Drumbeat

Drumbeat project management page. Work in progress. Changes frequently.

Mozilla Drumbeat is global community of people dedicated to creating tools that enable internet users to understand, participate and take control of their online lives. Drumbeat provides an opportunity for these people to share project ideas -- and finds contributors, funds and advice to help the most promising projects succeed. Mozilla also directly leads a number of Drumbeat projects of its own.

Overview

• Watch me first: Drumbeat overview slidecast

• Big picture: Drumbeat Framework
  • Long Term Vision: make sure the internet is still open, participatory, decentralized and public 100 years from now.
  • Mission: build community of people who create tools that help others understand, participate and take control of their internet lives.
  • Goals: create conceptual and technical tools that drive understanding, ideas and action that make the internet better.
  • Approach: website and local events gather people actively involved in creating a better internet. Annual Drumbeat Festival as major convening point.

• Starting points: Year One overview
  • Goals: build Mozilla Drumbeat community, find and set up projects that excite us, establish Drumbeat events as place to invent the future of the 0pen internet
  • Initial featured projects, including 'privacy icon design challenge' and Drumbeat presentation challenges
  • Online presence: working home for featured Drumbeat projects, organizing hub for Drumbeat events, source for new project ideas and community members
    • Most recent website mockups nov 9, 2009
  • Drumbeat Festival: gathering people shaping the future of the open internet and providing support to best Drumbeat projects, June 2010.
  • Drumbeat Local: local self organized events, promote better internet idea and identifies people for Drumbeat Festival.
  • Draft timeline: events and website rolling Dec 09 / Jan 10, Festival in mid-2010.

• Other helpful notes
  • What do you mean by 'better internet'?
  • What topics will you focus on in year one?

Project management

• Weekly Updates

• Discussion Forum - get it as email, news or over the web. Join this if you want to get involved.
  • Old Google Group Please use the new group! This is just a historical record.

• New Google Group Please use this new group!.

• Mozilla Drumbeat Mailserve (community-drumbeat@lists.mozilla.org
• Subscribe here

• People helping make Drumbeat happen. Add your name to the list to get involved.

Background reading

• Inspiration and related blog posts
• Campaign brainstorming page
• Blog posts by Mark Surman related to the Drumbeat planning process
• Raw notes from August and September conversations about Drumbeat
• List of people involved in the discussion so far
• Pre-Drumbeat experiments: Internet Health, One Web Day poster and Service Week