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Explain open video in 60 seconds starting... now!

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Create a global fairness index for the mobile web

4 participants - 5 likes

Use art, design and data visualization to map the global internet

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Create an event kit that people can use to organize their own local Drumbeat events.

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March 5, 2010 - 11:29am Mark Surman

After reading Glyn Moody’s post yesterday, I realized I haven’t done a good enough job of explaining our Drumbeat roll out strategy. The basic idea: build up Drumbeat projects and events in the open and with a small community for a few months, and then make alot of noise once we’ve got great content in place. As Glyn said: fine strategy, but you need to tell people about it. So that’s what I am doing with this post.


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March 9, 2010 - 2:54pm Gina Cooper

Most of us are so used to going online and getting the information we want, we don’t often think of what we can’t get. For me, it took a trip to Asia to wake me up to what I really knew all along - there’s a whole other Internet out there that, until translation technology catches up, I can’t access. If you’ve ever used a translation website, you know how awkward the results can be. That situation is only compounded with video where no adequate search mechanism yet exists.

This week, Nicholas Reville, Executive Director of Participatory Culture Foundation (the folks who brought us Miro) introduced the Drumbeat community to his latest project, Universal Subtitling.


March 1, 2010 - 8:06am Mark Surman

I'm happy to say: the developer version of Mozilla's drumbeat.org is now live! If you've got in idea that will make the open web better, we're ready to hear it. And if you just want to learn about Drumbeat or help out for a couple of hours, we're ready for that too.


January 26, 2010 - 11:41am Mark Surman

At its simplest, Mozilla Drumbeat is about everyday internet users using technology to make and do things that will keep the web open for the long haul. Diversity will be a critical to this. Drumbeat needs to engage the huge diversity of people who use the web in their work and play. Teachers. Artists. Lawyers. Filmmakers. Children. Everyone. It also needs to reflect — and be shaped by — the diversity of cultures that make up the web. Drumbeat needs to be truly global right from the start.