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[
{
"title": "(Test) My first MozFest session proposal in 2018",
"owner": {
"name": "Mavis Ou",
"organization": "Mozilla\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Localisation support requested",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] French",
"[LANG] Mandarin",
"[LANG] Other",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": true,
"uuid": "2233765b-5dc5-4b6a-9be0-ce4c7edf4b07",
"description": "this and that will happen in my session",
"goal": "the goal of my session is...",
"required": "additional materials...",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Testing The Form",
"owner": {
"name": "Kristina Gorr",
"organization": "Mozilla Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": true,
"uuid": "3620ed4c-caae-47ce-9da3-b35260546401",
"description": "I will be testing this form",
"goal": "To test the form",
"required": "I just need a form (this one)",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Unleash your web skills!",
"owner": {
"name": "Kelvin Wachira",
"organization": "TechYard Kenya"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Waiting for response"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "74c7bcea-7b8f-47d1-9a20-bb325893605c",
"description": "I plan to have a hackathon session mainy for novice web developers to experience how to learn web basics and motivate them to learn more and build for web. I also aim to discuss the main developer tools and technologies used in web developent.",
"goal": "I am to influence as many novice web developers to start building for the web.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "EME? CDM? DRM? CENC? IDK!",
"owner": {
"name": "Sebastian Golasch",
"organization": "Deutsche Telekom"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a90bb202-c529-4134-8f0e-c1030d0ec403",
"description": "Once there was the <video/> tag, but content distributors decided it wasn't enough. They wanted more - more power, more protection, more control, more features. So, Encrypted Media Extensions were born & Digital Rights Management appeared in our browsers.In this talk, we'll explore the technical details behind Encrypted Media Extension (EME), Content Decryption Modules (CDM) like Widevine, and the foundation of Web Digital Rights Management (DRM). How? By reverse engineering Netflix and building our own personal Netflix video player!",
"goal": "Usage of web video behind a paywall (*1 Adobe Digital Index Q1 2016 Digital Video Benchmark Report) is rising constantly and every device with a display that is produced nowadays comes with some sort of web browser that should be able to play all videos (Hint: It´s not that easy). Cisco estimated that by the end of this year, 80 to 90 percent of all global internet traffic will come from video data (*2 Cisco estimation of growth of global Internet traffic over time).Based on these unbelievably high stats, I believe that every web developer would benefit from a basic understanding of the mechanics behind \"DRMed\" videos on the web and the history behind them.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "In Pale Moonlight",
"owner": {
"name": "Sebastian Golasch",
"organization": "Deutsche Telekom"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e4ad84c0-3583-47d3-a065-47316280b79b",
"description": "Humans may have developed the most sophisticated technologies on this planet, but our brains mostly haven't changed in the past 195,000 years. \"Fight or flight\" might have been a fitting paradigm for our ancestors, but todays environment requires us to add nuances to our behaviour.In this session I will give an insight into some aspects of our behaviour, especially how signals from the outside world can influence our decisions without being noticed by ourselves.Prepare yourself to learn about why finding a dime in a phone booth turns us into better teamplayers for a day,how Chinese brainwashing techniques from the Korean war can be used to improve our lives and why teams benefit from initiation-rituals for new members.",
"goal": "To create awareness of our own behaviour in situations where we interact with others, mostly related to team work. I believe that the more we learn about our nature and the subconscious decisionswe make, the better we can work as a team and the more we can influence our surroundings in positive way.",
"required": "",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Shining a spotlight in the shadows, how to discover the capabilities of state sponsored hackers",
"owner": {
"name": "Kade Morton",
"organization": "Aletheia"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f442aa63-3772-441e-b58b-88024b2f2f52",
"description": "Participants will be given raw data and taught to use an intelligence framework to generate information on state sponsored hackers (Advanced Persistent Threats -APTs) from open source intelligence sources. Participants that want a more advanced class will also be taught how to collect the raw data on APTs that can be fed into the framework to generate further information on these state sponsored hackers.",
"goal": "To give people an evidence based understanding of the electronic capabilities of nation states. If people understand what governments can do and choose to do online, they can make an informed decision about their online life and how they interact with their government. I also want to show people how many open source intelligence sources are out there and give them an understanding of how they can collect information on state sponsored hackers. The more light that is shed on what governments do online will help impede the actions of repressive regimes.",
"required": "Projector and cables",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "What if we change the way we disseminate openly knowledge in french speaking Africa ? Examples of DICAMES and Science-Afrique",
"owner": {
"name": "Sègbédji Justin Ahinon",
"organization": "Association for the Promotion of Open Science in Haiti and french speaking Africa (APSOHA)"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "136a8255-645e-4a1c-8ba1-194c351ea132",
"description": "In this session, I will briefly describe the different ways in which scientific knowledge is disseminated in French-speaking Africa. Then, I'll present the limits of these methods, both for young student researchers and for the journals themselves. Finally, I will present two new initiatives, which aim to disseminate in a new way (using the \"green way\") the scientific works in French-speaking Africa: the DICAMES, the open archive of the CAMES, and Science-Afrique, a giant platform that aims to centralize all open access content in Africa.",
"goal": "This session will show that there are many ways to disseminate knowledge openly, while making it accessible to readers and authors alike.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "digital obituary",
"owner": {
"name": "florence lamaswala",
"organization": "ifll"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a3433855-b0a4-4e82-8790-74e563afc4b6",
"description": "We will have people from artists, developers, producers,progrmmers etc sharing their work and experiences. For the event we have to complete the website completely developed into final completion.The pages required are live feed ,log in and user experience. – the youth-led digital platform for young creatives – as they survey key changes to the media landscape in the digital age, dissectlive feed news, and hold a training session on writing on to the site.How users maybe encouraged and how to navigate on the site.",
"goal": "To have a website that is working and able to meet the community spce for digital obituaries and making the experience more real.members of the tech community in London. The night will focus on how we can develop safe spaces for the community on the web as well as discussing ways to combat the spread of hate speech online in this case on digital obituary how we can address that and how to create and program that.",
"required": "We would also request smart phones, laptops and tablets so that we may view how the website appearance on these different platforms.Also pens and paper and projector to ensure the cohesiveness .sessions are organized into spaces — physical and thematic learning hubs based around a topic of broad relevance to a healthy Internet, like open innovation, or digital inclusion.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Contribute to the HTML Specification",
"owner": {
"name": "Terence Eden",
"organization": "GDS"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4592989d-8e26-4075-be7a-f99815e1007f",
"description": "Participants will learn how to contribute to the HTML 5 specification. They'll hear from large organisations like GDS about why they contribute, how to get started, and what the benefits are.Opportunities abound for translators, documentation nerds, and grammar pedants.",
"goal": "Encourage a diverse group of global voices to become HTML5 editors and translators.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Collecting Data In WebVR: A Postmortem & Brainstorm Session",
"owner": {
"name": "Andrés Cuervo",
"organization": ""
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d3f173c4-db36-47f4-9b64-456e6cfeb6d0",
"description": "First I'll do a small postmortem talk/discussion about my webVR installation \"Pore\" that was shown at the JSConfEU 2018 Community Lounge. I used people's gaze to create a communal sculpture in VR & learned a lot about how little data you need to store to still create novel interactions with persistent data. This will be followed by a discussion with attendees and an open invitation to have people come up with ways of storing data in VR/AR/XR that could be fun/novel/useful while protecting people's privacy, and inviting them to post sticky notes or write on a white board.",
"goal": "Hopefully people who are interested in creating their own webXR experiences see 1) how easy it is 2) how to do it safely & be respectful of users' privacy! I also hope to digitize the sticky notes/whiteboard suggestions people have of creating novel but privacy-cognizant XR mechanics with data collection as a continuing resource for the global XR community.",
"required": "I'd be happy to present the VR installation if a headset (Windows Mixed Reality, Vive, or Rift) could possibly be provided? If not and you think this would be a valuable addition to the session I can also bring my personal headset, but would prefer not to travel with it if possible!",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Improving media literacy by building better stories",
"owner": {
"name": "Jane Elizabeth",
"organization": "American Press Institute"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3ebaebfb-b1e8-47e7-99ca-58ecb9796e68",
"description": "We will introduce and explain our concept called \"Organic News Fluency\" (published at americanpressinstitute.org in May 2018). After discussion and potential refinement of the concept, participants will be given previously published stories and asked to \"build it better\" by incorporating our suggested elements for news fluency.",
"goal": "Our goal is to have visible, physical examples of how traditional media stories can be built in a way that almost subconsciously teaches the audience about the characteristics of reliable journalism. In our promotions of the session, we hope to attract designers and others who work in visual media, as well as content creators. Those combined skill sets will provide the outcome we're looking for.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Future of Manufacturing",
"owner": {
"name": "Cosku Cinkilic",
"organization": "Makestry"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f52483da-1a0b-4c15-9961-fa71910d3c11",
"description": "We will demonstrate the how emerging technologies like 3d printing and humanless manufacturing will shape our future. Show some algoritmic design processes and decentralised hubs can make the manufacturing more customised and with less CO2 emissions while keeping intellectual rights intact with manufacturing processes and push collaboration amd innovation forward.",
"goal": "-People will learn more about future of manufacturing.-What will decentralisaion in manufacturing will bring to table and what are the challenges going to be.-How decentralised manufacturing create opportunities for small companies to compete with large corparates.-Some fun by modelling and 3D printing custom models",
"required": "We will be bringing most of the equipment but if participants can bring their laptops that would be great.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Alternate ways for advertisement",
"owner": {
"name": "Rahul Dogra",
"organization": "NIT Srinagar"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f1ee1847-5173-4608-9787-c8a1bbc01916",
"description": "In my session I would like to discuss about the history of advertisement and marketing. Along with it i would like to inculcate the modern concept of electric cars which can be used as advertisement space for sure.",
"goal": "Goal of my session is to determine the advertisement techniques in the modern world and how to make a possible space for advertisement in age of electric cars.",
"required": "A presentation projector, Solar cells, Public Address System, LCDs and connectors, multimeter",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Internet vs Rich Western Web",
"owner": {
"name": "Harald Kirschner",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4c9820ab-41de-4649-87b7-fb1796498f75",
"description": "Break out from the bubble of fast and always accessible internet. Learn with hands-on demos why web performance is important as part of internet health as it keeps people across the world, but especially in emerging markets, from participating on the internet – and what you can do about it as web developer/designer/creator.",
"goal": "Realize why mobile web performance is important for users and how bad it can make the experience, and become an advocate for performance.Understand the reasons for inaccessibly slow websites.Get the tools and knowledge to do something against it.",
"required": "Projector.Will probably set up a router with throttled internet.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Failte and welcome to a healthy internet",
"owner": {
"name": "Sarah Allen",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Other"
],
"closed": true,
"uuid": "8ebd0b36-4350-400d-8eae-cc2eb7225eea",
"description": "We will explore the state of the web, share whats happening in our local communitues, and peer assist trials and tribulations. I willask the audience to break out into small groups, and share what has worked in their communties and examine how they can help each other after this weekend to collaborate in the work",
"goal": "An open free healthy Internet",
"required": "I will like balloons for the opening game and glitter pens that write on clothing. Two extension leads would be helpful too",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Interactive Learning of Web Technologies with Dyke.tech",
"owner": {
"name": "Maja Kraljic",
"organization": "Freelancer"
},
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b276b2fc-fedf-42d9-a3f4-dbdcc21f2358",
"description": "Dyke.tech is a web site where anybody can test their knowledge of web technologies in 9 tasks and after a successful completion get a certificate. I will first introduce the project and a couple of helpful tools participants can use while solving the tasks on the web page. Next a hacking session will begin and participants can solve the tasks in their own pace while I will offer them help and additional tips so that they will all be able to complete the tasks and learn all Dev tools tricks.",
"goal": "Participants will learn a lot about web browser and dev tools, especially how to use JavaScript in the console, and how to solve the tasks creatively. They will also get to know a project that will challenge their concepts regarding sexual orientation and learn about the needs of LGBTIQ population - that content of the workshops can be tailored to be more fun and inclusive.",
"required": "Projector and at least one laptop computer, preferably two for all those who won't be attending MozFest with their laptops. It is not possible to solve all tasks on mobile phone as Dev Tools are needed.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The State of Coins - Cryptocurrencies and its LULZ",
"owner": {
"name": "Tatiana Criscione",
"organization": "Empiricus Research"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c9dedb63-d365-426f-a34c-5ba478354fc1",
"description": "Bitcoin has a fictitious creator, Ethereum had a robbery worth of a modern spaghetti western, and you can make money out of cannabis, breast implants, memes and Kanye West. That's the amazing world of cryptocurrencies. Is it safe? Is it profitable? Is it the future? One thing is for sure: It is fun.",
"goal": "I intend to show participants the history of cryptocurrencies through a fun storyline of the bizarre things amongst the serious ones, and make they question how this universe is shifting from its origin.",
"required": "Only the projector to connect in my laptop and a good internet connection are fine.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Should digital inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa be at the expense of digital privacy of its netizens?",
"owner": {
"name": "Njeri Wangari",
"organization": "Global Voices"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "620ddc2a-8dce-448f-9448-0df15502fcb6",
"description": "I will share case studies of the various initiatives that have been started in various Sub-Saharan African countries towards digital inclusion. Which ones are working, which ones are not, what have been some of the challenges in getting everyone connected? We will then have a discussion on the concerns regarding the right to digital privacy by those who benefit from this initiative especially for platform providers as well how to overcome the barries to digital inclusion, the role of corporations, businessa and governments.",
"goal": "To gain an understanding of what it takes to achieve digital inclusion. To come up with a guide that will form a blueprint to any future initiatives to avoid repeating the same mistakes.",
"required": "A projector",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Making visual longform stories",
"owner": {
"name": "Douglas Arellanes",
"organization": "Mural"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "cdae4dae-3cd8-4d54-b662-1f89b7fabfe5",
"description": "Visual longform storytelling is an emerging medium that is taking many forms, from journalistic projects such as the New York Times' groundbreaking \"Snowfall\" to the way \"Stories\" on social platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram are being used. We'll look at historical and contemporary examples of effective visual storytelling as well as their elements, and will show participants how to create their own stories a new open source tool for creating these stories called Mural (www.getmural.io).",
"goal": "After the session, participants will have a better understanding of what makes a good visual longform story, as well as how to assemble these stories effectively. Concretely, they will come away from the session with their own stories made from a combination of pre-prepared story elements as well as elements they create in the session. They will also have a better understanding of the tools needed to produce such stories, with a strong emphasis on free and open source tools.",
"required": "Participants are encouraged to bring laptops and mobile phones with cameras for working with video. Speakers for playing back sound will also be useful.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Information' s organisation..is altering..information' s organisation !!",
"owner": {
"name": "NIKOLAOS VOYIATZIS",
"organization": "INDEPENDENT MEDIA DESIGNER AND INSTRUCTOR"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "92e3e367-bd18-4b2b-9e40-cf58980d99ec",
"description": "1.Intro. 2.Small research groups, exploring the transformation of the organisation structures of the main web indexers ,Yahoo, Altavista, Google etc via the Wayback Machine. Documenting creatively alterations being observed, thoughts and reflections. Using Inkscape and SVG with the pan and zoom library to create NAVIGABLE documents for the browser.Presenting findings- debating.3.Groups. ¨Experiments in arts and design on information´s organisations¨. We examine as input for reflection, prototypes, artworks, design experiments of the past, from mid 19th century, to the early 90s. These artifacts envision alternative organisations for digital-networked-archival information.Creatively documenting. Presenting ideas, findings, thoughts.4. Final. Navigable documents as a network of that consists the process of the artwork produced. Subjectivity and imagination. Presenting and debating.",
"goal": "Learning goals: To get introduced to SVG documents, Inkscape and SVGpanandzoom.js.To gain the understanding that information is content AND structure.To raise the awareness of platform politics and interface criticism that is to me , crucial within the context of web literacy and culture.To collaboratively work and reflect on new ideas around interfacing online information, and beeing able to see the search interface as a site for web literacy exploration.Practical outcome: Browser based artworks.Navigable collaborative documents.",
"required": "some laptops, projector, and office supplies (paper, pens, post-it notes).",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Teach The Web, without the Web",
"owner": {
"name": "Vishal Chavan",
"organization": "Mozilla India"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "68378ebc-7b26-473d-93f6-ec5cfe181935",
"description": "The internet is a crucial part of everyday life, but most people still lack the skills and resources to access it. I want to introduce solutions for communities with low/no connectivity to learn basic web skills.Here, I propose a session to share several offline activities through which we can teach and learn. Since this is a participatory workshop, participants can create their own unique activities as we progress. We'll discuss about their impact on community and importance of offline learning. Some examples:1. Learning Web Mechanics offline2. 'A Strong Wind Blows'3. 'Web Mechanics Speed Dating'4. Using Slides and video captures to explain the basics of Internet (working of web browser etc).",
"goal": "The basic outcome will be more Web literates around the world. It would be great that participants take home with them resources and ideas on how to take this event format forward, and spread web literacy even without any connectivity. Participants can organize and use this format in their communities using resources, activities, or creating their own resources accordingly.We have already reached many local regions using these tools and well be targeting more such regions going forward. Participants will be free to plan events and provide more insights after the session and anywhere in the future.PS:This session was accepted last year but due to Visa issues I couldn't make it. So i wish to present it this year.",
"required": "For my session, I will need some card sheets, post-it notes, a projector and some markers.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Digital Inclusion / Web Literacy",
"owner": {
"name": "Janine Laura Anthony",
"organization": "UWC Mozilla Tech Club (Dr Mmaki Jantjies)"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e2355aef-4d33-4529-ab00-b3200fffd692",
"description": "Mozfest is about connecting, collaborating educating and including. My session will highlight that there is a minority that is excluded because of economic circumstances. My goal is to educate and empower them to know more about technology, get their brains active and thinking so they may enhance their lives to better themselves and pluck their generations to come out of poverty through no better means than technology education as this is the manner in which the world is evolving. In South Africa some think WhatsApp and Facebook is the internet. I want to be able to kill some myths through educating them as they adapt to use smartphones yes, but their understanding of what these gadgets can do is limited.",
"goal": "To connect and take advice through collaboration on how to successfully keep our disadvantaged communities relevant and informed about the open internet and how to use the internet in a much healthier environment. Gaining insight on means and ways to provide access and ensure availability and affordability for our communities (through learning what other countries do).Public access should be never be a challenge. Communities adopting digital literacy as a powerful way forward by their up-skill commit to continuous learning at all times. Our new president highlighted a renewed focus on the ICT industry in South Africa and its imperative that we are as prepared as the rest of the world.We cannot exclude communities as technology will stop growing.Access for all.",
"required": "projector (slide presentations and videos)post - it notespaperI will bring my own laptop.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Research ethics: Challenging the role of efficiency in user experience design",
"owner": {
"name": "Lindsay Ferris",
"organization": "Ad Hoc"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "97f52152-8700-4d4e-83b0-6fbe0a12ce90",
"description": "UX research/design promises strong products that enable users to navigate quickly and efficiently. However, there are clear examples in consumer and government technology illustrating efficiency is at best, a bad metric for product performance, and even potentially harmful to those it purports to serve. In the quest for efficiency, practitioners should consider whose interests are at heart and what their implications are on people interacting with these products.We will challenge efficiency in UX through group learning. First, the facilitators will present the problem and lead a discussion on ethical questions in UX. Participants will then break into small groups to brainstorm challenges and solutions. Finally, we will map these findings on a wall, connecting the participants’ work together.",
"goal": "We believe that the motivations driving the desire for efficiency in UX come from many different sectors, from policy, NGOs, academia, and the private sector. Because of the wide array of backgrounds that MozFest brings together, we believe this forum will provide a great opportunity to both influence many of these inflection points as well as draw upon different perspectives and expertise to problem solve. Our session has several aims: 1) Educate participants on the ethical issues that arise in UX research/design; 2) Map the different endpoints and interests driving efficiency in the field, and; 3) Crowdsource strategies to apply ethical frameworks to research going forward.",
"required": "White board or wall for mapping exxercise",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Design Fictions and Extreme Users",
"owner": {
"name": "Roxanne Leitão",
"organization": "University of the Arts London"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "25443783-f410-4127-a0b8-e54e3e368e5a",
"description": "This session will explore the potential of Design Fictions and Extreme Users in deconstructing privacy and security issues of near-future technologies. The session will be driven by a series of personas or extreme users, based on real-world research with survivors of domestic abuse, where technology played a significant role in the abuse (e.g., cyber-stalking, -harassment, and covert monitoring).Participants will be introduced to 1) the personas and 2) to the underlying principles of design fictions. In groups, we will then create design fictions focussed on the future of smart homes from the point-of-view of victims of domestic abuse. Participants will be asked to approach the fictions from a perspective of cyber-security and -privacy design.",
"goal": "The session aims to broaden discussions on privacy and security to include users that are often denied a voice, such as victims of domestic abuse. Current technology development trends point to ever-increasing data collection and sharing. Concepts for the Social Internet of Things envision automated data and services exchange between devices in close physical proximity, or between devices in a “relationship” (even if they belong to different people). Although these visions of the future may not be seen as an issue for many users, we believe that the design of cyber-privacy and -security can greatly benefit from learning from extreme user cases. Therefore, the main goal of the session is to make discussions on cyber-privacy and -security more inclusive.",
"required": "Projector for showing examples of design fictions and displaying the personas.Paper, pens, post-it notes to supplement the materials that I will bring for creating design fictions.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "What happens when...",
"owner": {
"name": "Ali Zaidi",
"organization": "Global Stess Index (Felix App)"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0298ce0f-b959-4ebe-a7c6-47082a76a207",
"description": "One of my favourite interview questions is: What happens when you type a mozilla.org in your browser's address bar?A simple and correct answer is: An HTTP request is sent to the mozilla.org servers and they send a web page that is displayed by the browser.A more interesting answer can touch upon auto-completions in the address bar, DNS resolution, encryption, caches, load balancers, SSL certificates, DOMs etc.In this session, I will try to answer the \"What happens when...\" question at a level that is approachable to tech-savvy non-programmers - the teachers, students and everyone in between.",
"goal": "After this session, the participants should be able to explain \"What happens when...\" to their friends.",
"required": "I will only need a projector.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "IoT & Me",
"owner": {
"name": "James Blackledge",
"organization": "Ada College"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Youth Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e3cd31ff-c44a-4938-bb91-c222bcfa6676",
"description": "Users will interact with multiple IoT (Internet of Things) devices - such as Sonos, Philips Hue, Nest and Amazon Echo. Depending on how they use these devices, e.g. what colour light they choose/ what genre of music they play, we will use an algorithm (developed by ourselves) that will attempt to identify what type of personality they bear. This will show how data can be used to build up a profile of someone and what significance this profile has; e.g the ability to send targeted advertisements.",
"goal": "To learn how IoT devices can use generic data to construct a personal profile of someone. This will hopefully alert users what companies are capable of doing with small amounts of data, gathered via a domestic IoT medium. We want more people to be aware of how their data might be used.",
"required": "",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Robert Manigold",
"owner": {
"name": "Robert Manigold",
"organization": "Code Koalas"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6f563d2f-78b0-4c3b-ab74-82a336ddbd18",
"description": "Opportunity Scouting as it pertains to inclusion.",
"goal": "The goal of my session is to expose the audience to the idea that everyone is looking for opportunities and that we see opportintites that are meant for others on a daily basis and can change our thinking to help make connections for one another.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Hack-Design Your Open Online Learning",
"owner": {
"name": "Dilrukshi Gamage",
"organization": "University of Moratuwa"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bf69cc86-8501-408d-bc0e-55c3b2cf1737",
"description": "Participants divided into few groups. Exercise 5 steps design thinking model to hack their future of open education. They will be exploring problems in open online education, define areas they would like to focus, ideate many solutions, select the best idea and create a minimum viable prototype so other group will be able test it. Every participant will be actively contributing to generate ideas and create tangible prototype of their hacked solution. This could be a web, physical paper pencil sketch. Facilitators will be steering and guiding with timing of each step where the group will move smoothly from step-to-step. Sticky notes, cardboards, paper pencils and art and craft stuff with their own computers will use to create prototypes.",
"goal": "They will gain understanding of the existing problems of Open Online learning and benefits of Open educationThey themself will come up with different solutions to overcome difficulties of Open Online learning and Open Education Participants will gain knowledge how to work with diverse teams and work on solutions spontaneously. Identify and practice new tools and technologies in building solutions They will get familiar with the 5 step design thinking model which can be applicable for any wicket problem",
"required": "We can bring the additional stuff such as Art and craft items.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Chicago Data Cooperative; models for open data collaboration",
"owner": {
"name": "Freddy Martinez",
"organization": "Lucy Parsons Labs"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9166f669-8c7b-4acb-981c-5f792cee0fbd",
"description": "A short talk about a a cooperative data model in Chicago with the hopes of building capacity and understanding the criminal justice system.",
"goal": "We will describe how we use public records to get a full view of the criminal justice system in Chicago. By doing so, we hope to inform the public about the techniques for gathering information about these systems. Additionally, we will present challenges to working on these data sets and some of the ways we overcame them.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Connecting the Self Connects the World",
"owner": {
"name": "Julian Holtzman",
"organization": "Torq Labs"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "73b1a0bf-fcea-4255-a1a9-2d43305b20b8",
"description": "We will focus on improving and protecting bluetooth reliability from environmental variables that can confound and accuracy of data collection.",
"goal": "To build a bluetooth protocol that will enable several sensors to teather together and be strong enough to not be confounded by external signals or devices present.",
"required": "Projector/ Large screen to display information and timers, Extension cords, power strips, tables chairs, Extra HDMI plug., a room with a window, a room with outdoor access,",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Selfies and Sexting - Warning [18+] Safety Edition",
"owner": {
"name": "Oarabile Mudongo",
"organization": "Funda"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "93eb2bf5-0e14-4334-83da-56d6a64b9b90",
"description": "Learners will share their thoughts and ideas, explore motivations and consequences, and practice their responses as they improve their ability to make informed decisions about online safety and peer relationships.::Example::: Activities are centered around answering questions, there are a variety of approaches that will be adopted. Blind votes work well for yes/no questions. Having participants write their answers and hold them above their heads will help ensure that everyone participates in a more comfortable way on sensitive topics. The aim is to demonstrate how many skills come together to create a great discussion and to realise how all skills are valuable. i.e. a participants may choose to take the conversation beyond the classroom.Skills:Collaboration, Communication, Crafting etc...",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to settle the group and ensure everyone understand the rules, we will get a class to think about the topic for further collaboration. To help young people understand how close and intimate the Internet can be we need to help them engage in the subject matter. To understand further the term sexting, this session aims to explore the reasons people want to engage in sexting - this will help the class to understand how quick information and images can move.The topic is sensitive and we are looking for everyone to approach it with maturity and leadership skills. Be respectful of others opinions and ideas. Everyone chooses to express themselves in different ways.",
"required": "Throughout the session every individual will bring their devices but white boards and stickers including markers will be provided for collaboration.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Artificial Empathy: Ensuring the Machines Better Humanity",
"owner": {
"name": "Mike Nolan",
"organization": "International Rescue Committee"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ab2ea486-53cb-47f5-b794-00dcfaa57c28",
"description": "As our ability to collect and analyze large swaths of data has increased dramatically so too has our regulatory capacity. With the introduction of regulation such as GDPR and DPIA, organizations are forced to consider their collection of data in terms of ethical consequence.As the popularity of machine learning algorithms grow, as will their impact on livelihoods. In the case of law, humanitarian aid, and many other circumstances, the outcome of these models can greatly affect the lives of the users they touch.In this session, we will explore the biggest challenges we face with machine learning in the humanitarian context and what it will take to define the guidelines for building an ethical classification algorithm.",
"goal": "Our goal for this session is to create the building blocks through a participatory discussion that will serve as an open guide and scaffolding for considering and evaluating the ethical implications that a classification algorithm may have upon beneficiaries.We will draw from past experience and use existing projects provided by the speaker as a metaphorical to build and test our guidelines upon.",
"required": "A projector would be great in order to present a slide deck.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Mapping and engaging stakeholders: Policy implementation for the Youth",
"owner": {
"name": "Andrés Delgado-Ron",
"organization": "Creative Commons"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ac03338a-6cdd-40b7-92dd-6e60284652bf",
"description": "My session will train participants in policy-making from the perspective of a civil society actor. It will teach them how to identify stakeholders, opportunity windows and how to draft policy briefs in order to engage with public officials as well as other stakeholders in order to create change in their specific setting.I am a Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs and I have worked in public service. As a member of CC Ecuador I achieved changes in legislation (DRM exceptions) and, together with other groups, the implementation of projects related to open standars for the web.",
"goal": "My goal is to train participants in core procedures related to citizen policy-making in order to create effective change-makers. As per the outcome, depends on the time and number of people who participate. A small group could achieve an early draft of a policy-memo and/or an initial map of key stakeholders.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Digital Exclusion Perpetuates Poverty",
"owner": {
"name": "Daniel Noyes",
"organization": "Tech Goes Home"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "dfc783a0-144c-4b2f-8cd9-2c7d59a846f2",
"description": "Participants will start by using stickies to list how they use the Internet. This will include items such as job searching, navigation, communication, banking, etc. Similar items will be grouped. Participants will then be presented with a scenario of an individual that cannot afford and/or does not know how to use the Internet. Groups/pairs will be assigned a hypothetical task within each Internet use category that they must accomplish without the Internet. For example, how do I get to a job interview without using Google Maps? Groups will then discuss and present their “solution.” Lastly, participants will be asked to use stickers to vote on which internet uses are most impactful on someone’s life.",
"goal": "There are two main goals of our session. First, is to have a conversation that continues to help clarify the difficulties that many face without access to or knowledge of the Internet. The second is to take full advantage of the expertise in the room to help direct our efforts in combating digital exclusion through advocacy and education.",
"required": "We would love post-it notes, small stickers, and pens. We would also require a large board or wall for the post-it notes.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Empowering Youth Voice Through Digital Storytelling",
"owner": {
"name": "Eric Braman",
"organization": "Lane Arts Council"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e7dcbadc-d8fe-4ecd-898d-06fffee8befe",
"description": "In this session participants will get their hands on iPads to explore a variety of free and low-cost applications, all of which are used as a part of our in-school digital storytelling initiative. Teaching artist Olive DelSol will teach participants the basics of digital storytelling and provide insight on how to bring the practice of digital storytelling into a variety of classroom environments. Samples of student work will be shown as Eric Braman discusses the ways digital storytelling amplifies youth voice and supports student learning. Participants will be provided the essential tools and introductions to bring digital storytelling into their personal lives and classrooms.",
"goal": "The primary goal for this session is to spread the knowledge, awareness, and use of digital storytelling in classrooms around the globe. Participants will learn the foundational curriculum for effective digital storytelling, explore the many free and low-cost applications available to support digital storytelling, and begin crafting their own personal narratives. They will understand the value of creative making in learning environments and the ways technology can be used to teach and empower students. Finally, participants will be invited to join the international online community of digital storytellers and educators.",
"required": "We will need internet access for our tablets and would like a projector, which can project from an iPad. We can bring our own iPad adaptor, we will just need to know the type of adaptor we will need.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building immersive worlds with Mixed Reality",
"owner": {
"name": "Andrzej Mazur",
"organization": "Enclave Games"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "122ee085-7792-449c-a8be-0e7d67a8292d",
"description": "During the session we will create a simple WebXR game using the A-Frame framework, and I will provide cardboards for the participants to experience it.",
"goal": "Learn how to build your first virtual reality web experience.",
"required": "Projector.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "BesutKode - Teaching kids about open-source and digital literacy through free curriculum and mentorship",
"owner": {
"name": "Scott Moses Sunarto",
"organization": "Besut Kode"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Young Adult Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a42346d1-7b98-421c-ad47-59aea608c3a2",
"description": "- Participants will learn about the BesutKode project: how it's structured, how it's promoted, how it's managed, tools we used, and the struggles. - Participants will hear some recorded testimonies of our students that have succeeded in international-level open-source/programming competition or programs such as Google Code-in and Google Summer of Code.- Participants will also be able to see and try first hand some example tasks from BesutKode and share their feedback.",
"goal": "- Participants will understand how to start a similar program in their own region adopting the proven curriculum and structure that BesutKode developed.- Participants will be able to avoid the common issues of starting a program like BesutKode.",
"required": "Projector",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Desirability of Big Data in the world of open and its ability to create digital exclusion.(An African Feminist Perspective)",
"owner": {
"name": "Hildah Nyakwaka",
"organization": "Jamlab"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "30c628ce-5b72-4894-ae22-87e9b8c15f88",
"description": "As per recent research, it is evident that more women are perceived to be online in the recent years but still less than men. Furthermore, as a major flaw of research, we tend to look at men as a point of reference. However, women are still not active citizens of the web. In this session,we will hold small group discussions on how those present, view the presence of women online by asking a few women-centered short research questions. Thereafter, we will present data that goes against the norms of \"desired data\" and see the ways in which women are still underrepresented in data regarding online presence and see how the gap still exists within us, as women.",
"goal": "Our main agenda is to sensitize each other on the ways in which the open community can perpetuate digital exclusion through big data by presenting actual results of a short research and starting the conversation on how we can actively better this data.In addition to this, introducing a research toolkit that works in collecting data that directly affects women.",
"required": "- A projector to display some of the results of our data and the research toolkit.-Post-it notes -Pens or sharpies.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Supporting community events",
"owner": {
"name": "Florian Gilcher",
"organization": "Rust community, RustFest"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "acc717a9-5366-48e2-a9a3-8bc5ee274da0",
"description": "The Rust community has recently formed an events support team. I would like to present our approaches on how to improve community standards and help individuals running events at the same time. The goal is to pool our community knowledge.",
"goal": "Attendees will leave the session with information on how to practically improve their communities practices and where they can find help or ready-made material to do so.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Practical introduction to digital accessibility",
"owner": {
"name": "Victor Loux",
"organization": "AbilityNet"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "98f05964-3c3a-49ba-86f2-20229718dffc",
"description": "This session will teach the basics of digital accessibility to frontend developers and designers using real practice. The workshop will be divided in three parts:• a brief talk explaining the basics of inclusive design, and development tips for all types of impairments;• a hands-on section teaching participants how to use assistive features (magnifiers, switches/keyboards, screen readers) they already have on their devices, as well as simulations we will provide — getting them to try inaccessible and accessible sites, and drawing lessons from what makes a bad experience;• live exercises (CodePen-style) to fix code samples which are inaccessible to some people, teaching concepts like semantics, relationships, tab order, text alternatives, contrast, and ARIA.",
"goal": "Even armed with goodwill and the best intentions, it can be difficult for developers to gain the practical skills and empathy required to build truly inclusive sites and apps. At the end of this session participants should have a better idea of how different impairments really affect how people use the Web; identify common bad practices for keyboard navigation, visual design, content design and multimedia; be comfortable with the basics of screen reader testing; and be able to make the case for accessibility in their own projects. We aim to give them the tools and first steps they need to empathise with users of assistive technologies, but also give them resources to know where to go to find out more.",
"required": "A set of speakers would be useful to demo screen readers",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "An open library for your HTML presentations",
"owner": {
"name": "Mario García",
"organization": "Mozilla Mexico"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Spanish"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "34a2576e-7ab2-490c-bf1e-136ea09bd545",
"description": "Participants will learn to use reveal.js for creating presentations by using Markdown to add content to the slides and also will test and give feedback on an open web app that could help them manage their presentations through a library.",
"goal": "Getting feedback from participants on an application that is under development is so important as their comments could help improve what's been done and thinking about new features to implement. Also get people interested in contributing as it is an open project.",
"required": "Requirements for the session:A projectorInternet connectionPensPost-it notes",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Moz feast",
"owner": {
"name": "Awa Bah",
"organization": "Awa"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": true,
"uuid": "2d296a71-67f6-4dc7-95a9-acc4f85a302b",
"description": "We want to make sure that the session leaves people with new skills knowledge or ideas",
"goal": "Knowledge skills and ideas",
"required": "IPad smartphone laptop iPhone books pens pencils papers setbox ruler sharpener clothes shoes necklaces bracelets bags games",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Can anyone be an OpenLeader? Join the conversation to explore your potentials",
"owner": {
"name": "Dilrukshi Gamage",
"organization": "Alumni Mozilla Open Leaders cohort 5"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9a780d24-4544-4b27-b6be-c84a87a81c4d",
"description": "- Is internet for everyone? - How do we design projects to include anyone in the world?- You got to be a born leader or be elite to be leader?- What problems you might face when you become a leader? This will be an active open conversation between two Mozilla OpeLleaders @icelearn @Mwhiting(cohort 5)We work together in Opensource research project since 2015, faced many challenges including Gender & cultural barriers and diverse competence levels. We bring examples of situations how those challenges address with in the internet community and how communities can succeed together. During these conversations we hope to open up the stage for audience and talk through with our experience,training of being an Mozilla OpenLeader.",
"goal": "- Main goal of this conversation is to bring real world example, challenges and success story with experience sharing - Make the audience understand the qualities of a internet leader, being proactive, inclusive and how to effectively strategize outcomes in global projects- Audience will understand, to be a great Openleader, they do not need to have elite background or need to live in developed country or need to have big money - They will understand best practices and strategies of community building- Since it will be a conversation+discussion with the audience to get their input question while providing answers through experience, audience will feel engaging in a round table discussion",
"required": "Prefer to have a round circle seating set up than lecture style room arrangement. Optional - A projector to preview screen shot of example scenarios Few FM mikes to pass around the audience to ask questionsFishball ( may a small box) and paper pencil to write questions and pass on if they shy to ask questions or want to ask questions anonymously",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "infrastructure server guide for activists",
"owner": {
"name": "narrira de souza",
"organization": "Cl4ndestina"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0785580c-aec4-4b4e-9908-e2c084e215f0",
"description": "This session is a presentation of an on going project at Cl4ndestina, a feminist collective that provides web hosting for activist and feminist groups and individuals in Latin America. This project research ways of documentating the process of building a hosting server for activists, besides work with them about the politics, technical knowledge and administration of webhost. In addition to providing hosting, we want to ensure that groups and individuals know how works a server compromised with security, privacy and freedom on the web; and understand the whole structure behind a group that does it for free. We also want other people to have a place to look for if they want to have their own server.",
"goal": "We are facing many challenges about how to document this process. For that, we interviewed many sysadmins that work in diverses projects for activists in Brazil in the past ten years. They all agree about some elements, but also diverge in other. We expect to get notes, suggestions and tips about how build and share an open documentation for servers designed to host activists projects.",
"required": "projectorpaperpens post-it",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "localweb",
"owner": {
"name": "Drashti K",
"organization": "localweb"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "83e0a399-122d-45db-941d-07446f46a11f",
"description": "- Participant will learn how to translate video from English to any other language using Amara(web-based tool for subtitling videos in different language) and CrowdIn. Once they have known this translation skill they can translate any web content using Amara. when participant hack to my project they’ll contributing their audio, localizing content on web literacy. - create article in your language regarding women on web by localizing web content that I have on my website.- Guess the language That will also show some language hack “How to identify language by key concept”",
"goal": "From my experience the one who know English can easily participate on web because they can read and write on web but others can not do easily. Localization is major hindrance to achieve web literacy.Technology is helping to translate more content, but for highly specialized content, you need an actual human involved. Visitors will understand localization is not only translation but more than it.",
"required": "Laptop, post-it notes",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "ABC OF OPEN WEB",
"owner": {
"name": "SALMAN RAHMAN DESH",
"organization": "Mozilla Bangladesh"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "22837281-4132-42cc-9c8a-6e35596ea501",
"description": "From the dawn of human civilization we are developing and making internet better by covering the whole world in one inter connectivity! Though still we are facing several barriers and difficulties to get our desired contents and information but to avoid such interruptions and enrich the resources, we have to move forward to OPEN WEB.In my session I’ll start from the basic history of web to WHAT OPEN WEB IS, WHY IT’S SO IMPORTANT! and HOW TO SUPPORT/ENRICH OPEN WEB. Also Mozilla’s philosophy regarding open web like “Sharing is caring”! There will also be couple of ice-breaking sessions between my speech which will reflect open web importance as well as awareness more accurately throughout the audience.",
"goal": "First of all audience we get to know about the entity which belongs to them actually “THE OPEN WEB”. And they will get more information regarding open web importance, how to protect from personal power and profit! And keep their web accessible for all!",
"required": "My session will require a projector for few slide presentation and office supplies like paper, color pens and sticky notes which will be needed for audience survey, interaction and ice-breaking session.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Parkology: An Open Online Community for People Who Love Parks",
"owner": {
"name": "Natalie Garcia",
"organization": "The Trust for Public Land"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c0c08964-07f9-41dd-8551-359145f33568",
"description": "Parkology, an open online platform, seeks to mobilize local communities to access, utilize, and share resources to promote park creation and stewardship within a 10-minute walk of home. This session will present an overview of this platform and describe how we shifted to an active focus on user experience to promote community engagement as a result of our Mozilla Global Sprint feedback and discussions. This led to a pilot initiative to engage in partnerships with communities that face significant disparities in equitable access to close-to-home green spaces. We plan to integrate Parkology within our presentation to take participant questions and suggestions while utilizing the technology as a real-time open back channel to capture and share ideas.",
"goal": "By the end of this session, we hope attendees will expand their knowledge on the benefits of parks, use Parkology resources and discussion threads to increase advocacy for local green spaces, and gain new user insights to better support open knowledge sharing on the local level.",
"required": "This session will need a projector and wifi; we will have our own laptop.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "T&Cs : Is This What You Agreed To?",
"owner": {
"name": "Filipe Costa",
"organization": "Ravensbourne\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Artist Open Web",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Portuguese",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "06fc9f48-eeb8-4bdd-9e2c-42c88703e1e5",
"description": "*Gallery Installation*Explanation of research findings from analysing various T&Cs.Allowing visitors to engage with the installationAllow visitors to actively think about the quotes that they have read.Engage in debate and conversations regarding is this right?Discussion of data and big data.Discussion of the possibilities of metadata.",
"goal": "Allow visitors an insight of how we can become physically connected with the digital world. Being proactive when approaching the T&Cs will allow the visitor an understanding of what they have agreed to.*Gallery Installation*The session is to allow visitors to engage with my piece and engage in conversation whether each of the terms that we agreed to are ethically correct and whether we care about this.Raise an awareness of exactly what is happening within the 100's of T&Cs that we blindly agree to.",
"required": "",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Your Mobile Games/Applications: Are they safe for you? or Your Family?",
"owner": {
"name": "Hossain Al Ikram",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Bengali",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "56753df2-8309-46e3-b5ac-e241c626fb61",
"description": "Internet Users in Asia mostly uses mobile apps like nothing.They are vulnerable to trackers which come through mobile-apps/games.Youth's uses games to pass their leisure not knowing the possible vulnerability.They allow permission to most of the apps which occurs malware/spam to their devices,popups/ads and in worse cases,they are attacked by cyber bullying or even identity hack.This session will be to showcase/mirror the apps/games we use,the access/permission we grant to use them and things we should be aware of to be safe online.This is mostly ideal for kids/youth who are regular user of technologies but not aware of the privacy concerns.I will try to focus on the audience and their use-cases for applications/games and how to be better protect ourselves",
"goal": "My session is focused in audience to aware about our physical scenarios that we are involved with usage of mobile apps/ games in daily life. The outcome of this session would be the audience will (re)think about the permission they used to give while using an application and learn about few basic things to stay safe in online.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "1.1.1.1 What is it and why you should use it?",
"owner": {
"name": "Alex Mayorga",
"organization": "Cloudflare\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Italian",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "13988ea2-be00-4008-bd6e-01169d5bdf28",
"description": "I will have a session or both on which I'll present Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver, it's speed and privacy benefits and how to set it up on your devices.",
"goal": "Attendees would learn about Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver, it's speed and privacy benefits and how to set it up on their devices.",
"required": "Projector, paper, pens, post-it notes",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Design for Work – how to make recruiters/employers more neuro-inclusive",
"owner": {
"name": "Sean Gilroy",
"organization": "BBC"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d3d84895-7539-4960-a19e-d1c81661fcae",
"description": "Introduce ‘Neurodiversity’ - an umbrella term to include individuals with Autism/ASC, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Asperger’s (a fuller list includes other conditions such as bipolar disorder, OCD, Tourette’s and more). It’s estimated that around 10 per cent of the population is neurodivergent in some way and only 16 per cent of adults with autism are in full-time paid employment in the UK (National Autistic Society). Therefore, this will be an interactive workshop to ideate on improving the employment experience of neurdivergent individuals with digital and non-digital solutions. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss real-life scenarios that they're facing as job-seekers and employees, as well as participating in some creative exercises to understand & improve the issues.",
"goal": "In this interactive session we aim to: solve current job seeking & employment issues for neurodivergent applicants looking for work in particularly (but not exclusive to) the Design, Media & Digital industries. We hope to achieve this in a fun, educational way to inspire and stimulate peoples creativity. So if you’re looking for a career in these industries, join us for this unique journey.",
"required": "•\tPens, post-it’s, flip charts or access to blank walls for recording participants' ideas•\tTables to divide between small groups•\tProjector for electronic presentation & activity instructions",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "\"1000 Blank White Cards\" of Threat Modeling",
"owner": {
"name": "Rowan Cota",
"organization": "BuzzFeed, Inc."
