Webmakers/Event Platform

	Event Platform Roadmap
	Owner: Michelle Thorne, Ben Simon	Updated: 2012-03-9
	We're building an online event platform to track, create, import, and sign up for Mozilla webmaker events.

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About this project

• The project in 5 sentences:
  • Events are a major participation and community engine of Mozilla's webmaker efforts.
  • We need a place to track events worldwide.
  • That enables users to learn about, create, import, sign up for, and leave feedback about events.
  • The site should allow for communication among organizers, participants, and staff.
  • And it should be dead-simple to use.

How to host your own Hackasaurus event for Youth

Resources & Tools for Teaching Webmaking

• Hacktivity Kit: Step by step instructions for running your own hack jam (PDF, 2.3MB)
  
• Hackasaurus Slides: An HTML5 remixable slide show.
  
• I.T. Checklist (PDF, 164KB)
  
• X-Ray Goggles Cheat Sheet: A quick reference printable for the X-Ray Goggles tool, highlighted hot keys (PDF, 257 KB)
  
• One-page overview
  • Draft in progress here: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/Hackasaurus-one-pager
• Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.):
  • Draft in progress. Please add your questions here: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/Hackasaurus-FAQ
• Roadmap:
  • Draft in progress at Hackasaurus/Roadmap
• Project infographic: coming soon

Team

• Michelle Thorne, Mozilla. Berlin.
• Ben Simon, Mozilla. Bay Area
• Jess Klein, Mozilla. NYC.
• Laura Hilliger, Mozilla. Dresden
• Michelle Levesque, Mozilla. Bay Area
• Lainie Decoursy, Mozilla. NYC.

Videos & Multimedia

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Project Tools

• web site: hackasaurus.org
• X-ray Goggles: See what the web is made of. Mess around & remix. 
• HTML Pad (aka "Magic Ink"): A simple website that allows anyone to easily create a Web page, collaborate on it in real-time with friends, and share it with the rest of the world.  More background for HTMLPad can be found in Atul's blog post entitled Prelude To Barcelona.
  
  

Get involved now

1. Attend an upcoming hack jam. Or organize a hack jam in your community. We're looking to spread to new cities beyond New York and Chicago. Get in touch through our mailing list.
   
2. Start hacking with Hackasaurus tools like X-Ray Goggles.
3. Share your own ideas, tools and resources. Through our mailing list or on twitter.
4. Become a Hackasaurs partner. We're looking for learning centers, libraries, media centers and other partners to help design, develop and host Hackasaurus. Get in touch through our mailing list.
5. Help develop the Hackasaurus tool set. Through our issue tracker and Github.

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• Drumbeat project page: https://drumbeat.org/en-US/projects/hackasaurus/
• wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Hackasaurus
• mailing list (working group; daily): Google Group
• mailing list (announce list; occasional): coming soon
  
• planet hackasaurus blog: coming soon
  
• twitter: @hackasaurus #hackasaurus
• facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Hackasaurus/140459162682866
• photos & visual assets (tag = hackasaurus): http://www.flickr.com/groups/hackasaurus/
  
• issue tracker: http://hackasaurus.lighthouseapp.com/projects/66492-hackasaurus/overview
• source code: Github: https://github.com/hackasaurus
  
• theory behind the project: Hacker Literacy: http://ietherpad.com/wXmjT3Zes1
  
• presentation deck (draft only; in progress): http://mzl.la/hQ2h62
• chat room (IRC): irc.mozilla.org #hackasaurus (chat is archived at irclog.gr)
• roadmap:  Hackasaurus/Roadmap
  
• community calls: coming soon