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-''this is an early attempt at templating MozCamp+ events that extend our community beyond the traditional audience of developers. '''feedback deeply desired.'''''
+'''This is an old and outdated page.''' It is here for historical purposes. Please use the '''MozCamp | main MozCamp organizing page'''.
-==Vision - MozCamp+==
+MozCamp+ is a series of local events for people passionate about the open web. Each event includes discussion, hands-on-demos and collaborative scheming about ways to promote and protect the open participatory nature of the internet. Events happen in any city where local Mozillians want to organize them. Local bloggers, designers, hackers, creative commonors and other open web aficionados present and participate.
-One day (or 1/2 day) event with discussion, demonstrations and collaborative scheming by people who want to keep the web open. Hosted by Mozilla.
+==Doc Status - v 0.02 - December 23 2008==
+This is the first revised version of this document. It includes comments from Gandalf, Zak, Mary and others. It's now ready for wider comment. Also, hopefully we can start picking some dates and building sample local event agendas as a way to more rigorously test the concept.
 ==Audience==
-People who share Mozilla values and may even have their own definition of 'the open web' ... but don't have a way to 'get involved'. This might include:
+'''People who live and work on the web, but who do not yet have a channel celebrate and protect the things that keep it open.''' These people include:
 * Firefox fans and people who informally evangelize for us
 * Students, including campus reps but beyond
 ** especially students in comp sci, design, media studies
-* Bloggers, especially those in semi-tech areas (e.g. digital culture)
+* Bloggers, especially those in areas related to tech (e.g. digital culture)
 * Free culture, creative commons type
 * Web designers and people in the web marketing space (going beyond tech people here, so not just people we normal reach w/ developer evangelism)
-* People who would normally go to BarCamp, CaseCamp, etc.
+* People who would normally go to BarCamp, CaseCamp, DemoCamp etc.
+Many of these people share Mozilla values, or have their own definition of the open web. But they don't yet feel involved in Mozilla. They should.
+--
-These are the people who sit in the 'community of interest' (or 'values') layer here:
+As context: these are the people who sit in the 'community of interest' (or 'values') layer here:
 http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/07/07/concentric-circles-of-community/
+and here
 http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/more-on-mozilla-communities-circles-and-maps/
-http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/07/09/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-community/
-We want to move them into our 'community of action' by giving them new ways to participate.
+We want to create a bigger 'community of action' by giving people new ways to participate.
 ==Goals==
-Help people move from the Mozilla 'community of interest' to the 'community of action' by ...
+Build a 'community of action' that makes it possible for a '''broader number of people to get involved in Mozilla''' by ...
-* Giving them a chance to talk about the open web with likeminded people, what it means in their lives and their communities
+* Giving people a chance to talk about and understand 'What is the open web and why does it matter?'
-* Proving a view of what Mozilla and others are 'doing next' to keep the web open, offering people an 'insiders' view
+* Providing an update on where the Internet is headed as we move to mobile and into the cloud, and sharing an intimate view Mozilla's plans in these areas.
-* Creating concrete opportunities for people to start participating in Mozilla and other open web projects (e.g. start translating the Manifesto)
+* Introducing topics like values, freedom, privacy in relation to Internet to those who never thought about them.
-* Building better links amongst people within the broader Mozilla community (e.g Firefox marketing person and an add on developer) by inviting them to co-host local events like this
+* Creating concrete opportunities for people to start participating in Mozilla and other open web projects (e.g. start translating the Manifesto).
-* Creating a sense of 'belonging' to the Mozilla community for people who don't have that yet
+* Building better links amongst people within the broader Mozilla community (e.g Firefox marketing person and a Firefox add-on developer) by inviting them to co-host local events like this.
+* Sharing hands on skills that give people a richer Internet experience: how to use wikis, blogs, how to search and control their privacy.
+* Creating a sense of 'belonging' to the Mozilla community for people who don't have that yet.
-There is clearly a movement building piece here, which I am not quite saying yet. But that is what I am imagining. This includes everything from stiring people up, to giving them something they can volunteer and work on to getting their name in a database so we can contact them later.