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9c09a093-3781-49a4-bbe2-41bec03391c7",
"description": "Using the game \"1000 Blank White Cards\" (1KBWC) as a framework, this session will explore threat-modeling through emergent gameplay. Participants will be invited to think about the structure presented to them and participate in an emergent design and play experience. Rather than a technical approach, we encourage folks to think creatively, outside the constraints of \"what is possible\" with current technology. 1KBWC is a set of rules for designing a card game on the fly that is conducive to this sort of exercise precisely because it offers few constraints, while moving quickly and encouraging creativity. These are all skills used in threat modeling, and we feel games are one of the best ways to train and encourage their development.",
"goal": "Our big goal is to teach folks a new strategy for threat modeling, whether they work with a specific software/technology, or whether they're social organizers for a ground-roots campaign. We hope that by sharing this tool we can encourage a regular threat modeling practice for folks who are vulnerable, and a variety of approaches to undertaking it, since new perspectives often reveal new information.A smaller, secondary goal we have is to meet other folks who have techniques, strategies, and perspectives that we haven't experienced yet. We hope to encourage sharing and discussion as a result of the game, as well as the experience of participation.",
"required": "Pens and pencils would be great. We will bring cards, both printed and blank.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Translation outreach — which steps should we follow to make a project universally accessible?",
"owner": {
"name": "Anna e só",
"organization": "Wikimedia community, Mastodon community, MediaLab/UFG"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "dad25114-d051-4f9f-82f5-98fe835d4f67",
"description": "Sharing the results of my Outreachy internship with Wikimedia, this session aims to instigate a debate about the need for translation efforts and what makes a translation community thrive. Which strategies were proven uneffective by other communities or our own? What precautions should we take when creating multilanguage content? Why is it so important? What tools Wikimedia and other communities use for translation, and how do they work? Our conclusions will be written in post-it notes and glued on A3 paper sheets.",
"goal": "Gathering different perspectives from other communities and individuals, the main goal is to explore (a) the reasons that makes a person choose to engage or not with a translation community (b) the way we think of translations in collaborative projects (c) strategies that encourage participation and their effectiveness in short, medium and long term, helping Wikimedia and other communities to improve their translation processes and their relationship with translators.",
"required": "• 5 (five) A3 paper sheets.• At least 10 (ten) pens.• 2 packs of post-it notes (ideally 3 in x 3 in ones).",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Simplified Networks and Advanced Infrastructure for a Better Tomorrow.",
"owner": {
"name": "Samardhi Jeedigunta",
"organization": "The Jeedigunta Coda"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Comms] Facilitator Not On Github",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "20c2f730-8aeb-4e3b-81dc-cc764ad39f5a",
"description": "My session is a discussion. Initially, I will talk about the brace I designed and built and how it can be utilized on existing infrastructure and can really help accelerate the landscape of willing areas. Helping people connect to WIFI is one thing, but the future of technology and its gonna impact how the world looks is a very important topic to discuss but it determines the tendencies and the path of future generations. Whatever we design and built should work towards giving our posterity the best lifestyle possible. One of serenity, integrated and accessible knowledge, and most of all, happiness. I want to discuss the possibility of building a future predicated on personal tranquility rather than social standing.",
"goal": "To help people but understand the outcome of technology and the impact it has on the people's minds and lifestyle. To not only help them understand what technology is doing, but understand that when we build something or innovate a new product, it should be to help the situation of future generations. Human Civilization advances when people are united and share a feeling of happiness. With that in mind, certain aspects of daily life, especially on the internet, are cluttered with nonsense that keeps humans from prospering (Social Media). I want to make people aware that if we build a future that simplifies life both on and outside the internet, people have a better chance of flourishing as individuals.",
"required": "I probably will need projector. Plus, I could use a couple assistants to help make my presentation. I don't know if I 'm going to make a power point or what not but since I hate formal displays, I could use a couple people to stay along with me as I go about the process to help keep me engaged. Furthermore, I do ask that people don't record my presentation because the message I plan to get across isn't one to be perpetuated. It's one to be understood and implemented in daily life. I might also need a mic and a chair to sit on because I want the session to be as informal and as genuine as possible.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Let's encrypt before someone could listen",
"owner": {
"name": "Diwanshi Pandey",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "41d9b003-134a-4cca-a2c8-453915eb642c",
"description": "*Introduction (5mins)*Mozilla Codemoji(https://codemoji.org/#/welcome) - Fun way to learn about cyphers (10mins)*You get Signal(http://bit.ly/traceroute): Visual trace route tool (5mins)*Group Activity (30mins)Note: This activity can be done using codemoji depending on internet speed otherwise I will go with offline activity**Part1: Unencrypted Communication (5mins)~3 attendees will be named as Sender(A), Network(B), Receiver(C). 'A' will pass the unencrypted message to 'C' via 'B'.**Part 2: Passing Encrypted Notes (25mins)***Group 'A' & 'C' will breakup for 10mins & decide their own encryption code.***Group 'B' will eavesdrop and try to strategize on breaking the code.***Group 'A' & 'C' will send encrypted notes to each other via Group 'B'.***Group 'B' will decipher the note.*Final Q&A (10mins)",
"goal": "* The session will teach attendees about the privacy principle Encryption: “Communication over a network, unless strongly encrypted, is never just between two parties”.* The attendees will learn how intermediary devices, and the services that provide them, are involved in transmitting information from point A to point B on the Internet.",
"required": "* Projector/a screen to display the tools.* Sticky notes* Pens* White sheets",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "3D Printing 101, How to make your Idea a Reality",
"owner": {
"name": "John Griffiths",
"organization": "UXGent Limited"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Prototyping space"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a70a9baa-734a-448a-b34d-09649dd0f012",
"description": "We'll give you a crash course in 3D Printing. What they are, the variety of printing methods, filaments and software available. Shock you with what is possible and even give a hands-on creating something from scratch and printing it. You'll learn some of the common pitfalls we all encounter, how we overcome them and see how it's been used to change people's lives.",
"goal": "* To break down what is a 3D printer* How to create something in AutoCAD Fusion 360 / TinkerCAD* Live demonstration with a 3D Printer (have my own)* Common problems you'll encounter* How this new technology has been applied to change peoples lives for the better",
"required": "Power.I'll bring my own 3D Printer but if there's an extra one available that'd be a bonus.Mic & presentation facilities.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "CSS3 is FUN!",
"owner": {
"name": "SALMAN RAHMAN DESH",
"organization": "Mozilla Bangladesh"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "867071f7-a595-40f7-a7dc-d004f45be3cf",
"description": "I'll talk and demonstrate about styling a basic web application or page into a modern good looking one with CSS3. Also how to keep them web compatible for possible modern browsers and platforms as well as make the web application responsive and device friendly using Flex box! Some more topics related to CSS3 will be discussed and demonstrate during the session period.",
"goal": "Several goals can be achieved through out this session like students/kids will learn to code their own first colorful web application! which will make them more curious to get deep into it. They will be notified about web compatibility which will help to make Internet more healthy and strong! which can be an ultimate goal of web literacy.",
"required": "This workshop will require a projector for few slide presentation and office supplies like paper, color pens and sticky notes which will be needed for audience survey, interaction and ice-breaking session. And audience with laptop are highly preferable.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The workshop v0.1 alpha",
"owner": {
"name": "Felipe Do Espirito Santo",
"organization": "FATEC Taquaritinga"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Portuguese",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "47d555e6-b2de-4964-a014-c41f35851ac2",
"description": "We will build the dream workshop in this session! Starting from a v0.1 alpha version of the workshop we will discuss openness and open practices. After the first minutes, we will work in groups to improve this version of the workshop (all the material will be on Github), and redo the workshop! After three or four iterations, and the help of everyone we will launch our v1.0 stable. I'm doing a similar activity here in Brazil with teachers as my Master degree research.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to discuss openness and work in groups using open tools, and platforms. The participants will learn more about open licenses, platforms, and practices. At the end of the session, we will have a full workshop (produced collectively) about those topics.The objective here in Brazil with the similar work is to encourage teachers to share their content openly and discuss how they can work together.",
"required": "Projector, and office supplies (paper and pens).",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Women in the open web: public interviews for diversity and inclusion",
"owner": {
"name": "María Cruz",
"organization": "Wikimedia Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "da15f5d3-2693-4206-900d-998557d1f068",
"description": "In this session, we will reflect on the different roles of women in the open web, and the power of public interviews to generate awareness about diversity on the Internet. Participants will work in pairs, one will be the interviewer, and the other the interviewee, and will go over a set of questions prepared in advance. At the end, we'll come back together as a group, and discuss the questions, how to improve them, and the reflections they brought up for participants.",
"goal": "- To establish a conversation series with women working in the open (code, science, data, knowledge, government...) At the moment, it has only been done among Wikimedia communities (open knowledge), I would like to open this series to other contexts as well.- To improve the existing organizer kit for this conversation (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities/Organizer%27s_guide)- To gather more experiences for an ongoing research about women participation in public spaces, and how the open web principles / philosophy is changing this.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Data Practitioners Write the Script: What if you're asked to use data in an unethical, unsafe, or unwise way?",
"owner": {
"name": "Kaelen Medeiros",
"organization": "DataCamp"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f36c2c31-03d5-4173-bfd2-9b2b6b8fcbd3",
"description": "We will work together to develop a script to use when we, as data practitioners of any ilk (data scientists, statisticians, analysis, engineers, software engineers, just plain interested parties, etc) are asked to do something with data we know to be unethical, unsafe, or unwise. The script should be standard, but also flexible enough to be adaptable to the unique situations we may find ourselves in. The group (or small groups if necessary) will discuss stories of when this has happened to us in the past in our careers and allow our past reactions and strategies to inform the script, plus swap tips generally with one another to create a safer data future.",
"goal": "The goal will be to develop a template script, adaptable to each participant's unique situation, of what to say and do when we're faced with situations where employers/others want us to use data in a way that we feel is unethical, unsafe, or unwise in any way. I'd like the script to be contained in etherpad and accessible outside of the session, and I will have a few starter scripts available in case we need them. Generally, takeaways will include tips and tricks for dealing with this as a data practitioner, based on the stories of how others have handled this in the past, plus knowledge of unethical data practices.",
"required": "A projector and paper + pens would be great for this session. I will supply my own laptop and dongle.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Web literacy",
"owner": {
"name": "Clarice Bwanga",
"organization": "School"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "21418b49-f0b2-40df-a79e-5eb1cb9f600e",
"description": "Will be wanting to teach and learn more about web literacy",
"goal": "To produce good website designer",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Training the next generation of researchers",
"owner": {
"name": "Jon Tennant",
"organization": "Open Science MOOC"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8fcbeae6-96a4-4d3d-a618-0c9d52a9a4ae",
"description": "One of two things. Or both. One, an introduction to the Open Science MOOC, and how people can engage with the project. Two, a short sprint working on content development and resource manegement.",
"goal": "Hopefully a bunch of people inspired to help with the project, or actual progress on the content of the MOOC itself!",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Using Firefox like a Boss - Privacy Settings",
"owner": {
"name": "Ankit Gadgil",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "711b05c2-47df-4a91-b49d-a31f279e5d04",
"description": "1. Round the room intros (name, country, day job)- 5mins * Icebreaker: Is privacy over the web important?2. High-level Overview: Introduction to Firefox -5mins * Do you use Firefox? Why? * Favorite feature?3. Deep Dive into customizing Firefox and preferences -10mins * Cookies * Cached Web Content * Permissions4. Customize Firefox configs -10mins * about:config * Browser fingerprinting5. Block trackers on the web -10mins * How we are being tracked online * Tracking Protection6. Best Privacy extensions -5mins * Ad blockers * Anti-tracking7. Search engines respecting privacy -5mins * DuckDuckGo8. QA -10mins",
"goal": "* The participants may want to help their friends, family, and colleagues by teaching about Firefox and the and online privacy.* This will facilitate growth in Firefox user base and also help the normal user to be an advanced user of Firefox. * The attendees/participants will take home an understanding of Privacy on the web, How they can protect themselves while being a part of the open web. * They might want to be a Mozillian contributing to Mozilla and/or joining the Privacy Taskforce: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force* The use of search engines that do not track their activity.* Help in securing the HEALTH of the web.* Participants get interested in helping us teach privacy on the web",
"required": "* A couple of screens or monitors at the session will help participants hack, make, learn and share with other participants.* Sticky notes* Sharpies* Optional firefox installed on computers or phones of participants.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "How to ship products at a young age by being safe online",
"owner": {
"name": "Yan Chummar",
"organization": "Student"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Youth Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "046aea7b-22f5-4464-a075-a5c7463d4697",
"description": "I'm a 15-year-old Entrepreneur and Android Developer and also have shipped many products. I wish to share my experience and how I did it with in-depth details of how young people can do the same. I wish to guide them on how to utilise opportunities and be safe on the internet while doing this with tips on protecting your privacy.",
"goal": "The goal is to get more vibrant young teenagers and adults to start building on the ideas they have and building healthy and safe community around this. I want people to explore new opportunities.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Future of Anonymity[Is it all over]",
"owner": {
"name": "Dr ManX",
"organization": "DrManX.org"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8b0eab1a-cd27-47f2-bdbd-71fd047481a4",
"description": "Explanation of the current state of anonymity on the internetz, and where it's likely to go based on the complexity of international law.Available tools, and skillz needed to maintain different levels of anonymity",
"goal": "Allow people attending to understand how to attain anonymity, and where they can go to achieve this",
"required": "unfiltered internet connection allowing vpns, and other privacy tools....",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "About Electronic health record management",
"owner": {
"name": "George Mhlanga",
"organization": "Ministry Of Energy"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f514c882-a2a7-4570-ba84-a0361ab5ef8d",
"description": "How rural health center can use electronic record management system for their archive and best future information retrieval",
"goal": "Develop and come with the system that could help the rural health centers in malawi",
"required": "Computers(Laptop)",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "WEB VR WITH A-FRAME",
"owner": {
"name": "SALMAN RAHMAN DESH",
"organization": "Mozilla Bangladesh"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Bengali",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0414217c-7ef4-41f2-b9c9-ea2ef202b98a",
"description": "Mozilla Firefox others browsers have already integrated web virtual reality to their browsers. Even with the help of A-frame framework it's so easy for a HTML developer to build a simulated virtual interface by using bunch of HTML familiar tags! In my session I'll talk about build and implementation of web virtual reality in our day life possible usage like fashion, study, gaming and so on. Also working with Components and Primitives tags of A-frame and deployment and making the simulated virtual interface ready to use on Firefox browser. Will love to do some ice-breaking sessions too reflecting virtual reality between the talks so that audience can get more information regarding web virtual reality with fun!",
"goal": "Audience will know about web virtual reality and it's possible features and implementation in your daily life. As well as how a basic HTML developer can create his/her own simulated virtual interface easily with A-frame framework.",
"required": "My session will require a projector for few slide presentation and office supplies like paper, color pens and sticky notes which will be needed for audience survey, interaction and ice-breaking session.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Explore & Learn from your Personal Data - Together",
"owner": {
"name": "Bastian Greshake Tzovaras",
"organization": "Open Humans / openSNP / BerkeleyLab"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] French",
"[LANG] German",
"[LANG] Greek",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "fff0c136-6524-4d52-ac32-6213bec10f44",
"description": "We all have massive collections of personal data all over the web: GPS recordings and activity monitoring done through our phone or wearables like Fitbit, our social media footprints, for some of us even our genomes. In this session we will see how we can leverage the strengths of the web to take control of our own data and explore – which is timely given that the recent GDPR highlights and ensures data portability from web services. After a brief introduction we will apply these techniques together to do notebook-based data analyses on our personal data which can easily be shared and modified.",
"goal": "Participants of this session will learn how to export their personal data from a variety of web services to obtain their own copies. Furthermore, participants will learn how they can analyze their personal data – from sources like Twitter, Fitbit, Apple Healthkit, Google or whatever other data sources participants would like to see. These analyses will not only enable them to learn about themselves in the spirit of Quantified Self, but also to see what inferences are possible from their own data footprint.",
"required": "a projector and pens/paper would be great!",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "What is Public Code",
"owner": {
"name": "Boris van Hoytema",
"organization": "Foundation For Public Code"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b381b4c6-4788-4ed9-a750-bb45736d66a1",
"description": "Public Code, as opposed to private code, is an early stage concept for a type of code developed with the public interest in mind. Point of departure is that in our emerging platform society, «Code == Code»: Software and policy are both code. The former executed by machines and the latter by humans. This means we need to look differently at the software developed for public tasks than we do for private tasks. It is held to standards to guarantee that it is inclusive, usable, adaptive, open and sustainable.In this workshop we look at what Public Code is, how it is different from private code and how we can make responsible tech work for everyone.",
"goal": "This workshop aims to further develop the concept of Public Code. More concretely: How should we understand Public Code, and how can we create it? What kind of technological and institutional arrangements are needed to shift towards the production of Public Code.",
"required": "A screen to show things on would be awesome (but no problems if it is not there)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Tinfoil Explorer HATs, a Python and some Raspberries",
"owner": {
"name": "Hannah McMullan",
"organization": "NI Raspberry Jam"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4e331a69-f6cf-4400-ad1f-0ffe49333a31",
"description": "Why flick a switch when all it needs is a simple touch? In this session, participants will learn to program so tinfoil (or other conductive material eg; fruit 🍉) using Python 🐍 and an Explorer HAT add-on board for the Raspberry Pi to make LEDs turn on/off or make a message appear on screen.",
"goal": "Participants shoukd understand inputs and outputs, functions and events and how to program these in Python. Along with basic Python commands and an understanding of simple hardware (Explorer HAT and Raspberry Pi) and conductivity.",
"required": "Raspberry Pis, Explorer HATs, Tinfoil, Playdough, Crocodile clips,",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Making the web - hands-on for everyone",
"owner": {
"name": "Martin Splitt",
"organization": "Google"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] German",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0b8fd2e3-808b-473f-8da7-972ae23d788f",
"description": "We will explore the many options to build websites and web apps and learn how to build semantic websites with open-source and beginner-friendly tools. We also will look into accessibility and how to make our web content discoverable, user-friendly and fast.",
"goal": "- Show options to create content on the web (glitch, codepen, github pages, own web hosting, ...)- Explain the benefit of semantic HTML and CSS- Introduce accessibility and explain why it's important and how to check your sites- Discuss good practices (such as permanent URLs)- Create new web makers who understand the value of this platform and its openness",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Why Open Data?",
"owner": {
"name": "Ayah Soufan",
"organization": "University of Southampton | Mozilla Tech Speaker | Palestine"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "68b9907e-7001-4a5e-ad08-313c67e0baec",
"description": "First, I will explain the meaning of Open Data and the importance of open data for governments and communities. I will talk about some areas where we can expect open data to be of value. Then I will split the audience into groups to discuss how can different people and organisations benefit from the availability of open data, including government itself.The groups will think about the benefits of open data in these areas:1- Transparency and democratic control2- Participation3- Self-empowerment4- Innovation5- Improved efficiency of government services",
"goal": "My goal is to share knowledge of the open data and why it is important, also audience should know real world examples about how open data lead to improve transparency, making better decisions in their own life and better Economy.Also, I'll share with them how open data helped us as Data Scientist to solve problems like detecting and classifying toxic comments on the web.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Improving Diversity in a Technology Community",
"owner": {
"name": "Eyitayo Alimi",
"organization": "Techy Girls Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "66c66c76-a125-4b6d-a5d9-6cd1b26a81e3",
"description": "This session is a hands-on session that shows attendees on how to create and improve diversity in a technology community.To conclude the session,there will be a group session to practice all what we have learned.",
"goal": "Outcome of my session would be;1.How to create a diversity in your community.2.Sustain diversity3.Tools to build a diversified community. (From venue,to speakers to swags e.t.c)4. Materials needed for building a diversified community.",
"required": "- Sticky Notes (Multicolored)- Markers (Multicolored)- White board Sheets (Large one)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building a new ethical dating ecosystem?",
"owner": {
"name": "ian Forrester",
"organization": "cubicgarden"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "513338f4-ec95-44e0-bafb-9c6f0c80576c",
"description": "I will demonstrate the problems and explore why the current model of online dating is so broken. Then facilitate a mindmapping session on possible solutions to the problems.This will be wrapped up at the end by myself.",
"goal": "Explore the technology which can aid a better ethical exchange of data in a dating context. People will reconsider how the technology can aid and hider.",
"required": "I would need a projector screen/TV for the presentation. Some paper, pens and post its for ideas/mindmapping.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Managing Secrets Safely with Version Control Systems",
"owner": {
"name": "Chris Otta",
"organization": "LakeHub"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5db76deb-fdd3-4cb4-aca3-389660607f10",
"description": "A hands-on micro-workshop on the basics of managing secret data (usernames/passwords, SSH keys, API keys, name of databases or internal servers) securely with Git when collaborating on shared public repositories.The session contains sections as follows:Participants jot down (on post-in notes) their favorite version control systems (VCSs), discussing their reasons for preferenceTwo people share their stories on instances when they inadvertently shared secret data on a shared public repository (personal, team or organization), jeopardizing their work in the processParticipants jot down and discuss ways of mitigating exposure of secret data when contributing to public projectsHack with git-crypt as an example tool for safely managing secret data when collaborating on public project repositories.",
"goal": "A collection of ideas on data that ought NOT be stored in a Git (or any VCS) repository and an understanding of the reasons whyA basic understanding of available software tools and services for protecting sensitive data and coordinating the necessary access during deployment of Git repositories, and their pros and cons",
"required": "A projector and office supplies including, paper, pens and post-in notes will be enough for this session.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Decoding Hate",
"owner": {
"name": "Daniel Kelley",
"organization": "Center for Technology and Society at the Anti-Defamation League"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "90553963-d14b-4005-80bf-45f8a4b1a493",
"description": "Participants will join the social science research of ADL and UC Berkeley's Online Hate Index- a project that uses machine learning and social science to understand hate speech online from the perspective of targeted communities. Participants will review a number of online comments and determine who is being targeted by them and how severely. The session will end with a group discussion about the nature of hate online.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is twofold: One is to get participants to join in the coding exercise and thus provide their lived experience of hate online to the social science research of the project. The second goal is to educate participants about the complicated nature of hate online: how nuanced determining it is, the importance of context, and the degree to which we don't understand how these determination are made by tech companies at present .",
"required": "A projector would be preferred for this session.In addition, participants would need to use a smart phone/tablet/laptops to participate. Ideally we would be able to send a link to participants in advance of the session as well.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Why there is a need for a public service internet?",
"owner": {
"name": "Ian Forrester",
"organization": "BBC R&D"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3542562e-31a5-4923-b83c-679d902c65fa",
"description": "There will be a short presentation of the BBC's research/thoughts/ideas around a public service internet and why. Then people will break into groups to propose what it could look like, why and how to move forward for their chosen public service/company",
"goal": "Ideas for steps forward to encourage a world wide public service internet",
"required": "Paper, pens, projector, sticky notes",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Lost and found: get access to your data!",
"owner": {
"name": "Evelyn Austin",
"organization": "Bits of Freedom"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "95ee3e29-1a83-4e5b-887b-c0d81681db73",
"description": "Participants will work with the (new) European data access rights and explore what these can mean for both their work and their private life.After a very short intro about these rights, the group will explore and question the assumptions and expectations of which organisations have what data on us. Participants will subsequently work in pairs to create and submit an access request. We will reconvene with the entire group to discuss experiences and thoughts: What was easy? What was harder? What were you not expecting? Finally, we’ll brainstorm ideas about how access requests can inform our activism and journalism, or otherwise play a role in our lives.",
"goal": "Participants will feel empowered to take control of their data. They will use this new skill to gain more insight into their own data trails (perhaps even making it a common practice when they buy something from a new online store or create a new profile somewhere!), as well as to inform their and others’ work. We will be inspired with new ways of how access requests can be used in activism and journalism, and will use the feedback to create and share more positive stories and experiences around data rights.",
"required": "- Paper and pens- Projecter",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Test 1",
"owner": {
"name": "Marc Walsh",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Localisation support requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": true,
"uuid": "4ac43850-3d8b-4c75-9a17-4371050f0077",
"description": "Test1",
"goal": "Test1",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Automatic Twitter photo booth with the Raspberry Pi",
"owner": {
"name": "Vincent Lee",
"organization": "Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4215930c-0784-44b4-b18e-66c3a4fa2288",
"description": "This is a workshop revolving around using the Raspberry Pi with a PIR (Passive Infra-Red) sensor, connected to the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO. When the PIR detects motion, it will trigger a photo to be taken with the Raspberry Pi Camera Module. Then the Pi will upload the photo along with a pre-set message to the participant’s Twitter account, using the twitter API implementation for Python.",
"goal": "The outcome of this session is to have the participants learn how to use the Twitter Python API, which allows them to get to grips with the basics of how to post tweets onto twitter and how to add media using the API. Our goal is to give kids an introduction into coding and showing them how they can interact with other services that they may use on a daily basis, and how they can make programs that can communicate with the outside world.",
"required": "Raspberry PiScreenKeyboardMicePIR sensor (1 Per Pi)Female to Female jumper cable (3 Per Pi)Raspberry Pi Camera Module (1 Per Pi)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Social Sciences Potluck",
"owner": {
"name": "Rute Correia",
"organization": "White Market Podcast"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0f3b5052-5a89-4dfc-9d99-9be0023df59a",
"description": "A potluck for social sciences, where participants will bring in and share their views, concerns and experiences in open science in the context of social sciences. Folks with expertise in open science in other research fields are also welcome to join and share their experiences.",
"goal": "As social sciences face specific challenges in becoming open, the goal of the session is to compile ideas and resources, creating a go-to guide for scientists in these research areas.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Driving with the Bit:Bot",
"owner": {
"name": "Sam Stuart",
"organization": "Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "39d20175-a8db-4026-8403-5c6f41df81fe",
"description": "Attendees will be given an introduction to the MakeCode programming environment and will be guided, step by step, on the basics of how to program the Micro:bit. This will then be carried on by introducing them to the Bit:Bot and getting them to drive it around by coding small scripts that will allow it to drive forward, turn and light up the build-in Neopixels onboard the Bit:Bot. If there is enough time, a basic tutorial on the line sensor on the Bit:Bot will be used and this can be tested by using pre-prepared A3 sheets with small obstacle on them that the attendees will have to overcome.",
"goal": "The sessions aim is to give a firm introduction to the Bit:Bot by showing off some of the basic functions it can carry out, as well as introducing them to the block-based MakeCode programming environment. They will do this by programming the Bit:Bot to drive around and to use different feature that are build in on the Bit:Bot, such as the Neopixels and the line sensor.",
"required": "This session will require as many Bit:Bots as can be supplied. With each Bit:Bot a Micro:bit, Micro-USB cable and a computer (Such as a Raspberry pi), as well as an internet connection or a connection to a MakeCode server that will allow the participants to program the Micro:bit.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Introduction to the STEAM of Microbit",
"owner": {
"name": "Aoibheann Mangan",
"organization": "Coder Dojo Cloghans Hill"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2bf7c61e-da7a-4a4f-8f2d-c3f73b2119d2",
"description": "Participants will get to use the microbit - I will show them how to get their microbit to scroll messages/text. I will show them how to do pictures on their microbit and how to animate them. I will also show them how to play music with their microbit",
"goal": "That participants can create text, image and sound with their microbit",
"required": "I would need microbits (can bring some)",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Microbit games",
"owner": {
"name": "Aoibheann Mangan",
"organization": "Coder Dojo Cloghans Hill"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "dc7b424b-8078-49b4-ac5a-46e545bb11fd",
"description": "We will code and play games using the microbit - games like rock, paper, scissors and skip counter. We will learn how to get two microbits working like walkie talkies sending info from one to the other",
"goal": "That participants will be able to interact with a group and in pairs using microbits to play games that they code themselves",
"required": "Microbits if possible I can bring some",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Girls Can Code",
"owner": {
"name": "Aoibheann Mangan",
"organization": "Coder Dojo Cloghans Hill"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9ca54170-b6b9-4e8e-a297-304b456b2782",
"description": "I will deliver a talk on girls in Coding and my journey to becoming EU Digital girl of the year",
"goal": "To inspire girls to get active in the STEM/STEAM world",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Bringing Mixed Reality to the Web",
"owner": {
"name": "Marko Letic",
"organization": "AVA"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7caa48c0-8c16-4a86-bdf3-9dbfb35b2959",
"description": "The main topic of this session is to make a short introduction to the current possibilities of popular browsers and how a virtual (VR) or augmented reality (AR) enabled solutions can be created to work on the web. The current state of the WebXR API, that exposes concepts common in VR and AR platforms, will be presented and its usage will be demonstrated with examples. GitHub start-up project is provided so the audience will be able to follow the lecturer as a WebXR-enabled solution is developed. Augmented reality scene that contains a set of simple primitives will be created and the interaction with the scene and primitives is explained. Basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript stack is desirable.",
"goal": "The goal of my session is to provide the participants with enough knowledge to start creating their own solutions but also to motivate them to do so, by demonstrating how simple it is to create a virtual or augmented reality enabled solutions for the web.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The ludic and the logical",
"owner": {
"name": "Mariana Brito Rodrigues",
"organization": "I'm a scholarship student in La Salle Rio (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Portuguese",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "888baafb-2a21-46b3-abe5-1bf62920d8ec",
"description": "A game to promote the creation of ideas and solutions, a meeting between dreams and needs with technology. Sometimes a great idea is under your nose!",
"goal": "To stop saying \"I can not get a good idea 😞 \". Show that everyone can have a good idea, teveryone can create and have their idea realized through technology",
"required": "We will need post-it, pens and poster board (or any wall or chalkboard where we can stick the post-its). Ps: About the next question. Antonio doesn't need help with the travel stipends. Only me.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "How can we make science and technology queer-inclusive by design?",
"owner": {
"name": "Athina Tzovara",
"organization": "UC Berkeley"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] French",
"[LANG] German",
"[LANG] Greek",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5d62d255-90db-4f3d-975d-e71f46bf6fb0",
"description": "Many of the products or services that we are daily using are primarily designed for a heteronormative audience. Clothing options, dating applications, or research studies are few of the many examples where science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) are dominated by heteronormative assumptions and implicit biases. In this session, we will discuss how STEM can better integrate individuals who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex (LGBTQI) in all stages of designing and developing new services / studies. We will discuss case studies and participants’ experiences with STEM output. Finally, we will assemble ideas for an open letter proposing ways to make science and technology more LGBTQI-inclusive by design.",
"goal": "Our primary goal is to assemble an open letter targeted towards anyone working in STEM, and giving guidelines on how to make their work more LGBTQI-inclusive by design. To this aim, we will discuss how inclusive existing STEM applications and services are towards an LGBTQI audience, in order to evaluate what can be learned from past mistakes and highlight good STEM practices. Moreover, we will invite participants to contribute with their own experiences with existing studies or services, and share how these could affect LGBTQI individuals differently from cis/heterosexual ones.",
"required": "As this is an interactive discussion session we will just need pens, post-its and a flip chart. If a projector is available we will project some case studies to facilitate the discussion, but we do not need the projector for the session to be a success.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Cyber security policy advocacy and capacity building canvas",
"owner": {
"name": "kooissi Amadu",
"organization": "University of Ghana"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "33e302aa-402f-4a3f-a813-5eb6a9621c87",
"description": "Overview of cyber Policy advocacy and capacity building What are the Policy Issues?Participation in Policy Formulation(what does the current environment for participation or various stakeholders in policy making?)Role Players and StakeholdersTargets: Who has the power to make the necessary changes? Who influences those people?",
"goal": "The main goal of the advocacy strategy is to reduce the cybercrime rate through the implementation of the main pillars of Cyber security Policy:Culture of cyber security and capacity building Human Rights and Child online protectionResearch & Development towards Self-RelianceTo ensure identify the key actors at government and regulators level are aware of the implications of the human rights on cyber policy.Awareness creation to promote responsible behaviour and policy advocacy capacity building.",
"required": "I want this session to be recorded if all the participants agree to that so we may need a recording camera",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Facebook for Good: A practical guide to use Facebook without compromising your privacy",
"owner": {
"name": "Danielle Vincent",
"organization": "Outlaw Soaps / Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "96ef96fb-7bbf-4a00-8650-b02374f945ce",
"description": "We will talk about how to protect your privacy while using Facebook (i.e. Facebook Containers), how to set up your newsfeed to highlight the kind of content you want to see, and easy ways to be selective about who sees your content. The course will be partially based on my medium post: https://medium.com/@daniellevincent/take-control-of-your-facebook-timeline-take-control-of-your-life-8afb6e2fb6b7",
"goal": "Attendees will understand how to use Facebook Containers and will have set up their newsfeed/contact lists for best and most life-affirming purposes.",
"required": "I would prefer to have an AV setup so I can show my screen.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Prototyping tools for image and text sharing on the web, plus CC search",
"owner": {
"name": "Jane Park",
"organization": "Creative Commons"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0a807442-c59d-457c-96cd-c9dd29bc5db0",
"description": "I will present current beta tools and prototypes that Creative Commons has developed around content discovery (CC search), publishing, and reuse. I will also present key insights that led to the development of these prototypes from 80 user interviews conducted from February through July 2018. Participants will have the opportunity to test and provide feedback on the current prototypes, and hack improvements to them. Participants will also have the opportunity to brainstorm ideas for key insights we did not have resources to build, and to form groups to start prototyping the most popular ideas in real time.",
"goal": "The goals of this session are three-fold:To get feedback on current content sharing prototypes so that we may improve them for developmentTo cultivate the community’s engagement with the key insights that led to their development, increasing awareness of the problem spaceTo potentially come out of the session with a new prototype that addresses a need within the community",
"required": "Projector, paper (flipchart if possible), pens, post-it notes",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Curiosity Rover : Robots for everyone",
"owner": {
"name": "Hitesh Monga",
"organization": "NIT Hamirpur"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "273f892d-02f1-4683-af58-2dac1341a155",
"description": "Curiosity rover that was send to mars marked the new phase of human advancement in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence. We have created the miniature version of real rover.This session not only displays the working and functioning of rover but also teaches the methodology to build more sophisticated rovers and other robots which can also be controlled over the internet (IoT),using raspberry pi ,arduino, NodeMCU and other desirable sensors. Even a school kid with no previous knowledge of coding can participate and will be able to implement easily by writing simple drag and drop algorithms.The participants have to program and control the robot on a replica of Mars.",
"goal": "•\tCreating a belief that you don’t need to be a experienced developer to create and program such sophisticated robots•\tControlling and monitoring the rover using Internet Of Things with easy algorithms for everyone including mostly youth,teachers, lawyer (mostly non-technical people)•\tGiving a brief intro of coding in various developments boards•\tTeaching basic methodology so that the participants inculcate the art of self-learning and could further create more sophisticated robots in near future",
"required": "A table for creating replica of Mars ,cardboard and coloured pens",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Protect your security on the internet as an expert",
"owner": {
"name": "Raphael Molina",
"organization": "Instituto Politécnico Nacional"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "18e3a3a9-fc1b-4309-b0a9-d65da65031f7",
"description": "Attendees will learn the most effective ways to protect their identity, security and data on the internet. I will talk about hacking techniques and how users can protect themselves from potential computer attacks, I will present tools we can use to keep us safe on the internet, and finally I'll perform real-time demonstrations on how to keep armored.",
"goal": "The assistants will understand the panorama of the risks in the web, will learn to protect their data and personal information on Internet, thanks to the use of special tools and techniques of protection.",
"required": "my session does not require additional material",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Advocacy Strategies for the Internet Health Report",
"owner": {
"name": "Omotayo Fagbohun",
"organization": "Mozilla Rep"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bdd2040c-a083-4c36-a81b-3f0801170da5",
"description": "Community Engagement Strategies for the core four areas of the open internet : Decentralisation,Digital Inclsuion, Privacy, Openness and Web Literacy.",
"goal": "Key Take-Aways: Attendees should learn different advocacy strategies for the internet health report and much knowledge of the cores areas listed above.Setting up small meets ups and getting on social media and spreading the word on the Internet Health Report Engage different stakeholders that are important in influencing the core areas of the Internet Health Report.",
"required": "1. Internet Health Report Cards with URL 2. Hard copies for the Internet Health Report 3. Web Literacy Swags.4. Cardboards ,Markers for the white boarding sessions.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Speaking in Many Tongues: Mozilla’s Common Voice Project",
"owner": {
"name": "Delyth Prys",
"organization": "Bangor University"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "97a3b0ee-aa3b-4c77-993f-cd6af659c5e4",
"description": "We will present Common Voice, Mozilla's crowdsourcing project to create resources for speech recognition in multiple languages. We will use a 'kiosk' to collect as many recordings as possible of people reading aloud preprepared recording prompts. Participants will also be able to listen to recordings of others who have contributed their voices and evaluate them using the project interface (this is a good way of engaging with shyer participants). We will encourage speakers of languages not already covered by the project to submit a request for their language and help Common Voice increase the number of languages covered.",
"goal": "The goal is to raise awareness of the Common Voice project and of speech recognition in general as a tool for digital inclusion. It aims to teach the importance of providing communication aids for people in their own language, and especially to reach less-resourced language communities and those of less commercial interest to large corporations. It will increase the number of recordings in the Common Voice project across all languages at present represented, and make the case for the inclusion of some new ones. It will provide the opportunity for participants to learn more about how speech recognition technology is created and engage in a practical activity to develop it in an inclusive, crowdsourced way.",
"required": "Our main need will be for a quiet corner (difficult at Mozfest I know!). We will be bringing our own laptops and iPads and will only need somewhere to charge them.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Your Data: Privacy and Security for noobs",
"owner": {
"name": "Mariot Tsitoara",
"organization": "Mozilla Tech Speakers"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] French",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a9b3c3a3-4592-4f79-a0d6-37ba2f128905",
"description": "The first part of the session will be a simulation of a normal browsing experience (shopping, social media...). During that part, I will ask participants what do they do the most on the web. I will also ask what kind of data about do they share willingly.The second part is to show them what data about them has been shared without their knowledge or consent. I will show the companies that had access to their data and what do they do with it.The third part is to teach them how to limit the data that they share willingly and how to protect their privacy online.",
"goal": "The goal is to make people aware of the ways their privacy is taken away (by companies or by themselves). For the moment, users (usually children) don't think about that very much but I want them to realize that privacy is very important for a safe web. And I want them to have the proper tools to protect themselves.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Compliance, how create insecurity thinking to do security",
"owner": {
"name": "Julie JujuSete",
"organization": "Cognizant"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "450ade92-d906-4b6b-b27f-6c1f2062bf26",
"description": "How standards are affecting InfoSec ?Over the last few years, one of the key security problems has been compliance, which can unfortunately let malware infect a system. Securing a scope means a lot more than taking a repository and aligning with compliance requirements. A mistake, however, that is getting more and more common. Dashboards are today very badly used, it is easy to perceive it in organizational audit or in CISO support mission.Be \"compliant\", protecting the company from financial losses by providing results to insurers and not protecting the company from attacks is the new way to do security.",
"goal": "The idea is to make people aware that security should not be used to \"do anything\" but reduce risk by ensuring continuous improvement instead of serving the interests of a minority.Outlines1. Security vs compliance2. Case study: security updates3. Case study: those attacks that could have been avoided4. The missing actors5. Case study: information security management6. Risk management7. Cyber Insurance8. UBER vs GDPR",
"required": "no",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "GDPR : manage the project starting with security",
"owner": {
"name": "Julie JujuSete",
"organization": "Cognizant"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f656e44e-3938-4d8a-97c9-4143acfb7724",
"description": "In companies, we often see DPOs working with lawyers but without CISO or CTO and this is the most important mistake that is made on GDPR because several requirements are covered by the implementation of ISO 27001.In fact, you have certainly implemented GDPR requirements without knowing it since some of the text refers to security and we can therefore rely on ISO 27001/2 fo security or even ISO 27005 for risk management. The purpose of this paper is to see who should work together and how, and most importantly, of course, work on this common foundation and see how to use what your company has already implemented to use, adapt, and not have to start all over again",
"goal": "Anyone doing business in Europe or handling European data will have to comply with the GDPR.However, the GDPR is mainly implemented by lawyers who understand nothing and do not speak to the CDO or CISO ... which explains the current slump of companies.This conference allows to see the standard from another angle, that of the security that was to prevail.Outlines- Introduction- Fundamentals of security- Governance & Normative Framework- Case study- Example, GDPR Article 5Identity and Access Management (IAM)Classification- Example, GDPR Article 7StorageprovidersImplementation- What GDPR did I covered if mycompagny is ISO 27001?- Adaptation of security governance to the GDPR- also adapt the security controls to the GDPR",
"required": "no",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Pulling back the curtain on the Immune Booster and Data Detox Kit",
"owner": {
"name": "Rose Regina Lawrence",
"organization": "Tactical Tech"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c32609ef-4b25-4a3f-8236-49408b56c244",
"description": "Between the Data Detox Kit and the new Immune Booster projects, Tactical Tech has spent several years communicating complex digital privacy and security concepts to the general public. The two projects have reached tens of thousands directly and more online. In this session, we walk through our process, from conceptualisation of how we would approach a core security task (eg helping people with passwords/ account security) and make it approachable and useful for the general public. After that outline, we will facilitate a discussion about the process of taking overwhelming security information and narrowing it down to essentials and figuring out how to make materials that are engaging and accessible.",
"goal": "Based on evaluations of the two projects and feedback from the Glass Room, it is clear that these approaches resonate strongly with the general public. We thusly wish to share these processes and and facilitate an open forum, sharing knowledge and improving on the different approaches to developing written security resources for non- or less-technical populations.",
"required": "A project would be nice but not essential. Paper and pens would also be nice but not essential.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Taller de Tecnologías Creativas (Creative Technologies workshop)",
"owner": {
"name": "Matías Licursi",
"organization": "Cooperativa de Trabajo Cambá"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bb491ded-6e4e-49b0-9379-7987e9996d32",
"description": "Participants will brake in small groups, and work together to \"resolve\" the activities of this repo: https://github.com/labtecnologiascreativas/desafios-arduino. Then, using additional materials that we provide (like meccanos, ice cream sticks, tape, post-its, etc) combined with arduino, leds, motors, servos, etc. they have to create a device. It can be real or imaginary (like a traffic light or an alien ship.",
"goal": "Our goal is that people empower theirself in relation with technology, not only as consumers but also as producers. Also, our project is oriented to teachers, so we want to provide a set of activities to implement in clasroom.",
"required": "We have fiver arduino starter kit's, and additional materials that we can use. Just one consideration is if it's possible that we have any trouble to travel with that equipment.. (like airport security or to pass custom)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Let's self-host: installing Nextcloud on your Raspberry Pi or Linux device",
"owner": {
"name": "Johannes Ernst",
"organization": "Indie Computing Corp."
