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 ;What is Drumbeat?
-:Mozilla’s Drumbeat initiative facilitates a better, more open Internet by connecting a global community of people who take control of their online lives. It's a launch-pad and a playground – an open web hub that sits at the intersection of community, resources and funding, and at its core is 100% open web. It's for teachers, artists, lawyers, filmmakers and other everyday internet users who *use* web technology in new ways to understand, participate and take control of their online lives. It's *your* site, use it!
+:Mozilla’s Drumbeat initiative facilitates a better, more open internet by creating community around the world. It's a launch-pad and a playground – an open web hub that sits at the intersection of community, resources and funding. It's for teachers, artists, lawyers, librarians, everyday internet users and of course nerds, geeks, hackers and developers: it's for everyone who *uses* web technology. Drumbeat is an invitation to understand, participate and take control of your online life. It's your site. Use it!
 ;Who is Drumbeat for?
-:At a practical level, Drumbeat community members use web technology to make things that improve and protect the open internet. They run local events where people propose and work on these practical projects. They encourage others to get involved.
+:Drumbeat is for anyone who wants to lend their skills and creativity to the cause of keeping the internet open. Doctors. Filmmakers. Accountants. Students. Activists. Plumbers. Web developers. Anyone who uses – and cares about – the open internet. This is an invitation for web users who are, and aren't the traditional contributors to the Mozilla projects. We believe that *all* everyday internet users have ideas and energy that can help make the web better.
-:Drumbeat is for anyone who wants to lend their skills and creativity to the cause of creating a better internet. Teachers. Artists. Lawyers. Filmmakers. Students. Plumbers. Web developers. Anyone who uses – and cares about – the open internet. These are not the traditional contributors to the Mozilla project. But we believe that everyday internet users have ideas and energy that can help make the web better.
+:At a practical level, Drumbeat community members use web technology to make things that improve and protect the open internet. They run or attend local events where people propose and work on these practical projects. They encourage others to get involved. They facilitate the open web in small, and large ways.
-:If this sounds like you, join the community, propose a project or attend a local event. Help keep the web open for the next 100 years.
+:If this sounds like you, join the community, propose a project or attend a local event. Help keep the web open starting now, for the next 100 years.
 ;Why is Mozilla doing this?
-:Mozilla has a clear mission: to guard the open nature of the Internet. The software created by Mozilla's developer community takes us a long way towards this mission – promoting openness, innovation and online participation at a massive scale. We believe everyday internet users also have a role to play in keeping the web open, especially over the long haul. This is what Drumbeat is about.
+:Mozilla has a clear mission: to guard the open nature of the internet. The software created by Mozilla's developer community takes us a long way towards this mission – promoting openness, innovation and online participation at a massive scale. We believe everyday internet users also have a role to play in keeping the web open, especially over the long haul. This is the role of Drumbeat.
 ;What do you mean by a "better Internet?"
-:The Internet is increasingly becoming our global commons: a critical public resource over a billion people use every day to learn, innovate, trade, befriend and play. We believe that a better Web is an open Web.
+:The Internet is increasingly becoming our global commons: a critical public resource over a billion people use every day to learn, innovate, trade, befriend and play.
+:A closed internet slows down innovation and commerce, and stifles collaboration--it is walled gardens, roadblocks, and gatekeepers. These constrictions often prevent distribution, pooled resources and emergent processes. By keeping the web open we allow a more fair marketplace.
-:*Open. Built on technologies that anyone, without permission, can study, use or improve.
+:*Evolving and improving as we each remix existing parts of the Internet into something that is our own.
-:*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.
+:*Built on transparent technologies that anyone can study, use or improve.
-:*Generative. Evolving and improving as we each remix existing parts of the internet into something that is our own.
+:*Fueled by participation, in ideas, energy or media from more than a billion Internet users.
 :By explaining, protecting and building things around the characteristics of the open Web, Drumbeat can create a better Internet, an Internet that is even richer and more resilient.