What is a Pop Up?

Throw a learning party! Invite local groups to play together and build a network.

   2-10 organizations
   Half day
   In an open space

1. Set up learning stations led by local organization.
2. Sample the activities and hack as long as participants like.
3. Discuss next steps for a community in your city.

Also check out our full Host Guide for more recommendations.

Note-Taking

For these host training calls, we will use a live, collaborative note-taking tool.

Join and follow along: https://events.etherpad.mozilla.org/pop-up-host

Introduction

• Who's on the call?
• Where are you from?
• Where are you planning to host your event?

What would you like to leave the call with today?

• Participant Responses.

Overview

• Welcome from Mozilla
• Update on Summer Code Party
• Goals of the campaign & individual parties

Guest speaker

• Discussion with a veteran Pop Up host from the community.
• Note: some calls may not have guest speakers.
• Hear about their experience, challenges and lessons learned.
• Questions?

What makes a good Pop Up

A Pop Up explores how to bring together local groups to share activities and start to grow a learning community in a city.

Organizations

• Engage local organizations before the event.
• Talk to them about their interests, goals, and activities.
• Ideally, the participating organizations share some core values, such as the learning by making ethic, or the role of out-of-school educational initiatives.

Stations

• What makes a good learning station?
  • A fun, short game or activity that teaches you something about technology & other skills
  • Can be completed in 5min or expanded to an hour, as participants like
  • Participants can easily float in and out, on a rolling basis.
  • Participants can easily share what they did afterwards
  • Activity is well documented and shared (website/wiki)
• Consider also planning time for station hosts to see each other's projects and exchange ideas.

Example Station Using Thimble

Introducing Thimble:

    Thimble makes it ridiculously simple to create your own web pages. 
    Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser. 
    Instantly preview your work. Share your finished pages!

Make a meme — 10min

• You might be familiar with these funny memes? This project makes it easy for you to create your own memes by mashing up text and images.
• Open the project.
• Change the title of the page by editing the text on line 24.
• Search for a funny photo online. Copy the URL of the image.
• Replacing the link on line 32 with your new URL.
• Now edit the text between the h1 and the h2 tags to give your image a new caption.
• Change the color of the page on line 51.
• If you want, you can keep adjusting the page by editing the other attributes.
• Press "Publish" in the top left-hand corner. Share your work!

More Thimble projects.

• There are many more projects for different skill-levels and interests. Try some out!

Other tools?

• What do you like to use?
• Anyone thinking of doing something different?

Closing and Next Steps

• Celebrate the work that's been done.
  • Gather around and show each other what you made.
  • Publish photos, blog posts, and screenshots using the tag #mozparty.
  • Email mozparty@mozilla.org about outcomes you especially want to highlight.
• Encourage participants to keep hacking on their own or consider hosting another event!
• Pass the learning on. We invite you to share how your event went with us and the larger community. What worked well? What would you like to improve?

Questions & Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting your issues and questions.
• How to get live support.
• If anyone wants to talk one-on-one, just email michelle - at - mozillafoundation - . - org.

Happy Hacking!