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Train Game – A game made on a train, not about a train.

Train Game – A game made on a train, not about a train.

Okay... so I was on a train home from London a few weeks back, and I got a little bored (the journey takes an hour). So I decided to make myself a game using the

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

I've been gone far too long.

I've been gone far too long.

So for the past year or so I've been far too hit 'n' miss with my online activities, and my contributions to projects I believe in. Many people are aware of the reasons for this, and they seem mundane at best to me. However now is the time for me

2014 Trailer Mashup

2014 Trailer Mashup

The Sleepy Skunk [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFSGE8-8-fS6L1OUa-rP_kA] recently released a mashup of all the major movie trailers for the year, and its amazing. It shows that the best thing about the movies really can be the trailer. There are quite a few films in this that I

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

Note to *past* self

Note to past self

I consume a lot of content online. My RSS feed reader is always bursting at the seams, however once in a while I spot something that I just have to remix. This article [http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/you-could-write-note-your-younger-self-what-would-you-say.html] if you can call it that is one of

Computing in the classroom?

Computing in the classroom?

> Students will spend one half-day per week for ten weeks in a school with a nominated teacher. They will observe sessions taught by their designated teacher and possibly other teachers. Later they will act somewhat in the role of a teaching assistant, by helping individual pupils who are having difficulties

Means to an end

Year In Industry

Means to an end

That for me, is what university has always been about. The end hasn’t changed too much either if I’m honest with myself, though I have doubted the means a few times. Back in July (2013) I wrote a post to my Year In Industry journal called “First day

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:

U vs I Graph Task Management

> Time/task management is something that can take a while to develop as a skill… however it can be assisted, with great results, provided you find a system that works well for you. This is an explanation of the system that I've found works for me, maybe it'll help you

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