View source for Learning, Freedom and the Web

The 2010 Drumbeat Festival (Learning, Freedom, and the Web) was fresh, awesome, and cross-disciplinary—in all the right ways.

How will we continue that work online? In part, at a new web hub @ http://learningfreedomandtheweb.org. 

==Festival projects==

[[Drumbeat/Attribution_generator|OpenAttribute]]: the world's simplest attribution tool for Creative Commons content

[[Drumbeat/Feedbacker|Feedbacker]]: a barometer for measuring classroom attention and enagement

[[Drumbeat/Hackasaurous|Hackasaurous]]: tools for teaching web literacy

[[Drumbeat/Minority_voices|Minority Voices in the Cloud]]: tools to help marginalized communities be heard

[[Drumbeat/Data_portability|Data portability]]: allow users to really take control of their data

[http://www.drumbeat.org/node/add/project Add your Drumbeat project].

==How can I contribute to these projects?==

Everyone can pitch in! Please visit the project wiki pages to learn what kind of help is needed.

Many projects have mailing lists or issue trackers you can follow. If you want to see where projects are at any given moment, check out the [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23drumbeat+%23spark #drumbeat + #spark hashtag]. Project collaborators are tweeting their progress!

==How can I get involved?==

There are a ton of ways to contribute. If you're into making things:

*write a blog post
*shoot some video
*pitch in on one of the festival projects
*help us write the book

==Road Map for "Learning, Freedom and the Web" site==

With LFW, we're releasing early and often. If you have web design skills, help improve the site! Current improvements needed:

*jquery powered "how you can help right now!" #drumbeat #spark
*better typography
*better wrapper and spacing
*sexier static pages
*classier footer
*accessibility/validated CSS
*"Videolab" section for regular HTML5 video content
*more dynamic Festival section
*user submissions for "Read about festival"
*better tagging/taxonomies for objects
*localization/filters by language

To join the web team, add yourself to the [http://groups.google.com/group/lfw-org-webteam/ Google group] and introduce yourself.