Drumbeat/Festival2011

Mozilla Drumbeat 2011:
Media, Freedom and the Web

A gathering for smart people using the web
to bend, hack and reinvent media.

Tentative: late October 2011 in London UK.
Still in early planning. Subject to change.
Alternate venue: Berlin.

Vision

It seems pretty obvious now: the bendable, hackable, remixable nature of the web has dramatically changed the media landscape. Television. Radio. News. Comics. Music. Books. All have been engulfed by the technology and culture of the internet. Or, as grand media meister McLuhan put it: tv, radio, books, etc. have become the content of the web.

So here is the question: what do we want this webified media landscape to look like when it grows up? Keyboard Cat or Hollywood? Al Jazeera or the 9 O'Clock News? Punk rock or big labels? If you make media, build the web or both, you've got a say in this. The web is lego. You can build whatever nifty, fun, creative, innovative version of the media future you like.

Which is exactly the point of this year's Mozilla Drumbeat Festival: to gather smart people using the web to bend, hack and reinvent the media. We'll spend three days throwing down design jams, hackfests, writing workshops, tech teach ins, science fairs and parties that pull the best of modern web technology and technique into the world of media making. Whether you're a web geek who makes media or a media nerd who love the web, this is an event you shouldn't miss.

Goals

1. Get more media people thinking like the web. Promote the idea that the web as raw material: lego you can use to invent the future of media.
2. Run a three day accelerator. Focus and accelerate Mozilla, MoJo and partner web media projects. Use design jams, hackfests, etc. to recruit new people and move ahead fast.
3. Connect geeks from media orgs w/ the latest web tech. Get people working on web and digital in large media orgs excited and innovating using HTML5, web apps, etc.
4. Lend a hand. Promote open tech. Offer up Mozilla and others doing open tech as a helping hand for geeks working in tv, radio, news and other media. Build a community.

What will happen at Media, Freedom and the Web?

Some of the sessions / spaces we're thinking about running include:

• x
• y
• z

See x page for more or add to add your own ideas.

Who should come to Media, Freedom and the Web?

Our biggest priority: bringing out web geeks who work in the media industry. This group needs better access to cutting edge tech, space to innovate and each other. The Drumbeat Festival will offer all of that.

We're also hoping to have people like:

• Filmmakers pushing the edge online
• Web savvy journalists
• x
• y
• z

See x page for a list of people and orgs we're planning to invite. Feel free to add suggestions.

Project Management

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Related Mozilla Projects

See also: Archive version of 2010 Drumbeat Festival wiki