Mozilla Hackfest March 23rd and Firefox 4 Release Party
j...@rejon.org
people to the event as possible, please help us spread the good news!
The party will be the night of the 23rd near Wudaokou/Mozilla offices.
Myself, Christopher Adams and several others will be in town for this
event. Hope to see many from the hackerlab there! Many world renowned
hackers will be there...cheers!
Are there other great places to spread the news too?
Cheers!
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Beijing, Wednesday, March 16, 2011—The Mozilla Drumbeat Hackfest is
coming to Beijing. The 2011 China Drumbeat is organized around the
theme of citizen science on the web, and has attracted some of the
world's leading developers in this field to participate. The Hackfest
will take place from March 23–25, 2011 and is to be hosted at the
Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
The goal the 2011 China Mozilla Drumbeat is to increase public
awareness of citizen science on the web, and partner open source
developers with the scientific community to build prototype solutions
for "citizen cyberscience" in China. The Hackfest will be of genuine
interest to web developers, mobile app developers, processor
enthusiasts, online game developers and virtual world enthusiasts.
Citizen cyberscience includes volunteer computing projects such as
SETI@home http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/, BOINC
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/, CAS@home http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/, and
LHC@home http://lhcathome.cern.ch/. These projects all leverage the
power of distributed computing to aid basic scientific research.
A Drumbeat Hackfest is a live collaborative event where tools and
technologies that support the open web are designed and created. The
2011 China Drumbeat welcomes the participation of developers with
skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, data visualization, distributed
computing, mobile computing and online gaming. Participating
developers can take advantage of this opportunity to aid the
scientific community and increase public uptake of volunteer computing
using the latest in web technologies.
More Information in English and Chinese
http://mozilla.com.cn/event/23-drumbeat-en/
http://mozilla.com.cn/event/24-drumbeat-cn/
The Hackfest will open on March 23rd with an evening of speeches by
Mark Surman, Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, Francois Grey,
Coordinator of the Citizen Cyberscience Centre and initiator of the
Africa@home and Asia@home citizen cyberscience projects; as well as
team leaders from SETI@home, BOINC, CAS@home, LHC@home, EpiCollect,
the Quake Catcher Network Project, and the Computing for Clean Water
Project.
March 24 and 25 will see full-day hackfest sessions with scientists
and developers to take on new challenges and help enhance volunteer
computing through rapid software and product prototyping.
The Fabricatorz are proud to be participating in this event. We hope
to see you there!
About Mozilla Drumbeat
Drumbeat is a global community of innovators like you, building a more
awesome web and world. Connect with others. Find projects that need
your help. Or share your own. https://www.drumbeat.org/
About Fabricatorz
The Fabricatorz is a “open” production company that makes successful
projects from start to finish, including development and community
management. We specialize in Free and Open Source Software, Creative
Commons technology, growing on-line and off-line communities in San
Francisco, China and the Arab World. We develop software with Aiki
Framework, hardware using Qi Hardware, and build communities around
the philosophies of Sharism.
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Jon Phillips
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