Drumbeat/Festival2011

	Mozilla Drumbeat Festival 2011 — Media, Freedom and the Web
	Owner: Michelle Thorne	Updated: 2011-04-28
	A gathering of smart people using the web to bend, hack and reinvent media. Get your by-line on the future of media!

Date and Location

Late October 2011 in London, UK
Still in 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. Film. 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 of the web as raw material: lego you can use to invent the future of media.
2. Run a three day accelerator. Focus and accelerate web media projects. Use design jams, hackfests, and more to recruit new people and move ahead fast.
3. Connect geeks from media organizations with the latest web tech and each other. Get people working on web and digital in large media organizations 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?

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

• HTML5 Wizardry Duels.
• Kill your iPhone App. Develop a web app in real time.
• Journalism Design Jams — Protecting Sources, Beyond Commenting, Easy Data Viz, and more.
• Story of the Web. Mash and create media to explain the web.
• Augmenting Little Brother in Blender and Butter.
• Overnight MoJo Hackfest on HTML5, Web Apps, Mobile, and Data Journalism.
• Prototype School of Webcraft courses for media industry.
• WebMadeMovies Karaoke.
• Hackasaurus Takes on Web Media.
• Massive, multiplayer HTML5 video games.
• Science Fair showcasing projects and tools

Have an idea? Add it here. Full list available at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Festival2011/Sessions.

Who should come to Media, Freedom and the Web?

Our biggest priority is bringing out web geeks who work in the media industry. This group needs better access to cutting edge tech, space to innovate, and connect with each other.

Here's a sampling of our participants:

• Web developers
• Data junkies
• Journalists
• Filmmakers
• News Networks and Broadcasters
• Community Media
• Peer production spaces
• Commentators and researchers
• Media and journalism students
• Translators
• Policy makers
• Entrepreneurs
• Educators
• Gamers

See Invite Page for a fuller list of people and organizations we're planning to invite. Feel free to add suggestions there or using this form.

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

• Drumbeat/Festival2011/Roadmap
• Community calls and regular mailing list postings coming soon.

Drumbeat Festival 2011 F.A.Q.

• Draft in progress here. Please add your questions!

Related Blog Posts

• Add here.

Related Mozilla Projects

• Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership (MoJo)
• Drumbeat/webmademovies WebMadeMovies, Popcorn.js, Butter
• P2PU School of Webcraft]
• Hackasaurus
• Archive version of 2010 Drumbeat Festival wiki

Parking Lot

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