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "70b5c32f-7a3b-43da-9b9a-101c2a9dca7b",
"description": "We will walk through installing Nextcloud, a decentralized, open-source Dropbox alternative, on a Raspberry Pi or in a Linux container, so attendees learn how to keep their valuable files under their control at home, instead of on somebody else's cloud server. If we have time, we'll add another app on the same device, such as Wordpress, Mastodon or an RSS reader.",
"goal": "Every attendee should leave the session with a functional installation of an open-source, privacy-protecting and/or decentralized server-side application on their Raspberry Pi or in a Linux container.",
"required": "If there were some Raspberry Pi's available with power supplies, that'd be great.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "A server in every home?",
"owner": {
"name": "Johannes Ernst",
"organization": "Indie Computing Corp."
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9c943cfb-14f6-496f-a7c5-1595ffa34443",
"description": "Many of the internet's current problems come from this asymmetry: somehow big companies ended up with all the servers, and we the people with mere clients. What about we change this? I'd like to gather like-minded people to share experiences with home servers, what works and what doesn't, what problems still need to be solved and how for broader adoption, with the goal of making home server viable for many more people than hard-core geeks. So that private data, by default, can stay home, and IoT devices, for example, don't need to be tethered to somebody else's cloud.",
"goal": "Ideally we'd discover a bunch of interesting projects, make friends, and go home energized building complementary technology. Maybe a barn raising effort can come out of this, so eventually every household can use their own Mastodon instance, or Nextcloud instance, or run their own blockchain or personal website.",
"required": "White board would be great.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Feedback mobile games",
"owner": {
"name": "Baranaba Mugabane",
"organization": "I am a 16 year old Kenyan citizen"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6f29b825-21f5-41a1-bb52-16cb654ef1a6",
"description": "Being visually impaired makes playing video games quite difficult.This session is a game development workshop for making mobile games that can be easily played (without straining) by the visually impaired.Participants will be required to install the Unity game engine for the game development. Pre-requisite: participants need to come with the Unity game engine already installed. For those who haven’t, they can do so while we discuss the basics of game development.The participants are encouraged to develop along and modify their games.",
"goal": "Together with our participants, we will have created an all-inclusive and fun to play mobile game.We hope the participants will, at the least, have made a mobile game that is easily played by the visually impaired or gained some knowledge on game development.",
"required": "A projector or a big screen will be ideal for this session;It will be used to help give instructions to participants and show code as the participants develop along.We will need an area with a strong internet (Wifi) connection and at least three power sockets and three extension cables, so that participants are able recharge their laptops.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Auto Emoji",
"owner": {
"name": "Baranaba Mugbane",
"organization": "I am a 16 year old Kenyan citizen"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Youth Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3ab91bbc-7b8d-4a96-bc0d-9486f4dbc3e4",
"description": "Auto-emoji is a keyboard application based on artificial intelligence that automatically chooses and puts emoji in texts by the touch of one key. Participants will have a chance to install the app and go ahead to prototyping and play around with it.The participants will be engaged in identifying patterns developed in the app.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to introduce the basics of artificial intelligence and demonstrate its application.",
"required": "A projector or big screen will be needed for display and participants will need pens and sticky notes as we they will be engaged in identifying patterns.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "P5.js Game - “How much data can you collect?”",
"owner": {
"name": "Ola Simisaiye",
"organization": "Ada. National College for Digital Skills."
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Waiting for response",
"[YZ] Youth Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c75ec215-00f0-4190-84ff-bd2df09703fd",
"description": "Participants will learn to code a game using javascript and the p5 and p5 play library and be taught the basic principles of javascript. The participants will be guided by the session leaders as well as having a cheat sheet (step by step instructions).",
"goal": "They will create a game, reminiscent of pacman, teaching them about the collect of data represented through emojis. They will know what types of data is collected, how their data gets stolen, and how to protect themselves.",
"required": "We may need laptops for each participant, possibly 10.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Green dots don't matter, Contributing does.",
"owner": {
"name": "Vipul Gupta",
"organization": "Sugar Labs (GSoC)"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d4f6550e-7d89-4bb1-97f8-f0a20e609410",
"description": "In today's life where things like Github profiles has become a criteria to judge someone's skills and talents, everyone is running towards contributing to Open-Source. Open Source didn't start out like that, and never was meant for that. Green dots on your profile shouldn't matter to you, if you help people out in issues. How many contribution you have in a year doesn't matter, if you never knew what you were really contributing towards.I didn't knew as well. I learnt in my years of giving back. In this lession, I like to share my views, lessons and failures. For both new and old contributors let's come together and put forward a step towards a better opensource space for all.",
"goal": "My goal is for me to get better at contributing to organisations and projects. My goal is to work and help towards making people, the new generation better in contributing towards FOSS. Thinking about personal gain in this space, always lead to disastrous consequences for organisations. I like to help people understand and remember that open-source is not about one guy. But an entire community from all parts of the world coming together to do something good, something no one person could do. The goal is to be better on the world wide web as the youth that we are for the people with us and the people yet to come onboard.",
"required": "None, I can get a game in if people are reslly interested to help them open up. Networking is a very strong part of community and contributing. Most people don't realise it.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "ABC’s OF WORKING OPEN: Hacking Collaboration in Openness",
"owner": {
"name": "Bonface Ochieng",
"organization": "Mozilla Kenya"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "85e7197b-5785-4d04-b11c-6a9d81589763",
"description": "Participants will be introduced to what working open means and tools to be used during the session. I will ask participants on what projects they have worked on or what they have dreamt of working on or looking forward to work on. Once they mention their projects I will facilitate a discussion on whether they have been able to collaborate and how successful that has beenUsing data and you as the theme they will be required to brainstorm on possible projects or ideas around the topic 25 mins. And come up with a road map and open canvas The participants will then share their road map and open canvas with other participants from different groups for input.",
"goal": "Participants will have firsthand experience on what it means to work open Participants will discuss issues and the importance of using Version control for project management and gaining contributors.Participants will contribute their issues to a platform that are great for collaboration Participants will learn how to keep their community active and engaged after the initial stages of the project",
"required": "Maker pens, Manila papers , sticky notes and a projector if possible",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Can You Keep a Secret? Learn to Send Encrypted Messages",
"owner": {
"name": "[redacted]",
"organization": "[redacted]"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0f695b77-909a-4b7f-a87b-d05b95b4a3b7",
"description": "Using the Caesar cipher and a public key, pairs of participants will send encrypted messages to each other in full view and hearing of other eavesdropping participants in the group, who will race to decrypt the messages before the intended recipient. Pairs of participants will then attempt to establish a shared, secret key while others eavesdrop. Previous creative solutions have involved sign language and interpretive dance! Diffie-Hellman will be introduced as a secure algorithm for key exchange. Pairs of participants will follow this method and agree on a shared, secret key which eavesdroppers will be unable to guess. The group will discuss topical issues involving encryption including the Investigatory Powers Bill, backdoors, and messaging apps such as WhatsApp.",
"goal": "Participants will understand that many aspects of modern life and communication rely on encryption. Through a series of three challenges, they will gain a practical knowledge of state of the art encryption methods. Participants will appreciate the importance and challenges associated with secret cryptographic keys and secure key exchange. They will understand that the Diffie-Hellman method for key exchange underpins most secure messaging services such as WhatsApp. Attendees will feel confident engaging in debates and discussions on topical issues including end-to-end encryption and backdoors.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open Learning in Closed Systems: Encouraging openness through inquiry in K-12 systems",
"owner": {
"name": "Andrea Zellner",
"organization": "Oakland Schools Intermediate School District"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b7f5c538-ff25-4855-83ad-ba7dd97d46e6",
"description": "Using the question formulation technique, participants will engage in developing questions in order to help chart a path to open practices with in US bureaucratic public schooling systems. The QFT is a protocol from the Right Question institute and is a powerful experience for participants.",
"goal": "It is through inquiry that communities can realize change. The notion of open practices and shifts to inquiry within US K-12 schooling has been slow to take hold, mostly due to the rigid hierarchical structures of most systems. It is my hope that through collective questioning we can find spaces to engage in open learning practices within these systems rather than relying on out-of-school experiences.",
"required": "N/A",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The puzzle recognition",
"owner": {
"name": "Uriel Jurado",
"organization": "UNAM"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Other",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1731c392-dfe7-46e2-b919-4763e34350e3",
"description": "Two teams will have to make the same puzzle,there will be a wall to separate each team,and to avoid that the can see what is the other team doing.One team will see a video about how the puzzle was made before by another teams.The other team will see nothing.Then both teams will start to make the puzzle.Then we will explain that in the same way the video helped to the first team to make the puzzle faster than the second team,that is how machine learning works. After each time the algorithm computer do the same thing it perfects it and learn how to recognise it faster and more accurate.",
"goal": "Our goal is that each person attending learns how your data is being processed when they use some some voice assistant.And that they learn the basics about machine learning for voice: In this case the video is our corpus,used as knowledge base,and the action of seen the video by the team is the data processing phase.The same happens with Mozilla Common Voice(MCV),how more videos (voice recording in this case) we have from different people doing the same puzzle,more accurate and faster our algorithms will be.Also we need to encourage the audience that MCV is an open base of data for voice recognition and it promotes diversity and inclusion for all languages.Currently all the other options from Google, Apple are closed.",
"required": "We will need two tables, and something like a wall between them.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Web Choreographies /Rehearsal_Series",
"owner": {
"name": "Joana Chicau",
"organization": "independent practioner"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f2976093-4799-4138-9825-d06ec66ae08c",
"description": "A cross-disciplinary exploration of choreography & (web)code. By ‘rehearsal’ it is meant a sort of temporary stage for experimenting with web design tools which follow choreographic methods and thematic concerns. This format is very similar to a workshop, open to any participants curious to explore the use of choreographic techniques to generate new modes of thinking composition, participation, relations and articulations between bodies and web technologies. Traditionally, a rehearsal is a built in process, a space-time for developing ideas acknowledging unpredictable results. Another important point about the ‘ rehearsal series’ is to break the distancing between mind/body, self/other, subject/object, discovery/invention. Enhancing the idea of process over product: processes of becoming, becoming structures, becoming codes and scripts.Read more: http://joanachicau.com/rehearsal_series.html",
"goal": "— How can we move away from pre-choreographed environments and move towards building our own choreographies? This workshop aims at providing a space and time for the exploration of the use of choreographic techniques as a way to reflect and find alternative paths towards the use of tools, systems of visuality, accessibility, and distribution of information in the web.The outcome is a piece of ‘choreographic code' - participants are invited to contribute to the code by translating the ideas discussed in the session into a new shared vocabulary. The workshop will privilege the use of Floss and focus mainly on web programming. Notions of live coding practices within web programming will also be introduced.",
"required": "One projector; HDMI cable; Loudspeakers; Connection to wi-fi . Participants should bring their own laptops and comfortable clothes.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Learning Master - you are a co-creator of open education",
"owner": {
"name": "Maren Fabia Frank",
"organization": "Freelance"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "850620a6-0472-4518-8d69-c5fbed8c8f4f",
"description": "Participants drop in and build teams to co-create micro learning sessions. From figuring out what they are masters in and therefore can teach to others, over deciding on a learning mission and creating a story board for the learning experience, to recording a micro learning session (max 5 Minutes) as film or audio, participants will get a hands on, all in experience of creating open learning resources. The big assets of this experience are playing, fun and laughter. In the end there will be loads of high fives for learning, growing and contributing their unique strengths and views to the online learning community.",
"goal": "Participants have hands-on experience of how to create online learning content. They have gone through all the steps, from ideation, over prototyping, to implementation. They have experienced themselves as co-creators of the expanding field of open education. They have a working sample to take with them and share. Their work will be shared with all of the festival participants (and the online community as a whole if they choose so).I hope to learn more about the fears and hurdles that keep people from creating their own open education resources. And I want to invite everyone to experience the fun of co-creating open education content.",
"required": "- a platform/website for the created content to be uploaded to, to be shared with all participants of the festival- three flip charts / pin boards to put the posters on- flip chart paper and sticky notes + pens for people to create the story line",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "EduBlocks + micro:bit extravaganza",
"owner": {
"name": "Joshua Lowe",
"organization": "EduBlocks"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4fa24b48-7076-4039-8e6d-076900920e8f",
"description": "In this session, we will combine the powers of the BBC micro:bit and EduBlocks to create a series of projects. EduBlocks is a program that I have created that helps makes the transition from Scratch to Python easier. The blocks are designed to be fitted together (as in Scratch) but each block states the exact python code that would be used. Participants can get used to the Python syntax with making minimal mistakes. Participants can then look at the real python code to see how they would write the code in Python. Participants can make flashy lights, fortune tellers and much more with their micro:bit's and EduBlocks.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to create a series of projects using the BBC micro:bit using the EduBlocks program. Participants will be able to get a feel for the Python Syntax in a way that is not scary as they are using a similar interface to Scratch which most people will have experience of. They will also get to interact with physical computing and the micro:bit if they wish to do so.",
"required": "Pi's or computers with a USB port will be required as well as micro:bit's for the session.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "BRRRAAaaaaiiiiNNNNNZZZZZ!!!!",
"owner": {
"name": "Katja Heuer",
"organization": "Max Planck Institute & Institut Pasteur"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Other"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9990a284-cc3d-4415-bd20-e37e968bb311",
"description": "A brain. 1.3 kilograms – 100 billion neurons and as many connections as to reach to the moon and back – explore it! work with it! Become part of the scientific research process! All you need is a web browser.We want to go with our participants on an exploration tour through the amazing neuroanatomy of the brain. We developed a Web app that allows people to work on brain imaging data in the browser – on phones, tablets, or computers.we want to engage our participants into a real-time synchronised collaboration on real brain imaging data and together participate in the scientific research process. Join the fun, join research, become part of our citizen neuroscientist crowd!",
"goal": "For all participants from any background, we aim at: creating a community of people willing to discover the brain together, actively experiencing research in an open & collaborative environment. We would like to welcome everyone into our community and show them how easy it is to join and make a contribution to science. empowering our participants with what they need to continue as autonomous citizen-neuroscientists beyond the time of the Mozilla Festival. We will explore together brain data and learn about it. Participants will learn about the neocortex, its role and its variability across humans and other species.learning how non-neuroscientists approach the tasks involved in the manual delineation of brain structure to improve our tools and create open teaching material",
"required": "If there was a possibility of having an additional tablet, ideally with a stylus or pen, we would be happy to use those during our session since the collaborative drawing/delineation of brain regions is so much fun and allows you a very intuitive insight into the data. Otherwise we will use the ones that we can bring plus the phones of our participants :)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Crumbling with Robots",
"owner": {
"name": "Nicholas Hughes",
"organization": "Latymer Prep School / 3BM"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "492be93d-7c86-48ad-96b6-d2b0dcb83f62",
"description": "Children will have the opportunity to build and program and robot using a micro controller called a Crumble.",
"goal": "Children learn about physical computing and problem solving while building the robot.",
"required": "Children will need a laptop, raspberry pi or similar to installed the free software on to program the robots. I will provide the kits for the participants to use.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Marvelous micro:bits",
"owner": {
"name": "Nicholas Hughes",
"organization": "Latymer Prep School / 3BM"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ef49dacc-90dd-4f58-bb56-af36e658b1f7",
"description": "Children will be introduced to the BBC micro:bit and learn how to program it. They will be able to program the micro:bit to perform a range of functions.",
"goal": "Children will have experience of programming a physical device.",
"required": "Children will need a laptop, raspberry pi or similar to access a website where the software needed to program the micro:bits is located. I will provide the kits for the participants to use.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Understanding 3D design",
"owner": {
"name": "Nicholas Hughes",
"organization": "Latymer Prep School /3BM"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Laptops needed",
"[YZ] Returner"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bc7b2222-80ab-427c-80b4-1f895ef7099c",
"description": "Children will lean about what 3D printing is and then design an object that could be 3D printed. They will use free 3D software. (This session won't allow for it to be printed, but they can take the file away.)",
"goal": "Children understand what 3D printing is, what is can be used for and and how to create a model.",
"required": "Children will need a laptop, raspberry pi or similar to install software.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Power to the People - Decentralising the World with Blockchain Technology",
"owner": {
"name": "Nicky Franken",
"organization": "VU Univeristy Amsterdam"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "dfad79f4-9fdd-4b98-a176-56b6bd29d90f",
"description": "One of the most exciting aspects of blockchain technology is that it is entirely decentralised. Decentralisation means that there is no single point of failure – not one specific computer system that can (accidentally) be switched off or (intentionally) censored – nor is there one proprietary actor who can exercise control.This can have a profound impact on the world as we know it today. In this interactive session, it will be analysed which revolutionary protocols such as Proof-of-Stake, Smart Contracts and IPFS could enable this change. Furthermore, real-life use cases that are already happening [e.g. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations], as well as ideas for use cases for in the future [e.g. Blockchainified Citizen-Science and DAICO’s] are being presented and discussed.",
"goal": "Blockchain technology is a computer protocol that brings together economics (movement of value), philosophy (concepts of trust and roots in libertarian thinking) and advanced technology (cryptography and distributed ledger technology). The main goal of the session is that the attendees become aware of the fact that blockchain technology has way more to offer than only the movement of value [in the form of cryptocurrencies]. There might be a difference in the knowledge level of the attendees on the subject due to blockchain technology its complexity. However, it is believed that by explaining relatively complex phenomena on the basis of illustrations and examples it should become comprehensible for all.",
"required": "For this session, I want to give a presentation including visuals. Therefore, I need a projector and a projector screen. Furthermore, I want to include audio in my presentation, therefore audio equipment is also necessary.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Catch Them Young",
"owner": {
"name": "Ibironke Yekinni",
"organization": "Fecode"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "70ff9932-1c9e-4580-94f4-2def05dfe9f8",
"description": "In my session, I will illustrate how professionals can be of help to young students from tender age on how to become a technologist",
"goal": "Everyone will be literated on how to help young kids learn",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "AI for Beginners: Use ML4K to Create your own AI Model",
"owner": {
"name": "devin Dillon",
"organization": "Iridescent"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b021a062-f08f-4547-82e9-167edb9a1d4e",
"description": "AI and machine learning is a scary black box for a lot of people. Let's confront that! In my session, I will use ML4K (https://machinelearningforkids.co.uk/) to explore the basics of training an ai model. I will introduce an accessible format for ML training 1) Choose your Labels 2) Build a Dataset 3) Train your model 4) Test your model. Then, participants can decide what they would like to have their model predict and train it to classify text, numbers or images. ML4K is connected to IBM-Watson, so as it teaches people the steps of training an ai model, it is able to access a large dataset that allows the models to actually work once the participant \"trains\" their model.",
"goal": "My goal is to help demystify AI to the average person. I want people to go beyond the ideas that \"AI can sort data to make decisions\" or \"AI can learn through examples.\" Anyone can understand the basics of how to train a model (even if the math that goes into ML is a bit challenging)--so let's start there. Everyone who leaves my session will have a an AI model that they have built. Through this process they will learn about classifying data, labelling examples, identifying features, building a dataset, testing the accuracy of a model. I think this process will help them to better understand how the technology works (and where it can go wrong).",
"required": "I need a/v and participants to bring their laptop/tablet",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Use AI to Create an Emotion Detector",
"owner": {
"name": "devin Dillon",
"organization": "Iridescent"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "024fb72d-aa0d-462a-865d-42b71e4632a2",
"description": "Participants will use Machine Learning for Kids (https://machinelearningforkids.co.uk/) to create an AI model that can sense emotion via text classifiers. Participants will choose 3-5 emotions they'd like the model to predict, then use ML4K to input data and train the model. For example, if a participant wants the model to classify the emotion of excited, they would input different phrases that correlate to their \"excited\" label--things like \"this is the best!\" \"I can't wait!\" Through this activity, I hope to introduce participants to how AI models are created, trained and made more accurate. This accessible introduction can be a fun way to explore a concept that many people are maybe intimidated by or do not know where to start.",
"goal": "My goal is for everyone to have an AI model that can accurately predict text-based data. Through the process of building a model that can guess emotion, participants will learn about classifying data, labelling examples, identifying features, building a dataset, testing the accuracy of a model. I think this process will help them to better understand how the technology works (and where it can go wrong).",
"required": "Participants will need to bring laptops/tablets and I will need access to a/v",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Draw your own Virtual Reality with paper, felt pen and A-frame.",
"owner": {
"name": "Roman Miletitch",
"organization": "Papertronics"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "81f06ecc-e38a-4c67-9f62-74d99631726e",
"description": "Participants will draw on paper with felt-pen (or use objects of color they bring) and then will enter a VR world based on their own drawing on a Cardboard VR headset. What they draw is captured by a camera and interpreted as a map seen from above. Its analysis is based on a vocabulary of shape and color (e.g. dots are trees, blue is water, two concentric yellow circles are a tower…). In a second phase, we modify/add some code in order to both change how the map is interpreted and add new behaviors to the created object in our Virtual Reality.This session is based on an exhibited digital art piece (https://aporagen.ghost.io/forest/).",
"goal": "One (if not the) main goal is to have some genuine creative fun with technology, to remember how close to magic it is.Second is to transform consumers into creators. No matter their skill level and background, participants won’t be just entering any VR world, they will enter a world they have created. Through this process, they will gain a hand-on understanding of what VR is, how it works and what is possible with it.Last, we wanted to share the love about paper and felt-pen as a low-cost low-tech solution on the digital interactions spectrum. Bonus point for not being a touch screen and adding a bit of texture to our interfaces!",
"required": "(could also work as an installation or in gallery format...)I will use Cardboard VR headsets for this session. A few ones will be much welcomed, as well as smartphones that can run webVR. I always prefer that the participants use their own devices, but it's not always possible. A couple of fall backs are always welcomed.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building Twitter Bots For Open Government Data Projects",
"owner": {
"name": "Munyaradzi Dodo",
"organization": "Magamba Network"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Waiting for response"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "54343edd-e321-478b-9b0c-3616dadb6646",
"description": "Munya & Loch will share their experience in building, testing and deploying a Twitter Bots in the lead up to Zimbabwe's 2018 election for the Open Parliament Zimbabwe project. They will share a detailed cases study from conception to sharing results impacts. Participants will:1. Discuss the impact of the @OpenParlyZW bot on elections 2. Brainstorm potential uses for Twitter Bots in their countries",
"goal": "The goal of this session is for participants review the impact of Twitter Bots, have a practical appreciation of how bots can have an impact as civic tech tools, to contribute the development of the are being Open Parliament Zimbabwe API to provide more access to election & government data to citizens and used to find new ways of applying this technology in other parts of the world",
"required": "N/A",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Craft a Gift Card in Twenty Minutes!",
"owner": {
"name": "Hossain Al Ikram",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c9a272e9-db30-40d9-b535-1981e0f6172b",
"description": "Creating/ Crafting gift cards is something that I love to do from my childhood. While I was thinking about MozFest and the atmosphere, this just came to my mind that how about sharing with youth or kids about how they can create their own gift card in just twenty minutes or less than 20 minutes and gift it to their favourite ones.Whatever the purpose is, anyone, if wishes, can create an fun-filled gift card, with colors or designs or even pop up cards. This session is intended to be an fun filled session for youths.",
"goal": "In this digital world, we almost forgetting that we used to get Paper Gift Cards. I wish to leverage the opportunity to share with kids in MozFest about how easily they can create a creation to gift to their nearest ones. And even, they don't need much more than some papers and pens but this will allow anyone to create their own made gift card.",
"required": "Color papers, Sticky Notes, Paper Glue",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Learn Quality Assurance: Help Firefox with your testing skills!",
"owner": {
"name": "Hossain Al Ikram",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Bengali",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ad3f2b33-70db-4dec-b1a2-f149f27806fe",
"description": "I will demonstrate small bits about Quality Assurance and the very basics of Quality Assurance and how from no basic knowledge anyone can help with testing skills.The agenda will include:Learn about BTS (Bug Tracking System)Learn about Test Cases and how to create themLearn about Testing, Triage and VerificationExploratory TestingHow to file a issue/ BugWhat's in a good bugWhat is a good feedback? How you can be more useful with your findings.Though, this will includes the QA environment in Mozilla but can be useful with any organization or real life testing.",
"goal": "The goal is for participants is to provide them a new skill which they can think of/ use in their regular work. We need this in our day to day life to improve all the product that we use, but lack of proper guidance/ way to provide feedback.The main goal would be audience can take a new skill with them which they can use not only with Mozilla but with any other technical thing that they are interested or going to be a part of.The participants from this workshop can easily help Firefox with their regular using, when they have something as an feedback. Even, they can be a part of global Mozilla QA Community and help make Firefox better.",
"required": "I will need Projector, Power Sockets for participants as they will be using their devices, if they bring with them.Though, I wish this to be happen as a Workshop, but along with that, I can do \"All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session\"And also, I would like this session also to be considered for Web Literacy Zone, If possible.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "You Can Triage! How to pitch in to help open source projects.",
"owner": {
"name": "Hossain Al Ikram",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6c660920-1031-4c9d-aa1a-bf0f97af37dc",
"description": "From last year's experience and to make it more visible, even this year, we are planning to do this.Bug triage is a critical part of open source projects. In this session, We'll teach participants about triaging bugs in open source projects in general and Firefox in particular. Participants will learn what makes a good bug, and how and when to take steps to improve a bug's quality, and what to do to get a bug in shape for a project maintainer to decide what to do with the bug.",
"goal": "Someone with basic web literacy will be able to triage non-complex bugs in the Firefox project, and know what steps to take with more complicated bugs. They should also be able search Bugzilla for bugs which need triage and be able to edit them.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "AFROFUTURISM ON THE OPEN WEB: BUILDING THE COLORED GIRLS MUSEUM",
"owner": {
"name": "Wendy Levy",
"organization": "The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "008eed2b-fec2-430d-a5e4-7019ddc9b378",
"description": "In this hands-on workshop, participants will become part of an international, co-creative team building the VR Colored Girls Museum. We’ll start analog-style with a story circle, followed by a quickfire presentation of work to date on the Colored Girls Museum VR build, and then in small groups, utilizing A-Frame, Reality and new WebGL graphics interfaces, we’ll collaborate on designing assets for the Colored Girl Museum galleries, including gesture and voice features, a gift shop, and a VR cinema performance space. At the end of the workshop, we’ll get back in the story circle to share challenges, highlights and next steps. Some background: https://www.slideshare.net/wendylevy980/introducing-the-vr-colored-girls-museumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1bQzNytWcE",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to introduce The Colored Girl Museum VR project to the Mozfest community and open a culturally-generative design and development process to all who might want to participate.",
"required": "Additional VR Headsets would be helpful, We’ll bring a few (perhaps 5), but would be great to have access to a few more.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Making Ethio-scripts websites accessible for visually impaired",
"owner": {
"name": "Mintesinot Fikre Feleke",
"organization": "Adey Tensae Media and Entertainment PLC"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "55c1c38f-bbf2-45ac-8f53-75af4aaf4daf",
"description": "Self-voicing browser model have been an active research for English and other non Ethiopic languages for quite long time. Though, there has not been any research work done before to design and implement self-voicing browser for websites equipped with Ethiopic scripts.",
"goal": "Enabling browsers suitable for Ethiopic websites to make them usable for visually impaired people.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Matrix, the year to date",
"owner": {
"name": "Ben Parsons",
"organization": "Matrix.org"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ce6a0615-0c7b-41e8-b4da-3b0219e9e1da",
"description": "Matrix is an open standard for communication over the Internet. I will talk about the matrix standard, both the technical implementation and the reasons for its creation. We will focus on the changes and progress that has been made in the previous year, particularly getting the specification out of beta, and the growth of the ecosystem. Finally, the Matrix environment continues to develop, and we'll look at the roadmap for the future.",
"goal": "To inspire attendees about the importance of decentralisation and the role federation can play in this. Hopefully, to persuade some people to want to attend a workshop (also submitted), where we can take a closer look at the Client-Server interface of the Matrix protocol.",
"required": "A projector would be needed as there are diagrams and such which will benefit from being viewed large.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Let's make a chatbot using Matrix",
"owner": {
"name": "Ben Parsons",
"organization": "Matrix.org"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "96f26b96-b6f7-45ac-9750-2555057e1d3f",
"description": "A somewhat-on-rails workshop in which participants will build a basic chatbot implemented as a Matrix bot using the Matrix Client-Server S API. The IO components should be finished in a few minutes, allowing the bulk of the session to focus on other more exciting (even non-Matrix) parts.",
"goal": "Use the CS API to build a bot. The common theme is that this bot will communicate with Matrix, which means it can communicate with any bridged platform. Participants will see how easy it is to add additional features to their bot and will understand why a self-hosted, optionally federated platform provides an advantage.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Play with data: research, study and apply!",
"owner": {
"name": "Harshit Prasad",
"organization": "LNM Institute Of Information Technology"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "be72c2c7-ad83-4605-a252-83b8c786de9a",
"description": "In this session, I'll be helping participants how knowledge of deep learning can be used in real life. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning. Sometimes, people learn the basics of deep learning and required mathematics but are not aware of how to implement the knowledge in an open source project which can be beneficial for the society. Participants will be divided into a group of two. Their aim will be to study a research paper and write it into ML code. There will be two type of hands-on session: first in pure python 3.x and second in Keras framework.",
"goal": "The goal of the session will be to help a people with getting started into machine learning and how research paper can be written in form of code from scratch and how it can be trained on the same dataset provided in the paper. It will also help people to get started with Keras framework, which is a powerful open source machine learning library. The dataset and research paper will be provided by me during session starting off with one of the easiest neural networks among other variants..They will also learn how data can be split into a good ratio and testing the accuracy of the model by improving hyperparameters.",
"required": "I would be requiring a projector for presentation and demonstration purpose. Participants need to bring their own laptop for hands-on session.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Privacy and Security of Everyone",
"owner": {
"name": "Ashwin Phadke",
"organization": "Mozilla Campus Club RC"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "894c516e-f856-46ab-9d39-244ca7784da7",
"description": "*Before a series of photos of ongoing MozFest a person will be selected [a consent will be taken prior to presentation] and a profile will be made to show how easy it is to profile random person..*SESSION:- The session will focus on what does privacy and security actually mean across the globe?[Survey of major internet economies and under-represented economies].- Display of statistics wherein privacy and security is most and least affected and level of awareness among citizens of those countries.- Decoding the internet health report with ground report of videos of citizen's opinions around globe.- Explaining decentralization of the idea of privacy and security.- Do's & Dont's by continents",
"goal": "- Make people understand how to secure their data online.- Awareness about the digital ID's programs across globe and monitoring on people.- The \"P&S\" of connected devices.- Firewall World- ground reports.- How decentralization is important instead of a single service that monitors everything you ever do.- The inclusion of of citizens across the globe to tackle this issue at their own home country, through tips mentioned in the presentation.- Hanging on to that sticker on your webcam, or is it not?",
"required": "A table at entrance of session space having a tablet that takes a small survey of \" Privacy at my own place\" before and after the session having 4 choices to choose on the webpage/application/pen and paper.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Code a Dice",
"owner": {
"name": "Kerry Kidd",
"organization": "RaspiKidd"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "43602fcb-8bee-4867-921a-b8f2bb5e664b",
"description": "Participants will code a dice using the micro:bit and EduBlocks software.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is for the participants to code a micro:bit, that when shaken will produce a random number from 1 to 6 and display it on the LED matrix in the form that it would be seen on a dice",
"required": "I will require micro:bits and computers connected to the internet to run EduBlocks software.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Media Player for the severely impaired using brain-computer interface (BCI) and open data",
"owner": {
"name": "Bhoomika Agarwal",
"organization": "SAP Labs"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0d1aca41-f7a2-4b31-8898-9b1301a3df00",
"description": "Our session will give the audience an overview of brain-computer interface. The participants will have access to the open-sourced media player built by us, which caters to severely impaired people.We hope to educate participants about the obstacles faced by those with severe disability who require BCI to carry on with their lives. It'll be done through a series of activities and games that will create awareness. Following this, we will explain our research in the field, which is based on using motor imagery of the left hand and right hand to operate a media player using a binary-like combination. Participants can use, test and understand our prototype and hopefully enrich the lives of the impaired by contributing to it.",
"goal": "The main outcome of our activities is to create awareness about challenges faced by people with disabilities and explore solutions that are currently in development. Our tool, built using openly available data (https://github.com/bhoom10/bci-media-player) is up for testing. We hope that increased awareness will encourage participants to come forward and join our efforts to empower people with severe disability. Participants of the session will be able to interact with the application while developers shall understand how the app is built.We wish to make the development of the media player a crowd-sourced effort. Also, we wish to encourage people with disabilities to adopt the MP3 player and make the most of it to empower themselves.",
"required": "5-10 handkerchiefs for the blindfolded walk activitySpeakers for the dance activity, we will get the right music. :)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "OpenSource driven Gamedevelopment",
"owner": {
"name": "Guido Brune",
"organization": "business intelligence engineered e.K."
