Mozilla Foundation Projects

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Ever wondered about the things Mozilla does *in addition* to Firefox and Firefox OS? Here you'll find a sizable list of all major things Mozilla Foundation, wiki-fied to quench your curiosity.

Project Information

Webmaker

What is the Webmaker project?

Mozilla is dedicated to keeping the web open, accessible and free. To accomplish this, we need more than technology: we need people who are empowered to build and take control of their own online lives. Enter Webmaker, Mozilla's project to teach the world web skills. In May 2012, Webmaker had an ambitious goal: help millions of people move from using the web to making the web. Fast forward to the present: our site, webmaker.org, is a vibrant hub of creative activity that attracts thousands of people every day to teach and learn web skills. Our free, open source tools, Thimble, Popcorn Maker and X-Ray Goggles, have evolved to meet the needs of a growing community that cares deeply about teaching the web. We have a global community helping us improve our tools and build a curriculum. Our goal: encourage millions of people around the world to move beyond using the web to making it.

Talking Points

Webmaker is made up of three main parts:

  • Tools
    • Creating the web is the heart of our work. We build tools like Thimble, X-Ray Goggles and Popcorn Maker that allow people to create amazing content while peeking under the hood of the internet, getting familiar with all the moving parts and getting their hands dirty with foundational elements like HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
  • Teaching & Learning
    • Learning through making is a core part of Mozilla's mission. We provide starter projects, templates and event guides to inspire teachers and learners at every level to create on the web and share their knowledge with others. We consider web literacy a critical skill just like reading, writing and math. After all, it's only when we understand the building blocks of the web that we can have a hand in shaping its future.
  • Community
    • We recognize that innovation can come from anyone, anywhere, so we bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds — teachers, filmmakers, journalists, hackers, youth, artists, scientists policy-makers and more — to collaborate online and at events around the globe.

Points of Contact

Brand Presences

Where to find Webmaker online.

Hive Learning Networks

Overview

Within the Webmaker umbrella are the Hive Learning Networks, geographically based organizations that underpin a growing movement to put Connected Learning principles into action. The networks’ laboratory approach and catalytic funding model re-imaginine how learning is organized and supported across youth-serving organizations in urban centers and includes three key elements: funded partnerships, cross-disciplinary collaboration and the incubation of transformative learning experiences for youth. To learn about Hive in more detail, head over to HiveNYC.org for more information.

Talking Points

  • Over the last five years, Hive NYC alone has emerged as a dynamic force for learning and engagement. A thriving collaboration with 56 member organizations across the city, Hive NYC has engaged more than 20,000 youth in Connected Learning experiences through funded programs and public events.
  • For middle and high school-aged youth, Hive creates opportunities that enable learning through hands-on making and exploration with peers and mentors, and that develop digital and web literacy skills for future success.
  • For informal educators, including designers, makers, artists, technologists, and teachers, Hive offers the opportunity to inspire and be inspired through shared commitment and participation in building innovative and transformative educational experiences for youth.

Points of Contact

Brand Presences

Where can you find Hive Learning Networks online?

Maker Party

What is Maker Party?

Maker Party, another facet of Webmaker, is Mozilla’s global annual 3-month extravaganza dedicated to people around the world who are going to meet up, make cool stuff and share it all online to help shape the web of the future and learn about making and teaching the web they want. Events have, in the past, included everything from workshops and code-a-thons to teen tech bashes and father-daughter hack jams at libraries, community centers, hacker spaces and homes across the globe. Sounds fun, right? It will be!

Talking Points

  • The goal: host a worldwide party celebrating all the amazing things we can make and learn thanks to the web.
  • Annual 3-month event
  • Global scope
  • Welcomes all skill levels
  • 1694 events in 2013
  • 58,005 total attendees in 2013
  • 50,616 total projects created on Webmaker.org in 2013
  • Inspire teaching, learning, hacking

Points of Contact

  • Amira Dhalla, Webmaker Community and Campaign Manager
  • makerparty@mozilla.org

Brand Presences

Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund

What is the Gigabit Community Fund?

Mozilla’s Gigabit Community Fund provides grants and resources for innovators exploring the use of next-generation gigabit technologies in Kansas City and Chattanooga.

Working in partnership with the National Science Foundation and US Ignite, the Gigabit Community Fund seeks to advance the development, experimentation and implementation of learning and workforce opportunities enhanced by new, super powerful Internet technologies like Google Fiber and EPB.

For more information on the Gigabit Community Fund, head to their page on mozilla.org.

