{"id":12137,"date":"2014-08-21T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=12137"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:41:12","slug":"mozfest-2014-session-proposal-deadline-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/mozfest-2014-session-proposal-deadline-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"MozFest 2014: session proposal deadline extended!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very excited about this year&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/2014.mozillafestival.org\">Mozilla Festival<\/a><\/strong> (24-26 October, London). It really is true that you can arrive with an idea and leave with a community! You can get an flavour of some of what will be going on through the 11 tracks:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-bullet1\">\n<li><strong>Build and Teach the Web<\/strong> &#8211; Keep the web wild through hands-on making with innovative tools and teaching the web as a community.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open Web With Things<\/strong> &#8211; Escape the limitations of your computer and build the web using sensors, circuits and good old paper and scissors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web in Your Pocket<\/strong> &#8211; Explore opportunities in the booming world of the open web\u00a0 on mobile. How can\u00a0 we experiment &amp; tinker to customize our own\u00a0 experience on our phones?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Source Code for Journalism<\/strong> &#8211; Design next-generation web solutions to solve critical\u00a0 issues facing news organizations and help journalism thrive on the open\u00a0 web.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open Science and the Web<\/strong> &#8211; Examine the potential of the open web to re-define how we experiment, analyze and share scientific knowledge.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Art and Culture of the Web<\/strong> &#8211; An exploration of the programs, practices and inspirations of open and networked digital art forms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open Badges Lab<\/strong> &#8211; Challenge\u00a0 the conventional system of recognizing skills\u00a0 and learning. Celebrate achievements from Open Badge creators and\u00a0 issuers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hive Learning Networks <\/strong>&#8211; Join this lab for people working on building local city\u00a0 learning networks (Hives) and how they can better globally connect to\u00a0 share learning\u00a0 experiences for youth and digital media.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Musicians and Music Creators on the Open Web<\/strong> &#8211; Play a role and explore what it takes to make music on the open web.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Policy &amp; Advocacy<\/strong> &#8211; Privacy, Security, and Building the Movement to protect the free and open web.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open Data<\/strong> &#8211; Uncover the data on the web and in our world that will help us better inform and organize our communities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If any of those sound like the kind of thing you&#8217;d like to run a practical, hands-on session about, we want to hear from you! For your proposal to be the best it can be, it&#8217;s worth bearing in mind that we&#8217;ll need to hear how you&#8217;re going to make your session <strong>inclusive<\/strong>, <strong>inspiring<\/strong> and <strong>inviting<\/strong>. We&#8217;ll need real examples as well as some detail on how you plan to structure your session.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Propose a MozFest 2014 session: <a href=\"http:\/\/2014.mozillafestival.org\/propose\/\">http:\/\/2014.mozillafestival.org\/propose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In order to get give people coming back from vacation time to submit session proposals, we&#8217;ve decided to extend the submission deadline to <strong>Friday 29th August<\/strong>. Those who have their proposals accepted will be notified soon afterwards.<br \/>\n<strong>Questions? Problems?<\/strong> Email: <a href=\"mailto:festival@mozilla.org\"><strong>festival@mozilla.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very excited about this year&#8217;s Mozilla Festival (24-26 October, London). It really is true that you can arrive with an idea and leave with a community! You can get an flavour of some of what will be going on &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/mozfest-2014-session-proposal-deadline-extended\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378228],"tags":[5,23098],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}