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "aeadcaaf-1c98-4429-b228-d44139ae4c0f",
"description": "Based on the example of Worlds of Ages I will explain how a complex game can develop in a sucessfull way. At least a REVOLUTION!",
"goal": "+ Winning volunteers for developing Worlds of Ages + Having FUN",
"required": "Beamer",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Build your own decentralized application (Ðapp) on the blockchain using ethereum",
"owner": {
"name": "Abhiram Ravikumar",
"organization": "Mozilla Tech Speakers"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ce9df6b5-1f74-4bed-98e9-7ce4f9e16004",
"description": "The session will start with an overview of blockchain technology, move on to what a distributed ledger is, then introduce a real life example of bitcoin. Next, I'll explain the subtle differences between bitcoin and blockchain by introducing use-cases. Once participants realize the extent and use of blockchains, I will then introduce the concept of d-apps and the ethereum platform. Hands-on workshop follows (https://goo.gl/5GgEg3): - Setup development environment - Install testrpc, web3js and start test blockchain- Smart contracts: Use solidity to write out a simple contract that increments votes & returns the count of votes- Setup a simple website to invoke the contract methods- Play with the application and see blockchain in live",
"goal": "The aim of the workshop is to ensure that participants are made aware about the technicalities of blockchain - a decentralized database that's used to make sure that transactions are immutable and helps build trust among its users. Participants are exposed to the entire ethereum stack and by themselves - able to compile, deploy and interact with the application. At the end of the workshop, the participants would’ve built their first decentralized voting application using the ethereum framework on the blockchain.The larger goal is to help participants to appreciate decentralization as a philosophy and the concept of trust over the internet to build applications on their own or contribute to the plethora of open source Ðapps listed here (https://dapps.ethercasts.com/).",
"required": "A few post-its, white sheets and sharpies would come in handy during brainstorming.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Who says my volcano is blowing up?",
"owner": {
"name": "Arianna Soldati",
"organization": "Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5dc1e8d9-304a-46e2-af21-5ddb08ce2443",
"description": "The group will analyze how accurate was the science reporting on the current Hawaii eruption, how many sources contributed to it, and how aware the public was of it. Additionally, we will identify how the quality of science news affected the public perception of the eruption.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to make the public aware of the importance of reliable sources in science news, as well as of the necessity of multiple expert insights, on and to empower them to verify those key parameters.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Monkey See, Monkey Trust. Design your own mechanism for evaluating the trustworthiness of digital T&Cs.",
"owner": {
"name": "Tessa Darbyshire",
"organization": "Adeptiv UK"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "233653bd-e7cb-4138-85bb-1bbdd6a60162",
"description": "We are evaluating the distinction between trust enforcement and trust empowerment, inviting participants to investigate their own perceptions, and fueling creativity around what tools to evaluate digital contracts, in the case of interactions, for trustworthiness could look like. Participants will split into groups to try simple digital contracts (in the form of consumer T&Cs). We are looking to identify what individuals would consider to be a significant impact of automated processing, so participants will hunt for the clauses that matter to them. After ranking their own priorities for trust, we will work in groups to generate quick fire concepts for tools that would allow participants to compare digital interactions so they can decide who to trust.",
"goal": "We want to demonstrate to our participants that the factors that enable an individual to place trust in any interaction are entirely subjective, resulting from both individual preferences and the context of the interaction. Secondly, we want to capture the creativity of all our participants so that we can highlight the range of opportunities available in the market of empowering users to build trust in digital interactions. Critically, the subjective nature of trust does not mean that there cannot be rigorous processes that empower users to make their own decisions, and take control of their data. The goal is to work from our recently published white paper, deepening our understanding of which factors are important to consumers in establishing trust.",
"required": "Access to a projection facility.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Differential Concealment",
"owner": {
"name": "Sakthi Anand",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "04ecaff4-6c4c-4aa6-8b7a-310998d72109",
"description": "In our session, we would be discussing about data privacy and its risk. Along with it we would have brief discussion about anonymous data and its defects. we deliberate the uniqueness of differential privacy along with its functionalities. later in this session, we would have an interactive session based on the challenges faced in real-world while deploying differential privacy and its current scenario.We would pursue our session with a hands-on on differential privacy by engaging the participants with a random sample record with anonymous data.",
"goal": "The participants would gain knowledge about differential privacy and how their data are being utilized by various company without their identity.",
"required": "projector-1stationary",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Glyph Drawing Club – ASCII art reimagined",
"owner": {
"name": "Heikki Lotvonen",
"organization": "Citizen of Finland"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "I will introduce participants to GlyphDrawing.Club (http://www.glyphdrawing.club/), a modern online ASCII art graphics editor that I developed and released this June. The editor is inspired by the limitations and possibilities of ASCII art, but made with inclusivity, accessibility, openness and experimentation in mind. It's best suitable for creating type design, modular design, Unicode art, concrete poetry and much more.I will guide participants (one-on-one during the whole weekend) into using the editor to make ASCII art, which has been previously an exclusive and inaccessible artform. The one-on-one sessions can take from 5 minutes up to 30 minutes. Participants can also use their own laptops, so more than one people can use the editor at any given time.",
"goal": "The goal of my sessions is to —introduce people of all ages to text art, ASCII art, Unicode art, modular design and type design and hopefully get them interested in these topics and to use the editor at home also for their own projects—show participants that creating art can be fun, easy and accessible with the right tools and to inspire people to develop their own tools—get people to discover fonts and typography in a new, fun way—meet people who are interested in the project also in a technical way and discuss possibilities for creative coding—see how people use the editor, what works and what doesn't, and to brainstorm new ideas and features for the editor",
"required": "I will need a table and at least two chairs, power outlets, and optionally would be nice to have a big screen / projector (with an hdmi cable). I will bring my own laptop, but participants can also use their own laptops.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "The Future of Science is Open!",
"owner": {
"name": "Loek Brinkman",
"organization": "Utrecht University, the Netherlands"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
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],
"closed": false,
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"description": "We explore (1) how open science leads to better science, and (2) how open science can become the norm. In the first part, we discuss how science becomes more accessible, more robust and more efficient, if we increase transparency in all steps of the research cycle (open science) - and how to do it yourself. In the second part, we explore the use of bottom-up open science communities, to bring about large-scale adoption of open science practices. We’ll evaluate recent examples of open science communities and brainstorm how to make such communities even more successful. Want to start your own open science community? Let’s get started!The Future of Science is Open!",
"goal": "PART I-\tInform how open science leads to -\tGive practical advice to adopt open science practices PART II-\tExplore open science communities as a format to promote open science-\tImprove the format of open science communities and develop tools to achieve this-\tStart your own open science community",
"required": "projector, paper pens/markers.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "WeOU - Open and Cooperative Governance of a Decentralised Collaborative Organisation",
"owner": {
"name": "Francisco Santos",
"organization": "WeOU - A Technological Alternative"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "cf8dcc4d-eedf-420a-824c-74e2b0a2bbf5",
"description": "During this Learning Forum, a WeOU Co-Creator will be presenting a number of defining concepts of the innovative organisation. Furthermore, we will be exploring the different projects under the organisation, involving blockchain and energy, open-source foodtech and scientific consensus. In addition, the local community, project and ecosystem levels of work will be explored within this framework. Considering the several innovative and collaborative aspects related, the delivery of this information will make use of the Socratic method. Inquiring on the different definitions involved in our work will lead to thought-provoking knowledge sharing, exploration of the defining concepts and and produce agency-inducing results, further developing an open and cooperation-driven organisation that WeOU from these contributions.",
"goal": "Considering the several innovative aspects of the WeOU collective, this session is meant to be an open exploration of the different technologies in use and how their development fits into a wider narrative of collaboration and fair, alternative systems of open innovation.By doing so, the broad-range of specialists attending will be able to contribute to WeOU by co-defining and exploring the different concepts, methodologies and narratives in practice within the different levels of intervention. As a result, attendants will learn about the collective, be able to mutually-understand the thoughts and ideas of the networking peers, as well as derive agency from the exploration and definition of concepts involved.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Anti-harassment policies and future of workplaces (Internet): How far are we?",
"owner": {
"name": "Savitha Ramakrishna",
"organization": "Independent"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e727fa01-5273-4361-9d06-523c3979e5af",
"description": "The participants will learn a high-level overview of of Anti-harassment policies (AHP) that every organizations should incorporate to cultivate a healthy and inclusive workplace for everyone. Topics range from role of governments and employers, communication mechanisms and to difficulties of adapting AHP. We expect participants from different kinds of workplaces (e.g. civil society organizations, open-source communities) to actively indulge in the discussion.In the first half, we discuss the workflow of AHP in a typical corporate environment where workplace is confined between four walls. In the second half, we will discuss the difficulties of formulating policies for online communities (e.g. FOSS) to whom workplace is loosely defined as the “Internet”.",
"goal": "The goal is make sure the participants will: 1.Learn about how ‘workplace’ AHP are made2.Understand the importance of AHP to build an inclusive work culture 3.Discuss the open problems and potential solution related to AHP (including ethical and moral considerations) 4.Contribute to a healthy discussion around making “Internet” or “off-Internet” a healthy workplace.One one hand, data about harassment is something sensitive and it cannot be openly debated without anonymizing or with prior consent of the involved parties. On the other hand, due to increase in transition towards “working remotely” or “working online” culture, office workplaces are moving towards “Internet”. As session facilitators, our goal is to gather opinions from participants for creating better AHP for such next-gen workplaces.",
"required": "May be some post-it notes, paper and markers.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Learn by Teaching - Rust",
"owner": {
"name": "Mehul Patel",
"organization": "Mozilla India/ Rust"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "17192eea-5f71-47cc-9e0b-80d7bf275256",
"description": "We will discuss education techniques for programming languages and give an overview of learning material in Rust in particular. We will derive an overview on how you can find interested people and get a learning group together to grow and keep your local community.",
"goal": "Spreading more awareness and spaces, particularly in uncovered parts, is extremely aligned with Rust desire to grow the team globally this year.I hope for multiple goals, both outwards and inwards:* Get in touch with people outside of the tech community* To make people aware of the Rust teaching material* Gain a better grasp on how standard Rust curriculum are built* Get feedback for things that are missing* Making people aware of how to get in touch with the Rust project* Leaders -> Form and lead regional Rust communities",
"required": "Projector, Sticky notes, markers, extra laptop. Thanks :)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Engaging Cybersecurity Policy Process in Africa: The Intrigues, the Politics, and the Pushbacks",
"owner": {
"name": "Adeboye Adegoke",
"organization": "Paradigm Initiative"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6573653d-bdd5-4b6a-86b1-c672c8c947a5",
"description": "Cybersecurity is an important topic in the digital age. Many African countries have developed policies and many are developing their policies in order to address several challenges. Open Web advocates have noticed interesting patterns across several jurisdictions in the region which is worth dissecting for learning and engagement. These patterns reveal a re-branding of a culture of control in the cyberspace which attacks the open nature of the Web. It is important to ask why this is so. How is this possible and what are open web advocates doing to protect the openness of the web. This session will highlight some of the observed pattern relying on evidence-based research by leading open web research and advocacy organizations in Africa",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to reveal the intrigues and politics behind cybersecurity policy processes from the perspectives of policy makers/law enforcements and also discuss ongoing strategies by open web advocates/organizations to protect the openness of the Web in Africa. What has worked, what is working and what may work. In other words, the session intends to leverage the skills and expertise of participants to offer advocacy strategies to organizations working around the issues. The goal is to develop an outcome document that can feed into advocacy tips and ideas for individuals and organizations working to protect the open web as well as rights to privacy of citizens in Africa",
"required": "A projector and office supplies are all that will be needed",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Gamestorming - the quest for the discovery of stories",
"owner": {
"name": "Claire Mulholland",
"organization": "NI Raspberry Jam"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d20f47ec-640c-4ed2-8659-4d68b89e02d8",
"description": "Video games are such a huge part of our lives, come along to our session to really delve deep into how to gamestorm (brainstorm) your own. Every game from the most sprawling fantasy RPG to the most chilling monster thriller, starts with an idea and a discussion and that is what we are going to do today. We will also be showing our own demo of a game",
"goal": "To better understand the conception and design of different types of video games",
"required": "We shall need a projector, paper and pens",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Opensource gaming - a bold new world",
"owner": {
"name": "June He",
"organization": "NI Raspberry Jam"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b23b911c-ea43-4920-bcf6-ae6f42dbc1bd",
"description": "For years big name developer titles have ruled the market but now with the rise of the smaller indie titles there's room for the open source. In this session we will explore, how open source ideas fit into this ever changing environment, come along and join the adventure",
"goal": "To explore how open source fits into the gaming world",
"required": "We shall need a projector, paper and pens",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Tor - The Art of Privacy",
"owner": {
"name": "Mehul Patel",
"organization": "Mozilla India"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4ba671a1-f445-47b6-aad5-0b321b59d833",
"description": "This initiative is all about educating people about the privacy and security provided by TorNetwork and how they can also keep themselves anonymous from the open Surveillance weband other intelligence monitoring projects. We will teach how it focuses on protecting thetransport of data.In this session, we will share the following topics:* Safe Browsing Habits with Tor* Set Up Tor as a Proxy* How to Securely Share Files Using Tor* Private Messaging With Tor Messenger* How to connect to Tor Via Bridges and VPN?* Safe Tools for Whistleblowers* How to Contribute to Tor* The future of Web browser regarding privacy* Are there any alternatives to the Tor Browser?",
"goal": "* The result will be very clear, people will understand about the surveillance programs and howthey can keep themselves out from it by keeping their identity anonymous. * People can enormously explore new information which is not accessible to them in the normal Internet, they will also take interest to learn it because it is totally a different thing which is about to be shared in a Global level. * Clear the misconception that Tor is equal to dark or bad things on the web.* Most importantly when they going back to the home they all have the most advanced and valuable privacy features in their pocket which can be benefited for both Tor and Firefox browser users.",
"required": "Projector, Sticky notes, markers, extra laptop. Thanks :)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Young African women challenging and resisting dominant gender narratives through social media",
"owner": {
"name": "Martha Chilongoshi",
"organization": "Freelance Journalist and Gender Activist"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "51f87855-5d39-45e0-87c5-19fb11bacf4a",
"description": "The session will explore old and new forms of gender-based stereotypes and violence online. We will discuss how, why and who perpetuates it and whether the laws, systems and processes to address them are adequate and practical. We will also explore the opportunities available for individuals, especially women and girls who may not belong to any organization but are internet users, to be equipped, raise awareness, counter online threats, harassment and address gender inequality and cultural narratives through social media.",
"goal": "The goal is for participants to come away with an enhanced understanding of the practical skills and attributes needed to be effective at changing mindsets on gender power relations online, influence public opinion, mobilize support and shape policy on gender inclusion in ICT.",
"required": "ProjectorPost it notes",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Engage with Equity Unbound Open Activities",
"owner": {
"name": "Maha Bali",
"organization": "American University in Cairo"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a5543964-ec9f-48f7-b124-fe47a34e5323",
"description": "Equity Unbound (#unboundeq), is an equity-focused, open, connected, intercultural curriculum that builds critical digital literacies in a global context, highlighting issues of web representation, digital colonialism and safety/security risks. Educators from Egypt, Ireland and US developed this with the motto “the only way to make borders meaningless is to keep insisting on crossing them” (Lina Mounzer). Participants will engage with the question, “what does equity mean for the open web?” and we will curate written and/or multimodal responses online. We also encourage participants to experience some of the online activities we have developed, including: collaborative annotation using Hypothes.is, social network conversations, Wikipedia edit-a-thon, collaborative multimedia making and creating new learning activities (inspired by DS106).",
"goal": "participants will have interrogated their conceptions of what equity means for the open web, and experienced some of these (they can choose the ones they are most interested in). Our Equity Unbound gallery contribution at Mozfest will also result in a digital artifact - a crowdsourced collaborative conversation about intercultural connected learning and equity on the open web. We hope participants will give us feedback on how to improve upon our curriculum, and participants who choose to will have contributed their own activities to our “activity bank”. Everyone is welcome to reuse, remix or repurpose our openly-licensed activities in their own educational or training context.",
"required": "We will just probably need good wifi[please note re stipend below that not all of us need it]",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Storytelling with data: Data Scrapping with Twitter API and Python.",
"owner": {
"name": "Paloma Urtizberea García",
"organization": "Chicas Poderosas"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d0cfebc2-a0cf-443e-ace0-8f62d1251701",
"description": "We’ll use the Twitter API and Python language of programming to scrape the Twitter webpage. We’ll work with twitter users interactions, hashtags, trending topics to find patterns in data.The workshop will start with some examples and a brainstorm of ideas based on all the possibilities the Twitter API can offer us to create a story. Then, the participants will be taught how to use the Twitter Developer Platform, install the Anaconda package and work with a Python script set up in a Jupyter Notebook that will help them connect with the Twitter API and play with a pre-designed project. After that, the attendees will be able to customize the script and learn how to visualize the data obtained.",
"goal": "Every attendee will leave the session with an overview of how to use the Twitter API and to change/fix/model a python script in order to scrape the twitter webpage and obtain data from there. Also, they'll leave with a basic idea of Data Analysis and Data Science that will help them work with every data they would like to explore in the future. My main goal is to create a learning and collaborative atmosphere where every of the attendees, including me, can learn from each other and develop their own questions to answer through twitter data.",
"required": "Every attendee must have their own laptop in the aim to enhance the hands-on experience. Also, we'll need wifi in the room where the session will develope.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Bridging Cultures through Virtual Reality",
"owner": {
"name": "Mark Danforth",
"organization": "PenPal Schools"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8e56e27b-8736-433b-bd6d-63177087fd03",
"description": "In 2016, PenPal Schools received a Mozilla Gigabit Grant to create the VR Field Trip to Pakistan. In 2018, PenPal Schools created the VR Field Trip USA. The VR Field Trip series (https://www.penpalschools.com/vr.html) helps students practice important academic skills , learn about communities around the world, and developing empathy towards others. During this session we will discuss how educators are using VR in their classrooms, we will demo the PenPal Schools VR field trip projects, and we'll hear stories from the more than 300 classrooms that have participated in VR field trips.",
"goal": "Participants will learn how educators are using VR to prepare students for personal and professional success. Participants will learn how VR can help students practice core academic skills while also developing empathy towards others.",
"required": "",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "[Workshop] Drawing for techies",
"owner": {
"name": "Ariadni-Karolina Alexiou",
"organization": "Individual"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "95b4b9db-1261-4564-b0a9-48fcb8af1824",
"description": "I will guide participants through the steps of creating a drawing using concepts familiar to people in tech (as a person involved in both fields).We will do the following exercises:* Use a flexible grid method to support the drawing process (related to templating/unit tests)* Identify and correct mistakes in a drawing (related to debugging)* Brainstorm an idea with thumbnails (related to prototyping)All the while, personal feedback on drawings will be given. I have ran the workshop multiple times in several events, I have found this to be the most valuable part of the process because it's very hands-on.",
"goal": "* For participants to become more confident in their drawing abilities* For participants to understand the process of creating art, and how it is not that different from engineering* Spark discussion about interdisciplinary learning* For me to get feedback on the grid tool I have builtI have ran the workshop several times (including in last year's Mozfest) and each time the objectives are met with great success, and I augment the workshop based on the learnings.",
"required": "I can bring all necessary materials (ie, printouts & colored pencils)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Create Artificial Intelligence from scratch in 60 mins",
"owner": {
"name": "Elena Lestini",
"organization": "Rho Zeta AI"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "41682ac0-1b4f-49f0-a488-d5adc009b248",
"description": "We will introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its actual applications in daily life, as well as a new concept (“AI-6thSense”). Our team is currently working towards the development of an artificially intelligent vision device (“AI-SmartEye”) that can discriminate between “fake or real” objects and “safe or unsafe” situations, leading to possible applications in security, health, safety and more, for the betterment of society.Following this introduction, we will invite the audience to join us in a workshop to gain first-hand experience and build a Raspberry Pi-powered Infra-Red internet-enabled device (AI-eye), able to see and identify objects, based on TensorFlow cloud technology. The audience will also test the AI-eye on an experiment using some of their personal belongings (e.g. keys, watch).",
"goal": "-To facilitate greater access to AI for the diverse MozFest audience and support wider digital inclusion of this future-critical technology beyond known socio-economic barriers.-AI outreach: for the audience to have hands-on experience building real AI devices, gaining insight and clarity about AI; to play an active role in shaping the future of AI for the benefit of the whole of society, not just an unrepresentative minority.-For the audience to make informed decisions about their professional/societal role/engagement with AI going forward; to be aware of positive opportunities AI can deliver, together with sub-optimalities, risks and detrimental impacts.-For our startup to present its social enterprise projects and build a network in the Tech community for collaborations and sharing know-how.",
"required": "•\t3/4 tables•\t1x large presentation screen/projector•\tstrong WiFi•\t1x HDMI cable•\tMulti-way socket for power supply",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Web literacy for the deaf",
"owner": {
"name": "Itzel Moreno",
"organization": "UNESCO internship"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "aaca1de2-c9be-42b0-be95-92847927085a",
"description": "I will explain why I consider that the Internet is a medium with many benefits for literacy, inclusion and training for the Deaf. Second, I will explain the Project: web workshops by the means of Mexican Sign Language on different topics that I have found that the Mexican Deaf Community is interested in: language, history and how to make an organic garden. Finally, I will summarize the session defending that the internet takes part in the improvement of education in communities with more educational backwardness and social exclusion. This is the case of the Mexican Deaf Community.",
"goal": "This session provides solutions for social exclusion. It proposes a bridge between the internet and the inclusion of monoritarian communities in poverty at majority. Its success is based on extensive research on the Deaf and their needs, finding on the Internet benefits for their educational and social development.",
"required": "I will need an interpreter of sign language in the case of the video be recorded or there be deaf persons attending the session.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Learnathon - where knowledge meets right minds",
"owner": {
"name": "Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran",
"organization": "Freelancer"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "27ac06cf-9659-470a-8bf1-6a3d31ac6f19",
"description": "Various methodologies for teaching in schools will be framed using the crowdsourced data.",
"goal": "The main objective is to put in our creativity and the easiest methodologies to solve a particular problem and how it can be approached. Later this data can be shared with schools which can in turn adopt these methods to make learning more interesting. These resources we mostly aimed at schools in rural areas where the students do not have much access to technologies or internet facilities and do not know the right means to quench their thirst to learn new things.",
"required": "Nothing more than the basic office supplies and a projector.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Make singing characters using Sonic Pi",
"owner": {
"name": "Amy Mason",
"organization": "Southend Raspberry Jam"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Youth Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4394e91f-af3f-4ab9-ae93-0c990846a846",
"description": "Participants will be able to create a character of their choice out of paper and then they will be able to code their own tune using Sonic Pi, with the option of recording their own voice and importing the file into their program, to create their own singing characters",
"goal": "For participants to each create a fun, singing character and to introduce them to Sonic Pi",
"required": "Pi - tops, a speaker of some description for each Pi if possible and some paper and pens although we can provide some",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Creating WebVR Application using javascript and WebGL",
"owner": {
"name": "Pratik Dhanave",
"organization": "Student"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a3123b5f-2cd2-439e-a74e-6ff55bc23117",
"description": "hands-on guide on how Creating WebVR Application using javascript and WebGL ?",
"goal": "People will learn how to create WebVR Application using javascript and WebGL.",
"required": "no",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Ephemeral, lost, forgotten",
"owner": {
"name": "Anna e só",
"organization": "Wikimedia and Mastodon community, MediaLab/UFG"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a71e20f0-e26f-4895-b2f3-2c9a5b8cedc4",
"description": "With the growing popularity of social media, there's a tendency of prioritizing the speed a message will be delivered rather than its longevity. Knowledge produced by collaborative efforts using services like Facebook and Twitter becomes more unretrievable given their closed and ephemeral nature. How can we fight back? Which tools can we use to preserve that knowledge? Are they enough? Let's find out!",
"goal": "- Promote a more conscious use of social media, having in mind aspects like longevity, retrievability and accessibility- Encourage remixing of content, thinking about its license and format- Present free and open tools one can use to foster collaborative initiatives and decentralize content, and how to contribute and make part of those projects.",
"required": "- A projector, to provide better and clear instructions when exploring free and open tools using my laptop and hightlight important concepts.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Transforming our spammer uncles into fact checkers",
"owner": {
"name": "Elizabeth Rivera",
"organization": "IFEX"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c8f2a646-b83a-40ec-b520-c89a61520aaf",
"description": "We want to explore ways on how to deal with and counteract unintended misinformation sharing on digital platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp. We understand technology solutions are not enough. We are aware not all people know how to spot a malicious piece or have good fact-checking experience. We also know, there won't be a single, magic solution. Given all these, we want to come up with practical, personal strategies to strengthen the critical thinking skills within our networks. To get the session started, we will present a few cases with their appropriate context, based on research done before the Fest. We'll then ask the participants to join us in exploring ways on how to deal our spamming uncles.",
"goal": "We want to land on concrete actions that we can take to help our networks become more critical of the information they receive and share, become savvier on techniques to spot misinformation and be more empowered to stop a bad piece when they see it.We’re not coming with a set of answers. We have ideas, but we want to look for many more solutions together.",
"required": "For the time being, only glasses for each participant. We'll reach out to the organizers in case we need anything else other than the basic office supplies for the group dynamics.Only facilitator Laura Vida would like to apply for a travel stipend. She lives in Paris.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Behind HQ Trivia",
"owner": {
"name": "Dominic Fitch-Jones",
"organization": "Student"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Youth Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9d178ff9-d1c5-4216-bfc0-5ff6f9f59d20",
"description": "HQ Trivia, a live mobile game show, has quickly gained worldwide traction, enticing all kinds of people to compete in their daily shows. A game like this, is quite different than a traditional mobile game, in that it's a really unique concept, and that the underlying technology used to make it all happen, is rather interesting. This session would focus on teaching others how to apply practical reverse engineering techniques, to experiment and learn about what goes on behind the scenes to make something like HQ work.",
"goal": "Technology has become a large and crucial part in many of our lives, we regularly use mobile apps to accomplish all kinds of things. The advanced functionality and ease that many of these apps provide, is truly remarkable. This has led to many people taking this technology for granted, passing it off simply as if though it were magic, when in reality, these apps are a culmination of many years of innovation. Learning the skills and tools required to effectively discover what goes on behind the facades of your favourite apps, can yield a tremendous learning opportunity.",
"required": "- Projector or display- Post-it notes / pens",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Security Tools Bingo, an icebreaker game",
"owner": {
"name": "Sid Rao",
"organization": "Aalto University, Finland; Open Leadership Training Series; Ex- Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow, European Digital Rights."
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "The participants will play the game of Bingo to understand different open source tools to protect themselves and their community from day-to-day security threats. Unlike traditional bingo game, the security bingo cards will contain names of security tools instead of numbers.The game is played as follows:- Each participant will be given a bingo card which contains unique combination of the security tools. The facilitators will randomly pick a tool.- If the name of the picked tool exist in their bingo card, the participants will cross it. - Meanwhile, the facilitators will discuss the Do's and Don'ts of the tool in detail.- There will be small perks for those who complete row, column or full house!",
"goal": "The goal of this game is to educate everyone to use some of the amazing open source security tools to protect their daily Internet activities covering five areas:- secure browsing- secure communication- securing the website- routine checks and best practices- advance protectionThe participants may know some of the tools, however, there is a high chance that it has not yet been regularly used. The reasons are twofold: - the tools are perceived to be difficult to adapt, especially for a group; - the tools are not popular in spite of its usefulness.The goal of this game is to discuss the need of a diverse set of open source tools in a fun-filled manner.",
"required": "Nothing at all! But, if anyone has cool stickers/ goodies to be distributed, give it to us. We will make the best use of it.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "What if you had the AI power of tech giants?",
"owner": {
"name": "Sid Rao",
"organization": "Aalto University, Finland; Open Leadership Training Series; Ex- Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow; European Digital Rights"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "Companies like Facebook has two most powerful apparatus that makes it the ‘tech giant’: humongous amount of data and smartest workforce, which helps to build “sophisticated softwares” that turns anything crap to useful end-products. Many of these softwares are now open-sourced! This is a boon to the artificial intelligence (AI) community because the data used for training and the state-of-the-art algorithms are otherwise out-of reach of people outside Facebook.In this session, we will brainstorm some of these open-source software, treat AI as a black box tool for building decentralized applications. Because, with these softwares we now have the similar power of those tech giants, and the only limitation to what we can do with that power is our creativity.",
"goal": "We will discuss the capabilities of AI related internal software! No! we won’t dig into the complex AI algorithm. Instead, we will treat AI like blackbox building blocks!The outcome of the sessions are:- Participants will learn the use-cases of state-of-the-art software libraries for\t-\tImages: object recognition, classification, and labeling.\t- Text: natural language processing-\tOn top of these, the participants will try to build their own facial recognition system using a simple [face recognition library](https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition)-\tThe participants will then brainstorm some ideas which can use object and face recognition to build an in-house Facebook-like system for our future open-source pet project.-\tIf time permits, we look into non-AI softwares and their use cases.",
"required": "People with curious minds!",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "MicroBlocks and the Mozilla Web of Things",
"owner": {
"name": "B ernat Romagosa",
"organization": "MicroBlocks"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3e0a8aff-0ce8-4909-a01a-670517eea2b2",
"description": "MicroBlocks is a new FLOSS programming language, inspired by Scratch, that runs right inside microcontroller boards such as the BBC micro:bit, NodeMCU, and many Arduino boards. Thanks to a collaboration with the Mozilla IoT team, it now interfaces neatly with the Web of Things ecosystem. In this session you'll learn how you can use MicroBlocks to create games, jewelry, or digital measurement tools, and connect turn them into network-enabled devices. Bring your laptop! We'll provide some micro:bits to share; feel free to bring your own, too.",
"goal": "Participants will learn about MicroBlocks and will create their own network-enabled devices, ready to be controlled and monitored from their own laptops or mobile phones.",
"required": "We would require a projector.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The dark side of Internet of things",
"owner": {
"name": "Dipesh Monga",
"organization": "Mozilla Techspeaker"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a25cae46-d8cb-4af1-9d3c-9e18c3337ddc",
"description": "With the advent of Internet of things, monitoring and controlling everything such as coffee maker, lights, TV, Fridge,etc. over the internet has become a child's play. In today's world where the security of our data of a major concern, the number of websites are always tracking what we search for, what we watch, our location and now when things are limited to only data, adding another dimension i.e. physical entities is really a big question.The following parts will be implemented in the event1. Defining IoT and the threats involved2. Implementing basic IoT attacks3.Live demo & session on increasing security",
"goal": "From this session, the audience will take away an understanding of the privacy concerns related to IoT, and how they may be putting their personal information at risk by connecting my physical entities to the internet. Is it really safe to connect things to the internet?",
"required": "Wifi router, Internet connection",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Greenpeace Activist Dashboard: Show the world your impact",
"owner": {
"name": "Laura Hilliger",
"organization": "Greenpeace"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "51b2f65f-94e6-4128-a72a-0b19c30b776a",
"description": "In this hands-on session, we invite you to tell us everything you wish you could track about your participation in civic life. Using participatory methodologies, we will explore showing the world, or just yourself, the impact you have on everyday issues - like ocean cleanup, air pollution or livestock agriculture. We will talk about using big data sets to show how things aren’t as bad as we think, and we invite you to help us design a way to visualize individual and global impact. We’ll use this session to have ideas and design user journeys and potential features for the free.",
"goal": "At Greenpeace, we’re thinking about how we activists show their work. Activism happens in the real world. People take to the streets and at city halls to demand change. Lawyers and lobbyists – not just corporate ones – donate their time and energy fighting for better policies. People show up to events (like Mozfest!) and meet people, collaborate and strive to make the world a better place.Greenpeace is an organization that aims to enable personal activism. We strive to ensure that activism is rewarded not just by winning campaigns, but by witnessing those who do the work. We hope this session will provide insight to what real world activists need from Greenpeace and an engagement platform.",
"required": "post its, A3 paper, markers and a monitor would be great!",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "GDPR & CIviCRM",
"owner": {
"name": "Parvez Saleh",
"organization": "Veda Consulting"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "73eefdc6-6601-433b-a831-d59be269d7f9",
"description": "Demonstrate how our GDPR extension for CiviCRM works",
"goal": "For users and implementers of CiviCRM to better understand the GDPR extension",
"required": "Wifi/Internet connection, HDMI to a projector/screen",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Material&virtual science fabrication laboratory.",
"owner": {
"name": "Maria Castello",
"organization": "Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
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"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c5a2d054-f25f-4b42-93ad-595f988bf7b2",
"description": "We will work hands-on making, hacking and prototyping low cost DIY/DIWO/BYOD laboratory equipment as well as in the implementation of a virtual science fabrication laboratory.",
"goal": "To set up a general lab.",
"required": "We will need low cost electronic supplies and fabrication tools and materials to construct prototypes.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Open Source for Sustainability and Collaborative Economies",
"owner": {
"name": "Jose Carlos Urra Llanusa",
"organization": "GO!Commons"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "dbcb2046-6f7d-4ed5-a80c-9bdcf79e8160",
"description": "1. We will introduce people to our work, our community and invite them to join via github. Our book on open source for sustainable development will be shared.2. We will discuss key challenges related to consumption/production patterns, as new ideas for consumption/production patterns that are more sustainable.3. Then we show our strategies and our status, including the particular challenges we are facing.4. Based on these discussions we make an exercise in groups with business/economic modeling tools to tackle aspects related to economic feasibility of open source projects, in order to make impact. We do this using also collaborative tools in github, around a concrete project or machine.5. Throughout this process ideas, solutions, and proposals are documented.",
"goal": "1. Our goal is to teach and learn as well how to use collaborative best practices and economic principles to make impact with open source.2. Outcome 1: A first draft that could be developed further with the community of participants, where the challenges and issues proposed are shared. 3. Outcome 2: A satisfactory, enjoyed and effective learning experience for all the participants.",
"required": "A labtop would be good enough.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Sky is Open, yet I feel Safe!",
"owner": {
"name": "ADITI PUNTAMBEKAR",
"organization": "RED HAT"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2a2e3570-e5dc-44cd-b01b-e9a8905121d4",
"description": "To establish the concept of Openness on the Web, I would like to relate it with everyday activities of humankind. Working open, shapes our personalities to being collaborative and more descriptive based on the exchange of ideas. Hence, I would like to help my audience visualize how our personality develops through open-web. But, at the same time being open safely is of utmost importance. I would share my journey of the Open Culture walking alongside of safety. I would like to understand my audience's primary concern on openness and answer their queries. Also, I would encourage them in group tasks to get a perfect glimpse of how being Open on Web can help them and the society.",
"goal": "By the end of my session, I would have helped my audience visualize what openness could bring to them, with safety at it’s best. An example to demonstrate this could be; we’re out in the park for a walk and we meet a person with no acquaintance. Of course, we would not be interested in discussing our personal life with the stranger. Likewise, it is crucial to identify what we share and with whom, even on the web. My ultimate goal would be literally making my audience realize that we breathe under this infinite sky, yet we feel safe beneath it by making right decisions and so can we feel on the web, if we create proper policies for ourselves.",
"required": "Just a Whiteboard and few colourful markers would suffice!",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Maximizing small female led businesses and leadership potentials through technology",
"owner": {
"name": "Ifeoma Okonji",
"organization": "Women Economic and Leadership Transformation Initiatives"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "The session would entail the women being introduced to open sources or data they can leverage to become successful in their business or leadership aspiration.They would be shown and taught how to use tools they can access easily that can make their work easier and seamless.They would also have practical learning sessions that would demonstrate how they can navigate these tools on their own by experts in that field. So it's not just about theory but they are getting a hands on experience. They would also be given an opportunity to do some sort of role play and put into practice what they've learnt so we are able to decipher their various strengths and know their need areas",
"goal": "Technology is for everyone and not just for men but because of the technicalities involved in understanding some things related to technology,you find that a lot of women shy away. When more stories of women who have embraced technology in the past are continually told,it makes a huge difference.We intend to through this festival encourage women to embrace the flare for creativity which can be achieved through exploring technology.Technology is infused in virtually everything nowadays because even as a hairdresser,make up artist,home maker,tech apps are used to make work easier and bring people together. We are positive that after the session,more young women would access open data or information in technology that can move them up the success ladder.",
"required": "The session would definitely require us using a projector and other office supplies like white board,pens and paper. We may also have young women who do not have access to computers considering the environment in which we find ourselves where most women are not keen or interest in playing the technology route. This means that we would need to hire laptops or other devices that would make their learning an easy and smooth ride. It would be unfair to show them how it ought to be done without them physically trying out how it works. This work be a stimulating factor for them to want to leave the session and endeavour to own a device that would help them eventually.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Data Authentication in Citizen Journalism",
"owner": {
"name": "Pushpita Dey",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4cfe7ef3-b5eb-452d-81b1-5de418ef5b16",
"description": "Through Citizen Journalism, any common individual can act as a journalist by reporting and sharing any newsworthy content via tweets, Facebook posts or other social media platforms. But in that case, there might be a probability that the data shared may lack authenticity. So, the exercise will focus on how to become a citizen journalist(CJ) and share authentic data while practicing citizen journalism. There will be brainstorming session to find out ways to eradicate or correct wrong data from the public domain. There will be hands on session on how to report news on social media as CJ.",
"goal": "The idea is to empower any citizen through social media that he/she can serve as a journalist. Moreover, it will also aim at making people efficient enough to verify data and information before sharing it online as citizen journalists.",
"required": "NA",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Coven to fight machitrolls",
"owner": {
"name": "Amalia Toledo",
"organization": "Karisma Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a90d0646-e115-40e3-81fd-8f9b900b973c",
"description": "This session aims to get participants to create humorous counter-speeches to combat machitrolls on the internet. First of all, we will present the Machitroll Alert (https://bit.ly/2Ldh7yN), a digital campaign that seeks to deconstruct cyber-chauvinism experienced by women through a humor-based counter-speech. Second, we will have a collective reflection on where participants are expected to share experiences, either as a victim or as a witness, with machitrolls on the Internet. From there, we will come up with a category and common characteristics of machitrolls. Finally, participants will create humorous counter-narratives (eg. memes) to respond to machitrolls & demonstrate that together we can build an inclusive & plural internet where all voices can be heard & we can be free of violence.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to generate humorous narratives/contents (in English, Spanish or in the mother tongue of any of the participants) available on the Alerta Machitroll platform and in any other repository identified in the session so that anyone can use them when faced with gender-based violence on the Internet. With them, we would be creating counter-discourse memes that would take away power and strength from the sexist violence through humour, a tool of transgression and healing of the horror of violence.",
"required": "We will require a projector and sound that will allow us to show several short videos of the Machitroll Alert",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Revolutionizing Science with the Open Web: The Iodide Project",
"owner": {
"name": "Brendan Colloran",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "aae2ec3c-b143-4b1d-9f88-179f85552825",
"description": "Despite the evolution of the web, the primary output of scientific inquiry is still paper. Enter Iodide - a portable, friction-less scientific computing environment designed to run entirely in your browser, giving researchers, data scientists, journalists, and the data-minded the power to create, remix, and share reproducible data analyses and visualizations using the power of web technologies. Participants will get an overview of how scientific computing & data analysis is done today, and how Iodide fits into that picture. The bulk of the time will involve an interactive hack session where we aid participants in crafting a notebook - importing a data set, exploring it, making a beautiful presentation out of it, and then effortlessly publishing it to the web.",
"goal": "Participants will learn how scientific computing works, what the state of the art is today, and where the open web can improve the status quo. They will also develop an understanding of interactive data exploration and data visualization. Iodide empowers users to use modern web technology - WebGL, VR, WebAssembly - to make and share the kinds of visualizations that can’t easily be done otherwise. We've seen users make earthquake simulators, VR-powered brain models, interactive data maps, and other neat explorations. Participants are only bound by their creativity.",
"required": "A projector would be appreciated, but we can also bring our own if one isn't available.The hack session itself will require participants to bring a laptop computer, but beyond a web browser, we don’t have any requirements for them.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "ReThinking Research: Tools to develop a robust and successful research plan",
"owner": {
"name": "Gracielle Higino",
"organization": "Universidade Federal de Goiás"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "37a03d1f-0c92-4d3b-8ed5-15bc3c64f330",
"description": "Design Thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves iterative assessment of the known aspects of a problem and identifying the more ambiguous or peripheral factors that contribute to the conditions of that problem. While this is a common approach used in industry for product development, we believe it can provide a framework for the development of a robust research plan. We will start with presenting some of the most common approaches to building a research plan, to then present an alternative approach based on design thinking. Finally, we will invite the audience to brainstorm with us on how we can adapt other business tools (canvas, personas, user journey, agile methods) to research design and management.",
"goal": "The main goal of the session is to present an alternative way of designing a research plan, based on the framework provided by the design thinking method, specifically in the context of open science. We will invite the audience to share experiences, as well as to provide feedback on templates of roadmaps and charts that can help researchers, particularly those in the early stages of their career, organize a research question and formulate a plan of action around a framework that encourages challenging assumptions and team work. Our plan is to then organize these thoughts and outputs into a blog post or an opinion piece to be shared across relevant platforms.",
"required": "We will need a projector, pens, colorful post-its and paper of different sizes (A2, A1, and A4).",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Share VR experiences created in unity on the open web",
"owner": {
"name": "Shubhendra Singh Chauhan",
"organization": "Student"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Laptops needed",
"[YZ] Young Adult Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3089971e-d9d7-4346-bfc4-a01158beb55b",
"description": "Attendees will be taught to develop a basic game using Unity and port it to WebVR using WebGL. I will start by giving an introduction to the different gaming engines then a short intro to WebVR & how unity works. Then I will guide to develop a basic game and how to port it and run it on their mobile and virtual reality systems.",
"goal": "At the end of the session, attendees will have the knowledge of building a basic game in Unity and porting it to WebVR. If time will allow, I will try my best to make sure every attendee builds their own game and port it during the session only.",
"required": "2-3 HTC Vive / Oculus Riftprojectorpaper-A4Pens / markersPost-it-notes",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Missed Connections: Simple Steps to Reach Across the Digital Divides",
"owner": {
"name": "Leana Mayzlina",
"organization": "NTEN"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "We’ll help attendees take a look at the ways they seek to engage individuals in their work, and will jointly identify where some barriers may exist to involve folks with limited digital access and skills. Whether you’re selling a product on Etsy, building a social change campaign, or writing code for a website, you might be perpetuating digitally exclusive practices without a second thought. Together, we’ll discuss some strategies to make our work and hobbies more digitally inclusive. Sometimes it’s as simple as creating a paper survey or developing a video tutorial, and by brainstorming together, we’ll come away with some clear ideas and strategies to implement to include communities with limited digital access and skills.",
"goal": "With over 3 billion people in the world lacking internet access and an even more staggering number lacking digital skills, we want to challenge participants to think about the digital barriers that are currently in place in their places of work and play. Our goal is to help attendees walk away with some concrete strategies for helping bridge these digital gaps, whether that means changing HR policy to allow paper job applications at their workplace or teaching their grandparents to use FaceTime to feel more connected. We’ll encourage participants to dream big and act small, coming away with simple clear steps they can take to connect with communities marginalized by the digital divide.",
"required": "Post it notes and pens would be great, but not critical.",
"time": "60 mins"
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"title": "The Trustable Technology Mark: Making the Internet of Things more trustworthy",
"owner": {
"name": "Peter Bihr",
"organization": "ThingsCon, Mozilla Fellow"
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"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
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"closed": false,
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"description": "We're launching a trustmark for IoT, and we need your help! What's this about? ThingsCon, our non-profit that advocates for responsible IoT, has been working on a trustmark that helps consumers make better choices for connected products, and helps companies employ better practices around privacy & data, openness, transparency, security, and stability. We have a concept, and we'd like you to help us kick the tires: What works, what are we missing, what are your ideas to improve it? (Learn more at trustabletech.com and thingscon.com.)",
"goal": "Our goal is to come out of the session with a reality check, feedback, and some fantastic new ideas from the Mozfest community on how to improve the Trustable Technology mark.",
"required": "A screen and a big stack of post-it notes would be nice, but it's entirely optional. We'll make do with what's available.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "#accordingToTheInternet: Made For Women - Learn how anyone can reclaim the internet as an inclusive cultural space",
"owner": {
"name": "Gretchen Andrew",
"organization": "Gretchen Andrew Art"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
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"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
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"description": "#AccordingToTheInternet: Amazon is a companyCherokee is a carCitizen is a watch brandIt isn’t that the internet is incorrect in returning these results, but that in doing so it tells us something essential about the way the internet works and who is more likely to benefit: products > people.With the sexualized female body a commodity for consumption, such a structure disproportionally hurts women. This workshop deploys its participants in the active modification of how and by whom women are represented online. Participants will learn how search engines work and together we will make a more inclusive internet by replacing the anti-feminist images that currently represent women online with images selected by those within the session.",
