Our end of year fundraising campaign has finished now, but while it’s fresh in our minds we still want to write up and share the results of some of the A/B tests we ran during the campaign that might be … Continue reading
Mozilla’s Web Literacy Map constitutes the skills and competencies required to read, write and participate on the web. It currently stands at version 1.1 and a more graphical overview of the competency layer can be found in the Webmaker resources … Continue reading
Transparency. Agililty. Radical participation. That’s how we want to work on Webmaker this year. We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re building concrete improvements and momentum — every two weeks. We work mostly in two-week sprints or “Heartbeats.” … Continue reading
This blog post provides an update on the Co-Designing Privacy Badges project, funded by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Connected learning includes six core aspects. The term suggests that learning can relate to the interests of youth, … Continue reading
Shoutouts Shoutouts go out this week to the community members who spoke at our community call last Thursday: Grant Miller from Zooniverse on lessons from Citizen Science, Garret Christensen from BITSS on the Reproducibility Manual for Social Science, and Tim … Continue reading
The Gigabit City Summit was an experience, both social and technical, that laid out Kansas City’s bi-state Playbook for all to see, poke at, learn from and, when it’s all said and done – take back to their blooming broadband … Continue reading
A Software Carpentry workshop just wrapped at the University of Washington, hosted by the eScience Institute and organized by Ben Marwick. Our great gratitude to the organizers, and also to the huge lineup of instructors: Russell Alleen-Willems, Becca Blakewood, Tracy … Continue reading
On Wednesday POTUS broke out his iPad and spoke about the critical need to ensure internet access for all in the U.S. As a preview to his State of the Union address, he wants to “clear away the red tape,” … Continue reading
This is a guest post from Beatrice Martini (of http://beatricemartini.it/) and Bekka Kahn (of The Open Coalition), Community Building track wranglers from MozFest 2014. This year, MozFest hosted the first-ever Community Building track for participants. Wrangled by Beatrice Martini and Bekka … Continue reading
We launched the Mozilla Science Lab 18 months ago to explore how the principles and values of the open web could advance scientific discovery. We’ve made significant progress in recent years in building awareness and tools for “open science”, but … Continue reading
