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Tuesday, November 29
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Roll Call. Who's here? (please add yourself to this list)
Greg Wilson (@gvwilson / Toronto)
Matt Thompson (@openmatt)
Michelle Levesque (mlevesque@) [on call, not etherpad]
Lyre Calliope (@CaptainCalliope) Atlanta Ben Simon (@benjaminsimon)
Housekeeping re: Time boxing
Feedback from last week's call re: sticking to time
When you hear tinker bell chime her magic wings, that's our 1-minute warning to move on to the next item :)
If you're presenting this week, have a look at the time allotment next to your it
Blog and press round-up: Nov 22 - 29 (3 mins) (Matt) 5 posts this week:
Making 2012 plans: mozilla + web makers (Mark S)
http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/mozilla-2012-plan/
What I learned and built at the Mozilla Festival in London… (Alina)
http://blog.alinamierlus.com/2011/11/mozfest-london/
Building a generation of web makers in Africa (Matt)
http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/hackasaurus-nairob/
Mozilla / SOPA Update (Ben S)
http://engagingopenly.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/sopa-pipa-update/
“Finding our people:” growing a global community of makers (Matt)
http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/do-ocracy/
Missing your post? Please add here!
Press (Nov 22 - 29)
http://delicious.com/mozilladrumbeat/press
Polish radio on Mozilla Festival: Tradycyjne media do lamusa? - Trójka - polskie...
http://www.polskieradio.pl/9/1058/Artykul/482011%2CTradycyjn...
ReadWriteWeb: Mozilla Aims to 'Iconize' Skills with Standardized 'Merit Badges'
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_aims_to_iconize...
Torontoist: One Millionth Tower Uses New Technology to Explore Aging Buildings
http://torontoist.com/2011/11/one-millionth-tower-uses-new-t...
BBC: One Millionth Tower and Mozilla Popcorn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00lf158/Click_15_11_20...
New York Times: Digital Badges May Highlight Job Seekers’ Skills
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/business/digital-badges-ma...
Follow-up from last week's call (2 mins)
blog post on Mozilla / SOPA
http://engagingopenly.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/sopa-pipa-update/
Today: call-in alert pushing here: http://americancensorship.org/modal/call-form-moz.html
2012 Goals (15 mins) (Mark)
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmakers/2012plans
New "Web Makers" planning wiki:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmakers
Michelle will distill some blog thoughts into wiki next week
Questions & comments
How do we support makers? (Mark Boas, MoJo Fellow) (5 mins)
provide resources (hosting, groups, sponsorhip?)
publicize their work
put makers working on similar projects in touch (crossover?)
Run P2PU courses for makers / people teaching makers?
put different type of makers together (designers and developers)
like the idea of #showyourwork (inspire and be inspired)
Hackasaurus Learning Challenges (5 mins)
Starting Web Makers Challenges on P2PU. Creating learning challenges with Hackasaurus. https://trello.com/boardfull/challenges-101/4ecb53f6514c7a000000ed22
Questions:
Link seems busted. Is it right?
What is Trello? How does this page work?
Is there a blog post about this work?
Not from me (about Hackasaurus) -yet, will do (Jess)
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/hackasaurus-p2pu
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/hackasaurus-p2pu-challenge
Hackasaurus Hack Jams (5 mins)
Shout out to Community Members Running their own youth Hackasaurus jams:
Hackasaurus Hackjam in Nairobi, Kenya (Alex and Cliff)
Blog posts:
Building a generation of web makers in Africa
http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/hackasaurus-nairob/
Hack jam Nairobi
http://mozilla-kenya.org/component/content/article/22-hackjam-nairobi-nairobits
Barcelona - 2 jams (Enric and Alina)
http://lanyrd.com/2011/televall-november/
National Writing Project spontaneous jam
part of National Writing Project Annual Meeting and NCTE 2011 conference
Blog posts:
Hacked!
http://inforgood.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/hacked/
“Mucking around with HTML is like baking bread or changing a tire”
http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/baking-htm/
Demo party by eyebeams (Leon Cych) in London
Institute of Play jam(Leah)
"the youth immediately took matters into their own hands"
http://explorecreateshare.org/2011/11/22/guest-post-hack-jam-at-institute-of-play/
@mozzadrella and @natematias at MIT
Questions
Are we using these events to test the Hacktivity kit?
How can people feed suggestions and feedback into the next iteration of the kit?
1. https://etherpad.mozilla.org/hackasaurus-beta-feedback
2. Community Call
3. we are creating a questionnaire- DRAFT here:https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Hackasaurus-questionnaire
Mozilla Ignite: Peer assist on talking points and messaging (Ben M) (15 minutes)
Putting http://mozillaignite.org on the community radar scope - we will be doing broadband challenges (what would you do with 1 Gigbit / second?) in January and would love to get your ideas.