"goal": "1. Increase internet literacy as it pertains to search engines, internet authority and the impact of corporately controlled search engines on internet content and visibility.2. Increased participation in making a more diverse and inclusive internet.3. Retained search engine optimization skills with an understanding of how these skills can be used by communities and cultures instead of just companies and commerce.4. Changed represented of women surfacing within search engines.5. New community of content creators reversing the slowly commercial-first preference of search engines.",
"required": "Request that attendees bring a personal device, but possible to actively participate without one.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Help with EU community building needed: copyright reform for education",
"owner": {
"name": "Lisette Kalshoven",
"organization": "COMMUNIA Association / Kennisland"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
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"description": "We will begin with a brief explainer on what is at stake for (open) education during the current EU copyright reform. Afterwards we will map possible allies within the Mozilla / Open Community that can work in the EU member states during the 2-year implementation phase of the new directive. We will collect interest and give people concrete actions if they want to contribute to the cause of getting a good copyright for education. We will bring hand-outs and other educational materials for the participants so they can remind themselves of what they learned after the session.",
"goal": "The goal is to share knowledge and insights on the current copyright proposal, and to gather information from attendees on how to create a bigger community on a member state level for the cause.",
"required": "Ideally I would like to have post-its, pens, tables and chairs. I could also use an overhead projector if available, to make the explainer part of the session easier in case of a bigger group.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Why all the fuss about ‘fake news’?",
"owner": {
"name": "Mike Flood",
"organization": "Critical Information [http://www.criticalinformation.org.uk/]"
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"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
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"description": "1) short presentation identifying ten key problems with fake news/disinformation plus summary of factors that have enabled it to thrive/damage trust/the democratic process. 2) Participants work in groups to explore and prioritise the problems identified and report back to an open plenary. 3) Short presentation summarising how government, business, the media and non-profit sector are tackling the problems. 4) Groups explore how this work might be improved/better coordinated — one main sector per group. (We will ask participants to draw on practice or experience in their own countries, or initiatives they are familiar with.) 5) Groups report their findings back to an open plenary. 6) A short presentation will draw the session to a close and summarise the main findings.",
"goal": "Goal: to clarify which problems, caused or exacerbated by fake news/disinformation, are the most worrying/dangerous, and understand how effectively (or not) these problems are being addressed by government, business, the media and civil society. [The problems include: fake news being ‘sticker’ than real news; people unable to tell fake from real (especially with advances in AI); the tech giants incapable or unwilling to purge their platforms of bogus material; and political opportunists, fraudsters and proxies hiding their identity online. The ‘solutions’ include: promoting critical thinking, regulating social media platforms, colour-coding news stories for ‘truth’, etc. etc.]",
"required": "We will need a projector/screen, and some flipchart sheets and pens.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
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"title": "Empowered with technology to educate and uplift one to full potential",
"owner": {
"name": "Joel Vilanilam Zachariah",
"organization": "Govt. Model Engineering College"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
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"description": "Many undergraduate students worldwide fail to meet their full potential due to (1) Impostor Syndrome, (2) Fear of Judgement, (3) Procrastination. This results in dissatisfaction and lack of motivation to move forward, take the lead and be the change. On the long run, failure to recognize one's strengths to improve and weaknesses to overcome can translate into poor quality of workforce a decade later.In my session, I will share personal experiences to explain how I managed to get out of my shell using external motivation, and how Chatbots can be designed to mimic this and provide personalized support to empower and grow in cases where human support is unavailable, by talking and understanding the user to provide customized response.",
"goal": "By the end of the session, I want people to acknowledge the seriousness of the problem that students face due to competition and gain an understanding of how children brought up in competitive environments like India live their life, and why this will have an ill effect in the following generations.The outcome of my session is to have people return back to their nations to develop, using technology, systems where students are valued and encouraged to grow despite impediments and failures in life. People will understand that the key to escape from the ill effects of impostor syndrome, procrastination, and fear of judgment is for them to have an understanding ear to listen and provide support to grow well.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Farmer’s Gear - a fun way to learn and donate",
"owner": {
"name": "Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran",
"organization": "Freelancer"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
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"closed": false,
"uuid": "4b375b33-bfe2-4810-9658-ec57a4ca5746",
"description": "We will be proposing our ideas on developing a web-based conceptualized game that would showcase the hurdles faced by the farmers and also to alleviate their poverty. We also aim at spreading the awareness on agricultureSo, the game will involve the following:1. The player will learn and simulate basic farming in many levels.2. After completion of each level, the player will be virtually donating the crops/ any agricultural products.3. On the other side, the actual farmers will be connected and will contribute their part to the NGOs, which will in turn donate these food products to the community that faces malnutrition or poverty.",
"goal": "● To take the participants into the world of agriculture.● To get the best solution on creating the web-based reality game application for an awareness on agricultural practices.● To bring the farmers get connected and be part of the application.● To abridge the farmers, NGOs and common people into a single platform.",
"required": "Nothing more than the basic office supplies will do.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
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"title": "Pirates Vs. Ninjas ( Penetration Test vs. Red Team Assessment)",
"owner": {
"name": "Mehidia Tania",
"organization": "Beetles Cyber Security"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
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"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
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"description": "In this session, we would like to show the difference between a Pirate’s approach and a Ninja’s approach, explaining how they work. When you are looking for treasure, then a pirate is your thing but if you need a meticulous, surgical attack, then a ninja’s skills are definitely be the best option. They take a different approach to solve specific problems. We will show the difference between penetration testing and Red team assessment, to teach people the strengths and weaknesses of both.So they can use them in the right field. We will divide participants between pirates and ninjas and engage them into some interesting brainstorming games.After that participants will take part in questioning and both teams will share their ideas.",
"goal": "People often think about security when they are confronted with the question of penetration testing or Red team assessment but stating the difference may be confusing. Our goal is try to provide more people with clear suggestions about the differences between penetration testing and Red team assessment whilst having a list of resources and tools that will aid them.This will help grow people's interest in this field and they will be more likely to approach this topic further.This session is completely knowledge based as we are trying to teach people about the world of security. Existing security researchers or enthusiasts will have a clearer idea about this topic.",
"required": "We need paper and pens to share the ideas of the participants so that we can see what ideas are most popular so we can prioritize discussion. Also we need projector and WiFi/internet access. Attendees may bring their computers to take notes for our shared documents.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "How much does standardisation of Internet protocols really help?",
"owner": {
"name": "Srushtika Neelakantam",
"organization": "Ably Realtime"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
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"closed": false,
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"description": "During my session, the audience will learn about the realistic problems behind standardisation of the Internet protocols. They’ll understand the rate at which the amount of data is growing and how the value of this data is become more and more inversely proportional to the time it takes to move around over the internet. They’ll understand how even milliseconds critically matter in certain scenarios. I will be exploring the history of web technologies that have brought us to this position, the growth in data being processed globally, and how there is a growing need for businesses to keep their users happy with realtime experiences by participating in this new realtime data economy.",
"goal": "The goal of this outcome is to make the audience learn the evolution of Internet Protocols in History and where we currently stand. Also, to make them understand that the value in data is shifting in not just owning data, but in how quickly businesses can process and respond to that data, a.k.a transport this data over the internet.",
"required": "Just a projector to connect to my laptop :)",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Play-IT",
"owner": {
"name": "Indurthi Sindhu",
"organization": "IBM"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "58f0b221-daff-45ed-ba33-77cac66016d7",
"description": "Train people into documentation and provide jobs to women who work from home",
"goal": "Provide jobs to 25 women",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
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"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
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{
"title": "Educational Equity VR",
"owner": {
"name": "Wendy Morgan",
"organization": "Treadwell Ventures LLC"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
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"description": "During the sessions, participants will be able to enter the VR classroom as either a teacher avatar, student avatar, or as an observer. Those participants who are in the avatars will role play to participate in the classroom setting. The observer will be able to see the classroom from any angle to observe the NPC students and the avatar participants. There can be observers who are not wearing a VR headset but who can hear and see what is going on in the scenario",
"goal": "The goal of our session will be to show participants that using immersive VR can simulate a classroom setting with enough efficacy to garner emotional buy in from teachers. This emotional buy in or feeling of realism is enough to challenge their current beliefs about their teaching style so that they are receptive to new approaches to teaching. In the session, we will ask each participant to role play that they are a teacher or a student so that they can gain empathy for how people in these situations feel on a daily basis.",
"required": "I will bring my own laptops and VR headsets for the installation. I will need high speed internet and potential tech support for any glitches.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Out in the Open!",
"owner": {
"name": "Pablo Aguilera",
"organization": "R3D : red en defensa de los derechos digitales"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
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"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
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"closed": false,
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"description": "We will explore how collaborative networks and open processes can contribute to improving Internet Health for LGBTQI+ communities. 1. Through case studies, the facilitators present a broad picture of the status of Internet Health on LGBTQI+ rights 2. Participants contribute to analyzing the current context of Internet Health for LGBTQI+ populations and through \"creative scoring\" determine together the status of Internet Health for LGBTQI+ 3. Facilitators present case studies on how stronger collaborations and open work can contribute to protecting LGBTQI+ rights in the digital context 4. Out in the Open! Participants will craft together a roadmap to identify how / if collaborative networks, documenting evidence, and collective action can improve the Internet Health for LGBTQI+ communities",
"goal": "Out in the Open! -the session is the inception of an open collaborative network that strengthens the link between digital rights and LGBTQI+ rights. 1- Participants with diverse backgrounds, working on digital rights and LGBTQI+ rights, determine what are the needs and opportunities to collaborate effectively to improve internet health for LGBTQI+ 2- Participants are more aware of the current status of internet health for LGBTQI+ communities in diverse issues (decentralization, digital inclusion, Openness, privacy and security, and web literacy) 3- Out in the Open! becomes an ongoing space enriched by LGBTQI+ and digital rights organizations working openly to document evidence and take collective action on LGBTQI+ rights in the digital context.",
"required": "projector and audio equipment to project short videos (if possible).",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Surviving the web",
"owner": {
"name": "Kristi Progri",
"organization": "Free Software Foundation Europe"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
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"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "34848664-7eac-4135-af4c-b17d88523d8e",
"description": "In this session we will talk about the most common attacks against web sessions, i.e., attacks which target honest web browser users establishing an authenticated session with a trusted web application.We then review existingsecurity solutions which prevent or mitigate the different attacks, by evaluating them along four differentaxes: protection, usability, compatibility and ease of deployment. We also assess several defensive solutionswhich aim at providing robust safeguards against multiple attacks. Based on this survey, we identify fiveguidelines that, to different extents, have been taken into account by the designers of the different proposalswe reviewed. We believe that these guidelines can be helpful for the development of innovative solutionsapproaching web security in a more systematic and comprehensive way.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to make privacy and security topics as much user friendly as possible. These kind of topics should not be only for techies but for everyone, since there are people from all backgrounds participating and surfing the web.We want people to know whats the best way to stay online how to stay more secure and how to take care of their privacy.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "What is random?",
"owner": {
"name": "Albert Yumol",
"organization": "University of the Philippines Firefox Club"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
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"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "There are five sets ABCDE with sets AB suitable for all ages.A.Participants will input a random one-word||two-word(seed) name for a painting that will generate a random image. The best photo will receive a 'random' token.B.Participant will throw 7 dice 7 times in a box. Results will be automatically detected and plotted by a raspberry-pi-camera set-up.C.Participants will do a strep-by-step coding walk-through in JavaScript by creating a random-number guessing game.D.Participant will generate true random-numbers using her voice(seed) initiating the entropy of a physical circuit to send a 100MB-file of personalized random-number to email.SET EAn exhibit of the various applications of RNGs in the open web such as URL generation, cryptocurrency, etc.",
"goal": "At the end, the audience and participants will learn and appreciate the types of random number generation methods, its importance, and its application in cybersecurity and privacy.",
"required": "I will be needing extra laptops with JavaScript or Python enabled environment and some extension cords.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Data and Me - crowdsourcing a Data Literacy Playground",
"owner": {
"name": "Samantha Ahern",
"organization": "UCL"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"[WL] Former Facilitator"
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"closed": false,
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"description": "Participants will explore resources, write a short summary and discuss what they have learned with the group.These will be a mixture of static and interactive resources. There will be an opportunity to add summaries to the project web site.They will then search for and describe resources, potentially also add these.Further opportinities to discuss findings and what has been learned.",
"goal": "For participants: build critical awareness of data literacy and introduce them to a range of resources they can use to understand the issues betterFor us: Expand the list of resources and get feedback on how useful they are",
"required": "Projector and screenTables & chairs for people to work atPost-its and pens",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Are you taking care of your digital wellbeing?",
"owner": {
"name": "Lianne Kerlin",
"organization": "BBC"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d13d6b01-3427-4841-b676-8b0959300139",
"description": "Led by psychology and research experts, this session with comprise of a short presentation with Q&A followed by a short interactive session which incourages people to think about their own digital wellbeing and Internet health.",
"goal": "In light of an increase in high profile awareness of data misuse as well iniatives to take control of digital behaviour, this session aims to educate and raise awareness of important issues around digital wellbeing, mental health and Internet health.",
"required": "Projector Post it notesPens",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Make your own data zine!",
"owner": {
"name": "Éléonore Mayola",
"organization": "Elle est au nord"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "The two session facilitators will present what a zine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine) and what data visualisation is. We will explain how zines and data visualization can be used to make complex information accessible. We'll also talk about the power of self publishing. Afterwards we will help the participants get started to create their own zines.The session will be divided in two parts: the “theory” were the participants will listen and learn, and the “practice” were the participants will design and create their own zine while the two facilitators will go around and provide help and answer questions.",
"goal": "Each participant will make at least one mini-zine that they would then be able to photocopy and share with their relatives or their community back home.We wish for the participants to feel empowered to share factual information in this age of disinformation.",
"required": "An easy access to a photocopy would be a plus, but not necessary",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Ideating internet connected product service systems",
"owner": {
"name": "Dries De Roeck",
"organization": "Studio Dott"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e4d1618f-3385-4dbb-9d5b-54065adc2d2e",
"description": "We'll focus on idea generation for internet connected product service systems, starting from a user instead a of technological perspective. Compared to other ‘ideation’ approaches, the tools introduced in this session were conceived to be non process interfering. This allows them to be used during various phases of a design and development process by very diverse audiences. Key to these tools is making design choices explicit, both related to the tangible (hardware, materials) as intangible (software, data) parts of an internet connected product or service.",
"goal": "We want to test drive a next iteration of an internet-of-things ideation tool, which focuses on introducing 'lightweight' toolkit components aiming to help designers, developers and anyone interested to better understand the impact of their design choices during the development of an internet connected product or service. The outcome of this session is twofold, firstly practitioners get introduced to tools they can use in their work and secondly the session’s outcome will be used as part of ongoing research on IoT design processes.",
"required": "It would be nice to have a projector or screen, permament black marker pens and flip chart paper (or other larger sheets of scrap paper)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "NSS Surveillance",
"owner": {
"name": "Tejaswi N",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
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"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a364ee55-6b3e-45b3-afeb-03dd9d79d216",
"description": "The session will have an overview of the open toolkit and how it responds as per the users’ request on a particular project. Later, we would deal with open source crypto libraries on basis of open source web, NSS(Network Security Services) and public key cryptography. Following which, we would explain the association between NSS library and NSPR(Netscape Portable Runtime). Participants will be given a demonstration on various NSS tools and its uses on various applications. Later, we would have an interactive session where users can build their NSS environment by using CRLM tool where they can understand how it modifies NSS security database.",
"goal": "The goal of our session is to make the participants get an idea on NSS and how it is designed to support cross-platform development of communications. At the end of the session, developers would be able to test, debug, and manage applications that use NSS with NSS tools.",
"required": "Projector-1",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Maintaining Privacy and Security Online",
"owner": {
"name": "Jayaditya Gupta",
"organization": "KDE"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
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"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ebcc442c-79a3-457e-ad80-401853525795",
"description": "I got asked about how can average user protect his privacy online and i ended up compiling some info regarding such . This is a broad topic and i will try to give overview what small changes user can do to enhance his privacy. The session will basically help users to follow best practices or give alternatives to current tech that they uses.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to encourage users to follow the good practices to better protect their online privacy and also improving their digital security. we will try to cover basics like browser choices, plugins to some intermediate and advance things like encryption of data .",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "How To Tell Stories And Change Minds: Narratives from a Healthy Internet",
"owner": {
"name": "Jennie Rose Halperin",
"organization": "Creative Commons"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "13be857c-1766-4d3b-89ed-e1281af053a5",
"description": "As authors of the Internet Health Report and the Creative Commons State of the Commons, we combine data and storytelling to illustrate the current health of the Web through interviews, open data collection, and narratives.In this session, participants will learn about the process of identifying and collecting stories and data about the present and future of the Web, interviewing participants, and hearing about some of the coolest people, projects, and researchers that are part of our internet health research.After a lively and collaborative discussion, participants will interview another person in the session about their healthy internet work, gather their notes into a cohesive story, and write a short narrative about their subject, which will be shared online.",
"goal": "Participants will learn about the process of interviewing and storytelling for social change as well as hear about some of the awesome projects that are happening around the web.",
"required": "Projector",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Improving access to public services through automated conversations",
"owner": {
"name": "Rafael Cardenas",
"organization": "Cívica Digital"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bb3ee3bb-822d-469b-a52e-b2570aac4550",
"description": "We will analyze how access to public services is provided in different governments around the world (more specifically in emerging countries in Latin America) and discuss ideas on how we can dramatically improve them using new technologies such as automated conversations through chatbots.I will illustrate how our team in Mexico has taken on this huge challenge with different public services in different parts of our country, the huge improvement this has created, and encourage a discussion with attendees on how we could replicate this success in other parts of the world.Attendees will work in groups to design sample conversations for common public services in their countries and then share with the rest of the group.",
"goal": "The main goal is to make attendees be more aware of how much room there is to improve in public services and citizen participation and engage them in a discussion on how we can tackle those challenges with new technologies such as automated conversations.We want to spark a very healthy exchange of ideas on how those challenges can be solved for all citizens in multiple countries from many diverse backgrounds and cultures, since we believe this technology can be a bridge for a huge number of people that otherwise have difficulties in communicating with their government.",
"required": "I would love to have a projector or screen since I could show the technology at work and illustrate with real world examples of public services being provided.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building Self-Deployable Community Wireless Network for Rural Areas",
"owner": {
"name": "Senthil kumar Murugesan",
"organization": "Geomeo Informatics Pvt Ltd"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "99ec9c76-3ae1-435a-98ed-64910bbcafef",
"description": "This talk is about the challenge in setting internet connectivity to rural villages, how the solutions of self deployment community network make this process smooth. In my previous experience working in this area, I have faced numerous challenges, Problems like lack of power supply, unforeseen natural and man-made interferences, cost of site-acquisition, low bandwidth backhaul network, complexity that accompanies wider coverage, economic unaffordability of the community and difficulty in accessibility for maintenance. To resolve the problems in the deployment of WiFi in rural areas, we have innovated a wireless node geomesh wire-free modular, multi-radio mesh router with IPFS offline support specially designed to provide connectivity in remote areas where internet access either doesn’t exist or it is too expensive.",
"goal": "Through this session delegates will have a clear knowledge on the challenges we are facing in providing internet connectivity in villages and how to solve it using Geomesh. They will gain practical experience on how to deploy community wireless networks, how we can serve rural areas with the help of a decentralised application, delegates can also understand about the openwrt eco-system and how to build a dApp using Blockchain technology. Technical empowerment is biggest benefit we can give to the society, this session will serve as a guide for them to solve the real time problems of rural people using Technology.",
"required": "1. Need ethernet port to connect with the router for teaching the flashing tutorials.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The shocking usefulness of trigonometry for video games on raspberry pi - scratch edition",
"owner": {
"name": "Daniel Green",
"organization": "The Urban Farming Guys"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6518f1c7-d8eb-468e-883c-7ea43f78c2b6",
"description": "Participants will use scratch on a raspberry pi to work through developing a video game where trigonometry functions are used to make the game elements behave properly, zoom around the screen and generally do good video game things based on maintaining a momentum vector for objects on screen - in this case we build a simple version of asteroids to drive home the point that math is fun when it makes your game work properly - will also show greenfoot on raspberry pi with same game assets and algorithms",
"goal": "Present a usage of raspberry pi to motivate students to use math to build a video game as a means of building further interest in freely available tools (scratch, greenfoot), low cost raspberry pi platform (maximize computing reach to the most students, promote internet health and open-ness)",
"required": "we intend to use the youth zone raspberry pi lab, we will need raspberry pi's set up and ready to go, please contact Daniel Green dang@theurbanfarmingguys.com - we are happy to help with setup / tear down / maintenance / support of the raspberry pi lab where needed, thanks!",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The shocking usefulness of trigonometry for video games on raspberry pi - greenfoot edition",
"owner": {
"name": "Daniel Green",
"organization": "The Urban Farming Guys"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6896d4e8-af4a-4860-ab45-73e01e61a8c3",
"description": "Participants will use greenfoot on a raspberry pi to work through developing a video game where trigonometry functions are used to make the game elements behave properly, zoom around the screen and generally do good video game things based on maintaining a momentum vector for objects on screen - in this case we build a simple version of asteroids to drive home the point that math is fun when it makes your game work properly - will also show scratch on raspberry pi with same game assets and algorithms to compare Java coding vs. block coding",
"goal": "Present a usage of raspberry pi to motivate students to use math to build a video game as a means of building further interest in freely available tools (scratch, greenfoot), low cost raspberry pi platform (maximize computing reach to the most students, promote internet health and open-ness)",
"required": "we intend to use the youth zone raspberry pi lab, we will need raspberry pi's set up and ready to go - contact Daniel Green dang@theurbanfarmingguys.com - we are happy to assist with lab setup, tear down, maintenance, etc. as needed",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Smart Home with Health Care",
"owner": {
"name": "Abdelrahman Manna",
"organization": "Individual"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2c33e9a7-2866-4803-9e11-3bb2cad72cf0",
"description": "I will show the participants how does my device work, mainly it works by measuring the humidity and temperature inside the home then if the the inside weather gets hot the device will open the window, if the weather outside is windy or bad the device turn on the AC, in the worst case scenario the device send an alert to one of the phone numbers registered in the device.This can be used for elder people who can't adopt to live alone or who has a disease.",
"goal": "People can develop their own device depending on this idea and use it in their homes so it reduces the sudden death cases especially when they have elder people or relatives who suffer from chronic diseases and can't live alone.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Making Art as a Process",
"owner": {
"name": "Karolina Alexiou",
"organization": "Individual"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f839f105-ffb2-4cc2-b661-e7697da56d58",
"description": "This is an open discussion for artists and other creatives. We will collaboratively answer questions (using post-its) such as:- How do you get ideas for creative projects?- How do you figure out what steps are necessary?- How do you execute the steps?- How do you identify and fix issues?- How do you continuously improve?- How do you know you're done?We will then cluster the answers and see what patterns emerge and sketch a pipeline/state machine to represent the art process or processes.",
"goal": "To open a dialogue/exploration on the processes different artists use, and what we can learn from one another, what we do similarly, what differently. We will perhaps figure out (spoiler alert) that 'agile' processes are not a new thing and have in fact been used in creative fields in some form for a long time.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "I Accept: An interactive conversation about the institutional surveillance of young people.",
"owner": {
"name": "Matthew Hatfield",
"organization": "IFEX"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "fd7c18e4-7582-4ae9-809b-d427501eda2f",
"description": "This will be a facilitated experience sharing and brainstorming session aimed at (though not exclusive to) 18-25 year old Mozfest attendees on the subject of surveillance and privacy violations against young people online. We’ll ask participants to share their experiences and those of their peers with collection and use of their personal information, and how it has affected them, in contexts like mobile apps, school, and family life. We’ll share some of what we know about policies and programs that may not be visible to young participants but affect their lives, and ask them to brainstorm values they believe should guide how their data is handled, and what kind of policy changes they would call for based on these values.",
"goal": "Defending the rights of children and youth, including expression rights is CRIN’s reason for being, and a key priority of IFEX. We see that many otherwise informed people are currently unaware of the abusive targeting of youth by governments and corporations, or convinced to tolerate it under the guise of protecting them from sexual predators. While this protection is important, a broader defence of youth autonomy and expression is necessary. For our participants, we hope that they will leave the session more conscious of the ways in which institutions are impinging on their rights on a daily basis – and that this is not inevitable. Through working with others, they do have the power to push back against it.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The cosmic world of cosmetics: the parallel world where targeted ads are born!",
"owner": {
"name": "Savitha Ramakrishna",
"organization": "Independent"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "71278cf9-76a5-44b6-8a3c-2a774e40809a",
"description": "One of the biggest threats in terms of privacy for any netizens is the way in which data is collected from their Internet activities in order to deliver targeted advertisements. While some of us take extra care to avoid being the victims of such advertisement traps, we often don't understand _who_, _how_ and _where_ we might expose our personal data.In this session, the participants will understand the world of targeted ads by mimicking the journey of an average netizen who wants to buy cosmetics online. They will map their weak points by going through the very thought of buying cosmetics, the way they might search on the Internet and buy specific products to understand how they would be personalized.",
"goal": "Simply put, the participants will follow their cosmic journey of **cosmetics** → from **Data collectors and brokers** → to **Targeted ads**.Participants will learn the following topics pedagogically: makeup 101, different cosmetics and commercial products, choosing the right product specific skin tone, [diversity](https://pudding.cool/2018/06/makeup-shades/) and [anti-AI makeup](https://cvdazzle.com/).Once all the participants are on the same page, first they will learn about various stakeholders of the ad ecosystem. Then they will learn how easy or difficult it is for each of those stakeholders to personalise anyone based on the data they have. Finally, they will learn basics of privacy to avoid being preys of targeted ads.This is an interactive workshop where participants will use sticky notes, pen and paper.",
"required": "Sticky notes, paper and markers.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Distributing the wealth created by open source software fairly?",
"owner": {
"name": "Georg Link",
"organization": "University of Nebraska at Omaha"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4ceab8aa-696a-48e2-98a0-dda15bd7c845",
"description": "Companies have figured out how to generate value from open source software, but wealth generation and capture are not connected. In this session we will envision possible ways to create more value for users and developers by incentivizing better software, and to distribute this wealth amongst open source developers. We are using market design to avoid creating another gig economy for open source by giving agency to users and developers, and incentivizing important organizational and information-sharing work such as bug triage. We will lead with a short primer of the current situation of the open source ecosystem and then brainstorm in small groups possible changes that will distribute the wealth more fairly.",
"goal": "Develop ideas for how the Bugmark prototype can support developers in fairly distributing the wealth created by open source software using market mechanisms. We aim to build an alternative to “gig economy” platforms, one that encourages all participants to develop decision-making power and capture the wealth created by their work instead of being locked-in to a centralized task assignment system that pays non negotiable minimal wages while capturing all the upside and leaving room for independent innovation.",
"required": "Moderation kit with pens, note cards, and pin boards for collecting ideas.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Programming",
"owner": {
"name": "fares ben hlima",
"organization": "first skills club"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d13bacda-5f16-4a1e-b74b-22947814f5b5",
"description": "Brainstorming / Icebreaking activities / Algorithm exercises / Mobile apps development.",
"goal": "Learning the algorithm concept and building a mobile app while having fun.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "OpenStreetMap: contributing and using collaborative geographic data",
"owner": {
"name": "Robert Kaiser",
"organization": "Mozilla Tech Speaker + OpenStreetMap Austria"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "710117f7-86b6-4376-8e99-35d84d3bf5e0",
"description": "People learn what OpenStreetMap is, its basics structure, how to add information into the OpenStreetMap database and how they can use this data in creative ways, e.g. for building Virtual Reality scenes.",
"goal": "People understand OpenStreetMap as the \"Wikipedia of geographical data\", know how to contribute information to it and how to pull out data selectively to use it in new ways - and have tried some of that in the session themselves.",
"required": "Projector would be helpful, participants should bring their device (laptop is easiest for this but tablets and phones should be able to do some things as well)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Distributed Democracy",
"owner": {
"name": "Tim Wallis",
"organization": "Distributed Democracy"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6f70c613-0da8-4c4c-90d5-a60428695b5e",
"description": "Discuss the virtues of the crowdsource and distributed network movements and how they can be leveraged to reform core democratic principles of civic engagement.",
"goal": "Dissent. I love to hear why an idea wouldn't work. This often helps to make the idea stronger.",
"required": "Whiteboard and markers.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Learn and Create IoT",
"owner": {
"name": "Taichi Isaku",
"organization": "WebDINO Japan"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "84369271-9861-49ca-99f4-48e3b461cf2b",
"description": "We will hold a creative workshop where participants will create IoT devices using Web technology. We will use the open source IoT programming environment \"CHIRIMEN for Raspberry Pi 3\" which is built for the named single-board computer. Participants will learn hands-on about low-level APIs such as \"WebGPIO\" and \"WebI2C\" that allows them to control physical devices via the Web using JavaScript. After actively learning the basics of IoT programming, participants will play with different sensors and actuators to build their own IoT device. Not only is this session is great for beginning and advanced coders who want to learn about IoT programming, but also for teachers who are looking for an easy-setup environment to teach these skills to their students.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is for participants to experience and learn the basics of IoT programming, and also for teachers to find new and feasible ways to teach these skills. IoT usually requires a wide range of skills, expensive tools, and lots of time and effort for setup. However, the open source environment used in this workshop is quick, easy, accessible, and economical allowing for anyone to prototype IoT devices with simple Web-based programming languages. This participants can experience what it is like becoming a full-stack engineer who plan and create both the hardware and software. This is a great chance for youths to discover new interests and talents to continue on to prototyping future IoT projects.",
"required": "A projector and paper, pens, post-it notes would be helpful for the ideation process. In addition, since participants will be working on raspberry pi computer boards, each participant/group of participants would need two electric outlets (one for the computer board and one for the display).",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Make most of your browser using extensions",
"owner": {
"name": "Trishul Goel",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e78a7061-478f-411f-a5f3-e716a34caae9",
"description": "In this session attendees will understand how to gain entirely new browsing experience using their browser with help of some awesome extensions. Attendees of this session will get to know about set of add-ons which can make their browsing experience more private, secure, ad free and FAST. Attendees will also learn how to add extra features, functionality, and fun to their browsing experience, like taking notes, setting alarms, tracking their usage per site, playing games etc. We will also discuss about how the rating/review system works for extensions at addons.mozilla.org (AMO) and how they can contribute to improve the ecosystem.",
"goal": "This session aims to aware attendees about empowering their browsing experience, making it fast, private and secure; transforming a normal user to a POWER user. By end of session attendees will be motivated enough to use addons and write reviews / rate addons and contribute to the ecosystem, attendees will already be exploring addons.mozilla.org (AMO) for extensions to enhance their browsing experience. The developers should already be ready to get started with their own addon development.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Making Digital Rights inclusive of women and queers",
"owner": {
"name": "Shubha Kayastha",
"organization": "Body & Data"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6b06ebae-095a-49e4-a7d6-bc4cd1a3a6ff",
"description": "The session will bring individuals and organisations from different background linked directly or indirectly to digital rights including hackers, digital security trainers, software engineers, developers, coders, data scientists, human rights activists, women and queer rights activist, among others. The session will use discussion as the methodology to discuss the gender disparity and discrimination that exist in the policy, practice within the community and the stakeholders associated. Gender disparity in terms of access to technology and internet is a well established fact, and many have been working towards mitigating that gap. However, we are yet to look deeper into the disparity that already exists based on one’s gender and sexual orientation which will be the main purpose of this session.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to bring narratives of people who are part of digital rights community based on their experience and observation of disparity and discrimination they have faced/seen on the ground of gender and sexual orientation. These narratives from one students, activists, professionals or leaders of organizations in one space will show what kind of discriminations people are facing and how it affects the movement, and would be documented. The session will also include sharing and brainstorming strategies that individuals and organizations are undertaking or could undertake to challenge these disparities and to establish diverse and safe space for everyone within the movement. This will also be a learning and sharing space.",
"required": "Chart papers, markers, sticky notes",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Let's take back control over our devices!",
"owner": {
"name": "Serge Abiteboul",
"organization": "ARCEP (French Telecom Regulator) - Board member"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bea7b0fb-fbec-4433-8db5-fb9a2143ee7b",
"description": "During this session, we will discuss how to defend an open and free internet that respects the free will of everyone by better controlling connected objects such as smartphones and voice assistants. For that, we will share our experiences on biases introduced by these objects and ideas about means towards improving the situation, whether market or regulatory-based. In this respect, see for instance, the report published recently on the topic by the French telecom regulator ( https://bit.ly/2CowAmy ). The solutions put forward by Arcep will provide a basis for discussion.",
"goal": "A first objective is to exchange on the very fact of knowing if we are deprived of our freedom to choose today or not. Beyond the exchange of feelings and possible awareness, the goal is to identify and fine-tune potential remedies on the basis of the proposals put forward by developers or regulators. My goal is to collect the maximum of views from users who know or do not know how the technology and uses works and to have a feedback on their experience either as a developer or as a user. Thus, we may identify avenues for future actions, conducted either by public authorities or private bodies.",
"required": "A projector and office supplies (paper, pens, post-it notes) will suit perfectly.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Delusive Server",
"owner": {
"name": "Tejaswi N",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "49602e78-c28d-48f7-8b85-8daea94c8d7b",
"description": "The participants will be forecasted on how the applications are built on the cloud and the critical need for Serverless approach. Later we would have a detailed discussion on Serverless engineering and how it manages complexity. Moving on we would illustrate the various apparatus utilized and use cases.Subsequently, we would discuss the impact of dialects like python and node.js on Serverless and the outcome on the dialect's environment.In Hands-on session, we influence the participants to build their own serverless application on the cloud platform and make them explore the cloud environment tools.",
"goal": "Towards the end of the session, Participants could analyze how we’ve built frameworks previously, and what server less offers us now.",
"required": "Projector - 1Stationary",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Modern identity",
"owner": {
"name": "Mehul Patel",
"organization": "Auth0"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "19517678-d251-404d-a52c-b4cbd9d9bf5b",
"description": "Modern identity is a lot more than just the login screen. In this talk, the audience learned about the different concepts that make up modern identity. In this session, we will cover following topics : * How Mozilla use Auth0 for Identity and Access Management (IAM)* Common Web Security Vulnerabilities* Passwordless * SSO (Single Sign On)* Introduce to OAuth 2* Multi Factor authentication You’ll have lots of opportunities to ask questions both technical and non-technical.",
"goal": "Authentication is one of the big parts of every application. Security is always something that is changing and evolving.* Promote and Educate participants about authentication & authorization.* Learn about the different concepts that make up the modern identity.",
"required": "Sticky notes, Markers, Posters.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Bias in, Bias out: Prototyping Nutrition Labels for Better AI",
"owner": {
"name": "Kasia Chmielinski",
"organization": "Dataset Nutrition Label Project; also, US Digital Service"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "43bbb920-35f1-4376-a2a3-87cf561f5b63",
"description": "What can AI learn from the food industry? Currently, problematic datasets used to build AI models often produce problematic results, perpetuating bias and discrimination. Food nutrition labels help consumers understand what they are eating. Likewise, datasets nutrition labels indicate the contents of a dataset, which can then inform more responsible usage. In this session, we will briefly present our work, the Dataset Nutrition Label Project. The bulk of the session will be committed to hands-on activities to prototype the user interface, content, and distribution of such labels, centered on discussion of the type of harm they’re intended to mitigate and the challenges that come along with such an initiative.",
"goal": "There are multiple goals of this session. We want to raise awareness of the concept of ‘dataset health’. We hope to surface or highlight relevant categories of information for Nutrition Labels through a rapid prototyping activity. Lastly, we want to empower a diverse range of participants and perspectives to join the conversation and contribute to the space of AI + algorithms.",
"required": "Projector for presentation; paper; large and small post-its, pens / pencils / markers; we will supplement with odd(er) crafting materials.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "DATAROT : Fragile Data to Dequantify the Self",
"owner": {
"name": "Pia Pandelais",
"organization": "Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"Artist Open Web",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "dd6c234c-2957-4fe5-825e-cf5cd7482f76",
"description": "We will tell a story using tarot cards as cues to re-write a queer history of self-care and tech in the light of recent developments such as the Quantified Self movement.Participants will be accompanied into a geodesic dome to delve further into the story by engaging in mini-workshops : drawing as self-care, using tarot as a tool of self-discovery, etc.",
"goal": "- educate participants on the possibilities of drawing as a tool for mediation, communication and self-appreciation- prompt discussions on the relationship between tech work, the body, the self and others",
"required": "We will just need room for the dome (which will be 3 meters wide)",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Sensory Imaging (interactive installation)",
"owner": {
"name": "Adrian Sas",
"organization": "adriansas.com"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f1d3bdcb-1d14-49ef-a859-0cbff0d6dc28",
"description": "Sensory Imaging is a interactive installation designed to engage participants of all abilities in multi-sensory exploration. Sensory Imaging's \"magic\" screen harvests data from participants' physical actions using computer vision to produce generative art expressions that connect the proprioceptive, visual, and tactile senses. In effect, the screen reacts to contact and prodding by displaying explosions of color which originate at the point of impact and correspond in size to the depth of the impression, rendering a real time, four-dimensional map of activities.http://adriansas.com/sensory-imaging",
"goal": "Sensory Imaging offers participatory opportunities without exclusion. No matter your ability, age, language or even verbal proficiency, Sensory Imaging is sure to delight. By adding dimension to what at first appears to be a flat screen, the element of surprise sparks curiosity which can lead to exploration, experimentation and discovery. How can I control it? What actions is it tracking? What happens if I do this with my body? How does it work?",
"required": "Projector (and mount) Frame for ScreenExclosure",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Taking back the web! Set up your first SAFE website in under a minute",
"owner": {
"name": "Pierre Chevalier",
"organization": "MaidSafe"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9699a082-01bf-47b1-8382-b5d2fb430dc5",
"description": "The SAFE Network (safenetwork.tech) is a decentralized autonomous network currently in alpha state. Featured at the Decentralized Web Summit 2018, it aims to give back to internet users full ownership of their data.We will show you how toa) Get your website on the safe network and accessible to the whole network without any central authority!b) Provide an overview of the SAFE network + app ecosystem / APIs",
"goal": "Participants will create a SAFE 'domain' and host their site on the human-friendly, decentralised SAFE Network.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Privacy is not a luxury: one-click install for open source server-side application",
"owner": {
"name": "Maddalena Falzoni Gallerani",
"organization": "MaadiX"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4b53fe5e-8000-4a93-add3-43d8d4b2de84",
"description": "The session will begin introducing the technology developed by MaadiX, a novel approach to remote control tools that provides one-click-install of open source applications, while granting full privacy.The use of open source is sometimes limited by the complexities of its installation, configuration, administration and use, especially for server-side applications.Let's solve it!We will invite participants to choose roles: final user, developer, sysadmin, provider...From each point of view, we will identify the barriers that inhibit the wider reach of open source, as well as the tools and strategies to get rid of them.We will draw together an improved workflow, to increase significantly the scope of open source applications, taking into account existing solutions and technologies.",
"goal": "The goal is to:Build and offer solutions to a society that is increasingly concerned about privacy but with fewer and fewer mechanisms for protecting it. Technology must be at the service of society, not the other way around.Solve the difficulties that the community finds when installing, maintaining and using server-side open source applications.Develop strategies to minimize the difficulties in migrating to open source, decentralized and independent tools, reducing frustration and resignation by users or sysadmins. Draw together prototypes to ensure that privacy is not a luxury, but a right available to everyone.Evaluate which features are necessary and how they can be implemented to ensure safer environments for those groups that operate in high-risk areas.",
"required": "ProjectorWe plan to use online tools to work collaboratively.Plugs and internet connection for attendees would be greatAs an alternative, some sheets/post-it and pens could do the job",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Man vs Machine (RPA) : 3-2-One-Done",
"owner": {
"name": "Vibhanshu Chaudhary",
"organization": "Mozilla India"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "48008cde-4caf-437e-bb94-c5f22bf7d23f",
"description": "RPA/RoboticProcessAutomation brings together the power of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and many other technologies. This session is a great opportunity for those who would like to taste and witness most of these technologies at the same-time, same-place, within such a less-time and most importantly, with practical implementation/hands-on followed by discussion individually or in groups. It will get started with brainstorming day-to-day real life scenarios/tasks that we can automate just right away and that requires substantial manual efforts, time, resources and obviously cumbersome to perform. After selecting few scenarios, we all will start developing flows for scenarios and run them. The crux of session is we will get tasks done **automatically** in **few** **seconds** that may require **hours/days** to do **manually**.",
"goal": ">The goal is to introduce attendees with powerful capabilities of RPA that they can implement in their fields of working, be it a student, IT-Professional, ProjectManager, Businessmen, CEO, anybody.>We will play with huge amount of data that’s actually difficult and almost impossible to work on manually, thus supporting MozFest theme **“Data** **and** **You”**. For example, to extract and get list of all books of a particular author along with their prices from a website containing lakhs of books.>We will implement concepts like Screen Scraping, Data Scraping, Image and Text Automation, Email Automation, Robot Deployment to name a few.>The session will guarantee participants with new concepts, ideas in their minds and excitement, a big smile on their faces.",
"required": "Internet connectivity, Projector, Sticky notes, Markers. That's all I need to rock the session and make participants feel accomplished. :)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Grassroots Against the Digital Divide: Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework to Engage Communities and Effect Change",
"owner": {
"name": "Evert Keller",
"organization": "Austin Public Library"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "76569f92-6616-4130-93f8-f9ef0d609ea7",
"description": "Participants will be introduced to the Advocacy Coalition Framework, a model of grassroots policy change through community engagement, and be lead through an activity to identify potential coalition partners. Through application of this model, organizations and communities are empowered to bring digital inclusion issues to the forefront of planning and policy change discussions. After a short introduction, participants will explore the potential they see to build advocacy coalitions in their own communities, and identify potential goals for the new power-bases they will be building, through the interactive activities and discussion with the panel.",
"goal": "Participants will come away from this session with clearer perspective on building relationships between organizations that provide digital inclusion services, administrative agencies and the people excluded by the digital divide. They will also learn how to leverage these relationships to promote policy changes and get the vital attention their causes need to become priorities. Finally, they will begin the process of identifying potential coalition partners in their community, and the channels through which to advocate for change.",
"required": "For this presentation we would need a projector, and pens and paper. If possible, 2 easels with white paper would also be very useful.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Your community, your digital security: Building digital resilience one link at a time",
"owner": {
"name": "Josh Levy",
"organization": "Center for Digital Resilience"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d7c53eef-41e1-4663-a3ea-6149535aa4e7",
"description": "The security of a community depends on the actions taken by individual members of that community, working alone and with others. This includes the ability to recognize a risk, talk about what to do, and act individually in a way that increases the overall security of the group. In this hands-on learning forum, moderators will 1) share specific challenges around securing large groups, 2) work with attendees to identify strategies for building digital resilience across organizations, communities, and networks, and 3) identify the barriers standing in the way of such work and the pathways around them.",
"goal": "Goals include: - Locate opportunities for building solidarity and trust to bridge communities experiencing security challenges or crises brought on by new laws and policies where they work. - Identify tools, small wins, and rituals that help communities achieve and maintain security in a powerful way and not out of fear or anxiety. - Explore or develop language and framing that helps us maintain compassion and support for change agents within groups that keep momentum going.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Data for Trade Unions",
"owner": {
"name": "Jonathan Penn",
"organization": "University of Cambridge"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b9600883-fc0f-4762-a58d-24c6139c972e",
