Mozilla Festival 2012

A pre-festival briefing session for all session facilitators. For ticket holders, the day starts at 18h00 at the Science Fair!

What is it? The Science Fair is a jam-packed three-hour “show & shout” highlighting the promising projects and people that push the frontiers of the web ever forward. Join us as we explore gaming, interactive prototypes, new technologies, emerging platforms, and so much more. Over 25 exhibitors will be on hand to network, demonstrate their [...]

This is our chance to say hello, get to know you and share an overview of all the Mozilla Festival has to offer. It’s a great opportunity to figure out your must-see and must-try sessions, discover ways that you can help co-create this event, and to get to know some of the inspiring people around [...]

Come join us on the 2nd floor in Room 209! Are you passionate about openness (open kitten photos, open textbooks, open data, open anything!) — but don’t quite know how to explain it to your mom? Or maybe you just want to learn more about how “open” can help you. Come join a community of [...]

Learn how to use Meemoo to hack images and turn them into animated gifs! We will experiment with stop motion, image filters, green screen, and other image hacks. Once you have animated images, you will use Thimble to make an “animated comic strip” with titles and links. You will start by making an animation with [...]

Second Screen Applications extend and enhance content information streams and synchronize alternative content on and via portable devices (the second screen). Join a complex and fascinating discussion and prototyping session among a diverse group of experts and interested parties, discussing and demonstrating second-screen concepts. We’ll be generating a lot of creative content together – paper [...]

Participants will work together to design a tool capable of harnessing existing services such as search engines, social media APIs and data visualization libraries to create a visual picture of how items of Creative Commons content are being viewed, shared and republished over time. Why? While established content providers seek to protect their content and [...]

MaKey MaKey lets you turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. It’s an invention kit for everyone, making creative physical computing accessible with no electronics and no programming required. The MaKey MaKey circuit board pretends it’s a USB keyboard, but you make your own keys by alligator clipping it to objects [...]

Play with fun, interactive prototypes that make the web physical. Curated by Dundee’s Product Research Studio Fieldguide will bring together a diverse mix of designers, technologists, artists, musicians and journalists to show some of their most exciting work. These projects, prototypes and products will demonstrate the amazing potential of a physical internet. Drawing from a [...]

We will start with a new remixing, semantic web editor, based on the Aloha editor, and extended to create and edit remixable, semantic, structured content, in a way that is designed to be used by any author, anywhere. The design challenge is to figure out what kinds of editing people will want to do on [...]

Participants will join in a facilitated and participatory discussion designed to make explicit the activation of a teaching, learning and engagement zone within Mozfest. The discussion will involve project shout-outs, brainstorming and the presentation of interest-based projects and ideas that participants would like to prototype, design and build during the festival. Participants will quickly present [...]

Journalists and those interested in reporting will learn how to use digital journalism tools for newsgathering. We will take five news stories and use different tools to track down potential sources and verify facts. For example, we may want to find tweets originating in Benghazi the previous day, build a map of tweets sent with [...]

At Mind Candy we make Moshi Monsters for the web, mobile and ‘real world’ as well! Because we love creating new games, we have regular Game Jams where we have an hour or three to make up a fun new game from scratch using any technology (even paper and pen). We also run and host [...]

In this session we will start expeditions into different datasets. The data we’ll explore and cartograph will range from financial to environmental and geographical data – and possibly beyond! Participants will join an expedition and discover and map the landscape that they find. Throughout, there will be an emphasis on developing and improving data wrangling [...]

Zombies, Run! is a multiplatform game designed to transform running into a fun activity. We’ll sharing our experiences developing Zombies, Run!, the differences between Android and iOS, and how we have solved the same problems on different platforms with different solutions. We’d like to encourage attendees to attack topics such as: Accelerometer tracking Location services [...]

Graphics on the web have matured beyond <marquee> and animated gifs, and with recent advances in browser-integrated 3D WebGL graphics and JavaScript performance it’s time to step up your game. We represent CubicVR.js, a high-performance WebGL-powered 3D engine with a versatile collection of built-in features and starter-projects for you to build upon. You will be [...]

