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Novzilla (my month of Mozilla!)
On Wednesday I organised the latest Bathcamp meetup where Martin and Stuart gave great talks on Wikipedia and Open Design respectively and then I closed the show with a bit of a quickfire and off the cuff presentation about Mozilla Drumbeat and some of the great projects that have come out of it and also…
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Betagov blues..
While in many (most) ways the great work going on as a part of Betagov and the wider Government Digital Service is inspiring it is also considerably adds to my frustrations at the moment. I am wondering whether I need to turn something of a ‘blind eye’ to the posts etc coming out of the…
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Mozilla maybe missing a step?
Another busy week in Mozilla-land. Mark Surman continued his recent spurt of blog posting with his discussion of ‘Mozilla as Teacher‘ which spurred a few people to respond and also announced the launch of Mozilla Open Badges which led to some spirited responses on Twitter and beyond. I do like the sound of alot of…
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Bathcamp 26: The spirit of openness
I’ve signed up to ‘curate’ and speak at the next Bathcamp [5th Oct 8pm-10pm]and have put together an evening around this idea of “the spirit of openness”. Over the last couple of years I’ve become more and more interested in this slightly ‘wooly’ idea of the open web. I dabbled with open education, open access and…
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Mozilla Makers
Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, has written a couple of posts lately about the role of Drumbeat and a possible future role for Mozilla in helping shape the idea of ‘webmakers’. I have found this of particular interest because I’ve come to realise in the short time since I signed up to…