Drumbeat Events: Local engagement for global impact

Drumbeat events bring together people with diverse talents and passions to protect and grow the open web. From teachers, artists and designers to bloggers, lawyers, and inspired geeks and tech people, we’re building community from the local level up. Through face-to-face interactions, open collaboration, and fun.

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Drumbeat New York

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Drumbeat Berlin

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Event Updates

Social Drumbeat for Better Software 2010

Carlo Frinolli

05/05/2010 - 11:17am

It's been a long time since I last spoke about Mozilla Drumbeat.

The main reason is that I didn't have time to do that.

Drumbeat Bulgaria

Bogomil Shopov

05/03/2010 - 6:00am

On the contrary of my initial expectations a lot of people took part in the first Bulgarian /Mozilla Drumbeat /workshop! The workshop was divided into 3 parts. The first was a 15-minute speech giving a short account on what is open web, what is the Drumbeat mission and why this open web is so valuable.

Photo by niki

Drumbeat Toronto Agenda - 24 April 2010

Allen Gunn

04/19/2010 - 8:41am

This is the draft agenda for Drumbeat Toronto. Feel free to add comments, questions, or propose a session in the afternoon time slots!

Drumbeat Toronto poster

Mark Surman

04/16/2010 - 9:00am

We have a hot-off-the-digital-presses poster for Drumbeat Toronto, which is happening in a little over a week. Please post, share and hack this poster if you’re in Toronto (and make sure to register for the event as well). If you’re organizing a Drumbeat event elsewhere, feel free to rip off any or all of the bits from this poster.

Mozilla Drumbeat, o evento que reuniu as grandes cabeças do universo virtual!

Mark Surman

04/08/2010 - 7:44am

Conférence ICAM Mozilla - Wikimedia: Projet Drumbeat

florian lainez

04/02/2010 - 10:00am

Conférence Mozilla 2/2 : Projet Drumbeat

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Quick notes from first Drumbeat events

Mark Surman

03/24/2010 - 12:00am

Recent Drumbeat events in Rio and Sao Paulo provided a good chance to test out our agenda format. Things went well and we sparked some good momentum in Brasil — but there was definitely a great deal of learning on how we can make these events better. I need to synthesize this into the event wiki over the next week or so. In the meantime, here are some quick notes while it’s all fresh in my head:

The drumbeat starts in brasil

Mark Surman

03/23/2010 - 12:00am

Brasil was the right place to get this drumbeat started. It’s a place where the remixable culture that is the internet runs deep. It’s also a place where getting people other than developers doing things to improve and protect freedom on the web seems to come naturally. Which is the idea behind Drumbeat.

Our first ever dedicated Drumbeat events took place in Brasil over the last few days. The first was organized by Bruno Magrani in Rio at FGV Brasil. The second was organized by Pedro Markun and Daniela Silva at Case da Cultura Digital in Sao Paulo. Amazing people all three of them.

While there is much to learn and improve in the agenda format (see my next post), these first events did exactly what we wanted them to: bring together people who want to help make the interent better in ways that go beyond software. We had teachers, cybercafe owners, lawyers, designers, filmmakers, web developers, artists and many others — people passionate about the cause of the open internet, and looking for ways to lend their skills and creativity.