In our Learning Lab, attendees will create a content page for one of their projects from the Festival and test it across multiple devices. Attendees who don’t have projects will build a responsive page that can be adapted to future Festival projects. We’ll use our front-end responsive framework, Foundation, to accomplish this. In our multi-device [...]

We are going to discuss some of the big questions in the governance of open projects pertaining to: authority, decision making, sustainability, transparency, ownership etc…. We are interested in as many voices as possible, so if you have a story or a challenge, please come along. This is NOT a panel discussion, but a cafe [...]

Zeega is an open-source HTML5 platform that came out of the idea that people should be able to make interactive stories on the internet without having to program. We don’t believe technical knowledge or budgets should be a constraint for exploring the creative possibilities of the web. Zeega’s team of journalists, documentary artists and creative [...]

Inspired by Grow-A-Game, this session will allow you to prototype a game starting with something we are all familiar with: verbs! Whether it is running or collecting, shooting or trading, games are driven by verbs. We will look at classic games in terms of verbs and explore how these verbs express messages and values. Then [...]

People who have never programmed anything will become Physical Computing programmers, by using Waterbear, a drag-and-drop visual environment for programming. This allows users to write code by snapping blocks together like Legos, and to build by exploring. We will build Arduino powered sweet dispensers where your sweets are secured by physical passwords which we will [...]

[NOTE: This session will be happening both on Saturday and Sunday, same time, 10:30am] We all know how awesome the web is, and we want to show you how easy it is to become a part of it. Come learn to express yourself with Thimble, make an interactive video with Popcorn, or remix a web [...]

This session is designed to activate anyone invested in teaching others to make things! The goal will be to catalyze the educator community at MozFest and collectively develop new approaches to teaching and learning on the web. Together we’ll envision prototypes, frameworks, and projects to fuel interest-based learning activities on the web. We’ll explore intersections [...]

Open Badges are a relatively new concept in UK education – both formal and informal. Unlike in the US where there are a number of DML Competition-funded projects mid-way through their work, there is only one of these in the UK (Supporter2Reporter). Nevertheless, there are a number of people already doing some work in the [...]

Superheroes of MozFest is a gripping three-minute video about a new species of humanoid—the Webmaker. This collaboratively-produced video montage provides insight into the webmaker’s habits, characteristics, and habitat by profiling a handful of individuals participating in MozFest, an annual gathering that attracts hominids interested in learning about, and playing with, the future of the World [...]

Team up with other teens and educators to develop materials and resources about open source concepts and making cool stuff on the web. Drop by the Youth Laboratory and get hacktivated. Here are some of the organizations and projects who want to work with YOU: Global Action Project Mozfest Timeline—Contribute to a large paper timeline [...]

Join an All Girl App Hack! If you are a girl interested in getting involved in almost any form of Computer Science this is the Jam for you. You’ll be able to work with several female peers, developers and educators. We’ll be using Appshed.com – an online development environment for the creation of free HTML5 [...]

We will show how to build a game, using our browser based tools called Play My Code. We will all start with a blank project, and slowly build it up, showing features as we go, until we have a complete game. We’ll be encouraging students to constantly check their code to see the effect of [...]

Markup and style a news article and test your media awareness by remixing web news articles to see how the style and structure of a piece can change the message: how does the medium change the message? We’re working on building a “hactivity kit” for organizers to take to use Thimble to teach HTML and [...]

Practical tips and strategies. to change the culture in your organization or team. The general principles of working in the open. that you can adapt and pull into your own team and process. Getting over personal obstacles and your own individual culture / psychology / habits / fears, etc. We’ll write a practical how to [...]

Thanks to the Web, the range of citizen science projects has exploded in recent years, ranging from computing climate models to folding proteins to sensing earthquakes. These projects have traditionally been developed by individual research groups in narrow software silos. But the rise of browser-based apps and the growing power of mobile devices enables new [...]

Quickly turn your idea into a CAD model for a 3D printer. We’ll be designing and printing models using industrial-grade 3D printers. Come learn how to design a 3D model in the browser that’s fit for printing, and then see how it gets made.

