Drumbeat

Drumbeat project management page. Work in progress. Changes frequently.

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. Drumbeat provides an opportunity for these people to share project ideas -- and helps them find contributors, funds and advice to help the most promising projects succeed. Mozilla also directly leads a number of Drumbeat projects of its own.

Overview

• Watch me first: Drumbeat overview slidecast
• Mozilla Drumbeat is hiring for 3 positions - 2 in Mtn View and one in Paris

• Big picture: Drumbeat Framework
  • Long Term Vision: make sure the internet is still open, participatory, decentralized and public 100 years from now.
  • Mission: build community of people who create tools that help others understand, participate and take control of their internet lives.
  • Approach: website and local events gather people actively involved in creating a better internet. Annual Drumbeat Festival as major convening point.

• Starting points: Year One overview
  • Goal: Introduce Drumbeat to the world. Build compelling projects and vibrant community.
  • Initial possible bootstrap projects, including 'privacy icon design challenge' and Drumbeat presentation challenges
  • Online presence: working home for featured Drumbeat projects, organizing hub for Drumbeat events, source for new project ideas and community members
    • Help build the Drumbeat web site
  • Event strategy: lots of local, self-organized events plus global festival once per year.
  • Draft timeline: events and website rolling Dec 09 / Jan 10, Festival in mid-2010.

• Other helpful notes
  • What do you mean by 'better internet'?
  • What topics will you focus on in year one?

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.
  • Old Google Group For historical use only.

• 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