Mozfest/2016
Mozilla’s annual festival celebrating the open web.
Arrive with an idea, leave with a community.
This page documents the developing progress of the MozFest program and should not be used as a primary source for information on the festival - please refer to the Mozilla Festival website as the primary and main resource for information on the festival.
Mozilla Festival 2016
Save the Date : 28th - 30th October 2016
Location: (TBD)
2016 Festival Narrative
This year, we are..... (TBA).
How we built this years festival-
Below are...
Architecture of Participation
In...
MozFest will be seven years old this year and ...
DRAFT Road Map
March
- Save the Date email
- Update design of festival website
- Confirm the venue
- Initial draft of MozFest Budget
April
- MozFest Roles identified
- Messaging around festival decided
- Sign Contract with Hotel
- Research new registration platforms
- Track ideas developed
May
- Website remixed for 2016
- Start Volunteer leaders meeting
- Start engaging suppliers
June
- Open Call for Proposals
- Narrative retreat
July
- Speakers invited
- Review proposal submissions
- Reach out for sponsorship
- Start volunteer recruitment
- Mozpub opens
August
- Determine post festival arc
- Close Call for Proposals
- Schedule App build begins
- MozFest Insurance applied for
- Successful sessions informed
September
- Accepted sessions appear on the website
- All suppliers engaged
- Inital draft of space within venue
- Detailed agenda 90% complete
October
- Festival website Live
- All risk assessments recieved and signed
- Festival production team start
November
- Program team in London
- Facilitators supplies order deadline
- Final space layout confirmed
- Hotel rooms allocated
December
- Feedback Meetings with program team, Space Wranglers and suppliers
- Focus on budget wrap up
- Sleep :)
Contact the festival team
If you have any questions around the development of the program for this years festival or have some themes or ideas you would like to put forward, please email us at festival@mozilla.org. We love chatting about the festival
Volunteers
MozFest would not exist without our Volunteer Heroes. If you volunteered last year at MozFest 2015 and or would like to get involved this year please head to our MozFest Volunteer wikipage