{"id":6612,"date":"2011-05-25T04:04:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T11:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5.1386"},"modified":"2011-05-25T04:04:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T11:04:42","slug":"design-jam-iasi-1-romania-opens-the-jam-pot-as-part-of-summer-web-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2011\/05\/design-jam-iasi-1-romania-opens-the-jam-pot-as-part-of-summer-web-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Jam Iasi #1: Romania Opens the Jam Jar as Part of Summer Web 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local champions \u2014 Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/thor.info.uaic.ro\/~busaco\/\">Sabin Buraga<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/busaco_\">@busaco_<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/blankdots.com\/\">Stefan Negru<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/blankdots\">@blankdots<\/a>), Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/thor.info.uaic.ro\/~adria\/about-me.html\">Lenuta Alboaie<\/a> &amp; Andrei Panu \u2014 invite neophytes, apprentices, and experts in Human-Computer Interaction and related fields on 3 &amp; 4 June 2011 to attend the first edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designjams.org\/wiki\/Design_Jam_Iasi#1\">Design Jam Iasi<\/a>, Romania, an event organized in conjunction to <a href=\"http:\/\/swapps.wordpress.com\/\">Summer Web 2011<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/designjamiasi.eventbrite.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Design Jam Iasi Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.designjams.org\/mediawiki\/images\/3\/31\/Logo_design_jam_iasi.png\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"301\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Background<\/h2>\n<p>Based on a Mozilla initiative, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designjams.org\/wiki\/Design_Jam_Iasi\"><strong>Design Jam Iasi #1<\/strong><\/a> will be held in just over a weeks time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uaic.ro\/\">Al.I. Cuza University of Iasi<\/a> within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoiasi.ro\/bin\/Main\/?language=en\">Faculty of Computer Science<\/a>. The jam will add an extra day to this years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blankdots\/5757179737\/sizes\/l\/in\/pool-1690497@N21\/\">Summer Web 2011 event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s It All About<\/h2>\n<p>Design Jam Iasi is a two-day venue, during which people team up to discuss, share ideas and solve engaging UX challenges. The day champions open-source thinking &amp; sharing under Creative Commons licenses (<a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/conceptseries\/category\/concept-series\/jam-days\/design-jam\/\">check out past Design Jams<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The event is non-profit and supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MozConcept\">Mozilla Labs Concept Series<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trp.ro\/lang\/en\/index.html\">The Red Point<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoiasi.ro\/bin\/Main\/?language=en\">Faculty of Computer Science<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uaic.ro\/\">UAIC Romania<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/asii.ro\/\">ASII<\/a> (The Association of The Informatics&#8217; Students from Iasi). <\/p>\n<h2>Event Details<\/h2>\n<p>Spaces are limited \u2014 so grab your <a href=\"http:\/\/designjamiasi.eventbrite.com\/\"><strong>free ticket via Eventbrite<\/strong><\/a> today!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 3 \/ 4 June 2011 (Friday\/Saturday)<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 14:00 to 20:00 \/ 08:30 \u2013 18:00<br \/>\n<strong>Venue<\/strong>: Room C308, Faculty of Computer Science, Al.I. Cuza University of Iasi<br \/>\n<strong>Address<\/strong>: General Berthelot, 16, Iasi 700483  (<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/nimN\">map<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>For full information &amp; schedule check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designjams.org\/wiki\/Design_Jam_Iasi\">Design Jam Iasi Wiki<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h2>Day 1<\/h2>\n<p>The first day (June, 3rd) consists of a series of presentations about selected topics (Interaction Design, UX, Design Patterns, UI, etc) within <a href=\"http:\/\/swapps.wordpress.com\/\">Summer Web 2011<\/a>, a workshop on Web technologies organized by Dr. Sabin Buraga since 2001. Several interesting talks are already confirmed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Design principles<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alecsandru\">Alecsandru Grigoriu<\/a>, MSc student and 4 times participant at the Mozilla Labs Design Challenges<\/li>\n<li><strong>Creating things for the Internet of things<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/blankdots.com\/\">Stefan Negru<\/a>, PhD Student<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mozilla Jetpack<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gridinoc\">Laurian Gridinoc<\/a>, Mozilla Add-ons ambassador<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web 3D<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/victorporof\">Victor Porof<\/a>, Google Summer of Code student at Mozilla (working on the Tilt project)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developing games for the mobile devices<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/victorporof\">Victor Porof<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alecsandru\">Alecsandru Grigoriu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Day 2<\/h2>\n<p>On the second day (June, 4th), attendees \u2013 Students or Experienced Practitioners, Interaction Designers, UX Researchers, Information Architects, Web and Graphic Designers and Developers \u2013 will assign themselves to a group based on the skills they contribute and what they would like to learn. The teams will have to tackle a design challenge with a &#8220;secret&#8221; topic (to be revealed on the day) by doing Research, Sketching, Guerilla Testing and other UX techniques. Among mentors, we can mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projekt-klangwelt.com\/\">Andreea Buraga<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/silvius\">Silviu Savin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will share their process and ideas. Outcomes \u2014 available under the terms of Creative Commons \u2014 could be a prototype, sketches, storyboards or videos \u2014 whatever communicates the idea best. These resources will be publicly available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designjams.org\/wiki\/Design_Jam_Iasi#1\">Design Jam Iasi wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Updates<\/h2>\n<p>For all the latest news and updates (schedule, topic, activity, outputs etc.) follow \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DesignJamIasi\">@DesignJamIasi<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/saved-search\/%23designjam\">#designjam<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/saved-search\/%23djiasi\">#djiasi<\/a> hashtags \u2014 on Twitter.  There will also be a live streaming of the event on each day.<\/p>\n<p>Also keep an eye on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designjams.org\/wiki\/Design_Jam_Iasi\">Design Jam Iasi wiki<\/a>, which will update and collate a repository of outputs throughout the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designjams.org\/wiki\/Design_Jam_Iasi#1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Summer Web 2011 poster\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5026\/5757179737_e49e39da2d_z.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"453\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>Want to get involved? Know someone?<\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>We\u2019re actively on the lookout for more local champions around the globe!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designjams.org\/wiki\/Run_a_design_jam\">run your own Design Jam<\/a> please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designjams.org\/wiki\/Run_a_design_jam\">show your interest<\/a> by adding your details to the Design Jam wiki and emailing cyberdees[at]mozilla[dot]com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local champions \u2014 Dr. Sabin Buraga (@busaco_), Stefan Negru (@blankdots), Dr. Lenuta Alboaie &amp; Andrei Panu \u2014 invite neophytes, apprentices, and experts in Human-Computer Interaction and related fields on 3 &amp; 4 June 2011 to attend the first edition of &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2011\/05\/design-jam-iasi-1-romania-opens-the-jam-pot-as-part-of-summer-web-2011\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9141,19262],"tags":[19442,16577,22916,19533,22918,19577,5,19580,19595,19624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}