Design Jam Rome #1, a two-day community collaboration event focused on User Experience Design (UX), where designers, professionals and students – gathered in teams – end up with different solutions in terms of web and mobile applications in response to a common social challenge.

Background

Based on a Mozilla initiative, this is the first two-day jam — which follows the a series of one-day events in London (UK), Oxford (UK), Chapel Hill (USA), Iasi (RO), Barcelona (ES) and Milan (IT).

The Topic

A challenge topic will be revealed the first morning of the workshop. The teams will discuss the issue proposed together with professional mentors. The topic itself has a social nature and it is relevant to the area. Being the issue planned together with an institution or NGO or no-profit organization, the team’s outputs will have an immediate local impact.

To facilitate the free exchange of ideas, all outputs, visualizations and other contributions made during the day are shared globally under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licenses.

Who Should Attend?

Design Jams are for anyone who wants to improve their design, collaboration, brainstorming and presentation skills by tackling an interesting UX design challenge. It’s an open call for interaction designers, UX researchers, information architects, web and graphic designers, developers, product managers + more…. from students to experienced practitioners.

Event Details

Date: 2nd & 3rd of July, 2011

Time: July 2: 10-18.30 / July 3: 10-13.00

Venue: Technotown @ Villa Torlonia

Address: Via Lazzaro Spallanzani, 1/A, Rome (map)
Closest Tube: Policlinico (line B)

Registration

Registration is being handled via Eventbrite – is reserved to the first 30 persons who will book in.

Reserve your ticket, today @ http://designjamroma.eventbrite.com (ps. Design Jams are free events. The 10 euro fee will be refunded at the end of the workshop.)

Mentors

Luca Simeone

Luca Simeone is managing partner of Vianet and teaches design anthropology and interaction design at La Sapienza University and Ateneo Impresa Graduate Business School in Rome. He has published reviews and articles on design anthropology and ethnographic methods applied to design practices. He co-edited the books Beyond Ethnographic Writing (Armando, 2010) and REFF (DeriveApprodi, 2010) exploring new narratives that combine traditional writing with augmented reality technologies. In 2009 he founded FakePress, a think tank exploring the future of publishing and in 2011 he was a research affiliate with the SENSEable City Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge MA.
Web: http://www.luca.simeone.name

Salvatore La Rosa

Web: http://salvatorelarosa.posterous.com
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/salvatorelarosa

Dario Carrera

I’m PhD in Public Administration and Management, title of thesis “Creating social entrepreneurs. From civil society movements to social innovation: the role of the social enterprise incubators and centres for social innovation”, at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where I also teach “Management of Nonprofit Organizations” . While coaching 10 year olds on Roman football pitches, I’m member and coach of Liberi Nantes, costituita, sport association totally made up of refugees and forced migrants (the association is supported – free of charge – by the UNHCR). I’m member in Solidarity Finance association (www.finansol.it), co-founder of The Hub Milano and founder of The Hub Roma.
Web: http://www.hubroma.net

Local Champions & Supporters

This event would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of local champions and supporters:

Champions

• Cristiano Siri
• Alessandra Talamo
• Alessio Ricco
• Federica Pesce
• Malica Worms

Supporters

• nois3lab
• Technotown
• Mozilla Labs

Sponsors

The Design Jam Roma team is ever grateful for the support from:

• Studio MIT
• DNSEE
• ICM
• IED – Istituto Europeo di Design
• BBox

Updates

Follow @designjamroma or the #designjamroma hashtag on Twitter for all the latest news and updates (schedule, topic, activity, outputs etc.).

Also be sure to keep up to date via the following online channels:

• Website
• Facebook
• Wiki

What Are Design Jams

They are one-or-two-day design sessions, during which people will team up to tackle an engaging User Experience challenge. Similar to developer ‘hackdays’ the aim is to get enthusiastic local UX professionals, designers, and developers from both local technology and university sectors together to learn and collaborate with each other while working on a design problem.

