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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
- Make things with the tools Mozilla and others are creating
- Learn who is building what, how we can share and help each other
- Imagine making in 100 years: what future are we building?
- Design the things we want to build next, especially for mobile
- 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)
- 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)
- Testing Open Badges by using OpenBadger to create and share new badges developed by MozFest attendees (Open Badges team: Chris McAvoy, Brian Brennan, Mike Larsson, Sunny Lee, Carla Casilli)
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)
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 + Dave Humphrey)
- Mash up webmaking with arduino making (Alex Deschamps-Sonsino + Mozilla Japan)
- Webmaking for Mobile
- Theme that connects a bunch of what the fellows are working on? Can we build a session around that? (Dan Sinker)
- Hack session for a mobile version of OpenBadger (OBI tech team)
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)
- Badge system design hacking + yakking (Carla Casilli)
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