Talking Points

  • Mozilla is launching the Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund to support innovators in Kansas City and Chattanooga develop & experiment with education & workforce development opportunities on next gen networks.
  • It is an effort to support the creation of innovative learning experiences and workforce development opportunities on the networks of the future.
  • $300,000 will be available to support development and experimentation with education and workforce development-focused uses of emerging technologies.
  • Theory of the program: Catalyzing a community of practice and “living laboratory” across Kansas City and Chattanooga through an incentivizing fund and the support of the team at Mozilla will drive tangible innovation in digital making, shipped code & best practices for a small number of pilot projects and ultimately create better user stories and greater public benefit of these networks.
  • Resources will be directed to projects with real, tangible potential to impact the community. Brick-and-mortar, mission-driven organizations must be part of each team. We want to move from gigabit prototypes to Minimum Viable Pilots and get these tools in the hands of users.
  • The Gigabit Community fund helps cultivate a cutting-edge community of practice working on education and workforce development to empower educators to explore and experiment with cutting edge learning tools.
  • This work serves Mozilla’s mission to build a web where people know more, do more and do better.

Points of Contact

Brand Presences

Where can you find the Gigabit Community Fund online?

Mozilla Science Lab

What is the Mozilla Science Lab?

The Mozilla Science Lab is an initiative dedicated to helping researchers use the power and culture of the web to change the way research is done. The Science Lab connects the open science community and empowers researchers, coders, funders and other partners to make research more like the web: open, collaborative and accessible. The initiative is led by Kaitlin Thaney, and is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. For more information, visit http://mozillascience.org

Talking Points

  • The Science Lab is a connection point for those in the research community, helping them amplify their reach and impact, and work together to make science more open, collaborative and reproducible.
  • We help researchers acquire the skills they need to do more science on the web as well as teach others, through training programs like Software Carpentry.
  • We build scientific-culture-shifting prototypes with partners that demonstrate a new way of doing research on the web.

Through our community building, educational programs and technical prototyping, we help support and scale the open research community.

Elevator Pitch

The web has revolutionized many aspects of our everyday life, from media to education and business. But even though the web was invented by scientists, we still have not yet seen it change scientific practice to nearly the same extent. In scientific research, we’re dealing with special circumstances, trying to innovate upon hundreds of years of entrenched norms and practices, broken incentive structures and gaps in training that are dramatically slowing down the system, keeping us from making the steps forward needed to better society.

The Science Lab connects the open science community and empowers researchers, coders, funders and other partners to make research more like the web: open, collaborative and accessible.

Points of Contact

In the News

Brand Presences

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Knight-Mozilla Open News

What is the Open News project?

Knight-Mozilla OpenNews is helping a global network of developers, journalists, makers, and hackers collaborate on innovative code and new ideas. We believe a community of peers working, learning, and solving problems together can create the tools journalism needs to thrive on the open web.

Talking Points

  • OpenNews serves as the connective tissue in the journalism code community. We connect people writing innovative code in journalism with their peers so they can learn, solve problems and build new tools together.
  • We offer onramps for the community to document, improve, and spread the the code they write and the practices they develop to the news industry, the open-source software community, and the world.
  • Our fellowship program places Fellows in newsrooms around the world to code, collaborate, and contribute to the growing journalism technology ecosystem.
  • The fellowship community continues to grow with five alumni from 2012 and eight Fellows currently placed with news organizations.
  • Partner news organizations have included La Nación, The New York Times, ProPublica, Texas Tribune, BBC, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, and more.

Points of Contact

Brand Presences

Where can you find the Open News project online?

Mozilla Festival

What is the Mozilla Festival?

The Mozilla Festival is where many of Mozilla’s best and most innovative ideas spring to life. It’s where passionate thinkers and inventors come together to learn from one another and engage in a conversation about how the web can do more, and do better. As part of Mozilla’s mission to ensure the web remains a resource open to everyone, MozFest strengthens the global braintrust of bright people dedicated to championing a user-built web. The festival is filled with fiercely unconventional technologists and creators, eager to share their skills. So I invite you to join us. Bring an idea and we’ll connect you with kindred spirits who will help nurture your ideas through hands-on sessions and interactive workshops. Find your community at MozFest, hone your skills and amplify your voice around our common mission: ensuring the web is an innovation open to all.

Talking Points

MozFest aims to:

  • Make things with the tools Mozilla and others are creating.
  • Learn who is building what, how we can share and help each other.
  • Imagine making in 100 years: what future are we building?
  • Design the things we want to build next, especially for mobile.
  • Fuel leaders who want to invent, teach and organize.

Elevator Pitch

The Mozilla Festival is our annual gathering of passionate thinkers, brilliant inventors and skilled technologists who come together to learn from each other and help forge the future of the web. Our mission is to ensure the web is an innovation open to all. Last year’s festival brought together more than 1,300 catalysts and makers to connect and hack ideas that will shape the web of the future.

Brand Presences

Where can you find MozFest online?

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