Upcoming & Past Design Jams

Other scheduled Design Jams going forward include:

• London (UK)
• Bristol (UK)

Past Design Jams since the inaugural event back in November 2010 include:

• Barcelona (ES)
• Iasi (RO)
• Oxford (UK)
• Milan (Italy)
• Chapel Hill (USA)
• London #2 (UK)
• London #1 (UK)

Want To Bring Design Jam To Your Town?

We’re actively on the lookout for more local champions around the globe!

Be sure to keep an eye on the global Design Jam Wiki for news of upcoming jam near you. If there isn’t one listed & you’d like to champion and run your own Design Jam please register your interest or email cyberdees[at]mozilla[dot]com.

A guest post by local champion, Dr. Alina Mierlus.

Together with other local champions – Javier Usobiaga, Marta Armanda and Toni Hermoso — we successfully held the first Design Jam here in Barcelona. We were joined by over 15 fantastic participants who made the day an amazing success!

The Day

Fueled with caffeine — we all kicked off bright and early on Saturday, the 4th of June.

After the topic was announced, the four teams started to talk, brainstorm and research during the morning session.

There were some really interesting proposals and mock-ups by the end of the day such as:

• Social Cat
• Domi

The other teams are presently also updating their outputs on the Design Jam wiki.

Pictures from the day were kindly taken by Toni.

Feedback

General consensus was that all attendees had a great day of sharing knowledge, prototyping, meeting new people and having fun — not to mention unearthing a much welcomed new collaborative community.

“UX community not dead in Barcelona. Just atomized and hiding. I’m on a mission”.

“A mixed group of people (UX, Dev, Sysadmins) but with focus on UX and user research, collaborated for more than 6 hours to get done 4 kick-ass prototypes.”

Will We Do It Again?

Yes, indeed! All participants have expressed interest in a followup Design Jam! Be sure to follow @DesignJamBCN on Twitter for news on the next jam.

Supporters

Last but not least, a big thanks goes to our supporters, Centre Civíc Goelferichs (especially to Patricia for facilitating us the space and logistics!) and the Mozilla Labs Concept Series community.

Shout outs also to fellow global Design Jam local champions (Franco – for introducing us to cool UX folks in Barcelona, Joanna and Joe – for sharing lots of tips and advice when they visited Barcelona recently).

What’s It All About

It is a one-day design session, during which people will team up to tackle an engaging User Experience challenge. Similar to developer ‘hackdays’ the aim is to get enthusiastic local UX professionals, designers, and developers from both local technology and university sectors together to learn and collaborate with each other while working on a design problem. Check out past Design Jams.

Want to get involved? Know someone?

We’re actively on the lookout for more local champions around the globe!

If you’d like to run your own Design Jam please show your interest by adding your details to the Design Jam wiki and emailing cyberdees[at]mozilla[dot]com.

A guest post by local champion, Dr. Sabin Buraga.

The dust has finally settled on Summer Web 2011 and — myself and other local champions Stefan Negru, Dr. Lenuta Alboaie & Andrei Panu — have just about recovered. Phewwww!

Background

The event, which included the inaugural Design Jam in Romania, saw over 50 keen UX & Technology people participate over 2 days. A few hundred more from across the globe remotely watched via the live stream.

Day 1 — Presentations

Day 1 comprised of a number on engaging presentations. These included:

• “Design Principles” by Alecsandru Grigoriu
• “Web3D — Semantic standards, WebGL, HCI” by Victor Porof
• “Prototyping UX” by Cristi Bârlădeanu
• “Creating Things for the Internet of Things” by Stefan Negru
• “Mozilla Add-ons SDK (Jetpack)” by Laurian Gridinoc
• “Design Phases: The Birth of a Star” by Andreea Buraga
• “Cityquest — Developing Games for the Mobile Devices” by Victor Porof & Alecsandru Grigoriu

Day 2 — Design Jam

Day 2, was the actual Design Jam itself with the topic focused around designing a ‘Mall Guiding Assistant’. After 6 or so hours of intense fun the following team outputs were produced:

