{"id":1053,"date":"2013-05-28T18:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2013-05-28T18:38:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T18:38:15","slug":"summit-origami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/2013\/05\/28\/summit-origami\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Origami"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Origami, for anyone who doesn’t know, is a traditional Japanese art form whereby the maker transforms a flat sheet of paper into a finished sculpture through a series of folding and sculpting techniques.\u00a0 The actual number of basic folds is small, but they can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs.\u00a0 Creating the Mozilla Summit feels a bit like that these days – a few basics with an endless number of possible combinations – ultimately (and hopefully) transformed into something amazing.<\/p>\n

I wanted to take a moment this week to share my learnings from this past<\/em> week – collected whilst sculpting and folding my way through this journey of Summit-creation.\u00a0 I was reminded by someone close to me that because this is as much a personal journey as it is an organizational one, documenting my experiences along the way is important – in addition of course, to big, project milestones like getting all of our amazing volunteers invited.<\/p>\n

So, here are a few things I learned this past week making a Summit:<\/p>\n