This calendar exists to coordinate work between Mozilla, Knight and the MoJo news partners. Given the dynamic nature of the program, it will change from time to time. We will email each time major changes are made.
Year 1 Innovation Challenges - April 25 - June 20
- Partners invited to participate in a number of ways:
- Explaining the program and future of news through video interviews
- Mark will skype interview interested partners, post on blogs
- Stirring up interest amongst challenge entrants / web developers
- Co-hosting a 'challenge meetup' with Mozilla and Hacks/Hackers
- Boston already scheduled, hoping London mid-May, open on Berlin + Doha
Challenge 1 - Open Video - Starts April 25
- Runs from April 25-May 6, community voting from May 9-20
- Partners invited to provide early feedback based on week one
- Will do debrief call near end of second week, time TBC
- First 'challenge meetup' happens May 2 with Boston Globe
Challenge 2 - Re-imagine Comments - Starts May 9
- Runs from May 9-May 20, community voting from May 9-20
- Partners invited to blog / reflect on first challenge in public
- Hopefully do London 'challenge meetup', maybe Manchester?
Challenge 5 - HTML5 Apps - Starts May 23
- Runs from May 23-June 3, community voting from June 6-17
- Partners invited to interview leading projects near end of this round
Important note: we may add a last 'open round' of challenge
submissions after this, letting people respond to all three challenges.
Announce and Showcase Round 1 Winners - Week of June 20
- x winners will be selected, they will go on to the Learning Lab round
- Partners invited to blog or do stories on some of the winners
- Debrief call to review overall process from round one
Mark only got this far
July 11 - August 5 Learning Labs begin
- Opportunities:
- Interview Learning Lab professors
- Requests/Needs
- Work with Drumbeat Festival staff to shape programming
- Work with Nathan and Giles Anderton (Guardian) on fellowship workflow proposal
late September/Early October: in person hackfest in Berlin
- Opportunities:
- Send a representative to participate in the hackfest
- Interview hackfest participants
- Feature prototypes developed at Hackfest
- Requests/Needs
- Work with MoJo staff to prepare for Fellow selection
- negotiate MoU for fellowship arrangements
mid- October: begin fellowship offers (first 5)
- Requests/Needs
- Work with MoJo staff to finalize Fellow selection and placement preferences
- Sign MoU for fellowship arrangements
- mid-November: Drumbeat Festival in Berlin & first fellows begin!
- Feature your fellow
- Send representatives to participate in Drumbeat Festival
- Requests/Needs
- Support Fellow in settling in and completing first assignment - likely some interview or input from a small group of interested reporters