• MallMasters – Bogdan Dumitriu, Mircea Serediuc, Sergiu Filip
• Concentrico – Alexandru Andronic, Emanuel Martonca, George Teiosanu
• Keep It Simple – Dumitru Emciuc and Mihai Sterpu
• Bird Mall – Alexandru Chelariu, Adrian Trefas, Nicu Spinu
• Oomba – Vlad Manea, Stefan Enache, Bogdan Gâza, Andreea-Diana Stanciu

Feedback

Just some of the quotes from participants:

Cristi Bârlădeanu
“The word of the day for Design Jam Iasi was for sure “inspiration”. The mix’n’match of ideas coming from people with different background and complimentary perspectives on what design and UX should be modeled like laid a rock-solid foundation for creativity and innovation. That’s how we got a robot, augmented reality and paper tablets as solutions for the same challenge – ) A big thumbs up for the local champions and congratulations for all the attendees, looking forward to see the same enthusiasm and passion brought together to Design Jam Iasi #2!”

Marius Ursache
“Great fun and great ideas at Mozilla DesignJam Iasi #djiasi. Looking forward for the next edition!”

Silviu Savin
“I was honored to mentor @designjamiasi /If you missed #1, you should come to #2. #djiasi was inspiring, fun, a great experience. Congrats!”

Andreea Buraga
“Design Jam supported by Mozilla Labs was a cool initiative and I encourage all the design enthusiasts to sign up in the future because it is a great learning and idea-generating experience in a relaxed and fun manner. I was impressed with the creative and innovative solutions offered by the participants. I was hoping to see actual designers participating to this event (I mean as “jammers”), but on the other hand it is great seeing people from diverse backgrounds giving a real interest and dedication to this field. I hope this is a first step in starting a community of designers and attracting more people in this field and this type of events – maybe try making Iasi a leading creative center of Romania, for example?! I am very happy and honored I was invited to Design Jam and looking forward to the next editions!”

Bogdan Gâza
“Had loads of fun at #djiasi. Looking forward for the next iteration of the event. Many thanks to the organizers!”

Thanks

We are really grateful for the support provided by Mozilla Labs, The Red Point, Faculty of Computer Science, UAIC Romania, and ASII (The Association of The Informatics’ Students from Iasi).

Mentors included Sînică Alboaie, Andreea Buraga, Alecsandru Grigoriu, Alecsandru Grigoriu, Silviu Savin & Marius Ursache.

Also a huge thanks to student volunteers: Sabina Bolboceanu, Victor Panaite, and Adriana Schiopu. Live streaming services were kindly offered by MEDIAEC.

Till next year!

What Are Design Jams

They are one-or-two-day design sessions, during which people will team up to tackle an engaging User Experience challenge. Similar to developer ‘hackdays’ the aim is to get enthusiastic local UX professionals, designers, and developers from both local technology and university sectors together to learn and collaborate with each other while working on a design problem.

Upcoming & Past Design Jams

Other scheduled Design Jams going forward include:

• Rome (Italy)
• Bristol (UK)

Past Design Jams since the inaugural event back in November 2010 include:

• Oxford (UK)
• Milan (Italy)
• Chapel Hill (USA)
• London #2 (UK)
• London #1 (UK)

Want To Bring Design Jam To Your Town?

We’re actively on the lookout for more local champions around the globe!

Be sure to keep an eye on the global Design Jam Wiki for news of upcoming jam near you. If there isn’t one listed & you’d like to champion and run your own Design Jam please register your interest or email cyberdees[at]mozilla[dot]com.

Design Jam Iasi #1 — Romania

After two successful events, the third London Design Jam is happening on the 2nd of July, thanks to continued support from Mozilla Labs and City University London.

Local champions Johanna Kollmann, Joe Lanman, Desigan Chinniah & Franco Papeschi will take learnings from the recent jams across the globe to further improve the format for a fun day of collaboration.

Event Details

Date: 02 July 2011 (Saturday)
Time: 08:30 – 18:00
Venue: University City London, Northampton Square – (EC1V 0HB)
Nearest Tube: Angel (Northern line, Bank branch)

Tickets

There are only 50 spots available! (free and available in two batches on Monday, June 13 — at 11am & 3pm)

What Happens & Who Should Attend?

