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|updated=April 28, 2011 | |updated=April 28, 2011 | ||
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|description=A gathering of smart people using the web to bend, hack and reinvent media. Get your by-line on the future of media | |description=A gathering of smart people using the web to bend, hack and reinvent media. Get your by-line on the future of media and the web. | ||
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==Date and Location== | ==Date and Location== | ||
Late October 2011 in London, UK<br> | Late October 2011 in London, UK<br> | ||
==Vision== | ==Vision== | ||
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'''The bendable, hackable, remixable nature of the web has dramatically changed the media landscape.''' Television. Radio. News. Comics. Music. Books. Film. All have been engulfed by the technology and culture of the internet. Or, as grand media meister McLuhan put it: TV, radio, books, etc. have become the content of the web. | '''The bendable, hackable, remixable nature of the web has dramatically changed the media landscape.''' Television. Radio. News. Comics. Music. Books. Film. All have been engulfed by the technology and culture of the internet. Or, as grand media meister McLuhan put it: TV, radio, books, etc. have become the content of the web. | ||
'''What do we want this webified media landscape to look like when it grows up?''' Keyboard Cat or Hollywood? Al Jazeera or the evening newshour? Punk rock or big labels? If you make media, build the web or both, you've got a say in this. The web is lego. You can build whatever nifty, fun, creative, innovative version of the media future you like. | |||
Which is exactly the point of this year's Mozilla Drumbeat Festival: to gather smart people using the web to | Which is exactly the point of this year's Mozilla Drumbeat Festival: to gather smart people using the web to reinvent the media. We'll spend three days throwing down '''design jams, hackfests, writing workshops, tech teach ins, science fairs and parties that pull the best of modern web technology and technique into the world of media making.''' | ||
Whether you're a web geek who makes media or a media nerd who love the web, this is an event you shouldn't miss. | Whether you're a web geek who makes media or a media nerd who love the web, this is an event you shouldn't miss. | ||
==Goals== | ==Goals== | ||
#'''Get more media people thinking like the web.''' Promote the idea of the web as raw material | #'''Get more media people thinking like the web.''' Promote the idea of the web as raw material; it's lego you can use to invent the future of media. | ||
#'''Run a three day accelerator.''' Focus and accelerate web media projects. Use design jams, hackfests, and more to recruit new people and move ahead fast. | #'''Run a three day accelerator.''' Focus and accelerate web media projects. Use design jams, hackfests, and more to recruit new people and move ahead fast. | ||
#'''Connect geeks from media organizations with the latest web tech | #'''Connect geeks from media organizations with the latest web tech.''' Get people working in the digital departments of large media organizations excited and innovating using HTML5, web apps, etc. | ||
#'''Lend a hand. Promote open tech.''' Offer up Mozilla and others doing open tech as a helping hand for geeks working in | #'''Lend a hand. Promote open tech.''' Offer up Mozilla and others doing open tech as a helping hand for geeks working in TV, radio, news and other media. Build a community. | ||
==What will happen at Media, Freedom and the Web?== | ==What will happen at Media, Freedom and the Web?== | ||
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|description=Thanks to several excellent contributors and up-and-coming web technologies (most critically [https://mozillalabs.com/rainbow/ Rainbow] and [http://popcornjs.org/ popcorn.js]), it’s now possible to record yourself singing along to the world's repertoire. You are [https://mozillalabs.com/blog/2011/04/a-web-based-karaoke-prototype-as-technology-feedback-loop/ the band]! | |description=Thanks to several excellent contributors and up-and-coming web technologies (most critically [https://mozillalabs.com/rainbow/ Rainbow] and [http://popcornjs.org/ popcorn.js]), it’s now possible to record yourself singing along to the world's repertoire. You are [https://mozillalabs.com/blog/2011/04/a-web-based-karaoke-prototype-as-technology-feedback-loop/ the band]! | ||
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Other activity ideas: | Other activity ideas: | ||
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*Story of the Web. Mash and create media to explain the web. | *Story of the Web. Mash and create media to explain the web. | ||
Have an idea? Add it [[Drumbeat/Festival2011/Sessions|here]] | Have an idea? Add it [[Drumbeat/Festival2011/Sessions|here]]. | ||
== Who should come to Media, Freedom and the Web? == | == Who should come to Media, Freedom and the Web? == | ||
Our biggest priority is bringing out '''web geeks who work in the media industry'''. This group needs better access to cutting edge tech, space to innovate, and connect with each other. | Our biggest priority is bringing out '''web geeks who work in the media industry'''. This group needs better access to cutting edge tech, the space to innovate, and to connect with each other. | ||
Here's a sampling of our participants: | Here's a sampling of our participants: | ||
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*Gamers | *Gamers | ||
Got a recommendation? Add [[Drumbeat/Festival2011/InviteList|your suggestion]] to the wiki or [https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dENiZVVCUTlIRlQwOXhuZDU4ajM2MUE6MQ#gid=0 use this form]. | |||
== | ==Drumbeat Festival 2011 F.A.Q.== | ||
* [http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/DrumbeatFestival2011-FAQ Draft in progress here.] Please add your questions! | |||
==Project Management== | ==Project Management== | ||
* [[Drumbeat/Festival2011/Roadmap]] | * [[Drumbeat/Festival2011/Roadmap]] | ||
* Community calls and regular mailing list postings coming soon. | * Community calls and regular mailing list postings coming soon. | ||
==Related Blog Posts== | ==Related Blog Posts== | ||
* Add here. | * Add here. | ||
== | ==Tag Cloud of Interest== | ||
media democracy, public media, political participation, civic dialogue, citizen journalism, global public square, marshall mcluhan, freedom of information, remix, read-write culture, spread of ideas, blogging culture, open video, global village, digital literacy, community empowerment, transparency+e-gov, ownership of narrative, watching the watchers, mobile field journalism, emergent reporting, crowd monitoring, many-to-many communications, networked life of the mind, hack ability of the web, being the change you want to see, hacktivism... | |||
== Parking Lot== | == Parking Lot== | ||
Idea doesn't fit somewhere? Add it! | Idea doesn't fit somewhere? Add it! | ||
* [[Drumbeat/events/Festival | Archive version of 2010 Drumbeat Festival wiki]] | |||