Festival2011
London, November 4 - 6, 2011
A gathering of passionate, creative people using the web to bend, hack and reinvent media. We're solving real problems and building prototypes with talented designers, world-class journalists, resourceful media-makers, and cutting-edge developers.
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Vision
We'll meet in London, the media megacity, for three days fueled by innovation challenges that pull the best of modern web technology into the world of media making. Sessions will drive new ways of making media with design jams, hackfests, learning labs, live demos and parties.
At Media, Freedom and the Web, you'll collaborate with real-world journalists and innovative technologists to build whatever inspired version of the media future you like. Minimum talkfest, maximum web making.
Goals
- Get more media people thinking like the web. Build prototypes using the web as raw material; it's lego you can use to invent the future of media.
- Run a three day accelerator. Focus and accelerate web media projects. Use design jams, hackfests, and more to recruit new people and move ahead fast.
- Connect geeks across media organizations with the latest web tech. Get the digital departments of large media organizations excited and innovating using HTML5, web apps, etc.
- Lend a hand. Drive open tech. Offer up Mozilla and others making open tech as a helping hand for geeks working in TV, radio, news and other media. Grow the open community.
Innovation Challenges
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Web Apps and the Future of News |
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| Develop a web app in real time. Web apps are applications that run on any device and can be distributed through any store or directly by the developer. Can you make the next big web app that scratches your news itch? | |||
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Journalism Jams |
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| Design solutions to pressing problems in journalism. How can we use web tools to protect sources? Go beyond commenting? Create easy data visualization? Jam on these concepts and more with leading designers, journalists, and technologists. Think HTML5, Web Apps, Mobile, and Data Journalism. | |||
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Hackasaurus Takes on Web Media |
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| We're designing around the way kids learn technology, based on Mizuko Ito's concepts of hanging out, messing around and geeking out. Tools include HTML Pad and X-Ray Goggles that let kids bend, blend, and remix websites easily. How can we get more kids to lift up the hood and tinker with the web? | |||
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Prototype School of Webcraft courses for the media industry |
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| Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an open education project dedicated to "learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything." Mozilla and P2PU have teamed up to create the School of Webcraft, a powerful new way to teach and learn web developer skills. School of Webcraft courses are 100% free, globally accessible, and powered entirely by learners and mentors like you. Come build peer-driven courses for the media industry. | |||
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HTML5 Wizardry Duels |
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| Show down coding wizards with your latest web-building skills. Learn from the masters and impress the public. Bonus: How can we use HTML5 to augment journalism? How can we scale our knowledge and teach others how to play? | |||
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Game On Arcade |
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| The web has ramped up in gaming capabilities, and we’re now able to do things in the browser that couldn't have been created before. Learn how to make games using web standards that will play in any modern browser, without plugins. Play your heart out in the Game On Arcade. | |||
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Hyperaudio |
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| Tinker with experimental hyper audio players that linking images, comments, and an animated transcript to the audio. Build applications and concepts around the future of radio and audio on the web. | |||
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Overnight Hackfest |
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| Hack overnight with APIs, Club Mate, and a wired building all for yourself. Make and play with media and the web. Show what you got in the morning. | |||
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Augment "Little Brother" in Blender and Butter |
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| The book "Little Brother" by author Cory Doctorow features seventeen years old Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” whose adventures read as a handbook for protecting your privacy online, foiling surveillance cameras, and standing up for your rights online and off. We'll be souping up the Creative Commons-licensed story with open media tools. | |||
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Sing along with WebMadeMovies Karaoke |
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| Thanks to several excellent contributors and up-and-coming web technologies (most critically Rainbow and popcorn.js), it’s now possible to record yourself singing along to the world's repertoire. You are the band! | |||
Have an idea? Add it here.
Schedule
The program of the festival will be organized around innovation challenges across themes in media, freedom and the web. Participants will come together and solve problems and make awesome things in realtime. For example, in a journalism track, you can spend an hour building prototypes that reinvent commenting on the web, or iterate on uses of HTML5 video to tell news stories in exciting, engaging ways.
Other parts of the program will encourage people to meet, learn about projects, expand the circle of web media makers, and just have a good time.
