Drumbeat

Mozilla Drumbeat is a global community of Mozillians who *use* web technology in new ways to understand, participate and take control of their online lives. learn more

This is the Drumbeat project management wiki. It is a work in progress and changes frequently.

Overview

• Watch me first: intro to Drumbeat slidecast
• Check out www.drumbeat.org for the latest projects, blogs, etc.

• Big picture: Drumbeat Framework
  • Long Term Vision: make sure the internet is still open, participatory, decentralized and public 100 years from now.
  • Mission: grow a community working on practical projects and running events that helps people understand, participate and take control of their internet lives.

• Starting points: 2010 overview and objectives
  • Goal: Introduce Drumbeat to the world. Build compelling projects and vibrant community.
  • Projects - active projects | project framework
  • Events - upcoming | events framework
  • Web site - live site | planning and project management
• 2010 roadmap, changes regularly

• Other helpful notes
  • What do you mean by 'better internet'?

Project management

• Weekly Calls
  • Drumbeat holds open project management calls everyone Monday. Feel free to join.

• Discussion Forum - get it as email, news or over the web. Join this if you want to get involved.
  • Google Groups version
  • Mozilla Mailserve version: subscribe here.

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

• Drumbeat/styleguide Collected notes on logo, imagery, typography, colours etc.
  • Drumbeat/styleguide#logo Sources files and notes on usage.
  • Drumbeat/styleguide#typography Notes on Font Families, type sizes, typographic grid, proportions, colours etc.

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