorn doing? March 12th: HTML5 for Filmmakers: Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge? (Ben - Interactive) March 11th: Does HTML5 Offer a "Montage Moment?" (Brett - Film ) Living Docs project site launch (probably) RAMP/Popcorn booth at tradeshow

What is Open Badges / Mozilla Learning doing at SxSW Edu? Yet to be confirmed, but Secretary of Education Duncan may be including Open Badges in his opening keynote Trying to get on a panel discussion latently. Might be challenging. Panel sessions were submitted and picked by last November. Wait list is comprised of those that submitted panel discussion topics. Meeting up with folks post sessions, talking to key people

What is MoCo doing? sponsorship + Flicks + Popcorn co-sponsoring Knight/MIT party with MoFo & OpenNews Who is MoCo point person for sxsw?

Others? Geoffrey is at SxSW from the 5th to the 13th to provide support and catch any / all partner / project leads that develop; please keep him invited and in-the-loop on conversations Philipp: SXSWInteractive - solo presentation on massive online learning communities (will include "badges") SXSWedu - moderating a panel on "sharing culture" in education SXSWedu - helping run a hands-on session on "building online learning challenges"

Mozilla's first annual Valentine's Day "love bomb" blitz Who's someone special we should send a Mozilla love bomb to today? Could be someone who... we've worked with closely over the past year your favorite community members anyone who deservers a little extra love and recognition! Add your name next to people on this list -- volunteer to send them a love bomb! Please add names to this list: Cathy Davidson -- for being a tireless rock star (Love Bomber volunteer: Matt Thompson) Ken Saunders -- for being such an awesome champion for Mozilla The Mozilla Japan team -- for being so awesome about letting us use their great Science Fair materials and being such enthusiastic collaborators The Knight-Mozilla Fellows Kat Cizek and the NFB team Cliff and the Mozilla Kenya team richard milewski - for lots of great volunteer contribs to hackasaurus (volunteer: jess) There's lots of folks who have held independent hackasaurus hack jams and given us lots of great feedback - christina cantrill @ nwp, alex+cliff @ nairobits, enric+alina @ barcelona, etc.+ all of the awesome Hive contributors to the project (voluneer:jess) Julia Vallera - for being an amazing Hive freelancer The 6 Hive youth (NYC and Chicago) who have contributed posts to the Hive column on Huffington Post High School The teachers in this blog post: http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/baking-htm/ Connie Yowell and An-Me Chung (MacArthur Foundation) -- for funding the Open Badges initiative and championing improved learning opportunities for everyone HASTAC DML team: Sheila Earls, Mandy Dailey, Sheryl Grant, David Theo Goldberg -- for working tirelessly to make the DML badges competition & conference a success Jishnu Menon -- for charting a pathway for the Open Badges team through dark COPPA and FERPA waters. :)

Introducing Seriously.js (5 min) Popcorn-hacker Brian Chirls will present a demo of Seriously.js, a realtime effects library using JavaScript and Canvas - sponsored by Mozilla http://www.seriouslyjs.org

Apply tabzilla If you have a project site, do it! https://github.com/mozilla/tabzilla

Open Badges NYC Dev Sprint update http://bananigans.tumblr.com/post/17593679114/nyc-dev-sprint

Mozilla Webmaker Calendar new home! https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Calendar

Mozilla Press Announcement Calendar link