Please skim the copy and help out if you can:
Talking points for Mozilla Ignite
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ignite-copy-draft
Big ask:
Review "The Story" section of the pad. (lines 31 - 43). Is it clear & compelling? What's missing?
share an app idea we can use in messaging
Let's start this thing off with some "Mozilla thinking"
Feedback and questions
It's not about bandwidth, it's about latency and consistency. It should take 130ms for a signal to travel all the way around the equator. But my ping time in the UK to Mozilla's server in the US is 160ms. If the signal went at the speed of light all the way, it would be 56ms. ~100ms is the threshold of noticeability. Many, many more interesting applications are going to be created when we build networks that are (reliably) lower latency than there are when we build networks which can shift 10x as much data. -- Gerv
Drone journalism (8 mins) (Dan Sinker) MOVING THIS TO NEXT WEEK
Lots of momentum around using drones for journalism and storytelling
Octocopter is awesome; Matt Waite looking to get institutional support; people taking notice:
Drone Journalism Arrives (NYT)
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/drone-journalism-arrives/
See also: "Popcorning the Octocopter"
http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/popcorning-the-octocopter-making-web-sites-that-fly/
Let's democratize!
Ben and Dan are interested in doing a small summit/design jam on "drone journalism toolkit"
Side project for now—but maybe Mozilla community can help?
Questions and next steps?
Is this bloggable? Can we post something summarizing ideas and next steps?
What's the outcome we're looking for?
Documenting project community calls (all) 1 min
Does your project have a community call?
Please list the date / time + links here:
Hackasaurus
currently Tuesdays at 3pm EST but on last weeks call we decided to change the time to accommodate time zones in Europe
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Hackasaurus-community
MoJo
TBD
School of Webcraft
Badges
Popcorn
Hive
TBD
Calendar Got important upcoming dates? please add here: We've got a Lanyrd page! http://lanyrd.com/profile/mozilla/
How does this work? How should we be using it?
Mitchell Baker's "history of Mozilla". Toronto office. DATE? LINK?
November 30 3pm ET / 12:00pm PT
Webinar: "Badge System Models and Design" (DML competition)
DML competition Stage 1 winners announced
December 12 DML competition Stage 2 begins (was Nov 30)
http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-stage-2.php
December 14-16: Learning Challenges workshop in Toronto
Jan 6 DML competition Research entry deadline (was Nov 28)
http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/research-competition-announcement.php
Past Events
November 16 3pm ET / noon PT
"Badges & Badge Systems" webinar (DML competition)
Stage Two starts Nov 30.
Open to anyone.
"Design / develop a badge for NASA. Or Intel. Or the Dept of Education."
Items for next week's call: Drone journalism Community Call Roadmap (Matt) How do we make these calls better?
See new community call roadmap page:
[link to come]
Post-Drumbeat communications plan (Matt)
Starting the process of figuring out how we retire the Drumbeat brand. In terms of
Drumbeat.org web site, Drumbeat newsgroup, Facebook, Flickr
Mozilla All Hands meetings, etc.
Projects will present in these meetings (more soon)
Twitter [already done]
Interested in working on this? Please add your name here:
Tuesday, November 22 2011
Roll Call. Who's here? (please add yourself to this list)
Matt Thompson (@openmatt)
Brian Brennan (@brianloveswords)
Alina Mierluș (@alina_mierlus)
Stehanie Schipper (@stephschipper,
Barbara Hüppe
Chris Lawrence (@chrislarry33 and @hivelearningnyc)
Michelle Levesque (twitter? what's that? ;) )
Ben Simon (@benjaminsimon)
Laura Hilliger (@epilepticrabbit)
Lainie DeCoursy
Atul Varma (@toolness)
Gunner
mrz (@mozmrz)
Mark Surman (@msurman)
Jess Klein (@iamjessklein)
Michelle Thorne (@thornet)
Brett Gaylor
Philipp Schmidt - @sharingnicely @p2pu
Lucy Chambers
Gervase Markham
Carla Casilli @cc_open, @carlacasilli
Erin Knight
Marilyn
Henrik Mitsch (@hmitsch)
Ben M (@benrito)
Geoffrey
Ryan Merkley (@ryanmerkley)
Mike Larsson
Ross Bruniges
Adam Goucher (@adamgoucher)
Welcome to the new format! (Mark) 5 minutes
Quickly discuss high-level goals and new format
SOPA update and next steps (Ben Simon) http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/ 5 minutes (moving early because Ben has a hard stop at x:30)
Look at all the amazing tweets: http://mzl.la/tmjCPL
Last Wednesday, 11/16: 1 Million+ emails to Congress/petitions signed, & 80,000+ calls to Congress
60,000+ signups to take part in next step's of Mozilla's campaign (https://donate.mozilla.org/Stop-SOPA
Next steps:
Quick legislative update
CEO calls to stakeholders
More to come
Questions & comments
Is there a blog post we can point people to that spells out:
1) what Mozilla's efforts have achieved so far, and: http://mzl.la/tspEuW
2) what's next? <<Working on developing this.