Chat led by Tristan Nitot and Regnard

Busting the top 5 myths that most people see roadblocks, contributing to Mozilla. At the end of the session everyone will be energized to contribute on different projects across Mozilla!

Develop your charismatic Vlog Host personality and learn how to plan, present and edit intelligent, inspiring or just plain compelling content and commentary – and learn how Popcorn Maker can help you to pull it all together with style and verve! Session attendees will then be able to take their personal strategy forward and work [...]

In this lunchtime conversation, learn how the Knight Foundation and Mozilla are transforming their work to match the speed of disruption and innovation in media. Michael Maness (VP/Journalism & Media Innovation, Knight Foundation) and Dan Sinker (Director, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews) will discuss the shifts in thinking on how media projects get conceived, funded, built, and managed.

The Open Badges team is rolling out user experience enhancements to the Badge Backpack; which is where an earner collects, manages, groups and shares their badges. Badge earners will get to experience the Backpack, including: Going to a site that issues Open Badge Infrastructure compatible badges like Webmaker; Earning badges; Setting up a Backpack account; [...]

Rolling lunch served on the ground floor

Help answer the question, “What does our block sound like?” and enable individuals to come together online to create and participate in the power and passion of neighborhood community radio. This digital community radio service will focus on developing a continuous listening experience for sharing local news, information and culture while building audience engagement through [...]

Learn how to code and play with mobile devices driven by the web. Join us to: make project prototypes with real designers and developers learn the fundamentals of prototyping and product design for mobile We’ll be paper prototyping, creating thimble slideshows of participants work, user testing the prototypes. Play the App Generation Game. Who should [...]

Our session will explore how we can use badges to reward employee volunteers in companies, and use these badges to raise more money for charitable causes. We know that people who volunteer are more likely to give more money to charitable causes. We also know lots of companies that want to promote volunteering among their [...]

Participants will learn to create interactive stories, games, animations, and simulations with Scratch 2.0, the next generation of the Scratch graphical-programming language. The session will focus especially on the new features of Scratch 2.0, such as: responding to movements and gestures in the physical world (similar to Microsoft Kinect), using new camera-sensing programming blocks cloning [...]

Together, we will channel the spirit of the revolutionary avant-garde and draft the core tenants of a web documentary manifesto. The web promises a radically new direction for cinema, combining live data, networked collaboration and on-location access for new forms of storytelling. What transformation of the arts and society does this new medium propose? How [...]

Can you build a hackable game? Show us! Join us for an intense and creative game building design challenge – small groups will converge, build, remix and hack together new game prototypes over the course of two days. It’s truly choose-your-own-adventure – you can return and continue working on your project, or jump into a [...]

What would it be like if everyone could use video as a powerful ‘intelligence’ weapon, just like Jon Stewart or Russell Howard? Join Mozilla and Internet Archive to prototype and build innovative applications that leverage their massive TV news research and borrow service. The Internet Archive has over 300,000 television news clips from dozens of [...]

Part 1: the Content Go ahead – Press the Button! We will begin by presenting cool examples of one button games that were built with in a short period of time for inspiration, then we’ll cover the idea of making games for cabinets.. Participants will then be asked to break up into groups, and to [...]

ParticleQuest is a fork of BrowserQuest, a game developed by Mozilla Foundation, that started during the CERN Webfest last August and turned out to be the winning project (Yay!). Our wish is to create a science based game with which to teach particle physics while at the same time providing puzzles and multiplayer experience in [...]

We are going to create a “rabbit hole”; where we challenge you to hack some form of media in an unexpected way that creatively leads a user into your story or game. (For example, you could create a site that places instagram photos into comic book style frames, automatically changing the narrative every time you [...]

Hacktivate now! Help design and create Webmaker Projects! We’ll use Thimble projects to make simple, interest-based learning experiences that help you make something cool while teaching code and other important skills along the way. You can create awesome projects worth sharing on Webmaker.org, gain a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, experience building things, and [...]

Squared focuses on how to work collaboratively to think fast and creatively in a business landscape that is constantly disrupted by emerging technologies. As graduates of Google, Hyper Island and IPA partnership education, which aimed to ‘empower the next generation of leaders to drive industry evolution’, we feel that it is important to bring the [...]

