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Remote participation at MozFest

Mozilla Festival Featured

Remote participation at MozFest

This year there are going to be more ways to get involved with #MozFest [https://twitter.com/hashtag/mozfest] than we've seen in previous years, and one of those ways is by joining the celebrations from wherever you may be. > “MozFest is about improving the open Web with new ideas

Making the most of the Mozilla Festival

Mozilla Festival Featured

Making the most of the Mozilla Festival

The Mozilla Festival [https://2015.mozillafestival.org/] is almost ready to pounce on us now, with only a handful of days to go I thought I'd share with you my top tips on making the most of the event. In previous years we've seen a great survival guide from Matt

Planning an individual contribution pathway

Planning an individual contribution pathway

Its been a week since I made myself known to be alive, online, and wanting to get back into the contribution groove (yes, in my head its like a dance). Since then my time has been spent trying to answer the question "How can I get involved again". To be

A long overdue update.

*.wduyck.me I've moved! Well... not physically, just my website and blog. I've been the proud owner of *.wduyck.com [http://wduyck.com] for quite some time now, though recently, thanks to being a student still/again, I was able to get my mitts on a new domain at zero

Playing with the workday.

Playing with the workday.

For the past 8 months or so I’ve had the same basic morning routine. * Get up at 6:30am and run through the 3 Ss[1]. * Hop on the train at 7:30 from the village train station. * Sleep on the tain for an extra hour ;) * Arrive in London

Happy 25th Birthday, World Wide Web!

[http://mzl.la/webwewantremix] > The web has become an integral part of all our lives, shaping how we learn, how we connect and how we communicate. Looking ahead, the web is faced with new opportunities and new challenges. As we celebrate its 25th birthday, let’s all take a moment

Open Education and the Open Web - Day 2

Open Education and the Open Web - Day 2

Today is day 2 of the open education week, and an interested question has been asked. > Questions: What do you see as the link between Open Education and the Open Web? Does the former depend on the latter? I'm inclined to say no. Neither is dependent on the other, however

CTA: What did Mozilla in 2013 look like to you?!

So this is just a quick shout out to all those within the Mozilla community who need an excuse to flex their video editing skills. Google [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv-sY_z8MNs], and many [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7jtC8vjXw8] others [http://vimeo.com/81305866] are showing

Mozilla Productivity Call - The Setup Interview

Who are you, and what do you do? I'm William Duyck, most people on the web know me as FuzzyFox however. I'm a member of the Webmaker Mentor Team at Mozilla. I've been on the team since July '13 however my history with Mozilla goes back over 8 years now.

Thoughts from our mentor community: part 3

Thoughts from our mentor community: part 3

If you haven’t already please ensure you read part 1 [https://ghost.wduyck.me/thoughts-from-our-mentor-community-part-1/] and part 2 [https://ghost.wduyck.me/thoughts-from-our-mentor-community-part-2/]. If this summer is anything to go by the mentor community is a force to be reckoned with. Over 50,000 projects created, 58,000 participants,

Mozilla Festival 2013 - Behind the Scenes

Mozilla Festival

Mozilla Festival 2013 - Behind the Scenes

It’s been 4 years now since the first Mozilla Festival in Barcelona, and its now almost 4 times bigger. Each year there are more people, more activities, and more amazing builds to blow your mind. The never ending drums just getting louder, but now with a more unified rhythm.

Stickmaker: Thimble on a thumb drive

Stickmaker: Thimble on a thumb drive

tl;dr: Offline Webmaker tools are very blue skies, and fairly infeasible. Much less running off a thumb drive. However there are, very imperfect, ways to make it work. [HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL] HERE BE DRAGONS: This post about surfacing my work, research, and findings, as well as some of my opinions

Mozilla Japan! [Cross Post]

Mozilla Japan! [Cross Post]

[This is a cross/guest post [http://londonlearnin.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mozilla-japan.html] by Melissa Romaine] I was invited to check out MozFest in Tokyo on September 15th, and ended up not only getting my digital hands dirty on a number of cool projects, but also spending the

Thoughts from our mentor community: part 2

Thoughts from our mentor community: part 2

tl;dr: Reading make you smarterer. You should read everyday [http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-benefits-reading-why-you-should-read-everyday.html] . I continue my short series of posts about what makes our mentor community tick. Last time I spoke about the methodology used to gather feedback and thoughts from the mentor community, and

Thoughts from our mentor community: part 1

Thoughts from our mentor community: part 1

tl;dr: Don’t be lazy. Reading is good for you [http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinlarosa/12-scientific-ways-reading-can-actually-improve-your-life] ! > “The biggest challenge is planning for people you don’t know.” Jeannie Crowley [https://twitter.com/jeannieccrowley] I recently conducted a series of conversations with members of the Webmaker mentor [http://webmaker.org/

Making the Web @ Campus Party

Making the Web @ Campus Party

A little over a week ago I was lucky enough to help #maketheweb [https://twitter.com/hashtag/maketheweb] at Campus Party, in the O2. Campus Party, for those that don’t know, is a week long festival held every year where hackers, developers, gamers, filmmakers, educators, and technophiles galore, converge

Response to: "New Community" or "Mozilla Community 2.0"?

For the past few months I’ve been having a recurring convocation with Tobbi [http://mozillatobbi.wordpress.com/] about a number of issues he’s noticed within Mozilla. Until recently we’d been going round and round in circles, with no end in sight. Recently Tobbi, along with Ricmacas [http:

A month of Mozilla

One month on, and I can see that I've done so much. Though it still feels like I started yesterday. I've not been as good at this blogging as I should have been, however I'm doing better than I've done in the past. At least now I'm planning posts, even

Popathon London

Last weekend was Popathon London #2. An event aimed at hacking video with open source tools to make new, web native video content. It was a great event with lots of interesting people and a great learning experience for me, and hopefully all the other participants. The event covered the

Year In Industry

The strange weekend

> …also, don't work the weekends ;) -- Michelle Thorne [http://michellethorne.cc/] An apology So last week was my first working for the Mozilla Foundation, and it was one of the best Mozilla experiences I've ever had. Second only to meeting community members from around the world. This may not make

An experiment into feedback through making

An experiment into feedback through making

One of the things that makes Mozilla such a welcoming, and engaging community is that it, well, engages with its community. It does this through events, Dev Derby, social networks… the list goes on. One thing that is in common with all of these things is that Mozilla take feedback

Year In Industry

Getting Settled

> Working at Mozilla isn't work… It's a lifestyle, a mission, and a close-nit, yet geographically distributed community. It's been a week now since I started at Mozilla, and its been an absolute blast so far. More than that its taught me a number of things about myself, and the difference

First day on the job (Morning)

Year In Industry

First day on the job (Morning)

[This is cross posted on yii.wduyck.com [http://yii.wduyck.com]] > Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648294] Sure it’s a little cliché, however I am hoping that

Beaten to the finish.

Beaten to the finish.

Isn’t it always the same. You have an idea that could benefit people, but don’t find the time to work on it. You commit yourself to working on it and getting it done, you set a day to do it, you work on it and are almost finished…

Year In Industry

Aims and Objectives

So its almost time for me to start work, and I still haven't chosen (well in writing anyway) what aims and objectives I'm setting myself for this year. As a part of my placement I have to have a few aims and objectives that span the entirety placement. They need