Drumbeat projects build and protect the open web
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Featured Projects
Help create an open system that lets anyone make and watch video subtitles
The ultimate curriculum for open web developers, and a community endorsed certificate to show off your skills
A project to collect and share stories about the effects of badware on real people.
Create a 5-minute presentation that explains the open web and share it with the world
A campaign to expand the quantity and quality of video in the Wikimedia Commons, using a combination of grassroots campaigning, tool building...
Create an event kit that people can use to organize their own local Drumbeat events.
Latest Project Ideas
Encouraging beginners with an interest, who don't know where to start. Learn by doing. And have fun while learning.
What I want to be done is that we, people who have knowledge in ITs and the web in particular, go to schools to share this knowledge.
A collaborative platform and an open database for language resources. A Wikipedia for languages, if you want :)
An extensible personal pub platform for the web. Is that all there is to it? Are Legos just interconnectable blocks? No, that’s just the beginning.
A "lock" on a webpage will make it more difficult to accidentally close a webpage when listening to music etc.
creating data links with words and images in research journals and sketchbooks online
Numerous projects are working on the building blocks for a free and open social network. Let's drum up some momentum to get it built.
This project is aimed to develop an open standard to use XML to create reusable components. The standard could be used for SVG, XHTML, ...
The Appleseed Project stands as a proof-of-concept for an open source Social Networking software based on a distributed model.
Each language has something unique to offer and it is becoming more and more important to be learn other languages in an increasingly global world
Most people who try to censor or close parts of the web, actually do not know how awesome it is. Let us show them, why it is worth fighting for!
An idea-ground for privacy control tools where users can suggest ways of making the Internet more privacy protective via Firefox plugins/other methods
StatusNet is the open source microblogging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain.
This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into
