It’s hard to believe that I’m now entering my second full year at Mozilla. Year one was both enlivening and humbling: mind blowingly smart people; cool and useful projects experiments; and a ton of new ideas and learning. Much of this great energy flowed into Drumbeat, which will be the main focus of Mozilla Foundation during 2010. It also helped the Foundation team clarify our thinking on telling the Mozilla story and supporting the broader community. We’ve got a clear and crisp plan for the year ahead. More MozFdn in 2010: a status update
Learning from 10 yrs of Bugzilla data
Diederik van Liere is a postdoc at Toronto’s Rotman School of Business. His passion: finding out whether open source communities actually make software better, faster. With this in mind he’s taken an in depth look at 10 years of bugzilla.mozilla.org data to look for bug fixing patterns. More Learning from 10 yrs of Bugzilla data
January Mozilla Drumbeat update
Drumbeat — and growing the number and diversity of people participating in Mozilla — will be the main focus for the Mozilla Foundation team in 2010. I’m super psyched about this, especially about the community projects that are taking shape. I’ll be blogging more about some of these projects soon. More January Mozilla Drumbeat update
Drumbeat: ideas and proposals from Singapore
Another goal of our Singapore presentation challenge was to seek our potential Drumbeat projects. A big part of Drumbeat is inviting people to propose projects that make web better and more open — and then helping the most promising ideas succeed. The Singapore event was our first opportunity to see what kind of projects people might put on the Drumbeat table. Here are five of the eight ideas presented. More Drumbeat: ideas and proposals from Singapore
Open web talks from Singapore
Describing the open web is tough. Yet, it’s essential if we want to help people understand, participate and take control of their online lives (Drumbeat‘s mission). We’re running a small experiment with this in mind: asking people to give five minute talks on the open web and why it matters. More Open web talks from Singapore
Drumbeat idea: open web skills @ p2pu
Another Drumbeat bootstrap idea that’s getting traction is open web skills courses delivered via the Peer 2 Peer University. It’s a simple concept: people combine self organized, collaborative learning with open curriculum materials to improve their skills in areas like HTML, CSS and Javascript. Over time, a peer to peer certification system could emerge as well, with participants rating each others skill level. More Drumbeat idea: open web skills @ p2pu
What does the web mean to you?
As I blogged the other day, I’ve been asking people for ideas on the ‘movie about the web, by the web‘ concept. One of my thought experiments was to simply ask people: what does the web mean to you? I edited the answers together as quick video poem just to see what it felt like. More What does the web mean to you?
Hackerspaces, internets and cities
Name dropping Jane Jacobs at a tech conference is a good way to get my attention. And that’s exactly what Meng Weng Wong did on the hackerspaces panel at #nsc1 in Singapore the other day. His point: those of us trying to build a vibrant, healthy digital world can learn from people like Jacobs who know how to build vibrant, healthy cities. More Hackerspaces, internets and cities
Who would you cast in a movie about the web?
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been helping Brett Gaylor and Henrik Moltke write up a movie concept. The idea: a documentary about the web, by the web. People around the world would contribute ideas, clips and remixes. The best stuff would roll into a core storyline with regular releases or episodes. More Who would you cast in a movie about the web?
Drumbeat: visualizing the (open) web
As I noted last week, we’re in the early stages of defining and rolling out a small handful of Drumbeat bootstrap projects. One that interests me personally is ‘visualize the web‘: an effort to combine art, design and data to map the internet. The aim is to use real information about what’s happening on the web to help people understand the internet, how it works and what it means. More Drumbeat: visualizing the (open) web