Design Jams are for anyone who wants to improve their design, collaboration, brainstorming and presentation skills by tackling an interesting UX design challenge. It’s an open call for interaction designers, UX researchers, information architects, web and graphic designers, developers, product managers + more…. from students to experienced practitioners.

To facilitate the free exchange of ideas, all outputs, visualizations and other contributions made during the day are shared globally under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licenses.

Topic & Mentors

The topic will be revealed on the day, but you might be able to guess the theme of the day by checking out the interests of our mentors:

Hannah Donovan is a Canadian interaction designer living in London. She led design at Last.fm for five years, and before that worked agency-side designing digital campaigns. Since leaving Last.fm this spring, Hannah’s become an independent product designer focused on ways to make music better on the web. When she’s not busy with new work, Hannah contributes to spacelog.org and plays cello with a real orchestra as well as a comedy orchestra.

Twitter: @han
Web: http://blog.hannahdonovan.com/

Matthew Ogle is a transplanted Canadian who has spent seven years in the UK mixing music and technology. He runs the London outpost of music intelligence platform The Echo Nest, helping developers build amazing apps with its APIs and making a few of his own too. Before joining the Nest, Matt spent almost six years at Last.fm, directing several evolutions of the website and growing the teams and technologies that took Last.fm from 0.5 to 40+ million users. Besides music, Matt likes space, archives, and whiskey.

Twitter: @flaneur
Web: http://mattogle.com

Jason Mesut is Head of User Experience at RMA Consulting, where he leads a team of 36 Experience Design specialists developing cutting-edge enterprise applications. Jason doesn’t get much time to design stuff himself these days, but takes great pride in helping others frame their challenge better and develop solutions that matter for an organisation. Outside of his crazy work schedule, UX recruitment and industry presentations, Jason likes to use a whole bunch of strange technology to make disturbed electronic music in his little studio in Richmond.

Twitter: @jasonmesut
Web: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmesutm

Supporters

The event is supported by:

• Mozilla Labs Concept Series (Twitter: @mozconcept)
• City University London (Twitter: @cityuni_hcid)

And we’re looking for additional supporters!

Whether it’s a small monetary donation to help with stationery, coffee & other refreshments requirements, or perhaps something larger to help with catering costs during breakfast or lunch.

It would be fantastic to get sponsorship to cover remaining costs, including food, drink and stationery. Supporters are mentioned all the time, on the wiki, via social media, on the day itself and in all subsequent blog posts and updates.

Like to help support Design Jam London 3? – please email designjamlondon[at]gmail[dot]com

Updates

Follow @DesignJamLondon, @MozConcept or the #DesignJam & #DJL3 hashtags on Twitter for all the latest news and updates (schedule, activity, outputs etc.)

Also keep an eye on the Design Jam London #3 wiki, which will update and collate a repository of outputs throughout the day.

Upcoming & Past Design Jams

Other scheduled Design Jams going forward include:

• Rome (Italy)
• Bristol (UK)

Past Design Jams since the inaugural event back in November 2010 include:

• Iasi (Romania)
• Barcelona (Spain)
• Oxford (UK)
• Milan (Italy)
• Chapel Hill (USA)
• London #2 (UK)
• London #1 (UK)

Want To Bring Design Jam To Your Town?

We’re actively on the lookout for more local champions around the globe!

Be sure to keep an eye on the global Design Jam Wiki for news of upcoming jam near you. If there isn’t one listed & you’d like to champion and run your own Design Jam please register your interest or email cyberdees[at]mozilla[dot]com.

The first Oxford Design Jam was held on the 14th May, and two weeks later I thought I would collate some of our thoughts now it’s all over. My two co-organisers, Mariana Mota and James Morris were both Design Jam alumni, so had a good idea what it was all about, but for me it was a totally new experience.

The Build-Up

As organisers all the hard work was done up front really, and on the day we spent a lot of time making sure things were running smoothly, and moving from group to group photographing, videoing and general assisting to move things along.

