Study Group Spotlight: Bianca Peterson
Posts from February, 2017
Workweek 2016 MozFellows
In March 2017, we’ll be about half-way through the parallel tenures of our current class of Mozilla Fellows for Science and 2016 Open Web Fellows, which culminates in June 2017. That same month, we’ll also launch a new application for next year’s … Continue reading
Open and Inclusive Science at #ScienceMarch
The March for Science is officially happening! On April 22, 2017, there will be a network of marches worldwide aimed to engage the community in science and support scientific research. A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the planned march to … Continue reading
Community Call Feb. 16, 11ET
This week, we’re hosting an artful community call on the intersection of Art and Science, and we want you there! For background, the Science Lab community call takes place every other month, highlighting recent developments and work of the community relevant … Continue reading
Working Open in Montréal!!!
Last February, we hosted our first Working Open Workshop (WOW) in Berlin to train project leads to prepare for a strong open project launch on our Projects page and the 2016 Global Sprint. After some tremendous feedback from participants of … Continue reading
Community Spotlight: Link Clark
Code/Interactive (C/I) is a NYC-based non-profit that focuses on inspiring youth to learn, build, and collaborate with technology. In Austin, TX, C/I operates Coding4TX, a computer science education program that serves teachers and students statewide. Coding4TX has partnered with Mozilla … Continue reading
A truly reproducible scientific paper?
One pillar of the scientific method is reproducibility, that is, being able to redo an experiment and get the same result. Sometimes this is very hard to accomplish. For example, if you’re doing field work, you might end up collecting … Continue reading
Open Credentials: Promising Practices
In 2011, Mozilla created Open Badges with funding from the MacArthur Foundation and a network of partners committed to developing a new way to recognize and connect learning anytime, any place, and any pace. Since then a growing community of … Continue reading
Engaging Communities to Inspire Digital Innovation
A new gigabit network rolling out in Detroit is part of a groundswell of innovation currently taking place in this rapidly changing city. To make sure the incredible resource of this gigabit network is made available to more of the … Continue reading