Post Original de Sarah Allen. Adaptación al Español por Carolina Tejada. A partir de marzo de 2021 y durante los próximos tres años, MozFest, nuestra reunión anual de activistas mundiales, tecnólogos, diseñadores y artistas que construyen un mundo digital más humano, tendrá lugar en Amsterdam. Cuando MozFest comenzó hace 11 años en Barcelona ​​España, 300 personas se reunieron en una plaza local, en tiendas de campaña, para discutir sobre código abierto y alfabetización web. ¡Para ese entonces, las personas viajaron desde todas partes del mundo y construyeron el programa de lo que sería el eve ..read more

Hi there. Thanks for keeping up to date with MozFest here on Medium! Over the past several years, we’ve used this space to talk about the festival, the people that make it possible, and the big ideas that emerge from it. Mozilla will continue blogging about MozFest — but we’re now publishing those posts on a new platform: https://foundation.mozilla.org/blog/category/mozilla-festival/ We’re excited to publish on our own website, and hope it will help festival participants further immerse themselves in MozFest and the internet health movement. See you there! (P.S. We won’t shut down this Medium ..read more

In 2019, we gathered in London to celebrate our 10th Anniversary MozFest — and our last in this city, as the Festival will be moving to a new location in 2020. https://medium.com/media/25774ef276dfa8d749c6a0f85ac31dfe/hrefThe week started off strong, with nearly 50 events at MozFest House. Voice Magazine’s youth-focused training about Artificial Intelligence drew a huge crowd. The BBC-sponsored BBC Fireside chat on Machine Automated Learning was a sell-out. And MozHouse was host to a supercharged iteration of LifeSciHack, the global traveling hackathon bridging the fields of software engineeri ..read more

Many MozFest participants are making a repeat visit to London this week for the Festival. And some make it a habit of returning to the Festival year after year. Bastian Greshake-Tzovaras is one such MozFest regular; he’s also Director of Research at the Open Humans Foundation, a data-sharing and collaboration platform; and co-founder of openSNP, an open-source website for sharing genetic data. What’s made Greshake-Tzovaras a repeat MozFest participant? He cites the variety of experiences MozFest offers, from interactive workshops and hands-on collaborations to art exhibitions and art-making ex ..read more

MozFest is a convening point and fueling station for a dynamic, global movement for a better, healthier internet. This year, among our hundreds of offerings are sessions by and for activists and organisers. Join us to brush up on critical skills in movement building, and get a glimpse of how emerging tech like AI might transform — for better and/or worse — activism and organising practice. Here are seven great sessions for activists from our jam-packed schedule. Don’t miss MozFest 2019, get your tickets now! Movement Building for Internet Health with Abby Cabunoc-Mayes / @abbycabs / Mozilla (W ..read more

MozFest is Mozilla’s annual celebration of the internet and internet health. Each year in London, over 2500 participants gather to share new ideas, collaborate, and connect. This year, MozFest is in London, from October 21st–27th. Technologist and engineers have always had a home at MozFest. It’s a great place to launch a project, learn a new skill, prototype a feature, hack together something cool over the weekend, or just hang out and with like-minded friends! Here are just a few of MozFest 2019’s offerings for engineers, coders, and technologists of every stripe. (For more, browse the full ..read more

Recapping our progress & setting next steps Photo CC BY-NC by Erik WestraOver the past few months, the Mozfest 2020 city search team has been talking with community members about our criteria for picking the festival’s next host city. Wherever we go, we want to be sure to pick a city that meets the expectations, hopes, and needs of the volunteers, wranglers, facilitators, and attendees who make MozFest work. Via social media, a survey, and several community calls, we asked for feedback on the following criteria: 1. Digital Rights and Policies The city, town or neighborhood that will host M ..read more

Games, play, and movement-building meet at MozFest 2019 Photo CC BY-NC by Erik WestraGames and play have been a part of MozFest from the start. The very first MozFest — called the “Drumbeat Festival” — was even billed as a “3-ring circus of innovation.” Since then people have brought cardboard arcade cabinets, IoT test kitchens, carnivals of learning, and even entire worlds to the festival as joyful, imaginative explorations of what’s possible to design, build, and share in the internet health movement. Just last year, a newly-formed gaming experience team launched Tracked, a festival-wide exa ..read more

This week we’re talking with Leena Haque on our “Wrangler Round-Up” Series, where we get to know just a few of the community volunteers (aka Wranglers) who are co-designing the 2019 Festival. Leena is a User Experience Designer for BBC UX&D; digital artist, global neurodiversity advocate, tea enthusiast and sneakerhead. Leena is a wrangler for our first-ever Neurodiversity space. Current favorite book/movie/song/app/meme/video? I enjoy reading and watching science fiction because it introduces futuristic worlds, concepts and ideas in a really creative way. One of my favourite sci-fi books ..read more

Join us for a week of networking & collaboration at MozFest House, 21–25 October MozFest is just a few short weeks away! While the Festival culminates in a week-end blow-out, there are many opportunities to learn, network and collaborate all week long, in the more intimate setting of MozFest House. House events are the perfect place to dive into the 2019 Festival theme “Healthy AI.” You’ll unpack how this emerging technology can be used for the benefit of all at Can machines think responsibly? a meetup presented by London Tech for Good. The BBC offers a relaxed and friendly atmosphere to d ..read more