Festival2012

Mozilla Festival 2012

A yearly festival with hundreds of passionate people

Making, Freedom and the Web
November 9 - 11, 2012 | #mozfest
London, UK | Ravensbourne College

Goals

1. Make things with the tools Mozilla and others are creating
2. Learn who is building what, how we can share and help each other
3. Imagine making in 100 years: what future are we building?
4. Design the things we want to build next, especially for mobile
5. Fuel leaders who want to invent, teach and organize 

Goals map to what we know we're going to do

1. Make things with the tools Mozilla and others are creating

• Popcorn Maker templates that are sexy and will grow interest and participation. Get as much of the hacking as we can to be around templates (Ben Moskowitz, Dave Humphrey)
• Create new prototypes of web documentaries from The Living Docs project (Brett Gaylor)
• Building Thimble projects and aligned badges (Erin Knight + Jess Klein + Chloe Varelidi)
• Explore a next version of thimble that supports Javascript to teach basic game development, design and system thinking skills to youth (Chloe Varelidi)
• Testing Open Badges by using OpenBadger to create and share new badges developed by MozFest attendees (Chris McAvoy, Brian Brennan, Mike Larsson, Sunny Lee, Carla Casilli)
• Hacking Popcorn Maker templates for the newsroom (Knight-Mozilla Fellows/Newshour(?))
• Thimble hacks to help journalists learn to code (Dan Sinker)

2. Learn who is building what, how we can share and help each other

• Science Fair (Michelle Thorne)
• Hive Pop-Up+ > London / NYC / Chicago (Chris Lawrence + Erin Knight + John Bevan)
• Thimble project show and tell, playtesting at MozFest (Erin Knight + Jess Klein + Chloe Varelidi)
• Teach-ins based on from OpenNews hackathons (i.e. timelines from Argentina, Wall Street Journal)  (Dan Sinker)
• Open Badges in the wild, a DML joint (Sunny Lee + Carla Casilli)
• Election Hacking: Comparing notes, thoughts, and code from 2012 elections with newsroom developers. (Dan Sinker, Ben Simon)

3. Imagine making in 100 years: what future do we want?

• Keynotes on the long game
• Futurecasting of Internet threat scenarios over next 100 years
• What does success look like with Webmaker - what will a webmaking generation be able to do, change, etc?
• How might badges change the learning landscape, what types of things do we need to do to get there? (Carla Casilli + Sunny Lee + Chris McAvoy)

4. Design the things we want to build next, especially for mobile

• Universal Level Editor for Hackable Web Games (Mark Surman + Bobby Richter + Alan Kligman + Pomax)
  • 3D games (Alan Kligman)
  • 2D games (Pomax)
• Mash up webmaking with arduino making (Alex Deschamps-Sonsino + Mozilla Japan)
• Webmaking for Mobile
• Hack session for a mobile version of OpenBadger (OBI tech team)
• Hack the Second Screen (Knight-Mozilla Fellow Mark Boas)
• Build a Festival News Dashboard (Knight-Mozilla Fellow Cole Gillespie)
• Designing for Credibility (Knight-Mozilla Fellow Dan Schultz)

5. Fuel leaders who want to invent, teach and organize

• Session leaders drawn from Hive and other youth networks
• Connecting and empowering grassroots instructors and teachers (Michelle Levesque + John Bevan)
• Traditional curriculum hacking (Chris Lawrence + Erin Knight + Laura Hilliger)
• Soft skills for supporting and leading the Webmaker Movement (Allen Gunn)
• Knight-Mozilla Fellows (2012 & 13) talk about leadership in the new newsroom (Knight-Mozilla Fellows)
  • Working in the Open (Matt Thompson)
• Badge system design hacking + yakking (Carla Casilli)

Want to propose a session?

Tell us:

• What you'll make or teach about webmaking
• Any relevant links
• Your name and how to contact you

Add your ideas directly to the wiki or email Michelle Thorne (michelle - at - mozillafoundation - . - org) to talk it through.

Timeline

• June 10: Initial goals & high-level sessions on wiki
• June 13: Board discussion, presentation of festival
• July 15: Top partners & session leads confirmed
• August 1: Launch website
• August 10: Open registration
• September 1: Rolling email campaign to promote content & sign-ups
• September 10: All-hands, Session & Facilitation bootcamp
• September 23: Summer Code Party winds-up. Festival fellows announced.
• late September - October: Pre-festival events, inc. with instructors.

Essentials

• Save the Date
• Website: mozillafestival.org
• Mailing list: festival - at - mozilla - . - org
• Hashtag: #mozfest

Team

• Festival Lead: Michelle Thorne
• Local Producer: Alex Deschamps-Sonsino
• Participation Design: Allen Gunn
• Volunteer Coordinators: Diana Proca and William Duyck
• Partnerships: Geoffrey Macdougall