Barbara: US trying to control web worldwide is what we are hearing / reading in Europe <-- any strong European voices against? Would love to read more. (Ryan)
Yes, I think EU Internet Commissioner Nellie Kroes at least hinted at her concerns:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/copyright-isnt-working-says-european-commission-10024835/
Some links and interesting agnles. E.g. non US sites with .com addresses are affected http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/what-we-missed-this-week-sopa-net-neutrality-uk-online-outlaws-googles-effect-on-spying/1021
European Parliament Opposed to Domain Name Blocking:
http://infojustice.org/archives/6202
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2011/11/20/filtering-and-blocking-closer-to-the-core-of-the-internet/
http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?newsid=3319621&pagtype=allchandate
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/210810.html
Something substantive non Americans can do would be amazing +4
1) Promote to people who live or vote in the U.S. Blog, tweet, etc.
Encourage American friends to understand and act
2) AVAAZ International petition coming
Link?
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?vl
what if we could do something to visualize the twitter stream? similar to what was done with download FF4
Would LOVE this. Any tools / specific ideas
i think it was called "glow"... http://blog.mozilla.com/website-archive/2011/06/14/glow-1-0/ - if we could contact that developer?
Is there a stream for people to watch the debate in U.S. Congress? +1
There is for when there's actually a hearing. Likely that the next opportunity would be next Wednesday, for the Sanet.
Do we have any example narratives of what might happen if this passes?
These guys have a good video that tends to accompany all the outreach
http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/
Kickstarter made a great video as well: http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/stop-the-stop-online-piracy-act
Alex Fowler is in Europe next week and we will have him talk to press and tell the story from the Mozilla point of view
Outcomes & follow-up from the Mozilla Festival (Michelle + Gunner) 15 minutes
What follow-up activities do you have planned?
What Next (you can start pointing people here): https://mozillafestival.org/what-next/
includes this call as meet-up & learning lab opportunity
a growing list of upcoming events
iterating on resources on how to host/participate in web maker activities in your city
Follow-up plans for next months from MoFo team: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fest-followup
What else did we make at MozFest?
Collecting links for prototypes, demos and cool stuff here:
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Festival2011-outcomes
To be curated and published here and elsewhere: https://mozillafestival.org/make/
Questions & comments
Mozilla: Building a generation of web makers (Mark) 5 mins Preview of big blue button talk tomorrow: Wednesday, 5pm UTC / 12pm ET / 9AM PT :) http://lanyrd.com/2011/web-makers-fireside/ Mark's blog post with slidecast: https://commonspace.wordpress.com/mozilla-2012-plan/ Please help us spread the word about this! It's an experiment. Like everything we do. :-) Data Journalism Handbook: What's next? [is anyone from DJH here and ready to present?] here! Peer assist 10 minutes
Blog post: http://blog.okfn.org/2011/11/14/hacks-and-hackers-gather-to-write-the-first-data-journalism-handbook/
Video: http://vimeo.com/31940484
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/jwyg/data-journalism-handbook
Mailing list: http://datadrivenjournalism.net/mailinglist
Updates:
Publish 0.1 version of books before Christmas
Content is *still* pouring in! Liliana is hard at work managing contributions and giving the book shape.
Liliana is already planning to push this out at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, and a bunch of other places. We've put in a proposal for the International Design Festival with Lulu Pinney.
Lucy and Liliana have done some training workshops for journalists (focusing on spending data) - and we're talking to several universities about this too (Rufus works closely with P2PU in context of his Shuttleworth Fellowship).
They're also thinking of setting up a WLTM (Would Like To Meet) service for journalists and coders. It would be great it Mozilla wanted to be involved in this - to reach out to people in design/developer communities!
Where next?
Beautiful graphics for the book - like the ones that Kate started doing at the festival.
Dedicated editorial time - to fashion our raw material into flowing prose (Liliana is doing this a bit already...) -- http://www.slideshare.net/jwyg/data-journalism-handbook
More workshops and meetups around topics covered in the book - to gather new content, build on content we have, and test the book out in teaching people how to work with data.
Print edition? We were thinking of doing this to coincide with the International Journalism Festival in Perugia to reach out to non-technical journalists. ;-) http://www.journalismfestival.com/
Other promotional swag - stickers, flyers, etc - that we could send to newsrooms, media organisations, conferences, and training centres.