Luckily the support from all the previous Design Jam organisers running up to the day was stellar, and after reading through several blog posts, wiki articles and chatting with previous organisers over Skype, I really felt like I was getting to understand the concept well and really focused on the planning side of it.

Support

We were kindly supported by Oxford University Computing Services, two local companies — White October and Incuna, the Mozilla Labs Concept Series and not to mention great mentors.

Outputs

All in all it was a really successful day, with a total of 47 out of 50 people registered, attending. We ended the day with ten teams worth of output! That’s a stellar effort — considering the short, intense time-frame:

1. Thumbs Up
2. Raspberry Jam
3. Team Wibble
4. The Non-Commuters
5. FiveFour
6. CycleConvoy
7. Green Kangaroo
8. We Heart Commuting
9. No!
10. Brains on a Train

For more details of the day, be sure to check out the:

• Interim & Final video presentations (YouTube)
• Snaps from the day (Flickr)
• Other snippets of info (Wiki)

Presentations from Team ‘We Heart Commuting’

Retrospective

Having taken a look at feedback from attendees as well as evaluating our own thoughts, there are a few things worth highlighting…

The Good

Things we thought went well:

• having more than one organiser – we had three and we assigned pre-event tasks out which worked out really well;
• tightly time-boxing the day – we projected the task times up on the wall and were ruthless in keeping to them – this kept the energy levels up and people seemed to work well with constant awareness of the time constraints;
• actively checking people could still come through emails/twitter – we made several attendee changes right up until the night before, and because we put constant reminders out, those who couldn’t attend let us know earlier and we were able to substitute;
• colour coding people by roles – when creating attendee index cards for the teams we gave each role (dev, designer, ux person, project manager etc) a coloured dot, and this allowed us to easily see whether certain teams were evenly balanced, and shift people around;
• running through the topic with the mentors the week beforehand – getting the mentors involved before the day really helped fine tune the topic, and also gave them some more time to think about it, rather than coming to it fresh on the day.

The Not So Good

Things to improve for next time:

• do both sets of presentations in the same order (makes editing video way easier);
• figure out a way to encourage better recording of ideas, whether on the wiki or some other medium (due to time constraints, people were reluctant to spend much time documenting their ideas);
• maybe provide a list of UX tools for less experienced groups to choose from if they needed a kickstart.

Q: Would we do it again? A: Heck, yes!

All in all I thought it was an amazingly inspiring and successful day, and was well worth the efforts in planning (big thanks to my co-organisers James and Mariana). This was echoed in some of the feedback we got: ‘it was a very inspiring day’, ‘Intense but fun..a great day’, ‘makes me want to build things’, ‘most inspiring weekend I’ve ever had’, and ‘designjamoxford was really cool, gets better every time’.

Updates

You can keep up to date with the latest news and updates from other global Design Jams by following the #DesignJam hashtag on Twitter

What’s It All About

It is a one-day design session, during which people will team up to tackle an engaging User Experience challenge. Similar to developer ‘hackdays’ the aim is to get enthusiastic local UX professionals, designers, and developers from both local technology and university sectors together to learn and collaborate with each other while working on a design problem. Check out past Design Jams.

Want to get involved? Know someone?

We’re actively on the lookout for more local champions around the globe!

If you’d like to run your own Design Jam please show your interest by adding your details to the Design Jam wiki and emailing cyberdees[at]mozilla[dot]com.

Next stop for the Design Jam roadshow — sunny Barcelona! Design Jam Barcelona #1 will be held on Saturday, 4th June 2011. It is supported by Civic Center Golferichs, the Mozilla Labs Concept Series community as well as mentors from the local creative industry.

Background

Based on a Mozilla initiative, and after the successes of other worldwide Design Jams, local champions Alina Mierlus, Marta Armanda, Javier Usobiaga & Toni Hermoso, have been instrumental with the organisation of the event. In doing so have they have created a real buzz amongst the local UX community.

The event is non-profit, champions open-source thinking & sharing under Creative Commons licenses. Find out more about Design Jams.

Registering

Registration is well under way and spots are going fast! However, there’s still time to grab your spot via Eventbrite.

