{"id":2902,"date":"2015-11-26T13:38:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T21:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozscienceblog.wpengine.com\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:40:06","slug":"mozilla-festival-2015-thats-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/mozilla-festival-2015-thats-a-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Festival 2015: That’s a wrap …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the dust has settled from the Mozilla Foundation<\/a> annual Mozilla Festival 2015<\/a> there\u2019s time to reflect on the success of this year\u2019s Mozilla Science Lab \u201cOpen Science\u201d<\/a> track that took place on the 9th Floor at Ravensbourne<\/a> University<\/a>, London UK \u2013 November 6 – 8.<\/p>\n

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The spirit of MozFest was again, electrifying and inspirational<\/a> and that was in large part due to the energy and enthusiasm of the 70+ facilitators (bottom)<\/a> that ran over 35 sprints and trainings in the \u201cOpen Science\u201d space over the three day festival \u2013 not to mention of course, the huge number of participants that came together to learn, tinker, explore and hack at the intersection of science and the Internet, and learn how the Web can advance scientific work.<\/p>\n

The festival began Friday night with a Science Fair where we featured our new Mozilla Fellows for Science cohort<\/a>, took a look at geocoding from Stuart Lynn (CartoDB)<\/a>, Aurelia Moser (CartoDB)<\/a> and David Riordan (Mapzen)<\/a> as they demo\u2019d a preview of their session “Putting the world in its place: Geocoders, their promise and pitfalls”<\/a> and SP Mohanty<\/a> demonstrating<\/a> his YA3C<\/a> project that he entered in the CERN Summer WebFest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For the next two days the Open Science schedule (mid-page)<\/a> was packed with sessions covering topics for open data<\/a>, science communication<\/a>, citizen science<\/a>, and open research<\/a>. Too many to cover in this blog but here are a few links to some of the session takewaways<\/a> … just to highlight a few.<\/p>\n