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. 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.
4. 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
5. Mark Surman - blog - general outreach and evangelism
6. Ned Schwartz [website] Designer and Front End Developer.
7. Paul Booker Drupal / Open Source Developer (Mozilla Contributor, Sponsored by Appcoast) Developed Mozillaca alongside Jamey Boje to actively encourage Mozilla to support the Open Web and find alternatives to using Twitter. Would love to see Drumbeat encourage Mozilla to adopt open social network alternatives to Facebook like Elgg . Recently we are putting together ILoveTheOpenWeb.com to explore a community drumbeat project idea. I would love to see mozilla Drumbeat embracing alternatives to the likes of Twitter, Facebook, .. etc where they exist.
8. 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 :)
9. [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. Brendan Eich, Mozilla board member
6. Bruno Magrani, FGV Brasil and Berkman grad student
7. Chris Blizzard, Mozilla Evangelism
8. David Eaves, blogger and negotiation consultant
9. Elizabeth Stark, Yale Internet and Society Project
10. Gigi Soh, Public Knowledge
11. Gina Cooper, Project One Page and NetRoots Nation
12. Glyn Moody, journalist
13. Ivan Sigal, Global Voices
14. Jenny Toomey, Ford Foundation
15. Jesse Dylan, filmaker
16. Jim Dempsey, Centre for Democracy and Technology
17. Johnathan Zittrain, Harvard Berkman Centre
18. Joi Ito, Creative Commons and Mozilla board member
19. John Slater, Mozilla Marketing
20. Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School
21. Matt Thompson, SaveOurInternet.org
22. Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's Chief Lizard Wrangler
23. Nicholas Reville, Participatory Technology Foundation
24. Paul Pangaro, former developer strategist at Sun
25. CJ Maupin, former comms strategist at Apple
26. Rebecca McKinnon, Global Voices
27. Ronaldo Lemos, FGV Brasil
28. Simon Heath, Pollution Probe
29. Steve Song, Shuttleworth Foundation
30. Suneel Gupta, Mozilla Labs
31. Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet and Society, India
32. Vince Stelhe, Surdna Foundation
33. Various staff at Creative Commons
34. Paul Booker Drupal Developer