Drumbeat/events/Festival/program

Drumbeat Festival Program Planning Page (check back regularly for updates)

Confirmed participants

(Please email njames [at] mozillafoundation [dot] org with any errors)

• Parry Aftab, WiredSafety.org
• Mitchell Baker
• Brian Behlendorf
• Mariana Benavidez
• Rich Baraniuk, Connexions
• Sean Bonner, Hackerspaces
• Silvia Bravo i Gallart, Open University of Catalonia
• Cathy Casserly, Carnegie Foundation
• Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute
• Heidi Chen, Carnegie Foundation
• Cathy Davidson, HASTAC
• Amy Eshleman, Chicago Public Library You Media
• Joan Goma, Amical Viquipèdia
• Allen Gunn, Aspiration Tech
• Stian Haklev, University of Toronto
• Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Citilab
• Joi Ito, Creative Commons
• David Jacovkis, Free Knowledge Institute
• Nathaniel James, Mozilla Foundation team: Festival motherboard/global coordinator - oversees and supports Festival team
• Anya Kamenetz, author, DIY U
• SJ Klein, Wikimedia Foundation
• Laia Benito
• Wendy Levy, Bay Area Video Coalition
• Bob Lisbonne
• Wayne Mackintosh, Wikieducator
• Annie Mais, Road Trip Nation
• Alina Mierluș, Mozilla
• Ismael Peña-López, Open University of Catalonia
• Bre Pettis, Hackerspaces
• Lisa Petrides, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
• Jon Phillips
• Marc Pous, BDigital
• Diana Rhoten, Social Science Research Council & Startl.org
• Katie Salen, Institute of Play/Parsons the New School for Design
• Robert Schwartz, Level Playing Field Institute
• Maria Josep Solé
• Mark Surman, Mozilla Foundation Executive Director: vision, fundraising & development, budget, strategic partnership lead
• Joel Thiersten, Connexions
• Anasa Troutman, Arts & Democracy Project
• Atul Varna, Mozilla
• Connie Yowell, Macarthur Foundation
• Ignasi Labastida, Universitat de Barcelona

Current Program Brainstorm

For now we are collecting program ideas in the Festival Awesome Sandbox!  Keep coming back for updates.

Keynotes

• November 3: Joi Ito (confirmed) & Brenda Gourley (to be invited), former Vice Chancellor of The Open University, Great Britain
  
• November 4: Mitchell Baker (confirmed) & Bre Pettis (confirmed), Makerbot
  
• November 5: TBD - open for suggestions

Tents

The Festival is not a conference with a structure of tracks, plenaries, sessions, and workshops.  Instead imagine a hybrid network of curated and self-organized groupings that meet and disperse in the spaces provided throughout the Festival.  To stay with our Festival feel, we are calling these groupings 'tents.'

Each tent grouping will gather in largely pre-determined times and spaces to move their Festival project from conversation/showcasing to action/state changes.  Grouping leaders are responsible for desinging an engaging co-learning experience, because people can vote with their feet. 

Participants will build their own Festival experience by committing to working with some tents through the whole Festival and sampling among the others.  Every grouping is "in a fishbowl," transparently available to any Festival participant to experience at their own level of commitment.

Every participant should come committed to playing, working and learning together.  Everyone has something to teach.  Everyone has something to learn.

Confirmed tents (more to come):

• A hacker space in a bus in a public square -- learn how to use lasers, print 3d objects and build cool electronics. Hosted by Monochrome. Audience: everyone. (Nov 6)

• Teaching open source -- learn how college professors are using massive open source communities as virtual classrooms. Hosted by Seneca College and Free Knowledge Academy. Audience: college professors and software developers.

• Peer to peer learning how to -- get coaching on how to run your own peer learning course on any topic. Hosted by P2PU. Audience: anyone who wants to teach and learn at the same time.

• Creating a digital backpack - help test and hack on an secure online 'backpack' that puts students in control of their credits, degrees and learning materials. Audience: anyone interested in badges, credits and informal learning. Plus, software developers. Hosted by iRemix and Mozilla.

• The open web for teachers -- attend a peer learning session where teachers share what they know (and ask questions about what the want to know) about using open web technology in the classroom. Hosted by P2PU School of Webcraft. Audience: teachers, plus web developers who want to lend a hand. (Nov 6)

• What makes a good web hacker? -- provide input on research into the soft skills that make a a good web developer, and help develop peer learning courses around these skills. Hosted by P2PU School of Webcraft. Audience: web developers and people who hire web developers.

• Wikipedia: the worlds biggest classroom -- participate in learning activities design around researching and improving wikipedia articles. Host: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikmedia Catalonia (Nov 6)

• Learning to hack w/ video -- test and improve learning materials designed to help young people learn about open video on the web. Hosted by Mozilla Web Made Movies and BAVC. Audience: filmmakers, advanced web developers, teenagers. (Nov 6)

• (re)Making libraries -- collaborate and learn from librarians to are developing digital maker spaces for youth, help them improve their programs. Host: Chicago You Media Centre and New York Public Library.

• Raval classroom! Help turn Barcelona's Raval neighbourhood into a digital classroom and story engine using mobile devices and geo-tagging. Host: CCCB? UOC? New York Learning Network. Audience: kids and teenagers, mobile web developers, teachers, anyone really. (Nov 6)

• The state of learning, freedom and the web -- work on a book that captures all the amazing stuff that is happening at the intersection of learning, freedom and the web. Host: Anya / Fast Company ?. Audience: anyone who likes to write, take pictures or shoot video. (Nov 6)

• Find junk. Make computers. Make art. Build new systems and make hardware art out of discarded old computers. Host: need to see if we can find local group in Barcelona that does stuff like Metareciclagem in Brasil, or bring Brasilians. Audience: everyone, but especially teenagers. (Nov 6)

• Design a badge system for informal learning -- work on the alpha version of a 'badge' -- or credit -- systems for informal learning programs like P2PU. Host: P2PU plus bunch of MacArthur DML people. Audience: anyone interested in badges, credits and informal learning.

• Make an open web learning widget -- develop or help improve simple programs that teenagers can use to learn, play and hack with the web. Host: Mozilla and Chicago You Media Centre. Audience: web developers, librarians, teenagers, anyone who wants to teach or learn basic web development in a fun way (Nov 6)

• Open text book hackfest. Write, improve and remix open text books about math, science and other topics. Host: Siyavula / Shuttleworth Foundation. Audience: math teachers, science teachers and anyone who is just plain smart and keen. (will need to do an alternate version w/ catalan text books on Nov 6)

Other potential tents:

• Kids and hacking
  
• Libraries as hacklabs
  
• Teaching music with technology
  

Open, interactive spaces

Imagine:

• Small tables/tents where people can set up shop and show something -- w/ chalk boards to indicate the time limits and objective of their DIY session.
• Big interactive happenings like giant 500 person spectrograms, speedgeeks, & science fairs.