This Learning Lab is a practical introduction to the tools and libraries used to build standards-based interactive content at guardian.co.uk and other newsrooms around the world. Starting with an idea participants will be walked though conceptual development, wire-framing & evaluating technical feasibility before an introduction to libraries we commonly use to assemble content such as [...]

Webmakers – what do you wish you had experienced and learned when you were in elementary, middle and high school? What advice would you give teachers to prepare youth to be proficient in the digital literacies of today and into the future? Come join a fireside chat with educators from the National Writing Project to [...]

People who have never programmed a computer will become casual programmers using Javascript, by using Waterbear, a drag-and-drop visual environment for programming. This allows users to write code by snapping blocks together like Legos, and to build by exploring. Waterbear is entirely web-based, all you need is a browser that can access the website. There [...]

During this session, we will explore the space between WEB and citizen science by collaboratively designing and prototyping webapps and data vizualizations that would fill the gap between science and citizens. For example, imagine how many things could be done with the current available open scientific data. From apps that could help people to search [...]

When the Mozilla Manifesto was drafted five years ago to better define the principles of our project, we started by noting that the Internet “is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives.” Fast-forward to today and the Internet seems more ingrained in our lives than ever. As we look ahead to where the Web [...]

Books — even ebooks — are still isolated from the web. They are not yet part of the interconnected open web, in the way that websites, and even music and video already are. As part of the Building Webmakers track at the 2012 Mozilla Festival, we’re at the same time curating content about webmakers and [...]

Overview of Mozilla Games and our progress towards delivering high performance games to the web. He will also show a demo of a first person shooter ported from C++ to JS + WebGL using Emscripten.

Digital tech has provided thousands of new ways to share journalism on hundreds of different screens. This workshop is for active citizens who want to build or experiment with physical platforms and digital tools for finding original stories and telling them in new and interesting ways. From Interactive Newsprint to Drone Journalism and everything in [...]

Tate Collective is a group of young creatives who work with a broad range of contemporary artists (multi-disciplinary) to create programme, targeted towards 15-25 year olds, for Tate Modern and Tate Britain. This session will look at their practice of working with artists as a means of responding to the art/artists of Tate and attracting [...]

We want to show the world how to use Webmaker tools like Popcorn Maker to bring radio style content to life on the web. With Popcorn Maker, you can combine the intimate experience of audio journalism with a layer of interactivity using maps, images, web pages, and annotations to learn more about the stories you [...]

Busting the top 5 myths that most people see roadblocks, contributing to Mozilla. At the end of the session everyone will be energized to contribute on different projects across Mozilla!

Remember when Intel turned your life into a museum exhibition using your Facebook data? Or when Google put your place of birth into Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown video? How about when Take This Lollipop warned you – specifically you – about the dangers of social networking? That’s ‘Perceptive Media’, and it’s coming to a [...]

The session is for teachers and fans who are interested in how to get going with a Minecraft sandbox game in your very own classroom. We’ll cover game fundamentals, learning how to manage a virtual world, and go over some helpful ‘dos and don’ts’ and pro-tips for instructors. Take-aways: You’ll leave feeling comfortable in using [...]

You ran an awesome how-to coding event and the participants walked away with some new webmaker skills. Now what? How do we support the blossoming programmers after the event is over? Without the on-going support of a mentor or peers, new skills can be forgotten. Mentors encourage and support learners in their interests, help them [...]

Since winning a prize in the 4th Digital Media and Learning Competition, DigitalMe and schools based social learning platform Makewaves have been piloting the Mozilla Open Badges system for our S2R Medals project. We’ve been developing an exciting new way to recognise and reward the skills young people develop by taking part in our award [...]

This session will aim to inspire the Mozilla community to think beyond the internet space and use events like the Mozilla Festival or Summer Code Party to inspire creative methodology to bring people, sponsors, private sector, public sector, kids and adults from different, interconnected locations together on a route to explore what they have in [...]

