Some new project ideas
Mark Surman
FYI, I want to point you to three new Drumbeat project ideas that have
been posted over the past few days:
1. An effort to use data visualization to help people understand the
web. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Challenges/Visualize_the_Web
2. A series of peer-2-peer courses on open web technologies.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Challenges/p2pu
3. An open source 'movie' about the web by the web.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Challenges/webmademovie
I'm flagging these partly to ask for feedback on the ideas themselves.
Thumbs up? Down? Offers of participation?
Also, these all use a rough version of the Drumbeat project template
that Matt will be sharing for feedback on Monday. I wanted to test this
template, so worked w/ a couple of people to write these.
Looking forward to thoughts and feedback.
ms
Lo
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Basically the idea is great, but I think the reach will be too closely
limited to people already inside the community. It's already a Great
community, right? so it can only be made greater by reaching outside.
To supplement the original idea I'd like to outline a project based on
an original idea by screenwriter John August. A couple of years ago he
uploaded some material from his first feature film (The Nines) and set
up a contest on his blog to edit the best trailer. There was no prize,
only bragging rights and John August eventually blogged about a
selection of the most interesting works.
http://johnaugust.com/archives/2007/trailer-competition-details
http://johnaugust.com/archives/2007/trailer-competition-judging-in-progress
http://johnaugust.com/archives/2007/trailer-winners
I think indie production companies would most likely be interested by
this. I mean they're all eager to find creative ways to build
awareness before a release. The real challenge here is to convince the
first company and define a framework where the benefits for the non-
for-profit community will be in line with the movie's eventual
success.
At large I think this would be a fine and firm step to push for
adoption of the <video> element/Theora encoding. Or, if I may say so,
to curtail (way further) the flash dependence of the web, especially
at video sharing websites.
Does this sound a nice approach to you?
Laurent
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Maxim Weinstein
> FYI, I want to point you to three new Drumbeat project ideas that have
> been posted over the past few days:
And here's another one:
A project to boost StopBadware's collective anti-malware effort by
humanizing the problem with user-generated stories:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Challenges/Stopbadware
Regards,
Maxim Weinstein, StopBadware
Mark Surman
Yup, that's the idea outlined on the wiki -> work w/ P2PU to run open
web skills courses. Hard thing is finding people to lead it.
ms
Alex Kozak
We already have a couple P2PU course facilitators here at CC, maybe someone would be willing to take on at least part of that project? If there were a few people who would share the load, maybe it would be easier to recruit them.
Mark Surman
Thanks for this.
I like the idea of a) providing footage and b) getting people to remix
into short works and trailers. There is a smaller 'movie about mozilla'
project in the works where this could be very effective.
Re: the community -> I tested the bigger 'movie about the web' idea on
alot of people on my recent trip to Singapore. There was great
enthusiasm from people well beyond our traditional community, so I think
it can help us expand as you suggest. Which is the idea of Drumebeat.
ms