Mozilla Festival 2012

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

<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

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]