"description": "In our session, we will ask participants to think about how digital technologies could be used by unions and young workers to improve young people's job quality and voice in the growing digital world of work. How can unions make best use of the data available to them? We will discuss the barriers that currently limit union's use of data and the skills and systems needed to overcome them. We will end by critiquing a three-part sustainable data strategy that covers (a) goal-setting, (b) data acquisition & stewardship, (c) potential applications.",
"goal": "Recent predictions about the future of work point in the direction of an incredibly fluid labour market. Workers face a more precarious work life, where the individualisation of work -- seen as a push towards self-employment and loose contracts and other forms of non-standard employment -- become the norm. This is particularly the case for many young workers, who already today are experiencing rising unemployment and/or an increasingly loose attachment to the labour market. Our goal is to understand how trade unions from around the world – the natural and historic advisor and guardians of collective rights – must adapt to this new digital economy to meet the needs and aspirations of young workers. We want to hear your opinion!",
"required": "A projector and office supplies (pens, post-it notes) would be fantastic to have if possible!",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Beyond the Hype - Lets play with AI/ML",
"owner": {
"name": "Ishan Ojha",
"organization": "Stylumia Intelligence Private Limited"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Waiting for response"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ec8a0120-3c86-4f31-a1dc-dbb44f1ed25b",
"description": "The pace with which AI/ML is taking over the industry, everyone has started talking about this but still the majority fails to understand.In this session, we'll be explaining this technology by using a real life example with which most of us can relate.Session Outline:-- Show a product- Ask everyone to review the same in a google form.- Ask anyone to conclude by going through all the reviews- Doing the above inference using an AI/ML computer program, which will give the percentage of positive and negative comments and also the key points so that one can easily conclude- Compare the time, efforts and efficiency of the above two ways.- Basics of AI/ML",
"goal": "- The basic understanding of AI/ML- The kind of problem AI/ML is solving- How it is making end users' life easier by providing a brain which will work for them to save time and efforts.",
"required": "Everyone needs a device(smartphones) to access internet to hit the google docs URL and review the product, and also a screen where I can represent my computer program.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building a dynamic real-time DApp without a blockchain",
"owner": {
"name": "Pedro Teixeira",
"organization": "Protocol Labs"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "49c9dfb9-4681-4e8d-b25d-462b3d92cf7f",
"description": "Only using open-source tools and no blockchains we will help the participants in creating a decentralised web app that is collaborative and real-time.",
"goal": "Participants will know how to build a fully decentralised web app that is collaborative and real-time.",
"required": "We need a projector.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Security Or Convenience? Learn How To Have Both With Qubes OS.",
"owner": {
"name": "Getúlio Silva",
"organization": "Information Systems student at Universidade Federal de Goiás (Federal University of Goiás)"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9503ca59-c206-4341-a065-90875c8f3bd9",
"description": "Participants will be briefly introduced to concepts related to digital security and asked to share experiences regarding their technology use and possible risks they face. Qubes OS will be discussed as a possible tool to improve their digital security and privacy and address the expressed concerns. Finally the procedures for media creation, installation and utilization of Qubes OS will be shown and simultaneously executed on computers(if any) brought by attendees.",
"goal": "- Present Qubes OS as a viable way to obtain high levels of security and privacy, that would otherwise require extensive knowledge and work to be attainable.- Give the interested an opportunity to ask questions and clarify doubts related to Qubes OS, privacy and security, in person.- Provide a first FLOSS OS installation and usage instructions for those using proprietary ones.- Establish new connections in order to grow a global support network for users and organizations at risk.",
"required": "Participants interested in executing a Qubes OS installation should be advised beforehand to bring their computers and USB drives. On the other hand, a couple extra computers and USB drives could be useful if someone still wanted to reproduce the process while not having their own hardware. A projector and an adequate screen or wall will help demonstrate the installation steps. None of this equipment is essential though. Both facilitators request travel stipends.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Decentralised Identity: state of the art and future",
"owner": {
"name": "Pedro Teixeira",
"organization": "Protocol Labs"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f0ea5f58-d92a-4a80-bffd-2be81b19a34b",
"description": "We will discuss the basic principles of identity in a decentralised environment.We will analyse the most relevant projects that address identity and how they do it.We will present an RFC for how to, in the context of a decentralised web app, we can generalize identity and manage it in a provider-agnostic way, as well as the challenges in the way.We will lead a debate around this proposal, gathering pros and cons of certain design decisions.",
"goal": "Attendees that didn't, now will have a better understanding of decentralised identity.We will have a document with a list of techniques, design decisions and respective pros and cons that lead to a generic solution for the decentralised identity management.",
"required": "A projector.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Design Openly with Us: Firefox Extensions & Themes Submission Process",
"owner": {
"name": "Jennifer Davidson",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "61548426-8592-4de9-a0c8-a4f4dfb74026",
"description": "The Firefox web browser gives people the power to customize their web experience. One way Firefox does this is through extensions and themes, which are created by individuals and companies. A key part of a developer’s journey is submitting their extension/theme for publication on addons.mozilla.org. As Firefox staff and volunteers, we want to provide developers with an accessible, thoughtful submission process that enables them to create great product pages. In the spirit of openness, we invite the MozFest community to develop new ideas for this submission process! No technical experience needed. Participants will sketch a submission process, submit a test extension/theme, and reflect on how their submission flow compares to/improves upon the current one.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to come up with a variety of ideas on how to improve upon our submission process for Firefox extensions and themes. The facilitators plan to use the sketches, ideas, and insights from the workshop to inform and inspire the development of a new submission process. Another goal of the session is to show MozFest attendees how to run participatory design/co-design sessions so that they can employ and share this methodology with their organizations and communities. Participants will gain experience designing in the open—no familiarity with Firefox or technical skills are required.",
"required": "ProjectorPaper - A4 Pens / markersPost-it notes",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Please Don't Include Us, Thank You",
"owner": {
"name": "sarah aoun",
"organization": "Mozilla Open Web Fellow 2017-2018"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4d465f4a-94e9-421e-888f-2ee1d1b987aa",
"description": "Facial recognition and diversity have not gone together seamlessly. On the one hand, despite the popular rise of facial recognition technology over the past several years, we have witnessed the exclusion of people of color from the design and implementation process. Facial recognition tools are often discriminatory, and time after time, softwares either fail to recognize people of color or mislabel them. On the other hand, facial recognition technology is also one that is increasingly integrated into police and state surveillance tools. Addressing these tensions, we will explore tools of surveillance and whom they target, the social and political implications of AI development, and the unintended effects that diversity and inclusion might have.",
"goal": "We will have a discussion about facial recognition technology and diversity, and the unintended impacts they might have on communities of color and on groups that are already heavily surveilled. We will draw on current political and tech news, and explore examples of failed applications of AI technology. We also aim to develop principles of ethical AI development that are built with safety, security, and privacy as the primary focus. This is will happen in the form of group activity.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Localizing the Internet Health Report: Prototyping with NYC",
"owner": {
"name": "Meghan McDermott",
"organization": "Mozilla Foundation (Fellow)"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d3324c81-5552-442b-9968-a86d66736d4d",
"description": "Over the last year, Mozilla Foundation and the NYC Mayor’s Office of the CTO have partnered to adapt the global Internet Health Report (IHR) to the city-level in order to capture and share the dynamic digital work of the city. Through policy, programs and partnerships, the localized Internet Health Report features a city committed to digital rights. In this proposed learning forum, we will: 1) present NYC’s draft/in-progress report for clarifying questions and feedback; 2) discuss the partnership, why NYC sees value in this work for itself and other cities, and share how we curated content; and, 3) seek input about its broader value and application to identify next steps for Mozilla and allies on the ground.",
"goal": "Our goals are to: 1) generate awareness of how localization by NYC offers a powerful means of demonstrating internet health impacts for other cities; and 2) get honest feedback on the current draft to inform revisions. Taken together, these goals address core deliverables of the Mozilla Fellowship tasked with facilitating and supporting localization.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Queering the internet: Do we queer the internet or does the Internet normalise us?",
"owner": {
"name": "Martu Mojica",
"organization": "la_bekka (feminist hacklab in Madrid) https://eskalerakarakola.org/hacklab-feminista/"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e33c2603-2c11-4bf2-b646-1f5c674398c1",
"description": "A short discussion about the following questions:1. What do you do to make the Internet more queer? How the Internet help you to explore & develop your queerness?2. How does the Internet normalise* you, or put boundaries to your queerness? How do you normalize the internet, or contribute to thenormalisation* of the people through the Internet?*When we say 'normalise'/'normalisation' we mean the action/process to reduce the gender and sexuality diversity in our communities.After the discussion, we will suggest the participants to write their thoughts and feelings down in the sheets that later will be used to create a \"zine\" (small, easy to copy, easy to assemble, self-edited magazine).",
"goal": "To create a place to have a reflection about how the Internet affectto our gender/sexuality/queerness development.To create a resource to suggest other people to think about this topic(Internet/queerness/normalisation): a small queer cool easy to read Zine!",
"required": "It'll be useful having glue, scissors, staplers and staples, pens, markers and some glitter.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "E-Admit Card using Biometrics",
"owner": {
"name": "Anoop Krishnan G S",
"organization": "CUSAT"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f2493261-229a-4bda-9215-65a4123be891",
"description": "The users(students) can register themselves using their details and biometrics. The will be getting e-mail alerts on the updates of exam process.Users won't have to carry a hardcopy of admit card to the exam hall instead go there and get themselves verified using username and biometrics .Digital , secure and efficient way to bring a change to present education exam system.",
"goal": "Reduction in malpractices during exam i.e. no fake candidates will be allowed inside the exam centres.Digital and user friendly which can be implemented at lower costs .The same model can be implemented for various processes thus improving the system without manipulating it.",
"required": "The office Supply(pen and a projector) would sufficient .",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Keeping care of your privacy. What are the potential pitfalls of decentralization?",
"owner": {
"name": "Christopher Guess",
"organization": "Duke Reporters' Lab, Duke University"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "829b2869-7b4b-4bb9-8d49-7d7e01a81130",
"description": "The participants and myself will look at the implications on privacy and data security of the internet community's drive towards decentralization. After a brief introduction, the group will discuss the pros and cons that come with the lack of centralized data repositories. For instance; what does it mean when your internet history is scattered on dozens, if not hundreds, of individual Mastodon instances or various immutable blockchains? We will hopefully tackle questions such as how to handle slander and the right to be forgotten when there is no central place to ask for your data to be scrubbed. What societal implications could this have, and what can technologists and open data advocates do to help address this?",
"goal": "I hope that we can raise questions that are not being discussed widely, and perhaps even throw out a few possible answers. My goal is that we can engage with and listen to experiences and issues from people with a wide range of life experiences and knowledge sets.I don't hope that we either laud or lionize decentralization. This will be a session designed to make people think about their own preconceived notions and biases when it comes to these emerging technologies. It will be a chance to shape them into a positive and affirming movement for society.",
"required": "Poster board, markers, pens, sheets of paper, sticky notes.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "When VR meets Internet of things: Life beyond second life",
"owner": {
"name": "Pooja Purswani",
"organization": "Mozilla Tech Speakers"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ecac69dc-0853-4547-9d3e-5b79e62a278e",
"description": "\"It gets even more interesting when virtual and augmented reality meets the Internet of Things.\" — Phil ReppImagine the possibilities that can exist if we were to we combine the worlds of Virtual Reality and Internet of Things. This session will enable people with minimal knowledge of VR and basic IoT boards(such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi) to experience the best of IoT & VR worlds.Furthermore, attendees will get a chance to tinker with an Internet controlled, remote tele-robot that we have built as a prototype using Raspberry Pi with Arduino, as they transport and assume the identity of a web-connected robot, tasked with monitoring and maintaining atmospheric conditions. Thus getting the experience of a remote location via the Internet",
"goal": "By this hands-on audience will learn how to Combine IoT with VR and hence make their own smart telepresence robotic system like Jarvis.By the end of the session, the audience will gain an increased understanding of the VR and IoT landscape, as well as how these technologies can be combined to give them an experience in life that was previously never-before-possible",
"required": "extra space for keeping the robot, as robot will be operated from a remote location and will be displaying the view from the camera to a VR device at the user end",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Alternative approaches to improving web search accuracy/experience",
"owner": {
"name": "swaleh Abubakar Ahmed",
"organization": "coastech empowerment community"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "71692995-3e44-4a0e-8850-bb1f5de00007",
"description": "session will start with 'web search' demonstrating the hustle of finding what one might be looking for on the web using random sets of keywords from the audience.[break] It will be followed by a presentation of findings from our research on the same and later a presentation of our proposed solution to this problem. [break]We shall then have an open floor question and answer or discussion period.",
"goal": "1. share our findings on web search accuracy2. share our idea of a solution to improve web search accuracy3. receive constructive criticism/ review of the approach4. from the open discussion, come up with possible alternative approaches besides ours",
"required": "projector, office supplies",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Silent pirate party with raspberry pi",
"owner": {
"name": "Dipesh Monga",
"organization": "Mozilla Tech Speakers"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "35d7382e-517e-4b34-a897-8ba46f9db9b6",
"description": "This session will be an Icebreaker session which can be held after every hour within the duration of Mozfest or can be an after party sessionParticipants will register for the event and registered participants will be given a frequency of FM, which everyone can tune into using their mobile phones' FM with their headphones and a silent atmosphere instantly transforms into a high energy musical performance.All this broadcasting will be done by using raspberry pi (PiFm) which has the capacity to broadcast all around the college premises.",
"goal": "The participants will be able to listen to the brodacast done by raspberry pi on pirate FM, thus they will get an idea about how boards such as raspberry pi has the capibilites much more than playing minecraft or turning an LED on/off.Interested participants will be given demo on how they can create their own Pirate radio ( just for educaitonal purposes)",
"required": "",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Let's go for a musical walk",
"owner": {
"name": "Pooja Purswani",
"organization": "Mozilla Techspeakers"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "26102e99-8cc0-4739-87de-ebe952bc51bd",
"description": "It will be an interactive session where participants will create music just by walking up and down on the stairs.Each staircase will represent a different keynote of music, hence the participants can create music when they walk over them.This system will be made using an Arduino and some sensors, thus the session will help the people understand the basics of Arduino and its usability with this fun activity.Reference Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mHj853z_PU",
"goal": "The system will be installed at the available staircase of the college where Mozfest is held. Participants will learn how to build their own musical stairs using Arduino and Raspberry Pi with this fun activity.Moreover, it will encourage them to learn about open source hardware with this hands-on activity.They can even create more advance versions of it such as a security detector in case an intruder climbs up the stairs",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Openning up of Access to Research & Scholarly Outputs",
"owner": {
"name": "Sridhar Gutam",
"organization": "ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9796f05d-df2d-42b8-917e-a5334b9787da",
"description": "Panel discussion on how we can use the web for being more open and share all the research and scholarly outputs. The panelists will speak and there will be discussion followed by it the attendees or remote persons will contribute or share their works openly into the open web.",
"goal": "Populating open access web with research and scholarly outputs licensed under CCBY.",
"required": "People will get their laptops. Wifi with internet and power sockets are required.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Your Data being Tor-Pi-ed",
"owner": {
"name": "Hitesh Monga",
"organization": "NIT Hamirpur"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5d10515c-19ea-49f0-bd44-982efd488f51",
"description": "A recent change in laws have ruined the privacy of the user and the internet user is under a great threat. Imagine, if we are able to use anonymous Gateway using tor for Unidentified internet use, protecting us from any traffic analysis as well as network spying just my simple plug and play. This session will include :Information about Tor, why it is in demand and clearing the common misconceptions,Demonstration on how to Convert your raspberry pi into tor gateway,Demo of connecting a LAN connection to pi, which converts a normal internet connection to a secured and unidentified Tor network,Activities like showing how ISPs track user usage, opening protected websites, becoming anonymous on the internet.",
"goal": "The Tor raspberry Pi creates an own wireless network, with which other devices can connect. All data to this wireless network will be routed through Tor, independently if you use a desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone or any other device. From this session: • The audience will learn how unidentified internet use can help data theft and piracy• Will learn uses of raspberry pi other than turning on/off a LED• Indulging the audience in these activities so that they could learn creating tor gateway on raspberry pi in the easy way.• Performing various other activities that show what are the problems that persist on the internet now and how an in helpful in eradicating them",
"required": "Office stationry",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Making Presentations more effective and overcoming stage fear with WebVR",
"owner": {
"name": "Hitesh Monga",
"organization": "NIT Hamirpur"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Young Adult Lead"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "Virtual Reality is the future of all industries and it is progressively taking commands in all fields. The session consists of 2 parts: presenting with VR experience and learning the art of public relations. Even a beginner without knowledge of VR and coding can learn from the session.The session includes: · Introduction to Virtual Reality, how easily VR scenes can be created, How to make use of Virtual Reality.· Demonstration of coding for VR using Javascript (A-frame) to convert normal presentation in a virtual reality presentations· Demos: 1. Overcoming public fear by practicing in front of a virtual audience on VR 2. Making Your Presentation more lively and real by adding a new dimension of VR·",
"goal": "After the demonstration the participants can make their own presentations, script to be delivered to virtual audience, showcasing their own products/items by making changes in codes · The audience will get great tools for overcoming stage fear and making their presentation for showcasing.· By making these complicated looking projects themselves they would also learn that creating these projects is really easy and interesting· They will also learn how webVR can transform the normal VR experience· Creating these projects themselves they would learn how VR is transforming our lives",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Digital Rights Monopoly",
"owner": {
"name": "Esther Mwema",
"organization": "Digital Grassroots"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "99d24bca-3e28-4946-8f1f-a6040118f33b",
"description": "We are creating a simulation game of Monopoly based on digital rights, abuses and data breaches currently affecting our digital world. This version of web literacy engages the participant in a game to recognize global internet issues through our version of Digital Rights Monopoly. Three facilitators will be role playing as the Jailer, Narrator and Banker, in order to narrate to the participant the digital right predicament they have landed themselves in. At the end of the session of a game of Digital Rights Monopoly, we will offer participants actionable steps to get involved in improving web literacy and raise awareness on digital rights for the underrepresented. This game can be played by any number of players per time.",
"goal": "We are raising awareness of the varying digital rights circumstances across the globe through an intimate game of Digital Rights Monopoly. Thereafter, we will get participants involved in making commitments towards improving web literacy in underrepresented regions and joining campaigns to spread word about digital rights through our youth network 'Digital Grassroots'.The Digital Rights Monopoly game will include a ‘START’ and ‘JAIL’, just as the ordinary Monopoly. The game will have stations that include; Net Neutrality, Internet Shutdown, Data Breach, Surveillance as well as Internet perks like Open Data, Working Open, or owning a Digital Company such as Ebay or Facebook. The role players including Jailer, Narrator, and Banker will explain each step for the participant and offer resolutions.",
"required": "ProjectorTwo large tables",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Make your own decentralised zine with Dat and IIIF",
"owner": {
"name": "Edward Silverton",
"organization": "Mnemoscene"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "In this session participants will create a IIIF zine for a subject of their choice and publish it using the Dat protocol.The International Image Interoperability Framework (iiif.io) is a family of specifications designed to allow silos of image content to be combined and annotated.Dat is a decentralised data-sharing protocol.Participants will use an open source library called ‘biiif’ to generate the IIIF data in a github pages repository and universalviewer.io to view it. They will then add their data to a Dat archive and view their finished zine in Beaker Browser.An example zine made with biiif and the Universal Viewer: https://grafton9.net/codici-immaginari/index.html",
"goal": "Participants will learn about how IIIF can be combined with Dat to self-publish decentralised, interoperable media. It will demonstrate that these technologies are compatible and accessible to all.",
"required": "A TV screen or projector with an HDMI/VGA connection would be useful for presenting to all attendees.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Beat the drums: Pi-Music for everyone",
"owner": {
"name": "Hitesh Monga",
"organization": "NIT Hamirpur"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Young Adult Lead"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "The session will include:1. Introduction to the unique way of using almost anything as input with the help of capacitive touch buttons , how it works and introduction to raspberry pi.2. A fun zone Involving the audience in lively activities including quizzes, trivia, etc. and using capacitive touch as buzzers, making customized beat box, using various objects as inputs and some other fun activities.3. Demonstration on how to build code for using touch for generating sounds and other activities, teaching ininteractive manner from scratch4. Discussing about the other ways of using capacitive touch and how to extend your projects further onraspberry and other hardwares like using it for animal/thief detector, etc.",
"goal": "This session will mainly focus on the introduction of open source hardware and development boards to common people with no prior knowledge of hardware and coding in form of fun activities and games because we believe open source is for everyone.With Capacitive touch we can use almost anything including household objects ranging from bananas to doors as inputs on your Raspberry Pi. For this session we would be using these as inputs to general musical beats and sounds from raspberry pi.To teach people, about creating raspberry pi projects, in interactive ways and creatinga belief that you don’t need to be a developer to code even a school kid with no basic knowledge can easilyget involved",
"required": "office supplies",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Weaving Web-native Stories through Cultural Collections",
"owner": {
"name": "Philo van Kemenade",
"organization": "Slovak National Gallery"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7991758b-9b06-43a1-8561-070e8a55d468",
"description": "Organisations like galleries, libraries, archives and museums are increasingly putting their collections online under open licenses 🎉 This is great, but how do we make sure people find out about it and have a meaningful experience?We will explore different web-native storytelling formats, and show examples of how they have been used to tell stories with collection materials.Participants will then work in small groups on a set of openly licensed works from museums, libraries or archives, in order to paper prototype a story for the web. Every group shares their prototype with the rest of the group. We’ll end the session with a discussion of insights, challenges and opportunities.",
"goal": "* 🎨 Paper prototypes of stories about a particular cultural heritage collection * 💡 Fresh ideas for how to reach audiences with culture on the web idea* 🎉 Lots of creative inspiration",
"required": "flipchart paper, markers, post-its",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Tele-Pi-ty : Control your Pi with telegram",
"owner": {
"name": "Hitesh Monga",
"organization": "NIT Hamirpur"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Young Adult Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "75d7aa63-b78f-46ab-8a31-9a3bcf82be5a",
"description": "Who said telegram is just a messenger? What if we are able to use it to control our raspberry pi for doing a variety of tasks like sending and receiving messages on raspberry pi, controlling terminal commands, Controlling GPIO connected devices by phone on your Raspberry Pi, taking pictures automatically from raspberry pi. The session will comprise of :•\tIntroduction to telegram CLI on raspberry pi and how to install it?•\tIntroduction to LUA script and implementing the code on raspberry pi•\tDemonstration and activities involving the participants to control GPIO connected devices, take their pictures and performing amazing tasks on raspberry pi•\tDiscussing about its implementation like using it for home automation, etc.",
"goal": "How do chatbots change the way that we interact with the things connect to the Internet? With the advent of the internet of things, the demand for connected devices is increasing day by daty. Together we’ll teach, design and build chatbots that allow people to access various IoT devices using telegram•Teaching people about new ways to control raspberry pi and other connected devices over the internet •Performing audience-friendly activities so that people actually indulge in the process so that they develop a better understanding of the session•Showing more features of using telegram for raspberry pi like secret chats, search, group chats, advanced multimedia and messaging, etc.•Featuring this one of the best way to control GPIO controlled devices",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Rock-paper-code",
"owner": {
"name": "Matteo Menapace",
"organization": "Beesness"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Waiting for response"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0941169a-4d60-4ef7-96ba-3c1d2b31b67f",
"description": "How do you make a new game? You hack an existing game with new stories and/or new rules. Learn, design, transform, playtest, and try out other people's hacks of rock-paper-scissors. No prior game design or coding knowledge required.",
"goal": "This will be your PARTY BAG:- Learn how to code a simple videogame with Thimble- Develop a (video)game prototype- Foster a critical thinking approach to “entertainment commodities” (aka games)- Practice teamwork in a playfully structured activity- Learn a method that can be applied to game design and user experience design in general (using constraints to channel your creative response)",
"required": "Projector for coding demo, markers and post-its for ideation",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Data transfer using Light Bulbs (Li-Fi)",
"owner": {
"name": "Dipesh Monga",
"organization": "Mozilla Techspeaker"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Young Adult Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e7dd621c-f6f6-4eeb-a6f7-f9384735ddff",
"description": "Imagine only needing to hover under a street lamp to get public internet access, or downloading a movie from the lamp on your desk. This technology is currently in research but we have developed a prototype of LED bulb that is more secure and can transfer data, stream audio and images using just Light Bulbs.Moreover, there are some sensors connected inside the bulb to detect motion, smoke, PM 2.5 that makes the bulb smarter.The session is basically a presentation cum demo of the prototype that will be displayed for the whole duration of the exhibitionReference Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZTw-5nFUyY",
"goal": "The audience will be made familiar with this technology of the future (LiFi).We will be displaying the hardware used in the bulb that we have designed a small workshop, that can be done by teaching them building their own LiFi enabled bulbs and even take the project further.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Maze Faction",
"owner": {
"name": "Sakthi Anand",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": true,
"uuid": "0b1cd8b2-1b8a-4475-ae92-f5e13db950ec",
"description": "The session will focus on the importance of Web Assembly followed by its impact on web application and its standards. Moving on we would deliberate the reports and updates on the condition of Web assembly. Further, we discuss its association with internet browsers. The participants would be able to grasp the web assembly functions with the help of some real-world applications.In the hands-on session, we would guide the participants to explore the functionalities of Web Assembly Explorer. The participants would expertise the conversion of c++, rust codes to the web application through web assembly using Emscripten. Finally, we would provoke the participants to build the wasm module using wasm-int and c++.",
"goal": "Participants will walk out of the session with a clear understanding about web assembly and how it changes the way they write code for a web application.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Cosplay Diversity and Positivism",
"owner": {
"name": "Krissy Victory",
"organization": "Krissy Victory/VIctoryCosplay"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "15c0cc7c-6bdf-497c-8b2a-97dbf2e320d1",
"description": "I speak on different experiences about myself and the journey I went through as a black cosplayer experiencing racism, discrimination, harassment because of my skin tone. Other statements from other Black Cosplayers and talk about solutions and how it can be better as a community to spread positivity. For future black cosplayers.",
"goal": "To make people aware of the issues with Black Cosplay, To make people understand what cosplay is and an experience of a black cosplayer. To give hope to all cosplayers and give solutions on how to grow as a community.",
"required": "Microphone Slideshow program for photos and videos, booth so I can set up cosplay photos and let them touch photos and examine them.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Maze Faction",
"owner": {
"name": "Sakthi Anand",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "be8ee2d7-eba4-4657-a35d-29388cb960b3",
"description": "The session will focus on the importance of Web Assembly followed by its impact on web application and its standards. Moving on we would deliberate the reports and updates on the condition of Web assembly. Further, we discuss its association with internet browsers. The participants would be able to grasp the web assembly functions with the help of some real-world applications.In the hands-on session, we would guide the participants to explore the functionalities of Web Assembly Explorer. The participants would expertise the conversion of c++, rust codes to the web application through web assembly using Emscripten. Finally, we would provoke the participants to build the wasm module using wasm-int and c++.",
"goal": "Participants will walk out of the session with a clear understanding about web assembly and how it changes the way they write code for a web application.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Startups, personal projects & GDPR",
"owner": {
"name": "Yash Shah",
"organization": "LinkedIn"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3c5a95a4-3890-49ba-b017-c991b010a030",
"description": "The talk will share information regarding what attendees can do as part of their projects or startups to design their products in GDPR compliant way. What simple but crucial and at the same time are GDPR compliant decision they can take for their core products as well as internal products.",
"goal": "Attendees will feel empowered knowing some nitty gritty details, which they would not think otherwise while working on their projects.",
"required": "A presentation monitor.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Your queerness has been leaked.",
"owner": {
"name": "Stéphanie Ouillon",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] French",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "60ac6893-7098-4786-8c92-6322d9e39f56",
"description": "It starts like this: you participate to a small event run by queer folks. You end up being outed without your consent to thousands of people online. How? Well, a tweet sent from the event mentioned your name and picture.The thing is you might want to decide to whom, where and when you are comfortable disclosing your LGBTQIA identity(ies), be it offline or online. This includes being aware of all the hints you might leave on the web and who can have access to it.In this workshop, we'll share collective and individual strategies to help us protect our safety as queer folks who mind when and where they want to be out or not in a connected world.",
"goal": "Participants will discuss collectively about:- their experience as queer people disclosing – or – not their queer identity(ies) in various online and offline contextes and the issues they might have encountered;- how their queer identities or/and behaviors can be disclosed without their consent or their awareness to various third-parties online;- knowledge and practices to make conscious choices when disclosing queer-related stuff as well as protecting their safety when needed.",
"required": "This session will only be needing office supplies such as papers, post-it notes and pens.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Community Self Defense: Holding the Line for Safe Spaces",
"owner": {
"name": "hartsucker heartsucker",
"organization": "SecureDrop"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6ab1d478-9707-4f13-b4ca-783a5d15c774",
"description": "This session will be an open discussion where we talk about the challenges faced in creating and maintaining safe and collaboratives spaces, and how these spaces can be made robust again harassers, abusers, and trolls. We will cover policy (such as CoC's), communication between parts of the community, and different kinds of enforcement of these norms. Additionally, we will discuss the importance of keeping these spaces safe because of how they are targeted both to demoralize the left as well as to disrupt organized resistance to racism and fascism. This discussion is both why we need to maintain safe spaces as well as how we can do it.",
"goal": "The outcome of the session is to help people create space and run events where community members can feel safe and not be distracted by intentional and/or organized disruption. This discussion is motivated by the events of HOPE XII and will use it as an example of how a safe space was invaded and how we can prevent this in the future. We will also look to other historical examples of successful community resilience for inspiration. Participants who have been thus far unaware of of attempts to invade and dismantle safe spaces will have the issue brought to light, and those who already know can discuss how to defend safe spaces better.",
"required": "It would be good to ensure we have wifi so we can take notes in a collaborative pad. We would also like large paper and pens for people to take note and write down ideas (and also tables and chairs).",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "What happens when the unstoppable GDPR meets the immovable WHOIS?",
"owner": {
"name": "Martin Silva Valent",
"organization": "Datas (www.dat.as)"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4e34e446-ff64-4cf5-b342-3bb3c76d7675",
"description": "We are going to explore how the Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the manager of the Domain Name System (DNS), and it's unique and vanguard Multistakeholder Model for creating Internet Policy, is addressing their compliance to GDPR in the WHOIS database where Registrants (people who register a domain names) personal information has been publicly available so far. What is the stake at stake for the stakeholders? How are the solving this issue?",
"goal": "The goal is to create awareness, engagement, and debates on Privacy and Rights Protection issues in the Domain Name System and how the ICANN Multistakeholder Model create Intern Policy.",
"required": "as long as I can have audio and a way to connect to the projector to my mac I can deliver the sessión. Remote participation and recording would also amplify the effectivness of the session.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building Inclusive Community Based Digital Security Programs",
"owner": {
"name": "Sarah Aoun",
"organization": "Mozilla Open Web Fellow 2017-2018"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4fc509f5-12bc-491a-b360-b502fa4bcaa2",
"description": "The will be an interactive workshop encouraging people to think critically about the kinds of digital security support that works for them, meets their needs and their communities. Many of us agree that digital security support is broken. Traditionally, it’s been focused on parachuting (mostly Western) trainers into contexts they know nothing about, to focusing on short-term fixes. What have we been doing about it? And what can we learn from each other? The workshop will include various case study based activities, as a way of helping people build out an inclusive program design.",
"goal": "We’ll use the case studies to introduce key findings from research conducted over the past year on what healthy digital security support looks like. The session will encourage participants to think through the steps involved in building holistic and inclusive digital security programs.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Defying our senses to promote diversity and inclusion in science communication with IGNITE",
"owner": {
"name": "Gracielle Higino",
"organization": "Universidade Federal de Goiás"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d6fa2088-6c67-4f8b-8eb5-40f5cbe7b823",
"description": "The lack of scientific thinking is slowly compromising our progress as a society. We have seen the return of previously eradicated diseases, the propagation of hate based on misinformation and the interruption of technological innovations due to lack of political support for science. We believe that Science Communication can help to reverse that, and IGNITE is a project to recruit scientists to this battle by providing immersive training to them. In this session, we will try to bring IGNITE even further: we will first present the lessons we’ve already built; then we will brainstorm on how to communicate science in unusual and accessible ways. How can we explore different senses to communicate science? What are the limits for science communication?",
"goal": "We will use different objects (such as pen and paper, building blocks, clay and musical instruments) to explore and test the understanding of scientific concepts for different audiences, such as people with disabilities. We will produce algorithms for practical activities to use on IGNITE workshops, which are open, that will train scientists to make their research even more accessible. Our main idea is to bring some challenges: can a podcast be consumed by a Deaf person? Can a video be fun to a blind person as well? How can we make sure our images are communicating efficiently to the colorblind audience? We can improve the lessons we already have or come up with completely unexpected new lessons.",
"required": "We will need as many different objects we can gather. We would love to have modeling clay, building blocks, all sorts of paper, post-its, pens, glue, even musical instruments. We will also need a projector, but it’s not fundamental.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Importance of data in web and digital inclusion Programs In Africa",
"owner": {
"name": "Dorcas Adhiambo",
"organization": "Lakehub"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7b110db7-bd57-4637-86a0-10c7e1a1e73e",
"description": "Participants will be in groups with three to five people in each. Groups will make a poster to celebrate a holiday, the season of the year, or any other occasion All groups will make a poster about the same holiday or occasion. Each group will receive a bag of supplies to use in making their posters. They can use only the supplies given to their group; they may not borrow supplies from other groups. They will have the same time to complete the activities.When the allotted time is up, participants to put their unused supplies back into their bags. One at a time, they will display their posters.W hen all groups have completed their presentations will discuss the activity",
"goal": "To give insights on what variables to consider when initiating a web/digital program in developing economies like most countries in Africa. To guide participants in examining the various blind spots(including skewed data) that may hinder optimum participation in the web among people of varied socio-economic backgroundsParticipants will be asked to discuss how they felt when they noticed some people had more/fewer materials than they did, how the resources allocated affected their project, and whether their posters can represent a fair assessment of each of the team abilities and lastly would having more data on what was to be done help your team make a better poster.",
"required": "Five large ziplock bags with the following art supplies for each of the five groups:Group 1: Regular pencils and one colored pencilGroup 2: Regular pencils, colored pencils, crayons, assorted colored construction paperGroups 3 and 4: Regular pencils, colored pencils, crayons, assorted colored construction paper, scissors, colored markers, glue.Group 5: Regular pencils, colored pencils, crayons, assorted colored construction paper, scissors, rulers, colored markers, glue, tape, glitter, ribbons, stencils, and anything you can add to help this group",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Digital Equality",
"owner": {
"name": "Therese Keita",
"organization": "The Gambia YMCAs Computer Training Centre and Digital Studio"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Comms] Facilitator Not On Github",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6fd531ae-62ef-43aa-bdfd-5af67b42ab9c",
"description": "In 2018 half of the world’s population is expected to be online, the other half is made up of people with low literacy, low skilled, disabilities, poor, elderly and rural people. This will be an Interactive co-learning session that will question, provoke thought and help find solutions to how applications and services can be designed to include these people in the digital world to improve their skills and livelihood. The first part of the session will be a presentation on digital inclusion, after which participants would break into groups and have brainstorming sessions on problems faced, they would then come back, share what they came up with and break out again to come up with possible solutions.",
"goal": "This session targets everyone from the digitally excluded, developers, providers, policy makers or just enthusiasts. The goal of this session is to come up with ways in which the barriers of digital inclusion can be broken, to raise awareness on digital inclusion and the issues that are faced by affected people.",
"required": "ProjectorFlip chart paper Markers paper and pens",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Bugmark Demo",
"owner": {
"name": "Andy Leak",
"organization": "Bugmark"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Following",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7c6f5b5f-32dd-47f6-9904-4710763c151c",
"description": "Demonstrate Bugmark to Mozfest Attendees, Collect Feedback, Recruit Projects and Developers",
"goal": "Awareness of Market Driven Development for Open Source teams, recruitment of developers and project teams",
"required": "We'd like a couple of big monitors to show Kiosk-type display, and a table to set up a couple of laptops, and Wifi.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Personal Security: Fundamentals of Threat Modeling",
"owner": {
"name": "heartsucker heartsucker",
"organization": "SecureDrop"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "34e2e26d-abf9-4e84-a4fd-17fddb3628ac",
"description": "This session will be a lecture on basic operational security with heavy emphasis on threat modeling. There is a significant amount of material out in the world that discusses specific threat mitigations (such as \"use Signal, use Tor\"), but OpSec is not a one-size-fits-all discipline. Many users may be actively harmed by certain advice, and many others may be left exposed because they are edge cases. We will include concrete cases of applied security and walk through them as instructional exercises. The goal isn't to teach participants to memorize security advice, but to learn how to threat model and think critically on their own.",
"goal": "The goal of this talk and discussion is to help people build a better understanding of how to navigate the complex space of personal and digital security. This introduction will attempt to prevent the sense of \"security nihilism\" that is experienced by many who attempt to learn more about protecting themselves. We will cover basic threats, how they are implemented, their mitigations, and most importantly why those mitigations are chosen and why they work. We will use case studies (of fictitious characters) to illustrate how not everyone has the same threat model and therefore not everyone uses the same mitigations.",
"required": "We will need a projector or large TV for our slides.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Gardening++",
"owner": {
"name": "Geoffrey McIntyre",
"organization": "The Urban Farming Guys"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "I would like to show how micro-controllers, such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, can be used to augment gardening by using smart sensors and IoT. I have multiple devices capable of User Interfaces, Remote Monitoring, Internet Connectivity, as well as Google Sheets Databasing. These devices will be setup in various plants for people to view, and it is meant to inspire and inform people about smart gardening. Each of these devices will have an explanation beside it with more information on the project, as well as where to find the open source project files for each one.",
"goal": "I want to inspire and educate people. I would like for people to view my open source tech and replicate it in their own gardens. I'd really like to show how science and technology can make gardening easy and more importantly, fun!",
"required": "I would need a live plant, maybe a small fern, something that my equipment can monitor. I'd also need access to a wifi network, and power outlets. I can't think of anything else I would need off the top of my head, so that should be it.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Opening Up Parliamentary Debate Videos using Transcripts and Open Data",
"owner": {
"name": "Joscha Jaeger",
"organization": "filmicweb"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f7b2674b-9dce-42fb-b300-f74449531888",
"description": "In a 30min workshop, participants will learn how to work with parliamentary data (proceedings, videos, open data) in order to analyze, visualize and contextualize speeches held in different parliaments (using open-source tools). Based on an example project with the German Bundestag, we will discuss best practices and workflows, and present some funny insights into the peculiar world of public administrations and their relationship with open data.Directly following, we will present an idea for a collaborative project on opening up parliamentary debates and take 20min to identify important challenges with the group.Afterwards we will arrange in small groups (3-5 people) and take 30min to discuss the previously identified challenges. Outcomes will be documented and presented at the end.",
"goal": "We want to build up a community around this topic and this session is the kick-off. Our aim is to bring together people from various backgrounds (journalists, coders, political activists, social -and political scientists, librarians and archivists), who share the goal to fundamentally change the way we interact with video-based publications of political debates. Our session is a call to action towards collaborating on generic open-source solutions, which can be integrated in different jurisdictions, languages, countries, parliamentary systems and technological environments.",
"required": "- projector- paper- post-it notes- pens",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Augmenting online video with open cultural collections using FrameTrail",
"owner": {
"name": "Joscha Jaeger",
"organization": "filmicweb"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4ece82c2-90bd-436d-89e0-6ce0e9143d46",
"description": "Video is a very efficient medium to tell stories in human ways to broad audiences. However, we often have to simplify our stories to fit the linear format of video. We’ll start with a hands-on introduction to the open-source tool [FrameTrail] (https://frametrail.org), which allows editing, designing and interlinking online video with other media contents directly in the web browser.Participants will team up in pairs and use FrameTrail to augment a series of videos taken from the Cultural Heritage domain, with artworks from open online collections.No technical knowledge required.",
"goal": "- Hands-on experience with a new and exciting open-source video storytelling tool- Getting inspired about the opportunity of augmenting online video with openly licensed content- Gathering feedback on FrameTrail",
"required": "- projector",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Firefox for all - towards digital transformation",
"owner": {
"name": "Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran",
"organization": "Freelancer"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2d8aa463-a01b-4a32-bbd7-ee81c998225e",
"description": "We will be proposing our idea on how the second world countries/rural areas where they are not dependable on Internet connection can be made digitally inclusive.We would like to join hands with Mozilla to provide facilities for Firefox to be used without Internet. For this to happen,Firefox has to be a default /built-in browser in every system which will even work when the actual Internet connection gets problematic.Rural people don't need Internet for entertainment,however they need Internet to ensure that their basic needs like government services.All the government schemes which uses Internet can be preloaded in the browser.Database requires Internet connection and so once Internet is recovered, the browser will automatically upload the finished files and gives back an acknowledgement.",
"goal": "1. Our objective is to bring in people to the digital world without the dependency of internet which may not be surplus at all regions. So, we want Firefox to be the solution to shatter the limitations of e-government services which pertains due to the internet connection availability. 2. We are trying to transform our proposal from idea phase to implementation/model phase. So our outcomes will include to drive-in more contributors for the project and start working towards the real time development.",
"required": "Basic office supplies will do",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Firefox for all - towards digital transformation",
"owner": {
"name": "Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran",
"organization": "Freelancer"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "904abb1b-f3ed-4fd0-b888-056ea60d8c94",
"description": "We will be proposing our idea on how the second world countries/rural areas where they are not dependable on Internet connection can be made digitally inclusive.We would like to join hands with Mozilla to provide facilities for Firefox to be used without Internet. For this to happen,Firefox has to be a default /built-in browser in every system which will even work when the actual Internet connection gets problematic.Rural people don't need Internet for entertainment,however they need Internet to ensure that their basic needs like government services.All the government schemes which uses Internet can be preloaded in the browser.Database requires Internet connection and so once Internet is recovered, the browser will automatically upload the finished files and gives back an acknowledgement.",
"goal": "1. Our objective is to bring in people to the digital world without the dependency of internet which may not be surplus at all regions. So, we want Firefox to be the solution to shatter the limitations of e-government services which pertains due to the internet connection availability. 2. We are trying to transform our proposal from idea phase to implementation/model phase. So our outcomes will include to drive-in more contributors for the project and start working towards the real time development.",
"required": "Basic office supplies will do",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Living under a Digital Curfew: Repercussions and the way out",
"owner": {
"name": "Tanzeel Khan",
"organization": "Mozilla Reps / Jamia"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "559e1694-c93e-42af-8fa2-02d8648db47b",
"description": "Restrictions to Internet access are on the rise globally and India has the distinction of being home to the highest number of shutdowns in the world. The increased shutdowns have measurable economic costs but can also lead Internet users to self-censorship. In this session, we will briefly go over how Internet shutdowns have surfaced and grown, laws that govern their imposition, and how it may cause real-world problems in the long and short run. We’ll be dividing the audience into groups to discuss and come up with solutions, recommendations, and what policies and campaigns could be run, and what alternatives are there in terms of technology which the people living in the affected areas could make use of.",
"goal": "The session will focus on 1.The awareness about Internet shutdown, consequences, issues that the people living in the affected regions face, solutions they propose 2.and the discussion about What is the way out.3.Benefits and drawbacks of other forms of existing communication modes 4.What Policies or campaigns could be run in support of preventing shutdowns.5.What alternatives to the internet do we have and what needs to developed to help people communicate in case of an internet shutdown due to natural disaster or due to govt’s ‘kill switch’.6.Can we have a new mode of communication that could work without keeping Internet as an intermediate.7.How better can we document the internet shutdowns and its repercussions.",
"required": "Projector, paper, pens, post-it notes.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Web for all",
"owner": {
"name": "Shireesha Parampalli",
"organization": "Scripbox"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "37e01c5c-7140-44ed-8b28-2a4e8771787f",
"description": "Will be talking about about building app for age group 18 - 60.",
"goal": "Goal is any age group can build a web app quickly",
"required": "projector, paper, pen , laptops",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Discover the world of visualization",
"owner": {
"name": "Jayapreethi Mohan",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1e20df1a-37f8-454b-a2a6-21e2bd2410fe",
"description": "I would be beginning the session by giving an introduction on data visualization and its technologies available.Following the introduction and explanation on ggplot2 and qplot. Information visualization in search engine will be discussed for linking the data that is being processed between an user and the computer system.Participants would be taught to do simple and intermediate tasks with ggplot and qplot packages of R.Introduction on data visualization : 5minsggplot and qplot explanation: 15 minsInformation Visualization: 10 minsHands-on : 20 minsQueries and feedback : 10 mins",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to provide a clear view on data visualization for the participants and to make them understand the relation between an user and the browser through information visualization by which at the endwould be able to do the data visualization tasks given.",
"required": "Projector ,Stationery",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Gbada Tèrè na web",
"owner": {
"name": "Philippe Junior SIBIRO",
"organization": "SPJ Labs"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a6a4e9a3-cc4f-4a67-86c4-7820a0859144",
"description": "C’est une session consiste l’état de l’utilisation du web pendant la crise militaro-politique de 24 mars 2013 à mai 2018 en République Centrafricaine. L’utilisation des applications web qui se font par des faux informations continument en ligne jusqu’actuellement par de propagande de faux informations. En effet, la session consiste à présenter les applications qui donnent des fausses informations sur deux communautés afin que les deux communautés puissent s’entretuer entre eux. Ma session est une session de partage et d’échange sur les questions de fausses informations sur les applications web qui publient des informations qui poussent à la violence.",
