Re: Journalism at MozFest!

[Heather Chaplin]

Hey Erika, great talking to you! Very excited about possibilities.

also, just looked at this link - it's not a big deal, but I was actually
part of the So Many Maps ...group :)

look forward to talking more!

Best,

Heather

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Erika Owens
<er...@mozillafoundation.org>wrote:

> Hello,
> Thank you to everyone who presented, supported, or attended a session at
> the Mozilla Festival this past weekend (or lurked on Twitter). We learned a
> lot, met a ton of new people, and made so much great stuff that the 9th
> floor of Ravensbourne couldn't even contain all of the folks who wanted to
> participate in the Source code for journalism track.
>
> The festival weekend itself was great, but the excitement doesn't end
> there:
> * We announced the 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellows on Saturday (video
> available here: http://mozillafestival.org/**blog/video/<http://mozillafestival.org/blog/video/>)
> and they'll begin working in newsrooms early next year. In the video, each
> of the current Fellows also gave a short description of a project they
> developed during their fellowship.
> * OpenNews director Dan Sinker lead over 70 people in a session on hacking
> the election that is already up on Source (http://source.**
> mozillaopennews.org/articles/**election-hacking-mozfest/<http://source.mozillaopennews.org/articles/election-hacking-mozfest/>)
> and participants are planning to continue work from the session in upcoming
> election coverage.
> * You can check out all the sessions here: http://lanyrd.com/2012/**
> mozilla-festival/on/**journalism-mozfest/<http://lanyrd.com/2012/mozilla-festival/on/journalism-mozfest/>And presenters, please add notes and other documents to your lanyrd page.
> We heard from many of you that the hacking and planning would continue
> after MozFest, so please, link us to that work!
>
> Source will also continue to be a place for features on topics covered in
> sessions as well as an index for code and way to connect with other folks
> in the journalism-technology community.
>
> This was an energizing weekend and as people get settled back at home
> after the festival, do get in touch with us for suggestions on features for
> Source or ways to collaborate. Or, we'll be contacting you soon.
>
> Thanks,
> Erika
>
> --
> Erika Owens
> Community Manager, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews
> mozillaopennews.org | @opennews
> skype: erikao12 | @erika_owens
>
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