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Mozilla's Summer Campaign: What's it all about?

Mozilla's Summer Code Party:
Learn the basics of coding and the web by making and building together.  
With tools, resources and events that make it easy, social and fun. 

• Learn by making something amazing fast.  Take something you're already passionate about, and use that as a jumping off point for learning more about code and the web.  
  • For example...
    • Make your blog more awesome. Tweak your Tumblr or WordPress blog by customizing the HTML and CSS in your templates, using Mozilla tools and how tos to make it easier.
    • Make an interactive video. Take any video on the web and supercharge it by adding pop-ups, commentary and interactivity. Using tools like Mozilla Popcorn and HTML5.
    • Host your own informal teach-in. Invite teens to gather around a kitchen table and do a Hackasaurus mission. Posting a video of what they made.
    • "Webify" something. Take a story or blog post and mark it up using HTML.
    • Go deeper.  Create a killer app, new web site, or web-based game.
  • Open to anyone.  All are welcome to participate. And we'll be using a broad mix of tools  and platforms, not just Mozilla  software.
  • Earn recognition and Mozilla badges. Public recognition for your new skills. (Plus cool party swag and goodie bags.)
  • Collaborate with others around the world. Share what you've made. Be inspired by what others have made. Hack and remix it together.
    
    

  

  What exactly are we doing?

  events + learning tools & resources + local partners
  Think 10-week summer festival meets webmaker summer camp. With free courses, camps and teach-ins around the world.
  Concretely, we're organizing: 
  
  • 1) Learning events and hackfests. Get excited and make things at local design jams, learning labs and code camps.
  • 2) Awesome tools and starter-kits. New webmaking and learning tools from Mozilla. Plus kits, curriculum and how tos. 
  • 3) Local partners and communities. Like-minded organizations around the world are  planning great summer events and learning opporunities. So let's all gather under one big beach umbrella, and help put you in touch. 
    
    

  

  Creating a more web literate planet. Together.

  
  The Summer Code Party is a party with a mission: to provide free web skills to the world. We want to make it easy for anyone to make something awesome on the web. 
  
  Our goal: provide free web skills to the world. This year, we're making a big commitment to software and  resources and that help the world learn the web. Not just using the web -- but making and building with the web: to understand it, take it apart, and make their own amazing things with it. 
  
  
  
  Building a global community of web instructors
  We can't do it alone. We want to work with you to build a global community of partners and community-based web instructors -- not just this summer, but beyond. So that we can inspire a new generation of inventors, makers and open source innovators together. <br