Friday, November 4
| Time | Venue: Ravensbourne College | ||||||||||
| late afternoon | On-Site Registration | ||||||||||
| evening |
Welcome and Cocktail Reception | ||||||||||
| even later |
Web Maker Science Fair | ||||||||||
Saturday, November 5
|style="font-size:11px; text-align:left; padding:6px;" cellpadding=5| 0900 - 1000
|style="font-size:11px; text-align:left; padding:6px;" cellpadding=5| 1300 - 1400
|style="font-size:11px; text-align:left; padding:6px;" cellpadding=5| 1730 - 1930
|style="font-size:11px; text-align:left; padding:6px;" cellpadding=5| 2000
| Time | Walker Space | Fireside Chats The Hub |
Learning Lab: Rm 103 |
Learning Lab: Rm 205 |
Learning Lab: Rm 209 |
Learning Lab: Rm 211 |
Learning Lab: Rm 212 |
Learning Lab: Rm 213 |
Big Space 4th Flr |
Design Challenge 1 | Design Challenge 2 | Design Challenge 3 | Design Challenge 4 | Design Challenge 5 | Design Challenge 6 |
| Opening Welcome on 4th Floor | |||||||||||||||
| 1000 - 1100 | Timeline Journalism | Subtitling Made Easy | Making Money from Free | Prototype with Paper | Webmaking 101 | Zero to Game | Game On Arcade | 3D Models | Popcorn for Beginners | Hackasaurus | News App I | Data Journalism | |||
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| 1130 -1300 | Hive London Pop-Up Experience | Behind the Scenes: AJ Blogs | Hyperaudio for Beginners | HTML Basics for Journalists | Web Apps Framework | Badges for WebMakers | Single to Multiplayer Game | Open Discussions | |||||||
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| Lunch in Room 507 | |||||||||||||||
| 1400 - 1500 | Spiegel | Open Learning Labs | Open Learning Labs | Open Learning Labs | Open Learning Labs | Open Learning Labs | Open Learning Labs | Game On Arcade | Developer Training I | Popcorn Bounties I | Hyperaudio | News App II | Flow Media | ||
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| 1530 - 1700 | Mitchell Baker | ScraperWiki | Open, Participatory and Fun: Working the Mozilla Way | Influence Metrics Have Arrived on the Web | DJ Mini Challenges | Browser ID | Public Domain Megastore | Open Discussions | |||||||
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| Keynotes on 4th Floor | |||||||||||||||
| Evening Plans: Blackheath Hill Fireworks http://www.londontown.com/LondonEvents/Blackheath-Fireworks/e4b3e |
Sunday, November 6
|style="font-size:11px; text-align:left; padding:6px;" cellpadding=5| 0900 - 1000
|style="font-size:11px; text-align:left; padding:6px;" cellpadding=5| 1300 - 1400
|style="font-size:11px; text-align:left; padding:6px;" cellpadding=5| 1730 - 1800
|style="font-size:11px; text-align:left; padding:6px;" cellpadding=5| 1830 - 2000
| Time | Walker Space | Fireside Chats The Hub |
Learning Lab: Rm 103 |
Learning Lab: Rm 205 |
Learning Lab: Rm 209 |
Learning Lab: Rm 211 |
Learning Lab: Rm 212 |
Learning Lab: Rm 213 |
Big Space 4th Flr |
Design Challenge 1 | Design Challenge 2 | Design Challenge 3 | Design Challenge 4 | Design Challenge 5 | Design Challenge 6 |
| Opening Welcome on 4th Floor | |||||||||||||||
| 1000 - 1100 | Open Design Challenges | Ben Hammersley | Processing.js | Model Making a Physical App | Architect the Low-Res Newsroom | Programming for Non-Programmers | Nutritional Information Labels | Hive London | State of 3D Open Source Gaming on the Web | Popcorn II | Translation | Meta Challenge | DJ | ||
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| 1130 -1300 | Making Journalism Education Coder-Friendly | Popcorn for Beginners | Learning Labs | Learning Labs | Learning Labs | Learning Labs | Learning Labs | Helen Turvey on Shuttleworth | |||||||
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| Lunch in Room 507 | |||||||||||||||
| 1400 - 1500 | Open Design Challenges | Creative Process and Impact: Making a Film for the Web | Open Learning Labs | Open Learning Labs | Open Learning Labs | Open Learning Labs | Open Learning Labs | Open Learning Labs | Set My Mobile Web Sites Free | OER Video | Webrunner | Verifying Sources | School of Open | ||
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| 1530 - 1700 | Mozilla: Creating a Web-Literate Planet | Learning Labs | Learning Labs | Wordpress | SecureSmartCam | Learning Labs | Learning Labs | ||||||||
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| Closing Circle on 4th Floor | |||||||||||||||
| AfterParty |
Who should come?
Our biggest priority is bringing out web geeks who work in the media industry. This group needs better access to cutting edge tech, the space to innovate, and to connect with each other.
Got a recommendation? Add your suggestion to the etherpad or use this form.
Planning
- Mozilla Festival 2011 F.A.Q.
- Relevant blog posts:
- Tag cloud of interests
- Community calls and regular mailing list postings coming soon.
- Archive version of 2010 Festival on Learning, Freedom and the Web wiki and website.
Partners
- Information on how to partner with MFW coming soon. Contact geoffrey@mozillafoundation.org in the meantime.