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 Souther California, Oxford Internet Institute
  
• Heidi Chen, Carnegie Foundation
• Cathy Davidson, HASTAC
  
• Amy Eshleman, Chicago Public Library You Media
  
• Joan Goma
  
• Allen Gunn, Aspiration Tech
• Stian Haklev, University of Toronto
  
• Enric Senabre Hidalgo
  
• 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 (need last name)
  
• Wendy Levy, Bay Area Video Coalition
  
• Bob Lisbonne
• Wayne Mackintosh, Wikieducator
  
• Annie Mais, Road Trip Nation
  
• Alina Mierluș, Mozilla
  
• Ismael Peña-López
  
• Benito Pericas
  
• Bre Pettis, Hackerspaces
  
• Lisa Petrides, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
  
• Jon Phillips
• Marc Pous
  
• Diana Rhoten, Social Science Research Council & Startl.org
  
• Katie Salen, MacArthur Foundation
  
• 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
  

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 (to be invited), Makerbot
  

Tents/Nodes/Pods/Clusters/Affinities/Classes

Note: 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.  Currently, we are thinking about calling these groupings Tents, Nodes, Pods, Clusters, Affinities, Caucuses, Classes, Workshops, or Guilds. 

Each 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 groupings 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. See more brainstorming on preparing for Festival participation below.

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

Currently identified groupings:

• Hackerspace/Hackbus
  
• Teaching (and learning) open source
  
• Peer learning and accreditation
  
• Digital backback: an online dashboard that you control that carries your accreditation and learning materials
  
• P2PU convenes the leaders of new, disruptive online learning communities.  See http://p2pu.org/node/809/document/4301 & builds an open web for educators P2PU course
  
• Research on hacker jobs skills & compentencies
  
• Wikipedia public policy project
  
• Google docs for education
  

Other potential groupings:

• Roadtrip nation
  
• Kids and hacking
  
• Libraries as hacklabs
  
• Teaching music with technology
  
• Wikipedia
  

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.