Translation. We've already had some offers. We need to do this on a platform which makes this easy to keep track of translations and versions - but (crucially) is also easy for non-technical people to use. (Ah the tools debate!)
What about doing something on Popcorn? Browser plugins for datajournalists? Etc... (blogpost)
Building on DataDrivenJournalism.net + ddj mailing list to catalyse a stronger, better connected international data journalism community!
Showcasing #ddj activities of Moz/Knight Fellows on DataDrivenJournalism.net
P2PU course - OKFN/P2PU are working on a School of data. Some of the first learning challenges could be designed to support your community.
Community Call version 0.2 (Matt) 5 minutes What's the next step in making these calls better?
Technical / AV
Make dial-in and audio more reliable [done!]
document best practices for landline vs skype etc, and send those out +1
Perfect muting & unmuting protocol
Research
Ensure dial-in numbers are globally accessible
Alina will document issues with VOIP (seems that it's not possible. Need to know more details about connexion. Does Mozilla have VoIP/SIP?
Matt has a list of all worldwide dial ins in his inbox :-)
how do we use VoIP for this call? GBLX/L3 bridge isn't Mozilla's VoIP/SIP.
Record and share audio
Add video
Big Blue Button?
"problematic" because we won't have global dialin numbers here
they can add at will
same global reach as GBLX?
GBLX Ready-Access supports WebEx and two other WebEx-like services
Other options?
Record and share video
Notes & comments
There's that really cheap linkable transcript service that HyperAudio uses... What is it
like running these calls as a p2pu study group or something
Air Mozilla -> we're working with BBB to get video recording, not there yet. Q1
and don't yet have an easy way for worldwide toll free numbers
BBB uses Flash now
GBLX Ready Access screenshare is Java
Michelle: video > screen sharing. screen sharing never ever works live ;)
I thought it was all outsourced. NVM if not.
WebX and Java-based
Format:
Turn these calls into a weekly learning lab.
Make them test cases for "virtual events."
Details on how we'd like to cover
Project updates
Press
Peer assists
People fill in their etherpad sections in advance or lose their spot ;)
etc.
Post-Drumbeat communications plan (Matt)
Starting the process of figuring out how we retire the Drumbeat brand. In terms of
Drumbeat.org web site, Drumbeat newsgroup, Facebook, Flickr
Mozilla All Hands meetings, etc.
Projects will present in these meetings (more soon)
Twitter [already done]
Interested in working on this? Please add your name here:
Please add your additional agenda items here:
Starting Web Makers Challenges on P2PU. Creating learning challenges with Hackasaurus. https://trello.com/board/challenges-101/4ecb53f6514c7a000000ed22
Putting http://mozillaignite.org on the community radar scope - we will be doing broadband challenges (what would you do with 1 Gigbit / second?) in January and would love to get your ideas.
quick feedback on this re-designed Learning, Freedom and the Web book cover
Early proof of concept only. Looking for feedback on general direction.
Looks very nice: nice integration of people into the image. Learning is misspelled.
Shout out to Community Members Running their own youth Hackasaurus jams:
Hackasaurus Hackjam in Nairobi, Kenya at Nairobits (Alex and Cliff)
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.250729571647853&type=1
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/hackjam-nairobi
Barcelona - 2 jams (Enric and Alina)
http://lanyrd.com/2011/televall-november/
National Writing Project spontaneous jam
part of National Writing Project Annual Meeting and NCTE 2011 conference
http://inforgood.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/hacked/
Demo party by eyebeams (Leon Cych) in London
Institute of Play jam(Leah)
@mozzadrella and @natematias at MIT
Calendar Got important upcoming dates? please add here: We've got a Landyrd page! http://lanyrd.com/profile/mozilla/
November 30 3pm ET / 12:00pm PT
Webinar: "Badge System Models and Design" (DML competition)
DML competition Stage 1 winners announced
December 12 DML competition Stage 2 begins (was Nov 30)
http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-stage-2.php
December 14-16: Learning Challenges workshop in Toronto
Jan 6 DML competition Research entry deadline (was Nov 28)
http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/research-competition-announcement.php
Past Events
November 16 3pm ET / noon PT
"Badges & Badge Systems" webinar (DML competition)
Stage Two starts Nov 30.
Open to anyone.
"Design / develop a badge for NASA. Or Intel. Or the Dept of Education."
Post-Mortem
If you're on the agenda, please ensure you're in a quiet space
If you don't have a headset and want one, we'll get you one
If you're having trouble dialing in, please document it here.
Large items are ok. If you need 30 mins, take it.
Document where individual project community calls are happening.
Document project community calls.
Identify themes and threads.
Generate posts and multimedia out of the calls.
Hack days.