+There is clearly a movement-building piece here, although it's tough to describe that. But that is what is at the root here. This includes everything from stirring people up, to giving them something they can volunteer and work on, to getting people organized and connected so they can continue to talk later.
-==Session ideas and topics==
+==Topics and tools==
-A good chunk of the sessions could be self organizing and local. However, things you'd expect or might even template are:
+* [[Events/MozCamp+Topics]]
+* [[Events/MozCamp+Slides]]
-* 5 minute speedgeek / lightning presentations on different Mozilla and open web projects of interest to people. Everything from Firefox to audience specific add on packs (like F-Y-FF), platform projects like Miro ... and maybe even local open source or open web projects (CC, EFF, eg).
+==Format==
-* Inspiring, TED-like talk middle of the day about where the open web is headed, what the threats are
+Like BarCamp, but better facilitated and more theatre. Or, maybe like BarCamp + TED + Maker Faire. Which means:
-* Hands on workshops by whatever Mozilla community people are around. Localization. Marketing. Manifesto. Add on development.
+* BarCamp = participatory and conversational
-* Discussions or workshops on how to promote the open web locally. Working w/ city council. Working w/ schools. Evangelizing to the media.
+* TED = A small number of very excellent, very short curated talks from community leaders on big picture issues and emerging technologies
+* Maker Faire = there is a hands on community component where people build or write things together. Web sites. Add-ons. Manifesto translations.
+'''In many cases, these would happen on the day before or after a regular MozCamp or local team meeting that was only for Mozilla people.''' The idea would be to take advantage of the fact that many Mozilla people are in the same town, to connect them to a broader public and to bring more people into the edges of our community.
-* Small sprints or hands on projects with specific local relevance, like localizing the Manifesto or coming up with an open web strategy for a local NGO, school or government department. Need the right local people around to make this happen.
+Also important: '''these can be low or no cost other than the venue and food.''' The idea is you just throw a party when Mozilla people are in town and see who comes.
-* A strong party and social component where people just get to know each other and have fun.
+==Customization==
-* '''We also need to merge in the Mozilla Labs Concept Series stuff.''' It sounds like there are lots of similar pieces. Aza and Atul: hack away at above to include what you guys are doing both format and content-wise. Of course, you can still do stand alone stuff. But good to know what this thing looks like w/ Labs plugged in.
+One of the most important elements of this recipe is customization. Think of how extensions can modify browsing experience.
-==Format==
+Depending on what people shows up, what is important on the web at the time of the event, animators have to customize their event to serve the goals of MozCamp+.
-Like BarCamp, but better facilitated and more theatre. Or, maybe like BarCamp + TED + Burning Man. Which means:
+We want to help by providing a platform for ideas, event themes, and place to leave feedback from previous events. We should allow preparing several flavors of the event, techie, informational, educational etc.
-* BarCamp = participatory and conversational
+After each event we should get a kind of report from it together with feedback on what did work and what didn't, suggestions on improvements and what to avoid in the future. It should replicate itself and auto-improve over time.
-* TED = A small number of very excellent, very short curated talks from community leaders on big picture issues and emerging technologies
+'''For this customization model to work, we will need clear agenda and presentation templates, and a wiki that makes organizing easy.''' We can borrow alot of ideas from http://www.barcamp.org/. We will need a site like this soon.
-* Burning Man (or maybe Maker Faire) = there is a hands on community component where people build or write things together. Web sites. Add ons. Manifesto translations.
+==Scheduled Events and 'Strawman' Agendas==
-These would happen on the day before or after a MozCamp or local team meeting. The idea would be to take advantage of the fact that many Mozilla people are in the same town, to connect them to a broader public and to bring more people into the edges of our community.
+<link to MozCamp+ events that we've schedule, or even to strawman agendas that show what this would look like in a particular city>
-Also important: these can be low or no cost other than the venue and food. The idea is you just throw a party when Mozilla people are in town and see who comes.
+* 4 events simultaneously in Poland are in early drafting stage (looking for people etc.)
+* A version of this event will happen on the 4th of March in The Netherlands, with support of the Dutch Gov't. Contact: Barbara Hueppe and Tristan Nitot. Most likely, this event will be called OpenWebCamp.