Date: 4 of June 2011 (Saturday)

Time: 09:00 – 18.00

Venue: Centre Cívic Golferichs

Address: Gran Vía Corts Catalanes, 491, 08015 Barcelona, Spain (map)

For full information & schedule check out the Design Jam Barcelona Wiki.

The Topic

The team are presently discussing a design topic with the mentors. Keeping with tradition, the topic will only be revealed on the morning of the event.

Local Champions

These folk rock! Events like these are not be possible without the hard work and dedication of local champions:

• Alina Mierlus [@alina_mierlus] – Barcelona based community engagement geek, digital activist and more;
• Marta Armanda [@martuishere] – Web designer at ‘savetheusers’. Likes clean & semantic markup and clean & semantic muffins;
• Javier Usobiaga [@htmlboy] – Web designer & front-end developer based in Barcelona, and co-founder of Swwweet.com;
• Toni Hermoso Pulido [@toniher] – Simplifies the web for scientific research @ Biomedica Barcelona Park. Also, a Mozillian and Wikipedian

Updates

Keep up to date with the latest news and updates (schedule, topic, activity, outputs etc.) via the following online channels:

• Wiki – Design Jam Barcelona wiki
• Eventbrite – Reserve your spot here!
• Twitter – @DesignJamBCN | #djBCN | #DesignJam

What’s It All About

It is a one-day design session, during which people will team up to tackle an engaging User Experience challenge. Similar to developer ‘hackdays’ the aim is to get enthusiastic local UX professionals, designers, and developers from both local technology and university sectors together to learn and collaborate with each other while working on a design problem. Past Design Jams include…

Want to get involved? Know someone?

We’re actively on the lookout for more local champions around the globe!

If you’d like to run your own Design Jam please show your interest by adding your details to the Design Jam wiki and emailing cyberdees[at]mozilla[dot]com.

Background

Based on a Mozilla initiative, Design Jam Iasi #1 will be held in just over a weeks time at the Al.I. Cuza University of Iasi within the Faculty of Computer Science. The jam will add an extra day to this years Summer Web 2011 event.

What’s It All About

Design Jam Iasi is a two-day venue, during which people team up to discuss, share ideas and solve engaging UX challenges. The day champions open-source thinking & sharing under Creative Commons licenses (check out past Design Jams).

The event is non-profit and supported by the Mozilla Labs Concept Series, The Red Point, Faculty of Computer Science, UAIC Romania, and ASII (The Association of The Informatics’ Students from Iasi).

Event Details

Spaces are limited — so grab your free ticket via Eventbrite today!

Date: 3 / 4 June 2011 (Friday/Saturday)
Time: 14:00 to 20:00 / 08:30 – 18:00
Venue: Room C308, Faculty of Computer Science, Al.I. Cuza University of Iasi
Address: General Berthelot, 16, Iasi 700483 (map)

For full information & schedule check out the Design Jam Iasi Wiki.

Day 1

The first day (June, 3rd) consists of a series of presentations about selected topics (Interaction Design, UX, Design Patterns, UI, etc) within Summer Web 2011, a workshop on Web technologies organized by Dr. Sabin Buraga since 2001. Several interesting talks are already confirmed:

• Design principles — Alecsandru Grigoriu, MSc student and 4 times participant at the Mozilla Labs Design Challenges
• Creating things for the Internet of things — Stefan Negru, PhD Student
• Mozilla Jetpack – Laurian Gridinoc, Mozilla Add-ons ambassador
• Web 3D — Victor Porof, Google Summer of Code student at Mozilla (working on the Tilt project)
• Developing games for the mobile devices — Victor Porof & Alecsandru Grigoriu

Day 2

On the second day (June, 4th), attendees – Students or Experienced Practitioners, Interaction Designers, UX Researchers, Information Architects, Web and Graphic Designers and Developers – will assign themselves to a group based on the skills they contribute and what they would like to learn. The teams will have to tackle a design challenge with a “secret” topic (to be revealed on the day) by doing Research, Sketching, Guerilla Testing and other UX techniques. Among mentors, we can mention Andreea Buraga and Silviu Savin.