"goal": "But Sensibiliser et promouvoir une bonne utilisation des applications web en CentrafriqueRésultat Informer 30 participants sur l’utilisation des applications web en République Centrafricaine Faire un plaidoyer après des 30 participants pour une action de filtre des fausses applications web en ligne pour la République Centrafricaine.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Helping Communities Make Choices With Decision Science",
"owner": {
"name": "Auriel Fournier",
"organization": "Mississippi State University"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "eaa784c4-6648-4d46-840e-7f4d3d66f187",
"description": "We will work through a real world decision making problem, and work as a group to define the problem explicitly, determine the objectives and elicit the group's individual and group level values.",
"goal": "To introduce participants to the basic principles of decision science, especially structured decision making. Participants will be able to explicitly define the problem, and the objectives that need to be met to solve that problem. Participants will participate in group elicitation exercise so they learn how to quantify individual members and the group's values as they relate to each objective. These skills will give them the building blocks to learn the more advanced methods used in a decision science framework.",
"required": "a projector would be helpful, and a white board",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "WebXR for everyone - Building your dream world in XR",
"owner": {
"name": "Santosh Viswanatham",
"organization": "Mozilla Tech Speakers"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "92e90588-005c-4e2a-8933-65f3b95cc143",
"description": "VR/AR/MR/XR is the most happening thing right now and it is changing the way we perceive Gaming, Entertainment, Communication, Architecture, Medical and many other Industries. In this session, I will talk about the Gatekeepers/Blockers in VR Industry and How Web used this as an opportunity to create an Open Platform and framework(A-frame) to Build VR/XR Applications, followed by live coding and demos.Session Breakdown: * Introductions in Round Robin - 8mins* Sharing Experiences in VR - 8mins* Introduction and stories about XR and its History - 10mins* Demos on VR/AR/MR/XR - 8mins* Hands On - 20mins* Q&A -5mins",
"goal": "The main goal of my session is to make the participants believe that it is not only fun to play with VR but also to Build one on VR and to motivate them that you don’t need to be a hardcore developer to build super cool stuff on VR.* Participants will learn to Build their own VR Experiences and Games* Participants will get an Understanding of VR/AR/MR/XR* Participants will learn about different use cases of XR and How they could use XR in their day to day life. Eg: Students to build their school project on chemical compounds in VR",
"required": "I need a projector, VR Cardboards, speaker(if possible)",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Decentralizing TV Broadcasting Platform with Internet",
"owner": {
"name": "Santosh Viswanatham",
"organization": "Gaian Solutions India Pvt Ltd"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4f1d7efe-f998-4ffc-91ce-82136b741918",
"description": "Session Breakdown:* Introductions in Round robin - 4 mins* Sharing experiences with Television, TV shows, Experiences, Reasons for preferring OTT(Over the Top) over OTA(Over the Air) - 6 mins* Introduction to ATSC 3.0/ TV 3.0, A344 Runtime App specifications - 6 mins* Disruption and Decentralization of TV Broadcasting platform with ATSC 3.0 - 12 mins* Demo of a Broadcaster application(BA)- 3 mins* Activity to put their dreams/ideas to improve TV platform on a paper - 15 mins* Peer Review and Feedback - 13* Q&A",
"goal": "* Participants will learn about how Next Generation Broadcasting Platform (NGBP) will disrupt the Content delivery platform by Decentralizing the Ad Decision serving, Broadcasting, Targeting and Scheduling platforms * Participants will be learn about How Internet is ready to change the way How we look and Perceive television* Participants will get an early taste of Television experience enriched by BA’s * Participants will Learn to build a A344 Spec compatible Runtime Application* Participants will learn about how their current skill set is playing a part in NGBP",
"required": "Papers, charts, markers, pens, stickies, projector",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Do you really want to ShareIt?",
"owner": {
"name": "Abhilash A",
"organization": "Mozilla Reps"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c08b3c15-a23c-4831-96ea-9e132a6ce096",
"description": "In this fast growing data centric world, sharing information has become a primary concern. Though we have a number of softwares for transferring information from one device to another, we seldom know how safe it is. Everyday a new software pops up and people start using it. In this session, we will be discussing about the apps that audience is using for the same purpose. It shall be more focused on how we are slowly moving away from being dependent on a single remote device to serve our purpose.Highlighting about the underlying threats that these softwares pose, I really want to know if people really want to ShareIt the way they are?",
"goal": "When I have finished speaking, my audience will get to know about all the apps (that they pop up during the discussion), the threats posed by them and the alternatives available to us. We shall discuss about certain tweaks and cheats that can be used in order to ensure a safer transfer of our data. Participants will be able to try them right away (in case they either carry mobile phones or laptops) and identify various loopholes.The ultimate goal is to ensure that each and every participant is aware of the fact that we are living in a glass bowl and we should take care of every step that we take online as it leaves a footprint.",
"required": "Sticky notesSketches / Markers",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Privacy Add-ons and How to build one",
"owner": {
"name": "Jyotsna Gupta",
"organization": "Mozilla Reps"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "91b1ee22-d780-4b16-8651-4495fa5a04b0",
"description": "We'll be walking through some of the existing privacy extensions to outline the potential of extensions with a focus of privacy. Participants will be focused on the privacy and security benefits which is now possible with WebExtensions APIs. Participants will learn how easily they can develop a Firefox Extension or port Firefox Extension to other browsers(Chrome,Opera,Edge,etc.)Session Outline:*-*Importance of Privacy over the Internet.Example of existing Privacy Add-ons.--10min*-*Introduction of WebExtensions and multi-process Firefox.--5min*-*Build a basic WebExtension.--8min*-*WebExtension APIs.--8min*-*Anatomy of webExtension-10min*-*Build a little bit complex webExtension.--15min*-*Show webExtension Examples--10min*-*Porting a webExtension from/to Chrome.--5min*-*Ask participants to write webExtension ideas on a paper that strikes to them.--4min*-*Demonstrate good ideas and APIs required to create them.--10min *-*Q&A.--5mins",
"goal": "People will learn to hack on the new web extensions and build their own extensions. Participants will learn that they don’t need to be a hardcore developer to build an add-on for their favt. Browser.Students/Working professionals can continue to create an add-on as their mini project. As security is always a hard balance, we may see some neat innovation that we didn't think of internally.",
"required": "Projector, Attendee with a Laptop & charger, Blank papers with pens",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Exploring the colors of the dark web",
"owner": {
"name": "Satwik Kansal",
"organization": "Delhi Technological University"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "493bfcee-28ef-4571-b0a5-d61020ea4cec",
"description": "The attendees will be- Shown the steps they can follow to see what all information do sites like Google and Facebook capture about them.- Asked what they think about the “dark web” (busting the myths)- Understand concepts like “Surface Web”, “Deep Web”, and the “Darknet”.- A few volunteers from the audience will roleplay a couple of simple scenarios that demonstrate working of TOR.- Go through the process of setting up system for browsing `.onion` sites using TOR Browser, and to publish hidden websites on TOR network.- Interact with each-other by accessing the newsboard like site published in the session.- Familiarized with the darknet ecosystem (typical things they'll see, safety tips)- Play quiz",
"goal": "> The Deep web isn’t all dark and the Dark Web has a bright side as well!Dark-web usually has a bad perception in the minds of people. The session aims at unveiling the “bright side” of the dark-web to the attendees by making them- Realize the benefits (no-censorship, liberty, no-ads, etc) of the dark-web.- Understand the innovative technologies behind darknet ecosystem (TOR, escrow based crypto payments, etc)- Aware of the illegal activities claimed to happen on the Darknet, and ways to stay away from them.- Realize how it's practically impossible to shut down Darknet and why “deciding if dark-web is useful for us” is a better option than “Staying away due to the mythical fear”.",
"required": "For the roleplay activities- Few boxes of varying size which can fit inside one another.- Pen, paper and post-it notes.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Art Bots Post-Twitter",
"owner": {
"name": "Darius Kazemi",
"organization": "Mozilla Open Web Fellow 2018-2019"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2d45365f-a47a-4156-8010-18171c9a96b8",
"description": "Twitter recently announced changes to their application approval process that adds significant barriers to maintaining art projects like literary Twitter bots. Several prominent bot makes have decided to stop making Twitter bots as a result. Since Twitter is now a bot-unfriendly platform, it is time to seriously consider open, decentralized social networks (or other tech like RSS) as the new home for art bots. This session will begin with a brief overview of the current situation and then open up to a discussion. Where do we go from here?",
"goal": "The goal is for artists who work primarily in walled garden platforms to discuss ways to escape those walled gardens. My hope is that we trade knowledge of existing solutions (like the Mastodon instance for art bots, https://botsin.space) but also a concrete outcome will be a preliminary list of requirements for any future open, decentralized platform.",
"required": "Post-its and pens would be great, but we can also take notes on an etherpad or similar.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Blockchain unblocked",
"owner": {
"name": "Satwik Kansal",
"organization": "Delhi Technological University"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f4edc2f6-22ed-4df8-9ddf-8e0caed36826",
"description": "In this session, we’ll - Understand the “need” of blockchain (and the issues with current web)- With the help of a simple pen and paper-based activity, understand how a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin works. We’ll start with a problem statement, and improvise our solution step by step.- With the help of interactive examples, understand the concepts involved in a blockchain one-by-one, and aggregate them together arriving at the implementation of a blockchain.- Demonstrate a simple example of decentralized storage technologies behind it.- A simple fun quiz using a simple blockchain app that we’ll build.The programming language for the session would be Python since it is the easiest language for most people to catch up.",
"goal": "The session is intended to familiarize the attendees with the fundamentals of blockchain and it's applications. Though there are a lot of good resources covering the theoretical side of the technology, a very few actually delve into practical implementation. By the end of the session, participants would have a decent understanding of blockchain, smart contracts, and the jargons used in the crypto world.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open Science in Practice: Reproducible, Portable and Automated Experimentation Pipelines Using Popper",
"owner": {
"name": "Ivo Jimenez",
"organization": "UC Santa Cruz"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5435a5ba-e13c-4a1e-af0e-8f55fbcdf0f8",
"description": "Attendees will experience what it means, in practice, to do computational and data science in the open. We will present examples of scholarly articles that are 100% open, available on Github/Gitlab and whose findings can be easily reproduced. The original authors of these papers follow the Popper Experimentation Protocol (http://falsifiable.us), a convention and CLI tool (https://github.com/systemslab/popper) to write papers following best DevOps and OSS practices (version-control, automation and portability). We will show demos of how to re-execute experimentation pipelines in multiple domains: neuroscience, applied math, atmospheric sciences, among others (http://popper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sections/examples.html). If time permits, we will encourage attendees to bring their own scientific explorations so that they can \"Popperize\" them.",
"goal": "Our goal is to show attendees that working in the open is more attainable than what they might think. We want our audience to go back to their home institutions (schools, universities, workplace) knowing that they can become part of a community of people that is collectively working towards making it easier for practitioners to produce and access scholarly content that is open and reproducible.",
"required": "One large screen or projector",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "What Languages Do We Use Online? The Role of Indigenous Language Digital Activists",
"owner": {
"name": "Monica Paola Bonilla Parra",
"organization": "Rising Voices | Mozilla Nativo | ISUR"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f1355c8f-08ff-4041-8492-98faeaad6ab8",
"description": "During our session we will present the Activismo Lenguas (Language Activism) project focusing on indigenous language digital activism in Latin America. Originally convened by Rising Voices, the digital inclusion initiative of Global Voices, the project has been facilitating local and regional networks of indigenous youth that are leveraging the power of the internet to to produce digital content in their own languages, in an effort to create a more linguistically diverse web.",
"goal": "We will share our experiences participating in the Mozilla Open Leaders program that focused on developing the Activismo Lenguas peer learning and exchange platform for communities participating in an open and linguistically diverse web. The objective of the session will be to share lessons learned, challenges we face, and to build a model of collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous language speakers to enable us to achieve linguistic diversity on the web.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building a Lo-Fi Wavetable Oscillator with Integrated Circuits",
"owner": {
"name": "Schuyler Tsuda",
"organization": "Citizen of the United States"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7b3e3c5c-ca7c-4ed8-9c37-66b36eac500d",
"description": "I will talk through some basic information on sound production, audio synthesis and analog electronics. Participants will be guided through the designing and breadboarding of a lo-fi wavetable oscillator using only a couple of cheap ICs (integrated circuits) and common electronics components. Participants will be partnered up into groups to build the project and will be able to experiment with swapping out resistor and capacitor values to change wave shape, frequency, analog filtering.",
"goal": "My main goal for this session is to give people who are interested in audio electronics an entry point into audio circuit design. For many who do not come from an engineering background like me, learning analog electronics can seem overwhelming, but today, we have so much access to valuable information on the Internet from data sheets to back catalogs of audio circuit design publications as well as online tools like various calculators for component values and circuit simulators for prototyping. Beyond learning to build the wavetable oscillator, participants will learn where to find these resources and how to use them for their future endeavors.",
"required": "I will need a PA or audio speakers and a 8 or more channel audio mixer. I also would need a couple of power strips and a couple of extension cords that reach the wall outlet. I will have a MacBook Pro with an HDMI port, and I'll need Internet access. If there is a room with a white board and pens, that would be great, but if not, I can make do without one.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open Source for Indigenous Peoples",
"owner": {
"name": "Keoni Mahelona",
"organization": "Te Reo Irirangi o Te Hiku o Te Ika (Te Hiku Media)"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8a4cd412-d033-4419-b593-3d017524c056",
"description": "This session will start with a brief introduction on indigenous knowledge & data sovereignty, and how open source can evolve to include indigenous peoples. This could be done as a clever activity, failing that our Kōrero Māori project is a great, living example to start with.We'll then engage in discussion and debate around the issues of open source in an indigenous context. We want to take a step back and think about what open source needs to be today taking into account indigenous peoples and other minority groups values. Open source is great when we're all equal, but many are still disadvantaged and don't (yet) have the privilege to gain from open source.",
"goal": "We hope to come out of this session with ideas and pointers on how we can create an open source license that works in an indigenous context. We've already started drafting a license, so depending on session size we could take this further.We also hope that people who attend the session who aren't necessarily indigenous can get a better understanding of how the internet might affect indigenous peoples and other minorities. It's not always easy communicating indigenous world views and values to non-indigenous peoples, so we hope that using an open source license as an example could help communicate why, for example, we might not want Google to be able to provide our language as a service to us.",
"required": "Projector, pens, post-its, large \"poster\" paper for writing on and sticking post-its to.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Shutting down the web - what do you know?",
"owner": {
"name": "Patrick Regan",
"organization": "Media Legal Defence Initiative"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f589cbd5-b7ad-4766-9258-ed81b97386a5",
"description": "Internet shutdowns and web-blocking is threatening freedom of expression online and digitial rights across the world. It has a major affect not only on freedom of expression by reducing both the access to information and journalists and bloggers abilities to report freely - but has a number of impacts on business, health and individuals lives which rely on internet access. MLDI is challenging a number of these government insitagted shutdowns in countries such as Uganda and Cameroon and has plans to continue to do this in other countries. We want more people to be aware of this issue and engage in an interactive quiz to learn more.",
"goal": "We want people to become more aware of the issue by participating in a quiz and learning session.",
"required": "laptops would be great but if not we can bring out own.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Hello, do you receive me? The other side of open science.",
"owner": {
"name": "Naomi Penfold",
"organization": "eLife"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "42306b2f-63c0-43c5-b45a-25cd6b80f64a",
"description": "The internet enables us to share information, including science. However, it takes more than sharing content to make it accessible. The information must be comprehensible and usable too if the scientific enterprise is ever to become more inclusive. As professional science communicators, we are concerned that scientific texts are becoming less readable: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.27725. We work to counter this by producing plain-language summaries of new research. However, so much of this process is untested, our assumptions about our readers’ requirements unchallenged. In this session, we invite all MozFest attendees to play, draw, design emojis, learn and explore current research, with various activities running in parallel (see comments) designed to help us test the merits and downfalls of science communication together.",
"goal": "We aim to collect honest feedback about the usefulness and performance of plain-language summaries of science – are we achieving our aims? We hope the participants will discover new ways to appreciate and follow the latest science, and enjoy doing so. And if we end up with designs for new emojis for science, that would be a bonus!",
"required": "We’ll bring along specific materials needed for the activities. Additional stationery (paper, pens, post-its) would be very useful.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open science soapbox",
"owner": {
"name": "Naomi Penfold",
"organization": "eLife"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bc9f1482-2ed4-4f6c-8b86-ad4414f6a131",
"description": "Following on from the eLife open science soapbox last year, this session will provide a dedicated space for people to share and learn about many of the open science projects going on in this community, celebrate each other’s work and connect in person. We invite project leads to explain a new project idea or provide a project update in two minutes and encourage presenters to ask how the other session attendees can contribute to their project. For each presenter, there will be time for two minutes of discussion and questions with the whole room.",
"goal": "We hope all participants (including the facilitators) will leave with a new connection and/or idea of how to contribute to each other’s open science projects. We hope the session will also lead to documented outputs that increase the visibility of projects and requests for contributions.",
"required": "None required beyond sufficient seating and office supplies.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Kuna Matata: East Africa's Worrisome Content Regulation Trend",
"owner": {
"name": "Sylvia Musalagani",
"organization": "Hivos"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b137c5ff-b488-4e52-9062-9e489f179dde",
"description": "The East African Region has in the past 3 months witnessed the adoption of regulations that seek to control the creation and distribution of online content. The new regulations introduce taxes, licensing of online content, registration of users among other controls as a way of restricting the use of online platforms to access and disseminate information. This session will focus on the copy & paste mechanisms used by the governments in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to come up with these stringent regulations and their effects on digital rights in the region. It will draw attention to the focus on control as opposed to standard setting in the East African online regulatory environment.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to bring attention to the link between copy & paste law making and the emergence of retrogressive online content regulation in Africa.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Sweet data",
"owner": {
"name": "Jack Ratcliffe",
"organization": "BBC x QMUL"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "fb8b8b8b-effa-4a61-826b-8ecf9aaca26b",
"description": "A modified, retro sweet dispenser draws attention to itself with a LCD display and speaker, advertising free sweets. Participants use the dispenser's touchscreen to go through a process of pseudo-data collection, in which the machine recognises their face, saves an image and pretends to analyse their data.It then makes a decision regarding whether the participant is allowed a sweet or not, and dispenses accordingly. All users are given a printed transaction receipt, which explains how algorithmic decision-making was used in their recent exchange, highlights the potential problems of it, and talks about the importance of clarity from companies using such tools, and lists some examples of where this is found on the internet.",
"goal": "We would like participants to leave our session with a raised awareness of how algorithmic decision-making pervades our society, the issues involved with it and with resources to find further information if they are interested.We would also like them to have enjoyed the novelty of the interaction, and to believe that interactive art pieces are a viable and valuable tool for sharing technology-related concerns.",
"required": "We require one plug socket.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "'Dear journalism': penning a letter to 21st news media",
"owner": {
"name": "Ben Whitelaw",
"organization": "European Journalism Centre"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Localisation support requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] French",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "091b481c-7df2-4597-b836-61ddc59e4f4b",
"description": "We know the way we communicate with one another is changing and so is the media and the stories they create on a daily basis. But the 24 news cycle means few news organisations have stopped to talk to their readers. To fix that, we will invite MozFest attendees to pen a letter to 21st century journalism about their feelings towards the industry and what they’d change about modern day news if they could. They will then pin the letters in a physical space at MozFest for other attendees to read and share. Later, the responses will be digitised and made available online to those who couldn't attend the event.",
"goal": "The goal is two-fold:1. to give participants, both avid readers of news and those disenfranchised by the current state of news media, an opportunity to have their say about what media they want. This happens too infrequently and we want attendees to go away knowing that they have the power to change the way that journalism evolves in the next decade.2. to make traditional news organisations aware that they have work to do to earn the trust and respect of those they claim to serve. Many publications are disconnected from their readers and slow to change and we believe the 'Dear journalism' will provide impetus for these newsrooms to evaluate their mission and approach.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Youth, LGBTQ and You: Building allyship to make a safer, healthier internet for all",
"owner": {
"name": "Veron WK Lai",
"organization": "Barnardo's"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c2d09ff9-9b78-4309-b11c-0a21a1dbb780",
"description": "Participants are free to go to any section in no particular order. 1. Stories from L, G, B, T, Q young people - There will be audio stories from our young people represented from L, G, B, T, Q to share their different experience and view on what a healthy internet means for each of them. 2. Design Principles for creating safe service for LGBTQ young people - a co-created piece from Barnardo's with practitioners and young people.3. Making a difference - A wall space to capture participants’ reflection on how their everyday role can make a difference and contribute a better, healthier internet for more people.",
"goal": "Barnardo’s Digital and Positive Identities spent six-months conducting research on creating Safe Spaces Online for LGBTQ young people. We have learnt from our research that there is no simple solution to tackle the challenge, and doing so requires more than collaboration between tech companies, government and the charity sector. Through MozFest, we hope we can engage with every participant and demonstrate how each can, through their own work, become an ally for LGBTQ people, taking up the responsibility to create a healthier, fairer and safer internet for all.",
"required": "We will need 10 MP3 players with headphones in the gallery space for participants to listen to our young people’s stories. We will also setting up the space with mix media, including posters, audio/video.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "AdaUnlocked!",
"owner": {
"name": "Alexandra Hemming",
"organization": "Ada. National College for Digital Skills"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2dd63a96-fe0d-4534-994a-898c0da71158",
"description": "Participants will work in teams, with each team being given a mysterious locked box. The team needs to work collaboratively to open their locked box by working out the lock combination, through solving a series of puzzles within a set time frame. Each puzzle has been designed to challenge the team against five core competencies: curiosity, rigour, creativity, collaboration and resilience.Once the challenge has been completed, the participants with be provided with templates and materials the can take away with them to create their own locked box puzzle.Link to AdaUlocked! - https://adacollege.github.io/AdaUnlocked/game/",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to get young people working collaboratively to solve puzzles set to challenge their curiosity, rigour, creativity and resilience. Participants will experience working as a team and taking on different roles to help them solve the puzzles. They will be able to network, share ideas with each other and be inspired to work together after the workshop to create their own locked box challenges.Also everyone will have fun!",
"required": "Would be useful to have access to a projector for the facilitator.Each team will need to have access to 1 laptop with internet access, as some puzzles require the use of a keyboard and searching the world wide web for clues. Maximum of 10 laptops required for the session. If this is a problem we could bring some laptops with us to the session ourselves.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "DaMaHub: Data Preservation with Content-Addressed Technologies",
"owner": {
"name": "Denis Parfenov",
"organization": "Data Management Hub"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ca2a1b0c-1c07-4552-853c-01f0ed573a4e",
"description": "We develop an agile, fit-for-purpose and sustainable service offering accessible through the EOSC hub that can satisfy the evolving needs of the scientific community by stimulating the design and prototyping of novel innovative digital services. Decentralised data protocols hail the property of immutability of content addressable data however this says nothing about the permanence of the data. The DaMaHub will seek the creation of a network of data hubs (nodes) of last resort providing guarantees on the permanence of data.In our session we will prototype a TESTnetwork to test, support and establish community data protocols by providing participants with hands-on experience of setting up and running IPFS cluster.",
"goal": "The goal of this session to provide participants with hands on experience of establishing IPFS cluster and addressing data by content using openly licensed distributed technology.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "How to fund Digital News Media Organizations?",
"owner": {
"name": "Muhammad Adnan",
"organization": "Balochistan Voices"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "cc87e11d-d3c0-446c-8732-8e10796a22df",
"description": "I carried out research on “Exploring Revenue Generation Streams for Small-sized Digital News Media Organizations,” as part of Chevening Fellowship in the University of Westminster earlier this year. Phase-1: In the first 20 minutes I will explain my research and share the findings with the participants through a presentation. Phase 2: In the next 30 minutes we will do an exercise where participants will be grouped into teams and they will be engaged to share ideas for funding digital media organizations along with justifications. Phase 3: In the last ten minutes we will sum up the ideas suggested by the participants and come up with a final set of recommendations which we will share as the outcome of the session.",
"goal": "In a democratic society, the media holds paramount importance. It’s the role of media to protect the public interest at all costs irrespective of the vested interests involved. Digital news media organizations have provided the opportunity to journalists and activists to highlight the issues which are ignored by mainstream media. With the backup support of social media, Digital news media is achieving incredible success in playing the role of watchdog. However, the biggest problem faced by digital news media is lack of funding. Entire future of digital news media industry is based on the answer to this question. Therefore, this session will contribute towards answering the question and making the recommendations widely available.",
"required": "I will need a projector which I can use for my presentation. If a large monitor is available which can be connected to a laptop then this will also work.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Is your voice your own? - The fallible recognition system.",
"owner": {
"name": "Tanzeel Khan",
"organization": "Mozilla Reps / JMI New Delhi"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "afec578a-05ba-4179-8bb0-1fe3bcf59490",
"description": "Voice-recognition system is the upcoming standard in the domain of authentication technologies. With the introduction of voice-based assistants (AmazonEcho, GoogleHome etc ) the future dependency on voice-based systems is on the rise. But your voice is yours alone – as unique to you as your biometrics. But with the advent of audio-editing and generating software (VoCo, Lyrebird etc) which can be used for spoofing, using your voice for authentication is about to get risky. In this session, we'll begin with the introduction to voice recognition, its uses, threats it is prone to through demonstrations followed by the discussion with the participants on possible solutions to develop more foolproof systems to prevent unauthorized access and other security threats due to impersonation.",
"goal": "1. The session aims at creating awareness about voice-recognition systems (VRS) and its uses for authentication and assistance.2. The threats VRS poses to our privacy and security by using vocal samples for unauthorized access, cloning voice for illegal purposes, etc. There will be demonstration on how voice impersonation can be used to access your personal data. 3. The goal of discussions will be to bring out possible solutions or alternatives, such as multimodal biometric systems, decentralization of data that can help in making a more secure system. 4. Proposals on organizational standards on the amount of data being requested from the users and transparency about its usage and storage.",
"required": "Projector, paper, pens and post-it notes",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Does digital inclusion change always have to come from the top?",
"owner": {
"name": "Mmaki Jantjies",
"organization": "Peo Ya Phetogo"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "856cdad9-8443-4a64-b266-e02b6df828b9",
"description": "In this sessions we will explore how we grew our digital literacy community schools from starting after school tech clubs for high school learners to also teaching digital literacy to teachers in community schools, to cultivate a community and ecosystem of digital participants. The session will explore an understanding of how to co-create digital eco-systems in developing countries through similar models in community schools with the aim of ensuring digital inclusion.",
"goal": "Communities often have an expectation that real change will follow a top down approach where solutions of digital literacy and digital inclusion will be initiated and advocated for from the top i.e. government and specific sectors. This session demonstrates how community led initiatives can be vital in creating digital inclusion particularly to non-digital natives and further cultivate technology ecosystems within a community. The session also shows the key role that higher learning institutions have in ensuring digital literacy and inclusion in surrounding communities as they have vast amount of computer labs, skills and access to the Internet.",
"required": "We will be providing a digital story journey and thus will need a place to project while we also talk as part of the session.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Revisiting Models & Tools in Web Literacy For Health Internet in Multi-Cultural Education",
"owner": {
"name": "Anuoluwapo Apiti",
"organization": "University of Lagos, Nigeria"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "23082607-9b6f-45a7-b290-aba28df51f4d",
"description": "The agenda for these session are follows: We will look at existing solutions in web literacy to curb internet risks and their effectiveness with the new policy, we brainstorm to create tools and strategies with principles of inclusion centered on users and organisations, we will explore solutions that will lead to awareness strategies and ideation of any engaging tools and participating in selection and utilization of technology tools that enhance group productivity.",
"goal": "People will be equipped with the map to be more approachable, accessible, and applicable for learning and teaching web literacy skills in their respective communities to curb internet risks. And we get to collaborate on an open source project, since participants will be part of solution design.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Help us build the world's largest educational resource-sharing network using ActivityPub",
"owner": {
"name": "Doug Belshaw",
"organization": "Moodle"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9ce3de5f-a11a-4bce-a291-007f60444d86",
"description": "Participants will be introduced to the ActivityPub protocol (a W3C standard) which powers Mastodon and other federated networks. We'll present the work we've done so far on MoodleNet [https://moodle.com/moodlnet], and then break into 'birds of a feather' groups based on interest (e.g. developers, teachers, designers). In those groups we'll brainstorm: (i) ways to explain the advantages and peculiarities of decentralisation, (ii) additional technologies or approaches we could make use of, (iii) potential barriers. We'll then come back, mix up the groups, and prototype ways forward. Woven into the session will be opportunities for participants to learn from one another's experiences to share learning about what works and what doesn't in different contexts.",
"goal": "MozFest is a hotbed of innovation and ideas, so we're looking for help in spotting what's good about what we've done so far, as well as potential barriers to adoption or blindspots. We're talking about a specific project here, but the approach we're taking is very Mozilla-like and applicable to other initiatives. The project is based on open standards and the code is free open source software. We're particularly interested in helping facilitate conversations about similarities and differences between globally-focused decentralised projects, particularly any that are education-focused.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Internet Shutdown Stories - An exhibition",
"owner": {
"name": "Berhan Taye",
"organization": "Access Now"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c3ea1953-46c8-41a2-8a5a-a0dfffd920ed",
"description": "Through the Shutdown Stories Project, Access Now, with the help of its partners, has been documenting the effects of internet shutdown on ordinary people around the world. Our shutdown stories exhibit will bring these stories to MozFest. After the gallery viewing, attendees can ask questions, leave comments and messages in the empty placards, or tag the stories that made them angry or propose ways to hold telecoms and governments accountable.",
"goal": "We want the MozFest community to interact with, learn from, and understand the impact of internet shutdowns on ordinary people, and potentially join the #KeepItOn Community to fight against internet shutdowns.",
"required": "We will need a projector, an exhibition area, and easels.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Chose your Own SMS Adventure with CiviCRM",
"owner": {
"name": "Nic Wistreich",
"organization": "CiviCRM / Visuali.st"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "74708e36-c833-43c0-b080-82b1ddd4d8ae",
"description": "Participants will build their own SMS-based ‘choose your own adventure’ app using the open source CiviCRM — learning how to interact with people with limited or no web access. Using Civi’s SMS Conversation extension (originally funded by the National Democratic Institute), on a number of pre-configured CiviCRM setups, participants will work with user records and SMS providers, recording answers in the CRM, and delivering a small SMS game that works entirely over mobile phones. The principles could be used to automate support, info-services or even a pub quiz. If time allows we’ll try making a Facebook chatbot with it too.",
"goal": "There will be a tangible working SMS-only quiz created by each participant (or group of participants), which will be playable for the remainder of the festival (up to a cap of pre-paid SMS fees). We hope to have introduced some basic if/then/else conditional logic and illustrated how easily SMS and web services can integrate. We want to help participants understand how, without coding skills and just a few bucks for the SMS service, they can create and automate interactive communication with people who don’t have web access or prefer SMS. At the end users will also have experiences of the popular open source CiviCRM— showcasing how much is possible with decentralised, free and open source tools.",
"required": "A projector. Spare laptops might be useful for those without their own if this is normal? Otherwise there will be a small cost related to the SMS service, £10-50, depending on how popular the games are — but maybe we can find someone to sponsor/pay for this.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "What is an Internet Shutdown?",
"owner": {
"name": "Berhan Taye",
"organization": "Access Now"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "60228a66-b4e9-47de-9b7a-de7101bd66c6",
"description": "Internet shutdowns and network disruption have become ubiquitous. Governments cut the internet to silence their people and control the flow of information. We want the MozFest community to understand the contexts in which internet shutdowns happen and how we can collectively fight against internet shutdowns. We will start by giving a brief introduction of how and when shutdowns occur and divide the participants into groups and explore some questions deliberate on predefined questions. After the delibiration, we will report back to the big group and reflect. We will also let everyone leave with a bit of hope that shutdowns do happen, but people have found ways to circumvent them and maintain the flow of information.",
"goal": "We want the MozFest community to interact with, learn from, and understand how and when internet shutdowns happen. We also want to sharpen our skills of bringing new stakeholder to join the fight against internet shutdowns.",
"required": "",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Intergenerational technology: a cross-millenial natter",
"owner": {
"name": "Belen Barros Pena",
"organization": "School of Design, Northumbria University"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[WL] Partner"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5a6a1a7a-7faf-45aa-91b0-3f5019caa698",
"description": "This session will engage people across generations on discussions about technology, providing an opportunity for visitors of all ages to enjoy an activity together. Young attendees will be presented with a collection of images showing the many gadgets that entered our lives during the 20th century. Older attendees will be presented with images of technologies that arrived with the new millennium. All will be asked to select images showing something unknown to them, or that they don’t fully understand. Attendees will pair with someone from a different generation, to collaboratively make sense of their selected images. Each pair will then present their images to the wider group, encouraging discussion about technologies old and new, and uncovering connections between them.",
"goal": "This session aims to encourage an open discussion about technology across generations, away from the restrictions often imposed on younger people, and the age-associated stereotypes commonly attached to older adults.We believe older adults have an important contribution to make to our understanding of technologies like computers, the Internet and the web; a contribution that is grounded on their first-hand experience of technological change. Sadly, older adults are rarely given the opportunity to exchange views and perspectives about technology with younger people. This session will try to address this gap, by providing a cross-generational space free from the rules, restrictions and roles associated with home, work and school.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Harvesting Technology Stories",
"owner": {
"name": "Belen Barros Pena",
"organization": "School of Design, Northumbria University"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[WL] Partner"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e7ea7eff-e28a-4821-916d-819dfc3dedfc",
"description": "This space will collect people’s stories of technology use and non-use. Attendees will be invited to select a technological item that has meaning for them. Images and other artefacts representing 20th and 21st century technologies will be available for inspiration, but attendees can also bring their own. They will then be invited to tell the artefact’s story and its meaning.Stories will be audio recorded, transcribed, and then published on a Technology Stories website, together with images of the relevant artefact.",
"goal": "This session aims to uncover the complex meanings that technology acquires when it becomes embedded in our lives, the ways we bend intended and expected use, how we appropriate technologies and make them ours. Personal stories also reveal the motivations, hopes, concerns and frustrations that accompany technology adoption and use.By providing rich descriptions of our relationships with technological artifacts, we hope the Technology Stories website will help complement the shallow research that often underpins product development in the software industry. We would like these stories to become a resource for designers and technologists of all kinds to better understand the most important component of all tech: the humans who use it.",
"required": "We would need space in a busy transit area to attract participants. There we will explain the activity, gather consent for recording and publishing, and show the artefacts (such as images) that will act as prompts to surface people’s stories.Once participants have selected an artefact and the story they would like to tell us, we would need to bring them to a quieter space for recording.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Girls Scouts, Digital Upstanders – Compassion through Action",
"owner": {
"name": "Misa Rojo",
"organization": "Girl Scouts of Central Texas, Inc. (GSCTX)"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "306ba471-2d59-45bc-942c-e60e8512e579",
"description": "Girl Scouts of Central Texas (GSCTX) STEM Program Manager will introduce the Girl Scout leadership development program and the innovative ways GSCTX partners with Google Fiber to help bridge the digital divide. Laura Terrill, PhD. GSCTX STEM program manager, will deliver the following three outcomes:1.\tShare about Girl Scouts of Central Texas organization, mission and strategy and Why GSCTX, the US’s premier girl leadership development program, makes an ideal partner.2.\tShine a light on the program created together with Google Fiber to help girls discover, connect and take-action in the arena of Digital Inclusion, Literacy, and Citizenship.3.\tOpen to group to share and explore similar issues and ways other parts of the world address them.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to provide the audience with an interactive way to increase awareness of and learn about methods in the girl leadership arena to address the digital divide and cyber bullying. The focus will be on solutions through community partnering, featuring the Google Fiber/Girl Scouts of Central Texas partnership.",
"required": "n/a",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Leader of the Pack - Unleashing Your Dream Team",
"owner": {
"name": "Lauren Jerome",
"organization": "Redefining Women in Tech"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "79fd69cd-9c54-48ba-9041-479bad6a023a",
"description": "Participants will experience an interactive walk-through where the goal is to create a high-functioning team to work on stated projects. The fun twist is that all the applicants are represented by photos of dogs! This helps participants let their guard down in terms of a perceived right or wrong answer. Participants read through the lists of experience and professional strengths for each candidate and use a skills-finder model to grade them on a scale of 1-5. At the end, they choose their team, and then the big reveal... we expose that all the team members are real people with surprising qualities, fostering a sense of self awareness.",
"goal": "Participants will have a chance to thoughtfully interact with the exhibit at their own pace and comfort level. They will anonymously submit their ratings (quantifiable data) and reactions (qualitative data) on paper which we will aggregate long-term in order to study trends. When the participants leave the session they are presented with facts about the team members they selected, a diverse set of candidates from the real world (with their permission). The outcome will include a surprise twist to leave them thinking about how they can take this information forward. Ultimately, participants will identify their own intrinsic bias and learn techniques for cutting through it.",
"required": "We will need about 100 pens and 20 clipboards as well as push pins or other wall hanging stickers.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open Data and Web Scraping",
"owner": {
"name": "Sammy Fung",
"organization": "Mozilla Hong Kong"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "62e6e671-40bb-4e4c-86e0-db66cd874615",
"description": "This year’s theme is ‘Data and You.’, I would like to share my experience in Open Data and Web Scraping with participants. I will introduce what is open data and web scraping technique, and then I will ask participants what kinds of data they are looking for, are they available ? are they open ? I will guide them how to write web scraping programs to get them better, and codes will be released in open source.",
"goal": "Writing a activity summary, list out datasets which participants are discussed and what are their status, are they available and open ? if not, what do we try during Mozilla Festival and includes results and related open source web scrapers developed by me and participants.",
"required": "wifi and power supply for our laptops.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Where is my data?",
"owner": {
"name": "Hitesh Monga",
"organization": "NIT Hamirpur"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"[YZ] Young Adult Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2a1184d6-bc6e-4d36-a3e1-0da371e6ef88",
"description": "Ever imagined what happens to data when you fill a form or search on the internet. What happens in between searching and getting results, how data travels to get information from multiple sites, how third-party application,advertisements,pop-ups, affect data and internet and what else can happen within internet?Session will comprise:•Displaying how your data travels on the internet through various stages and how only right data is displayed despite huge amount of data available and how your data is being tracked on its way using a mockup of hardware such as Moving robots,LEDs,etc.•Explaining in layman’s language about what happens to your data so that everyone gets the idea in order to maintain their data privacy and keep internet healthy",
"goal": "•Making audiance aware of what happens to their data over internet as well as teach them about basic hardware such as Arduinio,Pi,etc.•People can learn about various steps involved when a query is done over the internet and can work upon making internet healthier and keeping their data safe•Demonstration of the working of various parts of internet works by making a simulated internal world of internet using various hardware tools, sensors and developer boards including raspberry pi and Arduino and make them aware using interactive games, quizzes •Picturing various parts in an easy way like showing router switch as pinball wizard, IP address as RFID-tags, popus/advertisements as resistances,similarly other parts too so that everyone understands how your data works",
"required": "Large area for hardware, cardboards",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Take Action for Open Access in the Humanities",
"owner": {
"name": "Jennie Rose Halperin",
"organization": "Creative Commons"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9cda6286-f870-4c60-8f37-ff6d21702273",
"description": "With the support of the Mozilla Open Leaders, we would have hopefully completed an Open Access for the Humanities field scan using the Open Access Tracking Project and building on the work of Martin Paul Eve and others. This session will show off that work and consider how we can take more concrete steps toward supporting Open Access in the Humanities.",
"goal": "We'd like to set up shop around the gallery space (or science fair) to show off the work we've completed in our project so far and gather learnings from the MozFest community about how they interact with Open Access in the Humanities. Too often Open Access is solely the domain of the sciences, and we would like to help change that.",
"required": "no",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Decentralized Science Economy",
"owner": {
"name": "Alex Shkor",
"organization": "DEIP"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "40978bc6-9289-4df8-85b3-efc58fb45fe3",
"description": "Part 1 – Lecture on Decentralized Economy and benefits it gives to societyI will show how it can be put into life on the example of the project I am developing – a decentralized research platform called DEIP. The participants will learn how decentralization can revolutionize huge spheres, create new markets and enable people to do more and be rewarded. Part 2 – Consolidation. Learning through cases The participants will break into groups, each will get a task card on building a decentralized solution. All tasks will be based on real cases applicable to decentralized science ecosystem, assuming it already exists. Each group will present their case and solution, we will discuss it and see how it could be improved.",
"goal": "My main goal is for the participants to understand the essence of decentralization and form their own opinion about it. Today most of articles and other materials on this theme are hard-to-comprehend for wider audience, abounding in technical terms. However, I will tailor my session so that everyone could get the theme, no matter what their background is.",
"required": "ProjectorPaperPens, pencils",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Sociocracy: a practical introduction to consent-based decision making",
"owner": {
"name": "Kayleigh Walsh",
"organization": "Outlandish and CoTech"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9a72a585-9f02-4920-8113-1e395e3653a3",
"description": "We’ll introduce the theory of Sociocracy and the range of users, from Toyota to the Center for Nonviolent Communication to UK worker co-ops as a way of showing that it’s scaleable and universally used. We’ll be practising what we preach, so users will be involved from the start of the session in a sociocratic process!Despite the unfamiliar and mysterious sounding name, Sociocracy is a simple concept that can be applied to decision making both internally and commercially, as well as structuring an organisation. We will present it in straightforward way before suggesting a proposal for smaller groups to address - this will enable them to critique what we present, as well as first hand perspective on how it works.",
"goal": "We know that in order to decentralise, we need to help us with the decision-making process. The goal here is to educate and provide participants with a tried and tested structure that supports decentralisation with a solutions-focused emphasis, and for people to understand the benefits and introduce it to their own communities. We also want to show that Sociocracy contributes to participants voicing their opinions and feeling empowered.Sociocracy will be referenced in the ‘Help us build the world's largest educational resource-sharing network using ActivityPub’ session, so we will also aim to provide some context for people who attended that and present is as a feasible approach to consent-based decision making both internally, and with clients.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "how-to-open.science: Curating a knowledge base of open science resources",
"owner": {
"name": "Felix Henninger",
"organization": "University of Koblenz-Landau / University of Mannheim"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bd3b0feb-ac03-41f6-b681-d02461446994",
"description": "We're going to build a freely accessible and editable database of open science resources.As an introduction, we'll reflect on everybody's current knowledge of open science: What would we like to know? What did we struggle with? What would, or did, we find helpful in our journey toward open science? Which questions do we encounter from others?Based on participants' interests and knowledge, and the questions we gathered, we'll brainstorm resources and links that answer the questions we collected, and that are helpful to beginning open scientists.Finally, we'll put the resources on how-to-open.science . To make sure that participants can contribute directly, I'll demonstrate how to edit markdown documents on GitHub, and assist where necessary.",
"goal": "I hope that we can, together, build an entry point for researchers who would like to change their work toward a more open practice, and are looking for concrete, actionable steps they can take. By addressing common questions and challenges specifically, I believe we can lower the barriers to a more open scientific practice. Many excellent resources are already available, but they are often fragmented and not as well known outside of the group of open science advocates as they deserve to be, so I hope we can highlight and make more accessible the existing efforts of the community.",
"required": "We'll mostly lean on attendees' personal devices for collaboration. It would be great (though not a deal-breaker) to be able to use a projector to show how participants can contribute content via GitHub, and post-its would be fantastic for collecting topics and questions.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Time, Space and (dis)Place",
"owner": {
"name": "Dietrich Ayala",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d6fd6486-45e1-4103-8845-8e3d975326b0",
"description": "Time, Space and (dis)Place is an ongoing digital event that will run the length of the festival, highlighting diverse perspectives through permission-less p2p communication in a series of interactive events - quizzes, crowdsharing, geopuzzles and more.",
"goal": "We want to broaden attendees' experience of the festival, meeting people and seeing parts of the festival they might otherwise miss, through time-based digital events that create a shared experience, while teaching about the power and responsibility of permission-free communication.",
"required": "We'll need two screens.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Mind the gap: Storytelling refresher",
"owner": {
"name": "Catalina Albeanu",
"organization": "Decât o Revistă (DOR)"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7f73341c-47f3-4906-9e9c-a1327598368d",
"description": "At the start of the session, I will ask attendees to recount a real story one of their friends told them recently, or they told to one of their friends, online. We will focus on the language used, the visuals, and the pace of the story. I will bring some examples too.I will then do an introduction to forms of non-fiction digital storytelling going beyond the inverted pyramid and the free tools available to build such stories. We will also look at storytelling outside the media, finding out how people tell their own stories online.Next, we will work in groups. Each group will have an audience profile in mind to sketch how we might tell them a story.",
"goal": "There is a huge rift between how journalists think of digital storytelling and how it’s happening organically online between people when they have stories to tell each other. The goal of the session is to bring the two closer together, by blending the ethics and expertise of journalistic storytelling with the ‘real-life’ storytelling happening in closed groups and private conversations online, or even out in the open in hugely popular Twitter threads for example. Building a more relatable and approachable voice for media, NGOs, and change-makers will help them better connect with the public. This is one step on their way to becoming more accessible and open, in a world where many don’t understand and trust how traditional media operates.",
"required": "I will bring a laptop to facilitate the workshop and will only require access to a projector/screen and office supplies.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Tweet-Driven Mozfest-Storytelling",
"owner": {
"name": "Shadab Hussain",
"organization": "Education, Training and Assessment- Data Science at Infosys Ltd."
