Drumbeat/Eu-Drumbeat

Introduction

This document explains detailed how we, the European Mozilla Community are thinking that Drumbeat should be planned and organized in Europe. This document may be modified in the next weeks.

What is Drumbeat?

Drumbeat is a new project of Mozilla, aiming to gather a worldwide community around Mozilla Mission (behind the code) in order to come with new ideas and build open technologies for the (open) web. More information: Mozilla Drumbeat Wiki page

Why Mozilla Drumbeat - Europe?

We consider that in Europe the Mozilla Mission is not very well understood. Through Drumbeat we would like to articulate more the Mozilla Mission and Mozilla story among the Europe. European public is different from the other cultures and we have been thinking that we need to adapt Drumbeat.

Who can participate?

Drumbeat Europe is open to everybody with an affinity for ideological aspects of Mozilla and, specific interest in Europe.

Strategy

Following will be described the strategy of Drumbeat in Europe. Our aim is to gather people from all domains of interest: business/economy, computer science, politics, philosophy. We believe that the Mozilla mission is not well understood nor well articulated, even amongst the free software / liberalising IP community what are the battlegrounds?

what are we "for" and "against" ?

who are our allies and our enemies?

what does the Mozilla mission "look like"?

why is it (still) relevant?

what can people do to get involved?

Unless we answer these questions, Drumbeat is likely to only appeal to those who are already close to these issues and fail to create much support. Therefore, we think that first, Drumbeat needs to explore these issues, and be a central place for exploring these themes with interested parties, and to surface the threats and what activities people can take. Ultimately, Drumbeat needs to get to a stage where specific consumption choices (e.g. software you use, network operator you choose etc.) may be recommended.

Methods – grassroots campaigning

Promoting Mozilla Mission through grassroots campaigning, by involving actively people from a wide area of interests.

Blog Drumbeat EU - Exploring the Mozilla Mission during a year Planning [[1]]

This blog will contain original articles (content) written by people actively involved in the project and with an affinity for ideological aspects of Internet and Mozilla. The objective of Drumbeat_EU blog is widening and deepening our understanding of Mozilla's mission and to promote it. Articles will be published once a week.

Local Events

Another method is promoting Mozilla Mission/speaking about Open Internet at local events. (see Tomcat events with OpenOffice) During FOSDEM, organize a specific track on this topic.

Specific presentations We are thinking to create a Speaker Guide, to help people who want to speak about Mozilla Mission

Local and regional events in Europe

1)FOSDEM 2010 (4 - 7 February 2010, Brussels, Belgium); [FOSDEM 2010 session (working session / Sunday's session)]

Identify other organizations and individuals – participants

At Drumbeat EU, more individuals and organizations from Europe will be involved in discussions. In this moment, we are identifying them in order to contact in the following months.

Organizations

• See list.

Individuals

• See list.

Become a Drum-beater

Join us here

Drumbeat Forum

In 2010 will take place Drumbeat Forum, a global event aimed to gather together all Drumbeat community and participants. The EU Drumbeat participants will be invited. During first 5 months of next year, we will try to identify possible topics for discussions.

Mozilla Mission/Manifesto Speaker's guide

Here will be detailed the Speaker's guide, aimed to help people and community members who want to present/speak about these topics at various local events. For each topic will be provided a different speaker's guide. The final objective, after year 2010 is to create a solid guide for presenting/speaking about Mozilla Mission (including Mozilla history and Manifesto).

Timeline and authors

Project timeline:

December -January 2009 – launch the Drumbeat Eu blog with first articles, create eu discussion list, IRC channel, gather more Mozilla community members

January 2009 – start discussions around first topic

February 2009 – FOSDEM track

March 2009 – finish speaker's guide for the first topic

April 2009 – start discussions around second topic

Authors and their role in the project:

William Quiviger

Alina Mierlus

Patrick Finch

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