Imagine that you’re a bike enthusiast, or a reporter writing about cycling issues, and you’d like to know whenever a bike theft has been reported. You could call the police department every morning. But wouldn’t you rather just get an email about the police report? In this session, people will learn the basics of writing [...]

Participants will learn to use the LiveCodeLab livecoding environment (a section of the sketchPatch site, made by the sketchPatch team) at www.sketchpatch.net/labs/livecodelabIntro.html They will make their own livecode performance and show it to the audience. They’ll produce cool graphics.

An interactive workshop where participants reflect on their best learning experience. Share and brainstorm ways to apply that to future education.

We’re going to make Webmaker projects on the spot! Join our hack-ready media lab environment: Computers, headphones, internet, and power outlets for those who have their own machines. We’ll have webmaker gurus onsite to support and inspire your makery. We’ll also be serving Popcorn to eat. Take-aways: Walk away with better chops and give our [...]

Join us for an evening keynote, some demos from the day, and a preview of Sunday.

On Saturday, November 10 a party will be hosted at the National Film Museum. You can get there conveniently by taking the Thames Clipper directly from Ravensburne to the museum.

Learn about the Mozilla Affiliates Program at our workshop where we’ll show you how to subscribe to the program, how to use it and most important why to use it! We’ll teach you: All you need to know about the Firefox Affiliates program and other Mozilla products How To host buttons on your site and [...]

Welcome back to Mozilla. Preview of the day ahead and a keynote by Joi Ito, Executive Director of the MIT Media Lab and Board Member of Mozilla.

[NOTE: This session will be happening both on Saturday and Sunday, same time, 10:30am] We all know how awesome the web is, and we want to show you how easy it is to become a part of it. Come learn to express yourself with Thimble, make an interactive video with Popcorn, or remix a web [...]

This session focuses on how to use multiple sources of Linked Open Data to create visualizations that later will be used in blogs, articles, etc. Using tools like SPARQL and Visualbox we will learn how to use Linked Open Data available on the Web to create visualizations. Since the tools used are Open Source, we [...]

Join us for a brainstorming session where we’ll develop ideas for a very simple machine that will read and display (highly selective) information from the web. This activity requires understanding the implications of the available data but also allows a lot of creativity in the output presentation which might include any of the following: LEDs, [...]

Want to learn how to send time synched links from online videos to a smartphone or tablet? Why would you? Have you ever googled films and TV-shows while you watch them? Do you think Youtube’s popup annotations in the middle of a video are distracting? Linklib lets filmmakers, filmfans, journalists and bloggers send time synched [...]

Election season is the Super Bowl for news-application teams. Whether it’s capturing live data streams on election night, creating innovative new approaches to mapping, building large-scale crowdsourcing infrastructure to fact check or data-dive, capturing real-time social sentiment, or simply creating new user experiences for presenting election results, developers inside the newsroom (and passionate indies) repeatedly [...]

We’ve been working hard last year and a half building the second biggest Hacks/Hackers community around the world with 1670 members, and about 15 meetups and hackathons. We’ve created the HHBA Media Party, biggest mediathon ever in Southamerica with 700 participants in three days. We’ve reached a level of “expertise” bringing these two worlds together [...]

Designing games is an act of system hacking. You can approach the design of games from many directions. You can start with a mechanic you think holds the possibility to engage players. You can begin with the intention of invoking a feeling in players. Build up systems, tear them apart and build them back up. [...]

Scratch 2.0 allows you to create interactive games and animations while Thimble makes it incredibly easy to create and host your own webpage. Together they allow you to build rich web experiences right in your browser. Participants will learn how to use these applications together to easily create and host their own webpages with games [...]

Pulling inspiration from ideas and designs that come out of the design session, the Prototyping Jam will bring designers, educators and developers together to hack on prototypes and develop learning pathways. People with ideas and designs will bring together their design, copy, metadata and code into fully functional prototypes that help learners gain valuable web [...]

Mozilla QA is holding a hackathon to code the first version of the software that would power the “One and Done” initiative, also known as the QA Taskboard. wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Taskboard What is “One and Done”? “One and Done” is a workflow where Mozilla community members can pick Mozilla QA tasks and work on them – one [...]

