Drumbeat/Festival2011

Mozilla Drumbeat Festival 2011:
Media, Freedom and the Web

Get your by-line on the future of media.

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

Tentative: late October/early November 2011 in London, UK.
Still in early planning. Subject to change.

Vision

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 evening newshour? 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:

• HTML5 Wizardy workshops and throw downs
  • Contest
  • Stuff to do when you get back to the office
• Kill your iPhone App. Develop a web app in real time.
• Design Jams
  • Protecting Sources -- tools for privacy
  • Beyond Commenting
  • Easy Data Viz
  • Designing for an Info-overloaded readership
• Story of the Web
  • Mash and create media to explain the web
  • State of Media, Freedom, and the Web "book"
• Workshopping Little Brother
  • Butter, WebGL, Blender, Story Boarding
• MoJo Hackfest by winning fellows
  • HTML5
  • Web Apps
  • Mobile
  • Data Journalism
• Screenings
• Overnight Hackfest
• Prototype School of Webcraft courses for media industry
• WebMadeMovies Karaoke
• Butter + Hackasaurus
• Media-hacking with kids. Field trip!
• HTML5 and video games
• Money hacking for media creation
  • How to get money in small ways
  • Sessions on setting up web-driven funding tools
• Science Fair
  • Massive showcase of projects and tools

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.

Who should come? [Filter: what is the future?] We want most: web geeks working in media > radio stations, tv networks, newspapers, comics, books, etc.

Specific people we want to invite include:

• Journalism
  • Mojo Fellows (Zeit Online, BBC, Boston Globe, Guardian)
  • ...
• Film/Video
  • Web Made Movies
  • Open Video
  • pad.ma
  • Peoplesing.js
  • National Film Board (Canada)
  • ritish Film Counsil
  • Fanvids / Mashup artists
• News Networks
  • Guardian
  • WIREDUK
  • BBC
  • Al Jazeera
• Public Broadcasters:
  • European Broadcasting Union
  • NRK (Norway)
  • ARTE
  • NPR
  • Radiolab
  • American Public Media
• Community Media
  • Global Voices
  • Spot.us
• Community production spaces (cybraries, digital maker labs)
• Best of Blogs
• Commentators / Research / Universities
  • MIT Future Media Lab
  • Nieman Lab
  • Jeff Jarvis
  • Dan Gillmor
  • Goldsmith
  • SAE
• Translation
  • Universal Subtitles
  • Speek2Tweet
• Policy
  • Birgitta Jonsdottir
  • La Quadrature du Net
  • Free Knowledge Institute
• Funding
  • Flattr
  • Kickstarter
  • Awesome Foundation
• Media Education / Media Literacy
  • Common Sense
  • EU Commissioner on Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
• Future of the Book
  • IDEO
• Games
• World Weird Web
  • ROFL.con
  • Youtube
  • Memes

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

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

Parking Lot

Idea doesn't fit somewhere? Add it!

Things of interest

media democracy, public media, political participation, civic dialogue, citizen journalism, global public square, marshall mcluhan, freedom of information, remix, read-write culture, spread of ideas, blogging culture, open video, global village, digital literacy, community empowerment, transparency+e-gov, ownership of narrative, watching the watchers, mobile field journalism, emergent reporting, crowd monitoring, many-to-many communications, networked life of the mind, hack ability of the web, being the change you want to see, hacktivism...

Project Management

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Related Mozilla Projects

See also: Archive version of 2010 Drumbeat Festival wiki

Drumbeat Festival 2011 F.A.Q.

• Draft in progress here. Please add your questions!