Teams will share their process and ideas. Outcomes — available under the terms of Creative Commons — could be a prototype, sketches, storyboards or videos — whatever communicates the idea best. These resources will be publicly available on the Design Jam Iasi wiki.

Updates

For all the latest news and updates (schedule, topic, activity, outputs etc.) follow — @DesignJamIasi or the #designjam & #djiasi hashtags — on Twitter. There will also be a live streaming of the event on each day.

Also keep an eye on the Design Jam Iasi wiki, which will update and collate a repository of outputs throughout the event.

Want to get involved? Know someone?

We’re actively on the lookout for more local champions around the globe!

If you’d like to run your own Design Jam please show your interest by adding your details to the Design Jam wiki and emailing cyberdees[at]mozilla[dot]com.

• Do you have ideas for how news and journalism can be edgier, cooler, and more interactive online?
• Are you a web developer, designer or just a news junkie with a hankering to hack?

An evening of brainstorming over beers & pizza awaits — ultimately helping journalists take advantage of the open web and engage with citizens in new ways.

Event Details

When: Wednesday 1st June, 2011 (17.00 – 19.00 with Beer & Pizza included)
Where: BBC Club, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Rd, M60 1SJ (map)
Tickets: FREE! Now available on Eventbrite

Also, be sure to check out the full agenda & follow @KnightMozilla on Twitter for the latest news and updates.

Brainstorming

Team up with innovative peers and brainstorm & sketch ideas that help journalists take advantage of the open web and engage with citizens in new ways.

At the same time, qualify directly for a yearlong paid fellowship at the BBC, the Guardian and other major news outlets by entering your ideas for any of these #MoJo challenges.

• Unlocking Video: Tell stories better w/ video online
• Beyond Comment Threads: Re-invent commenting and discussion
• People-Powered News: What would you build to make news better for the people who create and read it?

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• Do you have ideas for how news and journalism can be edgier, cooler, and more interactive online?
• Are you a web developer, designer or just a news junkie with a hankering to hack?

Why not head to the University of Dundee for the day, team up with innovative peers & brainstorm ideas (fueled by Irn Bru) — that will help journalists take advantage of the open web and engage with citizens in new ways.

Event Details

When: Friday 27th May, 2011 (09.00 – 18.00 with Beer, Pizza & Irn Bru included)
Where: University of Dundee Student Union, Airlie Place, DD1 4HP (map)
Tickets: FREE! Now available on Eventbrite

Also, be sure to check out the full agenda & follow @KnightMozilla on Twitter for the latest news and updates.

Challenges – ‘Hack the Future of Journalism Online’

Team up with innovative peers and brainstorm & sketch ideas that help journalists take advantage of the open web and engage with citizens in new ways.

At the same time, qualify directly for a yearlong paid fellowship at the Guardian, the BBC and other major news outlets by entering your ideas for any of these #MoJo challenges.

• Unlocking Video: Tell stories better w/ video online
• Beyond Comment Threads: Re-invent commenting and discussion
• The Open Webs Killer App: Create news web apps

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• Do you have ideas for how news and journalism can be edgier, cooler, and more interactive online?
• Are you a web developer, designer or just a news junkie with a hankering to hack?

Event Details

Date: 28 May 2011 (Saturday)
Time: 10:00 – 17:00 (doors open at 09:00)
Venue: Guardian – Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG (map)
Transport: Kings Cross or St. Pancras
Tickets: FREE! Now available on Eventbrite (includes beer & pizza)

Also, be sure to check out the full agenda & follow @KnightMozilla on Twitter for the latest news and updates.

Days Challenges

Team up with innovative peers and brainstorm & sketch ideas that help journalists take advantage of the open web and engage with citizens in new ways. At the same time, qualify directly for a yearlong paid fellowship at the Guardian, the BBC and other major news outlets by entering your ideas for any of these #MoJo challenges.

• Unlocking Video: Tell stories better w/ video online
• Beyond Comment Threads: Re-invent commenting and discussion
• The Open Webs Killer App: Create news web apps