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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
Who should come?
- Journalists
- Filmmakers
- Educators
- Gamers
- Kids
- Designers
- Web developers
- Makers
- Musicians
All making the web they want.
Draft Schedule
| Thursday, Nov 8 (Prep) | Friday, Nov 9 | Saturday, Nov 10 | Sunday, Nov 11 | Monday, Nov 12 (Debrief) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning | Mozilla staff arrive in London | Pop-up Setup + Facilitator Huddle + Press Conference | Welcome | Learning Labs and Design Challenges | Facilitator Debrief |
| Afternoon | Facilitators arrive in London | Learning Pop-Up for Youth + Facilitator Huddle | Learning Labs and Design Challenges | Learning Labs and Design Challenges | Festival team departs |
| Evening | Festival team dinner | Opening Science Fair | Keynotes and Party | Closing Science Fair |
Sessions in progress
1. Make things with the tools Mozilla and others are creating
Building Thimble projects and aligned badges
- Facilitated by: 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
- Facilitated by: Chloe Varelidi
Thimble hacks to help journalists learn to code
- Facilitated by: Dan Sinker
- Facilitated by: Chris McAvoy, Brian Brennan, Mike Larsson, Sunny Lee, Carla Casilli
Popcorn Maker templates that hackable and grow interest and participation.
- Facilitated by: Ben Moskowitz, Dave Humphrey
Hacking Popcorn Maker templates for the newsroom
- Facilitated by: Knight-Mozilla Fellows/Newshour(?)
Youth Storytelling with Popcorn
- A learning lab with access to Popcorn templates and lesson materials for anyone (especially youth), to sit down and publish a Popcorn project on the web within minutes.
- Facilitated by: Jacob Caggiano
Create new prototypes of web documentaries from The Living Docs project
- Facilitated by: Brett Gaylor
Transform audio into images, and then play it back - the Web gramophone
- Facilitated by: Alex Lakatos and Brian King
Hacking the browser - using the Add-ons SDK to hack inside and outside the box
- Facilitated by: Alex Lakatos and Brian King
Science Fair
- Facilitated by: Michelle Thorne
Hive Pop-Up+ > London / NYC / Chicago
- Facilitated by: Chris Lawrence + Erin Knight + John Bevan
Thimble project show and tell, playtesting at MozFest
- Facilitated by: Erin Knight + Jess Klein + Chloe Varelidi
Teach-ins based on from OpenNews hackathons (i.e. timelines from Argentina, Wall Street Journal)
- Facilitated by: Dan Sinker
Open Badges in the wild, a DML joint session
- Facilitated by: Sunny Lee + Carla Casilli
Election Hacking: Comparing notes, thoughts, and code from 2012 elections with newsroom developers.
- Facilitated by: Dan Sinker, Ben Simon
3. Imagine making in 100 years: what future do we want?
Keynotes on the long game
- Facilitated by: ?
Futurecasting of Internet threat scenarios over next 100 years
- Facilitated by: ?
What does success look like with Webmaker?
- What will a webmaking generation be able to do, change, etc?
- Facilitated by:
How might badges change the learning landscape?
- What types of things do we need to do to get there?
- Facilitated by: 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
- Tracked by: Mark Surman + Bobby Richter + Alan Kligman + Pomax
- 3D games facilitated by: Alan Kligman
- 2D games facilitated by: Pomax
Making the web physical
- Facilitated by: Mozilla Japan, University of Dundee
Fabrication Zone
- Facilitated by: ?
Webmaking for Mobile
- Facilitated by: ?
Hack session for a mobile version of OpenBadger
- Facilitated by: OBI tech team
Hack the Second Screen
- Facilitated by: Knight-Mozilla Fellow Mark Boas
Build a Festival News Dashboard
- Facilitated by: Knight-Mozilla Fellow Cole Gillespie
Designing for Credibility
- Facilitated by: Knight-Mozilla Fellow Dan Schultz
5. Fuel leaders who want to invent, teach and organize
Soft skills for supporting and leading the Webmaker Movement
- Facilitated by: Allen Gunn
Working in the Open
- Facilitated by: Matt Thompson
Collect best practices for hack events
- Facilitated by: ?
Connecting and empowering grassroots instructors and teachers
- Facilitated by: Michelle Levesque + John Bevan
Session leaders drawn from Hive and other youth networks
- Facilitated by: ?
Traditional curriculum hacking
- Facilitated by: Chris Lawrence + Erin Knight + Laura Hilliger + Oliver Quinlan
Knight-Mozilla Fellows (2012 & 13) talk about leadership in the new newsroom
- Facilitated by: Knight-Mozilla Fellows
Badge system design hacking + yakking
- Facilitated by: Carla Casilli
Youth Storytelling with Popcorn
- A session on "training the trainers". How to teach web native storytelling and interactive video to youth. We'll reflect on experiences from Popcorn #StoryCamp and share successes and challenges on getting youth and youth leaders involved.
- Facilitated by: Jacob Caggiano
Want to propose a session?
Tell us:
- What you'll make or teach about webmaking
- How you'll keep the momentum going after the festival
- Your name, how to contact you, and any relevant links
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