Posts by dchinniah@mozilla.com

Knight-Mozilla Initiative: Kicks-off with Innovation Challenge 1 – Unlocking Video

After our initial message last week, we are happy to announce that the first 2011 Knight-Mozilla News Innovation Challenge is now open! What is the first challenge? Unlocking Video: How can new web video tools transform news storytelling? To enter … Continue reading

Knight-Mozilla Initiative: Challenges Launch in One Week

On April 25, the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership (aka “MoJo”) will open its 2011 News Innovation Challenge. With the launch around the corner, we wanted to remind people of our vision for the challenge and share an overview of dates … Continue reading

Student Outreach: Software Engineering students at the University of Sussex are visited by Mozilla WebQA

Martin Berger, a lecturer at the University of Sussex recently invited Mozilla, to talk to his group of Software Engineering students. This was a unique opportunity for the 100 odd students to get away from all the theory — and … Continue reading

Student Outreach: Masters of Interactive Multimedia students from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) design a rich hybrid application

Students under the leadership of Dr Linda Leung, Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, Institute for Interactive Media and Learning – are presently undertaking their major Masters project in conjunction with Mozilla Labs. Background The students (Merissa Santoso, … Continue reading

Design Jam Chapel Hill #1: Creating a virtual experience for visiting historic North Carolina sites

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently played host to the first international Design Jam. Local champion (Jade E. Davis) & Mentor (Joyce Rudinsky), together with the support from the Institute for Arts and Humanities – did a … Continue reading

Design Jam Chapel Hill #1: ‘Open Design’ comes to North Carolina with support from Mozilla Labs & The Institute for Arts and Humanities

Local champion Jade E. Davis has pulled out all the stops to bring a Design Jam to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Based on an initiative from the Mozilla Labs Concept Series, Design Jam Chapel Hill #1 will be held at … Continue reading

Student Outreach: Ashesi University College announce a semester of Open Design projects

Students at Ashesi University College (Accra, Ghana) have embarked on semester long Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) projects – in collaboration with Mozilla Labs as part of the Concept Series, Student Outreach channel. All picture credits: Ebenezer Gwumah Buckman About the course … Continue reading

Crowdsourcing Project: Broadcasting & Sharing local tech events via the airwaves with the Air Local channel

By Peter Organisciak, João Menezes, Jan Dittrich & Eugenia Ortiz A guest post from our Crowdsource Crowdsourcing project team who have spent the last few weeks tackling the Air Local channel. Find below, some of their observations, thoughts and proposals. … Continue reading

Design Jam London #2: Yet another 50 UX’ers. Same 9 hours. 1 Brand new challenge.

To learn more about what Design Jams are and where they’ve come from, read more on the Design Jams wiki. A guest post by local London Design Jam champions, Joe Lanman, Franco Papeschi, Desigan Chinniah & Johanna Kollmann. The all-new … Continue reading