We’re exploring how to foster this community of knowledge makers using online tools. We see these communities functioning to grow an emerging field of practice in education (ie. digital literacy and connected learning), and in this session, we’ll gather experiences from fellow educators and knowledge makers, as well as community managers, developers, and designers, to [...]

Design a graphic (Olympic rings) using HTML! At an easy understandable level, you can create whatever you want, but we’ll start with the basics creating graphics and text. Once we have our 5 Olympic rings, we can customize them with different colors and sizes. As well as add creative text to make it their own.

We will learn how to make a free, remixable, online textbook for WebCraft. Using existing free and open educational resources, we will use a new semantic web editor to convert and combine materials into a single coherent book. We will use materials from Mozilla, P2PU, Saylor.org, Connexions, Open University’s Lab Spaces, and other web sources [...]

Explore various approaches to teaching js, including a next version of Thimble, and prototype the ideal solution that supports teaching computational thinking, programming basics and js syntax.

<p>A conversation with Mark Surman (Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation) about Mozilla’s mission and its vision to build a generation of webmakers.</p>

Build on ideas for webmaking on mobile. Activity 1:Sketching/ Pitching (Reviewing/ re-fining concepts) Activity 2: Paper Prototyping 101 Activity 3: Iterating/ Demoing

Part two: Can you build a hackable game? Show us! Join us for an intense and creative game building design challenge – small groups will converge, build, remix and hack together new game prototypes over the course of two days. It’s truly choose-your-own-adventure – you can return and continue working on your project, or jump [...]

As the Internet of Things matures, sensors will continue to proliferate – in public spaces, measuring air quality, noise pollution, weather and more; and in private hands, where some of the same things will be measured and some different – biometrics, health, energy consumption and so forth. Governments are already planning their ecosystems, and more [...]

Earlier this year, we at the World Wide Web Foundation have launched the [Web Index www.thewebindex.org]: the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations. Its first version covers 61 developed and developing countries, incorporating indicators that assess the political, economic and social impact of the Web, as [...]

…you ask it for!!! EXTRA Tinkercad session @ 7th floor right NOW! Learn 3D in your browser with Tinkercad. Drop in anytime

The Open Badges team is rolling out user experience enhancements to the Badge Backpack; which is where an earner collects, manages, groups and shares their badges. Badge earners will get to experience the Backpack, including: Going to a site that issues Open Badge Infrastructure compatible badges like Webmaker; Earning badges; Setting up a Backpack account; [...]

This session is for: – Video bloggers & journalists – Translators – Designers & Techs – International bloggers & journalists An explosion in online video production has changed the nature of reporting and advocacy around the world. For civic actors, the problem has shifted from obtaining footage of important events to discovering and amplifying the [...]

The next generation of Scratch, Scratch 2.0 (vimeo.com/41683547) is going to be hosted online, as a Cloud based application. With this shift, we are adding a number of features to Scratch that allows it to “plug in” to the web, enabling young programmers using Scratch to collect and store data online, explore coding with online [...]

Mozilla’s Bob Richter shows you all the pieces of the open source Popcorn Maker, how you can contribute to development, and incorporate it into your apps. Take-aways: Participants will learn about the systems behind Popcorn Maker and how they work together. The app was built from the ground up to be flexible and versatile, so [...]

We’ll explore the Craftyy editor, a drag-and-drop way to make & remix HTML5 games, all in the browser. We’ll go through the basics of each step in the game development process, remixing each others’ games in the process. You’ll learn how to do the following with Craftyy: Design: The basic drag & drop Art: Creating [...]

Build a tactile learning activity with CodeCards. We’ll start with a demo of CodeCards to show what it is and how it can be used, before brainstorming ideas for tactile learning tools, relating to both the web and computing as well as more traditional (read: boring) subjects. Then we’ll have a quick crash-course in developing [...]

What does it mean to ‘level up’ with web skills? Join us as we talk about version 0.9 of Mozilla’s web literacies white paper. Have some input as we develop our thinking further and use it to power Webmaker badges. We’ll give you an overview of our latest work and then ask for your input. [...]

