{"id":10569,"date":"2013-10-29T15:37:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=10569"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:42:13","slug":"mozfest-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/mozfest-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest Mozilla Festival yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend nearly 1,500 web experts, journalists, artists, educators and hackers came together for our fourth annual MozFest \u2014 our biggest yet. Participants spent an amazing three days brainstorming and building the future of the web, and hacking topics like online privacy, access, education and mobile technology. The festival centered around a \u201cless yack, more hack\u201d ethos, encouraging both experts and novices from wildly divergent fields to bring their ideas to the table and spend the weekend building prototypes.
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\nEvery year MozFest has a focus, and this year centered around Mozilla\u2019s commitment to creating a web-literate world \u2014 whether that means teaching basic coding skills, spreading an understanding of privacy and security, or integrating the open web into non-traditional fields such as journalism and scientific research.
\nAs a part of that commitment, we showcased our Webmaker <\/a>project, which has unveiled a number of new features and functionality, including integration of Together.js to better facilitate remote teaching, hackable profiles, remixable teaching kits, and a Web Literacy Standard<\/a>\u00a0 \u2014 a map designed by our community of the skills and competencies for teaching the web and what it means to be web literate.
\nWebmaker also showcased a vibrant volunteer community that is already teaching the web around the world\u00a0 \u2014 including more than 50,000 people who joined 1,600 events in 330 cities at our global Maker Party<\/a> \u2014 teaching vital web skills to people their own communities.
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\nWe also heard from some great speakers, like entrepreneur Anil Dash, privacy expert Camille Fran\u00e7ois, and associate Digital Editor for the New York Times, Aron Pilhofer; as well as the Guardian’s James Ball and ProPublica’s Jeff Larson.
\nInteractive sessions at MozFest covered areas such as web literacy and education, robotics and circuitry, open gaming, privacy and online data, tech and the future of journalism and open technology.
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\nThe festival closed with a demo party on Sunday night, where participants showcased the incredible projects and prototypes they\u2019d built over the weekend, including:<\/p>\n