{"id":6323,"date":"2012-09-07T19:33:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T19:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:44:22","slug":"round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Webmaker round-up: MozCamp, Hive Berlin, code sprint grants + Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6264\" title=\"tumblr_archive2\"><em>In case you missed last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Webmakers\/Community_Calls\">Webmaker community call<\/a>, here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re making together at <a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\">Mozilla Webmaker<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Summer-Code-Party-contributor-montages.007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Summer Code Party -- contributor montages.007\" src=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Summer-Code-Party-contributor-montages.007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Mozilla Webmaker and Mozilla Reps: working together<\/h3>\n<p><strong>As <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/MozCampEU2012\">MozCamp Europe kicks off in Warsaw<\/a>, <\/strong>we&#8217;re sharing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/2012\/09\/05\/mozcamp_mozparty\/\">highlights<\/a><\/strong> of how Mozilla Reps are using Mozilla Webmaker tools and Summer Code Party events to grow Mozilla.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/2012\/09\/05\/mozcamp_mozparty\/\">Read the blog post<\/a>: &#8220;Growing Mozilla through webmaking: MozCamp + MozParty.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/MozCampEU2012\/webmaker_sig\">Join the MozCamp session<\/a> about building Mozilla Webmaker materials and support for Mozilla Reps this Saturday.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reps.mozilla.org\/people\/#\/search\/webmaker\/\">Connect with Mozilla Reps<\/a> who have expressed an interest in Webmaker.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\/en-US\/events\/guides\/\">Host your own MozParty \/ ReMo event<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hive Berline &quot;speed geek&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/michellethorne.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2012-09-03-at-21.40.37-e1346701688122.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the recent Hive Berlin &#8220;speed geek&#8221; session<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Hive Berlin starts buzzing<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Hive model is spreading<\/strong>.\u00a0 The approach: bring together local organizations, museums, libraries and open tech leaders like Mozilla to teach digital literacy, hacking and webmaking. <strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hive Toronto<\/strong> is organizing another major Mozilla Toronto event for Sep 22. And last week, an introductory &#8220;<strong>Hive Berlin&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>brought local leaders together to offer youth a &#8220;speed geek session&#8221; where participants &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/michellethorne.cc\/2012\/09\/hive-berlin-speed-geeking-howd-it-go\/\">hacked at learning stations and hopped into and making something<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michellethorne.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2012-09-03-at-21.41.14-e1346701728362.png\" alt=\"the future of learning\" width=\"400\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The goal: <\/strong>&#8220;for leaders to showcase their offerings and connect with other individuals and Berlin organizations working at the intersection of learning and digital tools.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/michellethorne.cc\/2012\/09\/hive-berlin-speed-geeking-howd-it-go\/\">Learn more<\/a>. <\/strong>Michelle Thorne&#8217;s excellent blog post has details.<\/li>\n<li>Join the new Hive Berlin <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/?hl=en&amp;fromgroups#%21forum\/hive-berlin\">mailing list<\/a><\/strong>.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Join the conversation on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/realtime\/%23hiveberlin\"><strong>#hiveberlin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"[05.11.2011] MOZILLA FEST by Ophelia Noor, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nuridao\/6315312949\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6106\/6315312949_2b50892d85_n.jpg\" alt=\"[05.11.2011] MOZILLA FEST\" width=\"320\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Knight-Mozilla OpenNews session at last year&#8217;s Mozilla Festival<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Apply for an OpenNews &#8220;Code Sprint Grant&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Got a big little idea for an open source journalism tool?<\/strong> The Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project can help.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking to help create small tools that make big impacts.&#8221; <em>&#8211;Dan Sinker, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Knight-mozilla-code-sprint-grants.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6355\" title=\"Knight mozilla code sprint grants\" src=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Knight-mozilla-code-sprint-grants.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>How it works<\/strong>: the program offers Code Sprint Grants of $10,000 to fund small-scale utilities and tools that solve specific, repeatable journalistic problems. News organizations collaborate with OpenNews to define Code Sprint projects, and all Code Sprint Grant-funded code is documented and open-sourced on completion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sinker.tumblr.com\/post\/30585668344\/opennews-announcing-code-sprint-grants\">Learn more<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mozillaopennews.org\/codesprints.html\">Apply for a Code Sprint grant today.<\/a> There&#8217;s no deadline &#8212; apply any time.<\/li>\n<li>Check out other examples of other &#8220;small tools with big impact. Like <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jsoma\/tabletop\">Tabletop.js<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/propublica.github.com\/timeline-setter\/\"> Timelinesetter<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/misoproject.com\/dataset\/\">Dataset<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/user-testing-at-Mozilla-Toronto.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6325\" title=\"user testing at Mozilla Toronto\" src=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/user-testing-at-Mozilla-Toronto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How can we become the best in the world at user testing?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Kate Hudson presented the <a href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/User-testing\">results<\/a> of some great recent experiments around user testing for <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillapopcorn.org\/\">Mozilla Popcorn<\/a><\/strong>. Testers came into the Mozilla Toronto office, were guided through a script and process Kate and the Popcorn team created, and then offered their feedback on this <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.butyr.org\/templates\/basic\/\">sneak peek new version<\/a> of the Popcorn app.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Next up: begin doing regular monthly &#8220;User Testing Fridays&#8221; in the Moz Toronto community space and elsewhere?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/59453984@N04\/7930050284\/in\/photostream\/\">Check out photos<\/a> from the user testing session in the Mozilla Toronto community space.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/k88hudson.github.com\/popcorn-user-testing\/\">Get a copy of the flyer<\/a> they used to attract user testing volunteers, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/dg8iblc01rl0i3q\/user-script-popcorn.pdf\">the script they followed<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.butyr.org\/templates\/basic\/\">Take a sneak peek at the new Popcorn app prototype in development<\/a>. This is what we were testing. (WARNING: still in early stages, not yet released.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/User-testing\">Notes and questions on user testing from the Webmaker call<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_archive2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"tumblr_archive2\" src=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_archive2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Building a Summer Code Party &#8220;Hall of Fame&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re approaching the grand finale of the Summer Code Party on Sep 22 and 23<\/strong>. To mark the occasion, The Webmaker engagement team is doing our best to gather up a new &#8220;Hall of Fame&#8221; with your favorite moments, people and projects from the summer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The goal: spread love<\/strong>. Celebrate and offer recognition to your favorite community members, instructors, and inspiring people you met through the Summer Code Party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Building a prototype for &#8220;webmaker.org\/HallofFame.&#8221;<\/strong> Or something like it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/modreplica\">Rebeccah<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenMatt\">OpenMatt<\/a> are working on a prototype web page aimed at making it easy to see, submit and share your own favorites from the summer. Lots of this is already on our <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillawebmaker.tumblr.com\">Mozilla Webmaker Tumblr<\/a> &#8212; it just needs to be sorted and organized into &#8220;best of&#8221; categories. More on that next week. In the mean time, we&#8217;re pulling together some <a href=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/hall-of-fame\/\">quick and dirty prototypes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mozillawebmaker.tumblr.com\/submit\">Submit your favorite<\/a> &#8220;Summer Code Party&#8221; people and projects to the Hall of Fame.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/hall-of-fame\/\">Check out the prototype<\/a> we&#8217;re working on to share with the team next week. (Only 20% baked &#8212; updating hourly.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed last week&#8217;s Webmaker community call, here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re making together at Mozilla Webmaker: Mozilla Webmaker and Mozilla Reps: working together As MozCamp Europe kicks off in Warsaw, we&#8217;re sharing highlights of how Mozilla Reps are using &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/round-up\/\">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":[23086,334781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323"}],"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=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}