Popcorn opens up a whole new opportunity for instructional videos to evolve just like wiki articles do. wikiHow, a collaborative site with almost 150,000 articles, is here to show you how to create and edit awesome how-to videos that improve over time. You’ll get to watch some fun video demos and edit blank how-to videos [...]

Conversation about Hackdays

Busting the top 5 myths that most people see roadblocks, contributing to Mozilla. At the end of the session everyone will be energized to contribute on different projects across Mozilla!

In early December, the International Telecommunication Union will meet in Dubai to consider treaty commitments that will turn over significant aspects of Internet regulation to nations, stripping away functions that have always been managed through open, community-based approaches. Members of civic society and the general public are largely barred from these meetings: at the ITU, [...]

Participants in this session will have the opportunity to create new learning activities or hack pre-existing ones. We’ll use pre-existing modular activities or “hacktivities” as a jumping off point to brainstorm, design and develop activities that are based on participants’ interests. We’ll use Mozilla’s tools to help introduce, instruct or apply web skills. Participants can [...]

In this session we’ll be taking the concept of responsive design and adding the complexities of comic script / writing / illustrations/ colouring and apply this to webcomics. Our session will: Explore ways of deploying sequential art/storytelling in the new medium of digital devices/tablets and screens. Find solutions to typography and script direction through responsive [...]

Participants will work with custom Popcorn Maker templates to create a narrative about a place or location. This template advances the work by Laurian Gridinoc for the BBC. Participants will record an audio clip telling a story about a place – It could be as simple as their flight to London or walk to Ravensbourne [...]

Our goal is to teach and motivate people to hack in the real world, helping them make the transition from users to makers and construct things that have the ability to change (and better) our everyday lives, using easy-to-use tools like the Arduino microcontroller and a variety of sensor and actuators. We will show how [...]

In this session, we invite participants to discuss and design ways to expand the participation of hackerspaces to children and their families. Hackerspaces and makerspaces have enabled people with common interests to create, connect, and collaborate on projects in shared, community-operated spaces. However, these hackerspaces are often the domains of adults and already enthusiastic inventors [...]

This summer, we had more than 685 events in 80+ countries through the Summer Code Party. So, how can we have more next time? And how can we make the hosts that sign up feel more supported and better prepared, and help the events that happen be even higher quality? Come and help us produce [...]

Challenge: What would it look like to combine privacy awareness tools like Mozilla Collusion with Popcorn.js into a documentary about privacy? Could we actually tell a story about tracking by tracking the audience? Make yourself visible and join documentary filmmakers, privacy advocates and hackers in a brainstorming jam that’s sure to raise some hackles. Session [...]

Part 2: the Cabinet We will first present how game cabinets allow digital games to have an identity and presence within the physical and social environments it is placed. We will review the instructions on how to make sturdy and affordable game cabinets made of wood and cardboard and then make them at MozFest. We [...]

When you think of a “Video Game” you might think of Angry Birds, or StarCraft, Call of Duty, or Dwarf Fortress. These games use graphics, and the player uses inputs to modify and control the way those graphics interact. What would your game look like if you removed all that? What could a non-graphical game [...]

Announcing Mozilla Webmaker Badges! They’re finally here! At this session you can earn some of your very own. How will you do that? By using an <iframe> properly, by fixing a hyperlink, by publishing a completed Thimble project, etc. Even better, you’ll get to help us think about & create other webmaker badges.

Join The MacArthur Foundation’s Connie Yowell and NESTA’s Tom Kenyon to discuss how these innovative grant makers have funded and developed 21st century learning agendas that are leading the way on how we think about teaching and learning in a digital age. Connie and Tom will discuss MacArthur’s Connected Learning principles and NESTA’s Digital Making [...]

Mozilla is launching the second Game On competition and invites you to show us what’s possible using the web as an open gaming platform for the world; This is your opportunity to invent new game mechanics, create new storylines, engage diverse audiences, introduce aesthetically challenging content and re-imagine the web as a gaming platform. Winners [...]

