Drumbeat/people

People Making Drumbeat Happen

This is a list of people actively involved in Drumbeat. Please add your name, blog or bio, and what you're interested in helping with.

1. Alex Kozak: SFC@Berkeley co-founder, Free Culture '08 co-organizer, Education Program Assistant at Creative Commons (ccLearn) - recruitment strategies, vision statements, evangelism (of course), connecting people with ideas, anything semantic mediawiki related.
2. Benjamin Bedekovic: Founder of [HDpublish], previously (1996-2007) founder and CTO of global linxs, a company dedicated to knowledge management and search engine integrations in larger enterprises and multinational companies. Currently working on a search and web analysis platform for social web as well as general news data. Working since 1996 in the web world (CMS, Perl, Linux, PHP) and since 1999 fully dedicated to technical integrations with a deeper focus to research platforms and technologies like Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Autonomy, Google GSA, Fast Search, Vivisimo and others. Would like to find/discuss/define ways to open data (re)search to the public better and more efficient then through current single (search) data providers.
3. Jamey Boje Graphics Designer and Front End Developer Banners, Promotional Material / Drupal [mozilla wiki]
4. Brett Gaylor, filmmaker and founder of [Open Source Cinema]
5. Gillian Kerr [blog], founder of RealWorld Systems, a public policy consulting firm working mostly with government and nonprofits in Canada and (in the last few years) Qatar. I'm interested in helping with the definition of short term outcomes and performance indicators for Drumbeat that will help people decide which projects are most promising, and how to measure their success.
6. Gina Cooper: [personal blog], Netroots Nation founder, Partner, [Middlecoast Strategies], I love using technology to experiment in the social sphere, media strategy, event agenda planning, political strategy, community organizing, idea stream
7. Kerim Kalamujic - Mozilla Bosnia and Herzegovina founder, Moonlight Studio founder - really interested in helping Mozilla Drumbeat with brainstorming, web development, evangelism, community organizing, and other activities that require fresh blood :)
8. Mark Surman - blog - general outreach and evangelism
9. Ned Schwartz [website] Designer and Front End Developer.
10. Paul Booker Drupal / Open Source Developer (Mozilla Contributor, Sponsored by Appcoast) Launched Mozillaca to actively encourage Mozilla to find alternatives to using Twitter. Would love to see mozilla Drumbeat encourage Mozilla to adopt open social network alternatives to Facebook like Elgg and open microblogging alterntives to Twitter like StatusNet . Recently we have begun working on ILoveTheOpenWeb.com which is a community drumbeat project idea were currently developing / refining .
11. William Quiviger - EU Community Manager at Mozilla Corp. - really interested in reaching out to European Mozilla communities and finding out the best way to get them involved in the project - also, can definitely help with planning/organizing events of all shapes and form in Europe :)
12. Carlo Frinolli Creative Director/Front End Designer (Does Firefox on Coliseum sound familiar?), working on a small open source enthusiast company, which promotes open source design | Inkscape Gallery| GimpGallery and creative commons licenses for artworks.
13. [add yourself above. try to keep sorted alphabetically by first name]

Early advisors

This is a list of people we talked to early in the thinking process about Drumbeat. Many thanks for your sage advice!

1. Allen Gunn, Aspiration Technology
2. Asa Dotzler, Mozilla Evangelism
3. Ben Scott, Free Press
4. Bob Lisbonne, Pixazza and Mozilla board member
5. Jamey Boje graphicsguru.
6. Brendan Eich, Mozilla board member
7. Bruno Magrani, FGV Brasil and Berkman grad student
8. Chris Blizzard, Mozilla Evangelism
9. David Eaves, blogger and negotiation consultant
10. Elizabeth Stark, Yale Internet and Society Project
11. Gigi Soh, Public Knowledge
12. Gina Cooper, Project One Page and NetRoots Nation
13. Glyn Moody, journalist
14. Ivan Sigal, Global Voices
15. Jenny Toomey, Ford Foundation
16. Jesse Dylan, filmaker
17. Jim Dempsey, Centre for Democracy and Technology
18. Johnathan Zittrain, Harvard Berkman Centre
19. Joi Ito, Creative Commons and Mozilla board member
20. John Slater, Mozilla Marketing
21. Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School
22. Matt Thompson, SaveOurInternet.org
23. Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's Chief Lizard Wrangler
24. Nicholas Reville, Participatory Technology Foundation
25. Paul Pangaro, former developer strategist at Sun
26. CJ Maupin, former comms strategist at Apple
27. Rebecca McKinnon, Global Voices
28. Ronaldo Lemos, FGV Brasil
29. Simon Heath, Pollution Probe
30. Steve Song, Shuttleworth Foundation
31. Suneel Gupta, Mozilla Labs
32. Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet and Society, India
33. Vince Stelhe, Surdna Foundation
34. Various staff at Creative Commons
35. Paul Booker Drupal Developer