NOTE: "Submit Your Project" Page Copy

• This is the first page in the project submission workflow.
• It's main job is to:
  • Give a simple explanation of the kinds of project ideas Drumbeat is looking for -- with crystal clear criteria of what makes a good Drumbeat project.
  • Provide a simple VISUAL explanation as well, as a simple iconic flowchart, that shows what we mean.
  • Spell out the VALUE PROPOSITION for submitting your project to Drumbeat. What's in it for you?

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Mozilla Drumbeat: Building your open web idea. Together.

Mozilla Drumbeat uses open innovation and collaboration to turn your open web idea or project into reality." (draft only)

We're looking for your ideas & projects to make the web better. The Drumbeat community wants to help make your open web idea or project a reality -- through collaboration, volunteer help, fundraising, and expert advice from the web's most inspiring leaders, innovators and problem-solvers.

How can Drumbeat help your project succeed?

Mozilla Drumbeat provides:

• A web hub for your project. Drumbeat provides an online "work-bench" to help organize and promote your project.
• Volunteers. Drumbeat is bringing together a global community of people making the web better -- by contributing time, energy and resources to your big idea or project.
• Expert advice. Featured Drumbeat projects will get access to thought leaders and visionaries in your field.
• Traffic, promotion and donations. Raise your profile and get the resources you need to succeed.

What makes a good Drumbeat Project?

The criteria for a great Mozilla Drumbeat Project are:

• Must make the web better. Allows people to control their online experience, to innovate, to better understand the web or make their online experience safer.
• A clear, measurable outcome. The more specific & doable, the better.
• Project milestones. Breaking the project into smaller, more manageable pieces.
• Working in the open. Lots of opportunity for crowd-sourcing, collaboration and participation.
• Leadership. People able to draw volunteers and help steer the project.
• Progress. Small victories & successes.

The Drumbeat Project Life-cycle: How it works

How your Drumbeat Project grows -- from bare-bones PROJECT IDEA, to a more fully fleshed out ACTIVE PROJECT, to a recognized FEATURED PROJECT."

Step 1: Create your Project

All you need to get your project started is:

• A project headline. Your big idea in a nutshell.
  
• A short description. The idea you want to build or problem you're trying to solve, and how people can help.
  
• A one-sentence explanation of how your idea makes the web better.

Once you submit these, you can invite friends and colleagues to help work on your project -- and further flesh out your page with more details, content and collaborative tools.

Step 2: Flesh out your Project Page & attract helpers

Once you've got the basics filled out, your next goal is to:

1) Flesh out your Project Page. Add project details, tools & content to your project page to help people collaborate and make progress.

2) Attract helpers. Invite community members to collaborate and volunteer their skills.

3) Provide clear asks for participation. What exactly do you want the community to do? Provide clear, concrete opportunities for participation.

Step 3: Becoming a Featured Project

If your project has:

• a well-fleshed out project page
• an active community of helpers, and
• some progress and community momentum behind it...

...it's eligible to become a Featured Project! These projects will get featured on the Drumbeat home page and receive special recognition and help from Mozilla.

This gives you access to more volunteers, enables you to raise money for your project through donations, and get expert help from web leaders and visionaries.

The most promising featured projects will have their organizers and top contributors flown to the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in [city] this [month], to present your project to the world.