Kuda provides an easy to use interface to build powerful interactive 3D (WebGL) content. This open source framework was designed to empower a new generation to develop the 3D web. By learning how to use Kuda participants will be able to create more engaging websites in the future and be on the forefront of the [...]

Investigative Researchers deal with vast amounts of documents in different formats looking for relationships. Together we will pursue solutions for dealing with issues such as: semantic analytics and processing documents, extracting entities (datamining), analyzing and “saving” facts in a database system, the historic problem of co-references between entities (for example, how to deal with names [...]

Learn about the toolchain of Free/Libre Open Source Software tools available to produce a digital or printed publication. We will deal with software and systems that allow and facilitate collaborative design methodologies such as version control, IRC channels, wikis and mailing lists and see how these can be integrated in a publication and design workflow. [...]

Share the story of our Mozfest Young Reporters, who will introduce themselves and share their skills in filming and interviewing on to participants. Having spent the day reporting around the festival, interviewers will become interviewees, giving participants the chance to quiz the reporter team. The team are experienced reporters aged between 15-19, with aspirations in [...]

This session is designed teach you how to build almost any Web app. We’ll be making a web application (The Web Gramophone) with client and server parts using audio and images in Firefox. Images will be translated into audio and vice-versa. Any image can be used. You can play a regular image, but it’s likely [...]

Badge Bingo is an interactive, festival-long, game where MozFest attendees use digital badges they earn to connect 5 in a row! Digital badges recognize and connect skills and achievements that happen anytime and anywhere. Participants will be able to issue and receive badges across various issuing platforms and earn badges for learning new web skills [...]

How can we design Kickstarter projects will not only fund our efforts at building tools for the open web, but will also engage a wider community in learning, exploring and making together? This session is for people working on open web projects that would like to use Kickstarter to fund their work. We will work [...]

From Watson, to driverless cars, to Siri, artificial intelligence is beginning to show what it can do. Now it’s journalism’s turn: The emergence of text processing and machine learning toolkits and services means that it’s easier than ever to build some editorial intelligence into online journalism and media applications – producing systems that are smart, [...]

Have something to say? Are you a super fan? Come and build a page dedicated to your favorite team or past-time, or showcase all of your makes. You’ll use Thimble to easily build the page of your dreams, oh and learn some webmaking skills and earn some badges in the process!

Learn about a new operating system for your phone that runs completely on the web. Install it, fork it, hack it, and have fun with Firefox OS.

A discussion session to connect with women who were involved in the early British Web. Share stories and give context to what it was like to be involved in that exciting time in an effort to inspire more young women into tech and digital and maybe even science.

The web, and the internet it runs on, is deeply borne of a hacker ethos – the same motivations that gave birth to the videogames industry in the 70s and 80s. However, just as we hack together new frameworks for human action, we also need to respect existing frameworks and take time to play within [...]

Data challenges and how hacktivism can help journalism change status quo: Data and Access to Information context Killing data skepticism by doing it yourself (if gov. doesn’t open data, do it yourself). How we believe media must help promote a movement to open data and develop applications that will empower people´s participation and government accountability. [...]

For individuals and organizations interested in growing a Hive Learning Network in their city. Discuss led by Hive NYC and Hive Chicago.

You’re a Game Developer. What is the best use of your time? How do you best position your product for as wide a reach as possible, and across as many profitable platforms as possible? A number of platforms are becoming more and more hackable. Lets learn how to reach them all and do it at [...]

The Mozilla project is facing legal challenges on many fronts, as are many in the broader Mozilla community. If you are a lawyer, you can volunteer to help Mozilla. Mozilla and LawGives are building a community for lawyers to help the Mozilla project; lawyers who look to support people who make things, and who share [...]

Busting the top 5 myths that most people see roadblocks, contributing to Mozilla. At the end of the session everyone will be energized to contribute on different projects across Mozilla!

Ever wanted to learn how to do UI testing? Join this ‘we made it – you break it’ playtesting session and have your say directly to the people responsible for future product direction for all things Webmaker. How will we do this? We’ll offer you the latest and greatest user testing kit we’ve got and [...]

Closing Demo Party where participants show off what they made at Mozfest. Drinks, music and sharing good hacks.