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8a03c5b8-5a0a-4edd-880b-dab791ccbe3d",
"description": "In this session, together we will analyze the Live Tweets for the MozFest 2018 using a platform built on python libraries.The attendees will create a number of visualizations using their phone/laptop based on data sets and we will discuss best ways of presenting data and engaging with the audience in order to analyze sentiments.The session will consist of following parts:-Data Science LifeCycle-[Few Surprises]-A hands-on part where attendees will scrape, explore & visualize data on worldmap or through wordcloud for #mozfest2018-A more general discussion about how accessible and engaging data science can restore trust in statistics and facts",
"goal": "-The attendees will get to know what people are tweeting about Mozfest-They will get the emotional tone behind a series of words, used to gain an understanding of the attitudes, opinions and emotions expressed within an online mention-They will be able to classify tweets as positive, neutral or negative-They will be able to gain an overview of the wider public opinion behind certain topics-The attendees will realize the potential of Data and they will get to know how to use data to support facts or how they can solve a particular problem using data",
"required": "Projector and WiFi, Attendees should have laptop(in case they don't have, they can still learn from the live demo and can access the files later on from the public folder or even they can sit in the group with at least one participants having a laptop)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Neural monk: A biological take on cyber age",
"owner": {
"name": "Abhilash A",
"organization": "Deloitte"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8643cfbf-2568-400e-a0d9-dfcf629aca62",
"description": "We will discuss about the impact technology and apps have on our life. We shall focus on the way our opinions change by looking at a few posts and stories. The way we are influenced by the content online and the impact it has on our body and mind.Topics that we will cover:\t• Social media, ads\t• Marketing tactics\t• Impact of social networking sites on children\t• Hormonal triggers\t• Psychological effects\t• Threats it poses (In terms of security, privacy and mental health)\t• New Organs Project\t• undigitize.me (About smartphone and screens addiction)",
"goal": "Audience will get an idea of how the world is evolving and how the new generation is getting more and more addicted to the technology. When I have finished speaking my audience will know about the balance on the usage of devices. They will get to know about the extent to which the web and technology should be used. They will realize that it isn't always about the social life and sadly the internet isn't as safe as it is being portrayed. They shall get to know the effect these addictions have on their psyche.We would try to bring out the reality from a different perspective.",
"required": "Sticky notes, Markers",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Who is driving your data? You or Social Media?",
"owner": {
"name": "Pooja Purswani",
"organization": "Mozilla Techspeakers"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4d9484df-1f9c-4772-a3b2-b7e3dddf206f",
"description": "Social-media require users to provide basic details about themselves for their services.This includes anything from your name to where you live.Data starts to snowball when friends and their information are added.Then apps used require you to sign in,websites visited are on the same browser when signed in,it becomes a lot of data.The session will include: 1.What data and information can be posted on social media?2.How to secure your data on social media by being exploited?3.What Data About Us is Being Collected? Information will be in form of mockups with help of games showing what happens to your data when posted on social-media followed by workshop,where participants can learn about 'how to keep your data safe on social-media'",
"goal": "Although people willingly sign up and provide their personal data to use a social network, they often don’t know the extent of what’s being collected or how it’s being used. Most people don’t read the terms of services agreements that explain how their data ends up being used by a company. The goal of the session is to aware today's generation about the dark and bright side of social media. From this session, the audience will learn about what happens to their data when they upload something on social networking site, who owns it and things get more interesting when they are made aware \"what happens to all my social networking information when they die?\"",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "The Garden of Internet Health",
"owner": {
"name": "ARKODYUTI SAHA",
"organization": "Mozilla India"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ea9d3a3c-a37c-4f1c-9d7e-0e04b45fdeb0",
"description": "A geographical demonstration[of the 6 major continents] with respect to the Internet Health issues across the globe involving various socio-economic factors. This session will involve more analysis from the data as per the Internet Health Report published so far and the reach created by activists around the globe fighting for Internet Health. Also will engage the participation of the audience attending the session over a few ​polls and questionnaire. We also propose to create a showcasing model of the garden, probably 3D printed to demonstrate the audience in the form of a stall throughout the Mozfest (if possible).",
"goal": "An understanding of the global context of Internet Health with respect to the local issues. A bridge between the global issues and local issues can be derived out of the session. The session aims to make the audience visualize the contexts that have been overruled due to socio-economic factors of every continent[as a whole] across the globe.",
"required": "Projector & Office Supplies (paper, pens, post-it notes).",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "The Art of Privacy",
"owner": {
"name": "Baratang Miya",
"organization": "Girlhype Coders"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bb2b64ed-1673-4b56-a709-52c77ed41449",
"description": "Give a hands on workshop to youth about Onlone Privacy and how it impact on their future. Get young people to defend what is their understanding and responsibility of online Privacy and safety. I will then get them to compile a final results in a graphic and priority format.",
"goal": "An online Privacy workshop designed by youth themselves. It can be accessed by any youth who will like to know about their privacy. The young people will be conscious about their role in how they portray themselves in social media and the impact it has in future.",
"required": "We just need pens, notepads and coloring material.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Block The Trackers Crash Course",
"owner": {
"name": "Mayur Patil",
"organization": "Mozilla reps"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Waiting for response"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "17fe7f24-f42a-4731-bcb6-fdee500cd3a8",
"description": "Young lack understanding of online privacy. Many adults think that they have lost control over their personal information just because of ignorance. This is why educating the youth on the right time is important. This session will help young attendees put their data in control. Mozilla has implemented a number of privacy features in their products. Firefox centric angle to showcase how Firefox puts the user first by guarding user data with privacy and “do not track” focused approach. Plus we also have great numbers of addons and softwares that help you safe guard your online privacy and this session will promote those browser features and other softwares. Most of the internet users loose their data during unsafe browsing.",
"goal": "Participants will learn:*What things to do online and what to avoid*Best online practices ie How to take care of their privacy*How Firefox can help them do it - using Firefox Like a BOSS*Various Privacy addons that can help user guard against unwanted tracking, ads and third-party cookies.*Why use encrypted messengers, email*Secure search engines*Understanding cache, cookies and permissions on website.",
"required": "Stationary: paper, pens, post-it notesElectronics: Television screen for presentation",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Beyond the milliseconds: the Illusion of Web Performance",
"owner": {
"name": "Joao Cunha",
"organization": "Foregon / Lila"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8454974d-53f7-40e9-9799-2a6f211438dd",
"description": "At this talk I’ll speaking about concepts to increase the perceived web performance and techniques that I’ve successfully applied to products that sum up billions of monthly page views.",
"goal": "The notion of time can be split in two ways: objective and subjective. While the objective notion is easily measurable, the subjective one involves the psychological perception of how time flows.These notions also apply to the Web; image compression, caching and minimising HTTP requests are typical examples of techniques that impact the performance in a measurable way.Despite that, absolute numbers don’t paint the whole picture - performance is tightly coupled to the way our brains perceive the page load. Slow APIs, redirects and asynchronous requests are some of the performance bottlenecks that are typically neglected because for being hard to tame.I would like the attendees to have a better understanding of how performance works on our brains.",
"required": "I only need audio and video.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Walk in My Shoes: Digital Equality for All",
"owner": {
"name": "Deb Socia",
"organization": "Next Century Cities"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2d51e023-bcf1-4959-86df-a3e0c91005aa",
"description": "Participants will first break into groups, and each group will be assigned a “persona.” These personas will represent various populations that are disadvantaged by mobile-only internet access, e.g. those who are homeless, disabled, seniors, or living in poverty. Groups will then be assigned a series of tasks to complete on their mobile devices, such as filling out a financial aid application. Groups will then report out the challenges of completing tasks on a mobile device, how those challenges might be exacerbated by the group’s “persona,” and what services their own community offers for those who are mobile-only. Then, the facilitators will lead a group discussion about strategies to encourage the deployment and adoption of fixed home broadband access for all.",
"goal": "The goals of the session are for participants to confront the real-life limitations of being a mobile-only internet user through hands-on experience, to explore the nuanced ways in which a lack of a fixed home broadband connection can affect specific populations, and to develop strategies for encouraging the deployment and adoption of fixed home broadband access. The goal is not to diminish the importance of mobile access, but rather to drive home the point that there is work to be done before those who do not have access to fixed home broadband can be considered fully served by 21st century information technology.",
"required": "Our proposal requires attendees to be able to connect their personal mobile devices to Wi-Fi.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Is the Netflix of podcasts inevitable?",
"owner": {
"name": "Gideon Goldberg",
"organization": "Government Digital Service"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4a6529f0-86f9-414f-821d-befda0592075",
"description": "we will introduce how their decentralised distribution model means today currently anyone can host a podcast or build the next podcast app. But for how long? Built on the same distributed format as Google Reader will the current podcast system suffer a similar fate?Flash forward to 2020 we will imagine how a dominant centralised podcast provider might change thingsORhow imagine how an improved decentralised system would benefit producers and consumers alike...back in 2018 we know it can be difficult in the decentralised podcast world to get good recommendations, so we will also have a chance to share our favourite podcasts and what we love about them!",
"goal": "Participants should gain an appreciation for both the challenges and benefits of the current podcast system and come up with their own ideas for how they'd like to improve things. They should also come away with a better understanding of the points of view of different parts of the podcast ecosystem; the content makers, advertisers and podcast apps.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Do your watchman know's how to utilize more of his smartphone & secure it ? If not will you help him to do so?",
"owner": {
"name": "SHARIQUE MOIZ",
"organization": "SS Traders"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c704e235-32e2-4204-b9d8-aae7cedd2f9c",
"description": "-In the session , we'll discuss about how to aware people those who have a smartphone but still they don't know about what else they can gain and loose from it.-The attendees will be given a task to share one or more than one feature of that can help other to know and secure there smartphone with the three people around them or whom they know & ask those three to share that with the other three people they know.",
"goal": "The participants from that only activity will be connected to a group of people with whom they have shared the knowledge to utilize more of there smartphone and securing it. As we have a diverse community in Mozilla but not everyone knows Person to Person each other but this will let them connect at least three of the participants with something that really gonna benefit them & those who'll get add up with the idea",
"required": "- Projector and WiFi & Sticky Notes",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building female-friendly communities, by any means necessary",
"owner": {
"name": "Aubrie Johnson",
"organization": "Wikimedia Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ecd871db-9b75-4f54-bdac-53cec6d3f45d",
"description": "#Gamergate. #MeToo. #SayHerName. Another year, another movement fighting to see women as people. Are you managing or participating in an online community that seems, er…less than welcoming to people identifying as women? Let’s look at examples from entities large and small — including Wikipedia, Refinery29, NowThis, the Mayor of London, and more. We’ll discuss gender gap and women’s representation campaigns that worked and backfired, the audiences they went up against, the platforms they used, and how to convince even the biggest dudebros that respecting women might not be such a bad idea after all.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to help attendees creatively analyze and retool their own open communities to encourage a more welcoming and inclusive approach to collaboration.",
"required": "This session would require an HDMI hookup and projector for slides/examples of social posts, and possibly a speaker for short videos.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open journaling",
"owner": {
"name": "Aubrie Johnson",
"organization": "Wikimedia Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "517a6e42-5074-4c2e-a8e7-3c73da5a286e",
"description": "We’ll explore journaling as a way to maintain an online presence while reserving space to think privately, discuss publicly, safeguard your goods and process information overload. Why journaling? Because handwritten notes can be a creative way to learn the basics of \"online work-life balance” and privacy hygiene. (And because it’s fun.)Let’s talk about which parts of your everyday experience are best suited for online consumption, and what to keep for yourself. Bring your own digital or physical journal, or drop by and take a fresh one home for free!",
"goal": "Where are you storing your memories: online, offline, or both? Are all of your passwords and private info stored digitally, or do you keep a physical file? What information is safe to store in the Cloud, on Facebook, or in your private notes? How do you take a break from the internet, when the internet is where you work and live?Web-weary adventurers should come out of this session with a clear sense of where their most valuable data is safest, be that online or in the real world. They’ll also leave with a creative outlet and new strategies for aligning and de-stressing your life.",
"required": "A small screen with an HDMI hookup would be nice just in case, but it isn't essential. :)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The long road to the Amazing Privacy Land",
"owner": {
"name": "Cybelle Oliveira",
"organization": "Viva Las Venus (https://github.com/VivaLasVenus)"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Portuguese",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "fcce05a5-ac67-4a04-9a00-116d363c4408",
"description": "Nowadays people are more aware about privacy and security online, but we can go further! This session we will discuss, learn and find ways to improve our digital privacy and security.In the first part, a short lecture about what you can do to secure your personal data. After that, participants will break off into small groups (3-5) to discuss and analyze their threatening model and the potencial of the adversaries, and try to answer: \"What can I do?\". After this, all groups will compare and debate yours conclusions, comments, expectations, worries, etc. During this exchange of knowledge, will be introduced the Data Detox and some tools to improve our privacy.",
"goal": "We live in world of huge mass surveillance, data collection and sell and many digital abuses. Usually the privacy is violated because no one warned that this could happen, what is at stack, what kind of trade-off you are subjected when agree with terms and conditions that are too long and too technical, your password is way too weak, that Google is not your friend, or even the cute photo you posted on Instagram has metadata that is a gold mine for those who monitor all of our online steps. These are the reasons of this session, in other words, the goal is to awareness, empower and take back the control of our data!",
"required": "Chairs, tables, multimedia projector or tv with hdmi input",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Hand-Crafted Threat Modeling \\o/",
"owner": {
"name": "Etienne Maynier",
"organization": "Equalit.ie"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] French",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7b6b3209-7e42-494f-b1fd-78bf47cba943",
"description": "Threat modelling is the cornerstone of anyone' security and privacy practices. Two years ago, we introduced our threat modelling zine at MozFest (https://www.randhome.io/docs/threat-modeling-zine.pdf). This year,we would like to go a step further with a hands-on session to write custom-made threat models. And because it is MozFest, let's create the most beautiful threat-modelling zine EVER.During this session, participants will break off into small groups and go through every step of our threat modelling methodology. For each step, we will introduce the idea and present some examples. Then participants will brainstorm their personal answers with their group and complete their zine. We will finally ask each group to give one interesting example to the whole audience from their discussion.",
"goal": "To make threat modeling easy, useful and fun. We would like to have everyone leaving our session with a first draft of their personal threat model written in their zine. This threat model will help them identify what practices are important for them, and what new practices/tool they need to focus on. We would like to have this session early in MozFest (if possible), so that we can list the interesting MozFest sessions related to Security and privacy solutions for participants to continue improving their threat model zine during MozFest.",
"required": "We will need pens, stickers, colourful tape etc, and printed zines (depending on the room size between 30 and 50)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Clitocopia",
"owner": {
"name": "Sinead Doyle",
"organization": "Startuple"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "54ce57de-01cd-4f70-874f-857d9c4319de",
"description": "An installation of a WebVR experience. Clitocopia is a virtual reality experience celebrating the beauty of the clitoris. Players explore a lush cornucopia of flowers and fruits, listening for clues. Catch the clit to move on to the next level! It works on desktop, mobile, and Google Cardboard. http://clitocopia.glitch.me/",
"goal": "At the end of the game, the full shape is revealed, like a beautiful virtual statue. The aim is to promote cliteracy: literacy of the clitoris. We believe all people should understand how the body works! The purpose of the game is to get people interested in the shape of the organ, to demystify and de-stigmatise anatomy in a fun way.",
"required": "All we need is a space with a desktop/laptop and screen. The game can be played on desktop, but it's more fun on mobile/VR! We would put up a sign showing the URL so people can use their own phones. We have a couple of Google Cardboard viewers we can bring, but a few extra spares would help more people be able to play at once! We could also decorate the surrounding space with some posters/postcards of images from our Twitter bot - https://twitter.com/clitoscope",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Foot in the Door: Youth in Civic Tech",
"owner": {
"name": "Amanda Kraley",
"organization": "21st Century Public Service (21PS)"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "fbc44228-0e41-4285-94c7-47b622d91079",
"description": "The session will focus on an exchange of ideas between young people and professionals on the topic of entry-level jobs for students and how to make the information available through more digitally inclusive platforms.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is for everyone to come away thinking about the different ways to make the job-viewing/accessing process in the civic tech/hacker space more inclusive and accessible, particularly for youths who have limited professional experience.",
"required": "N/A",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Murales digitales de aprendizaje",
"owner": {
"name": "Edison Chica",
"organization": "Escuela Rural Chaparral\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Localisation support requested",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f7198166-8b2c-4c2a-a65b-29484faffea3",
"description": "En esta sesión habrá discusión y creación de un prototipo. Iniciaré una conversación sobre formas de abordar la inclusión digital en contextos rurales, donde no se cuenta con suficientes recursos. Seguidamente compartiré la experiencia de inclusión digital llamada \"Murales digitales de aprendizaje\" que se viene desarrollando en la Escuela Rural Chaparral, ubicada en un municipio de Colombia, en la cual tanto docentes como estudantes tienen la oportunidad de conectarse, aprender y acercarse al mundo digital a través del aprendizaje.Adicionalmente los asistentes podrán construir un prototipo del modelo que se utiliza en la escuela, en vivo",
"goal": "- Aprender formas para maximizar el uso de recursos digitales - Generar estrategias que incluyan tanto a los docentes como a los participantes - Compartir un caso de éxito que se está implementando en colaboración con docentes y estudantes",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Giant Games - A “Fun-First” event combines Art,Tech, STEM and Sponsors.",
"owner": {
"name": "Mark Davis",
"organization": "EugeneTech"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d1033c57-4552-43d3-b71a-7785c877d88b",
"description": "Multimedia show about KING-PONG, the giant, community-based interactive, public spectacle, video game (http://king-pong.com) and experience. We'll share the tools we used to run the project in the open. Profile a dozen folks who do not consider themselves \"techies\" that were involved. Share the \"Fun-First\" method of community engagement/involvement, inclusion & sponsorship funding.",
"goal": "Define a “Fun-First event and how other projects can “flip the story” on community engagement/involvement and inclusion by creating events that span multiple disciplines. Share tips and tricks for working in the open with diverse groups. Open the door to new funding sources thru sponsorship.",
"required": "I think a projector should do it!",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Jwala",
"owner": {
"name": "Anis Noorudheen",
"organization": "org"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "88f111e0-4c5e-4b1a-a2ed-4a1d22e9b2df",
"description": "We will learn",
"goal": "Openness",
"required": "Yeah may be in future",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Imagining the futures we actually want",
"owner": {
"name": "Julia Kloiber",
"organization": "Mozilla Fellow"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "84fb4211-dd06-4796-acb0-9f2e32405441",
"description": "Tired of apocalyptic scenarios and Black Mirror episodes? Then join us to work backwards from imagining better futures. Let’s kick things off with stating the futures we want. We’ll then work back through time to unravel how your future would be made possible. In order to have time for in-depth discussions we will brainstorm, speculate and sketch ideas in small groups. There will be several opportunities to share back and discuss with the larger group.",
"goal": "The outcome is a set of new narratives - developed by a diverse group of participants. Participants will get the chance to contribute their story to our fellowship projects.The goal: The groups will learn about speculative processes for actioning more preferable futures. We want to introduce them to the method of backcasting and discuss how this can be applied to their work.Cultural narratives are dominated by dystopian scenarios. Especially in the field of technology. We think it’s time for new utopias. We want to encourage people to develop bold and positive visions about the future. We believe that imagining a better world and being able to talk about it is the first step towards a positive future.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Do you have a moment to hear about the word of the Onion? The out of season Secret Santa",
"owner": {
"name": "Cybelle Oliveira",
"organization": "Viva Las Venus (https://github.com/VivaLasVenus)"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Portuguese",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "fec19a6c-c5dc-4728-b107-bdd65c2c0c5e",
"description": "The first party is an introduction demystifying the so called “deep/dark web”, what is Tor and how it works. The second part is very amusing: each participant get a badge number, then is randomly given a number that must remain in secret. A gift already wrapped is distributed with 3 envelopes. Each one will put the gift in a envelope, an envelope inside other and so on. Will address por exemple like this: first envelop: from 1 to 5 second envelop: from 5 to 10, third envelope: from10 to 3, the gift: from 3 to 9. No one knows where the gift come from, only the sender know to whom. This is how Tor works: encrypted and decentralized",
"goal": "Inspired in Crypto Santa game and Secret Santa, a popular Christmas ritual where people bring gifts to a party not know who will receive them, Out of Season Secret Santa is a playful activity to demonstrate how Tor works. Tor is our great ally! It helps keep you safe on the Internet, protect your privacy and anonymity, by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world.The goal is understand how Tor works, how it helps to improve the online privacy, fighting against the traffic analysis, and demystify all legends around the so called \"deep web\" that make Tor bad name.",
"required": "Multimedia projector or tv with hdmi input",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "In My Shoes! 'Walking the Walk' for Inclusive Open Communities",
"owner": {
"name": "Emma Irwin",
"organization": "Mozilla and CHAOSS Diversity & Inclusion Working Group"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Following",
"Localisation support requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "effa16ef-7689-4467-b21a-bbf0eb12bd2f",
"description": "I would like this to be a session that launches a fixed installation for the duration of the event.Using a paper-template, this session will invite people to design a pair of shoes most like their favorite pair, as a contribution to the 'Inclusion Walk' and then to select a pair of shoes most unlike their own to interview, and share the story of that person's unique successes, challenges and vision for their participation in open communities.For the remainder of Mozfest we'll invite people to do the same, and to select, and locate the owner of shoes for interview via #MozShoes",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to help people (and all festival participants via the installation) gain empathy and understanding for perspectives and life experiences different than their own -- as an inspiration and opportunity to design more inclusively in their own projects, events, and spaces. Ultimately, we build a beautiful installation of shoes telling the story and sharing insights of diverse participants at Mozfest (in multiple languages) - with identified themes, and calls to action for those who care about building inclusive open communities.",
"required": "Sticky notes, paper, glue, any craft materials you can provide ( I can also bring some)",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "DIY Higher ED",
"owner": {
"name": "Zara Burton",
"organization": "None"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "aecf102d-1980-4667-9fca-8cd3e4041817",
"description": "Look at the alternatives for DIY Education like DIY Masters and DIY PHD as well as the new platforms like Coursera.",
"goal": "To co design and look at radical pedagogy for people who want to work outside of traditional academia.",
"required": "A plug!",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Let's get your blog decentralised!",
"owner": {
"name": "Alessandro Confetti",
"organization": "ThoughtWorks"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8e0a6630-712c-48ac-b0b3-75554e044e4b",
"description": "Bring in your laptop and the markdown files of your blog (event better your Ghost backup, if any). Together we rebuild your blog as a static site and then re-publish it on IPFS and DAT. But that's not all! Once all the participants' blogs have been content-addressed translated, we will explore how to share, link, store and tag articles and make them available even if the main​​ server goes down.",
"goal": "Introduce writers and technologists to the benefits of content-addressed internet starting from the articles they​ have written so far. At the end of the session, everyone should be able to publish ​their own blog from their laptop or serve it on a cheap hosted VM.",
"required": "I need a projector and wifi access. Having also a whiteboard will be helpful.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "getting off the grid: communicate using p2p mesh with end to end encryption without any kind of network using android, story of OGConnect",
"owner": {
"name": "Rabimba Karanjai",
"organization": "Rice University / Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Bengali",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "638d260d-373f-40f2-ace6-dab776fe227d",
"description": "In the session, we are going to talk about OGConnect (previously NoConnect). > OGConnect is an opensource project made in spare time and eventually was part of Equal Rating Challenge and Mozilla Open Leadership, that aims to provide a solution for complete off the grid,scalable,resilient,anonymous and end to end encrypted connection between its users without using any network or central server, utilizing p2p mesh network.It will cover the design decisions behind making the application in a modular fashion showing the p2p,encryption,decentralization,anonymity,off the grid tech stacks. So that if anyone wants to fork or use a module in their own application, they will be able to do that.It ends with a demo and call for participation to the project",
"goal": "The goals of the session are: 1. Is to educate why we need decentralized,resilient to monitor,scalable,secure communication. - To educate the political and often cultural need for it. Use cases including peaceful protests in universities where authorities tried to cut internet and network (in India) to prevent students getting the word out to investigative journalism.2. Is to show how using open source, auditable tech stack you can - Create or incorporate this nice decentralization,secure and off the grid properties in your own app/communication - Use the application OOB to communicate securely between each another off the grid3. To emphasize this can be a low-cost alternative to satellite phones for natural calamity struck rescue operations and survivors",
"required": "Will need a Projector and if possible two android devices (in case the audience has none) to show the demo (along with my own it should be three devices)",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building the Distributed Web with WebExtensions",
"owner": {
"name": "Andre Garzia",
"organization": "Mozilla TechSpeakers"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e858fbed-08e9-4bc0-b3a0-f8fe8ce42a34",
"description": "We'll show how to use WebExtension Experimental APIs to build decentralization technologies with Firefox. In this practical workshop, the attendees will learn and experiment with a wide range of APIs that will unlock the potential of the browser to work as a true User Agent as a tool for decentralization.",
"goal": "Provide the tools for people to build proof-of-concept experiments that lead to a more decentralized online experience and return agency towards the Internet users. Inspire the curiosity of the attendees and augment their ability to think outside the box in terms of what the browser is capable of. Help people realize that a decentralized future is possible right now if we just build towards it.",
"required": "This is a practical hands-on session on WebExtension building so the interested attendees should have a laptop.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "uFilter: Fight trigger words and harassment on the root of the web",
"owner": {
"name": "Rabimba Karanjai",
"organization": "Rice University / Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ae5d23bc-8997-42c4-97a9-9aaa7c73181a",
"description": "The motto of the session is to show how we can create and use technology to help better human life. Starting with fighting online harassment and bullying.The session gives the audience tools to fight online harassment and bullying in world wide web. In this hands-on session, the audience will learn how to make a web extension fro Firefox and Chrome that will use Machine Learning and sentiment analysis to blur out hate, sexist,racist,tarnsphobic and in general violent comment from any webpage automatically.We will take uBlock, an extension I made for this purpose and deconstruct it to see how to achieve this and extending it to support per-user personalization using ipfs as vetted storage",
"goal": "- To make people understand how harmful it can be for a harassment victim to suddenly see a trigger word appear in their web search result or any article they are reading- Why it is important to shield them and ourselves from negative posts we don't want to see. And still provide a way to see them if needed without completely removing them- How we can use technology to build solutions to help us fight above problem and harassment/bullying in forums and social media as well- For just a user how they can use this today in any browser they want to use thanks to WebExtension",
"required": "This is a practical hands-on session. Interested attendees should have a laptop.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Internet : converting the curse in boon",
"owner": {
"name": "SatyaPrakash Rajput",
"organization": "Student"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c4bedff7-aeac-4a4e-9f8d-52a55fe189c5",
"description": "The Audience will learn the actual use of internet safely using opensource tools securely. i.e. People Use Internet as a daily thing but they should also know the precautions and should know how they can actually benefit of the internet and social media. even how to avoid digital thefts and security. and because everyone is using the internet all kind of audiences are welcomed.",
"goal": "The outcome of the Session is that after the session audiences will be using the technology with precautions and will get awareness with cyber theft and cyber intrusions. because if people know way before they want get hurt.",
"required": "A Projector screen a microphone audible to all audiences in the session and Internet Connection will be required only.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building your first Mixed Reality application using WebXR - and then build your world",
"owner": {
"name": "Rabimba Karanjai",
"organization": "Rice University / Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2c7c5e2f-bc6e-4e64-96d3-d22d10fc0083",
"description": "The virtual world is cluttered. We have VR,AR,MR,XR and more technologies and jargons than ever before. What does it all mean? How are they relevant? Why is having OpenWeb is important?In this session, I will show you what is happening in VR/MR world, and how you can build mixed reality applications today using Web TechnologiesOutline:- Introductions- Brief history of VR,MR- What is happening in AR/MR (ARkit and ARcore intro)- What Mozilla Mixed Reality team is doing (Hubs and WebXR Viewer demo)- _Primer in Aframe_- Building apps in _WebVR using aframe_- _Primer in WebXR_- Building apps in _WebXR_- Adding interactions,animations,OSM map and world terrain- Demo of worlds- Q&A",
"goal": "- To make them aware of the gatekeepers in VR world- Piqueue their interest in making VR/MR apps in web- Familiarize them with WebVR and aframe- Taking someone who never coded, and at the end of 90 minutes making them realize what they can built by code by immersing them in their own VR and XR worlds (the demo part)- Utilize the interactive WebXR teaching kit I made for OSCON so that they can learn as well as take the knowledge with them to share and learn more from home- Make people from non-cs background interested in the power of creation and coding (and VR/MR) by showing what is possible in 90 minutes",
"required": "- A projector is needed.- For the VR demos, a few google cardboards would be welcome.- For WebXR demos, participants will need an [ARkit](https://www.redmondpie.com/ios-11-arkit-compatibility-check-if-your-device-is-compatible-with-apples-new-ar-platform/ or an [ARCore capable phones](https://developers.google.com/ar/discover/supported-devices) with them. Alternatively, I will volunteer my own phone for the demo.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Harness the web to drive youth development in Africa.",
"owner": {
"name": "John Baptist Ochieng",
"organization": "Mozilla Uganda Community"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9c1bb1e9-cf5f-4177-b182-cbbddc9875ec",
"description": "In our session we will lay out the current state of the internet in Africa, Uganda in particular, and the gaps that exist in regards to access and use.We will then discuss opportunities for the youth on the web, and ways we can bridge the gap between the current state and what we see for the youths future on the Internet.And finally we will lay out strategies on how youths in Africa can maximise opportunities on the web.",
"goal": "Our GOAL is to create and provide sustainable channels through which youths can access the internet and the opportunities for them to on the Web.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Mapping Mozfest: The Immersive Catalogue",
"owner": {
"name": "Rabimba Karanjai",
"organization": "Rice University / Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "883f3753-84e4-41e7-abfd-f6f836f7c2a8",
"description": "This session will cover the creation of \"Mapping Mozfest\".The idea is to have a progressive web app which the user has the option to open in their phone (a QR code at the registration desk?). Which just shows them an info page in mobile with the different space names and exhibits. Whenever they click on any one of them they get transported to a VR experience of the scene (360 video taken beforehand). And when they walk physically through them they can see Augmented Reality models (Dinosaurs?) dancing besides them.The session describes how it was created and how to use cloud anchors and and WebXR with aframe to create this in a day",
"goal": "_Goal of the App_- To provide an immersive experience to Mozfest visitors- To engage more people, make them interested in WebVR/WebXR based storytelling- To make students curious to learn more about the technology_Goal of the session_- To provide a technical overview of how this can be easily achieved using web technologies- A small intro on using WebvR and aframe- Demonstration of WebXR capabilities of our phones.The app itself should be able to engage the participants and should give them a better preview of what to expect from different exhibits beforehand even from a remote location",
"required": "For the session: 60 mins should be enough.For the app: it should be all day event",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Doing the impossible for the ungrateful: Reflections on open source and tech volunteering",
"owner": {
"name": "Simon Jockers",
"organization": "datenguide.org"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "356386ec-4036-464a-9679-f011b7827517",
"description": "This is a self-help session for people who volunteer in the open technology field: open source contributors, maintainers, activists, community organizers, and everyone else who donates their time and skills for a good cause. Volunteering is a great way to give back to the community, to learn new things, and to make the world a tiny bit better. But it can also be hard. If you have volunteered in the open technology field, chances are you have had to deal with unhealthy stress, self-doubt, or toxic behavior in one form or another.In this session, we will share our best and worst volunteering experiences and discuss strategies to stay sane and motivated while doing the work we love.",
"goal": "Participants will learn from each other about common problems in tech volunteering and about strategies to deal with those problems.",
"required": "paper, pens, post-it notes",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "A Game of Cybershadows",
"owner": {
"name": "Siddhartha Rao",
"organization": "Cisco Systems"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9fe53bc7-2fe5-4fcc-8d33-056f44da7ef7",
"description": "Our browsers generate data enormous amounts of data, so much that one could derive facts about someone’s day-to-day habits fairly accurately. It’s the Metadata. In this session, the participants will be handed a copy of the speaker’s browser metadata(kept secret from participants) collected over 3 months. They will then deduce facts from it like email IDs, IP addresses, search history, operating system, history of websites visited, screen resolution, most activity times and so on. Once this group activity ends, on a whiteboard a person’s outline will be drawn which would consist all the deductions and the final picture would come out to be the speaker’s cybershadow or a digital profile without even initially knowing who it was.",
"goal": "The goals of this session are the following:- To give them a hands-on experience that would help participants understand how profiling is done and the extent to which it can be accurate to derive a netizen’s personality on the web. (Data is the new gold!)- To promote awareness by exposing collected browser metadata behind the scenes and keep it in check.- To teach how to extract data from their own firefox browser.I believe my session will make a massive impact on a mass audience because everyone will be able to relate to it and their word of mouth will amplify the effect in the long run.",
"required": "The session requires the following materials:- A projector- A white board and marker.- Post-it notes, paper and pensThe participants will need to bring their laptops.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Making Mozfest an inclusive event for the community",
"owner": {
"name": "Tania Allard",
"organization": "Hello Soda"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c3f02a9e-4bcb-4910-a410-db0cd3bad985",
"description": "Diversity and inclusion is a priority for Mozfest organizers due to the inherent diversity of the attendees.In this session, we will share with the community the multiple efforts to make Mozfest an inclusive, welcoming, and safe place for our community members.We present how the D&I initiatives have evolved over the various Mozfest editions.We will also encourage the wider community to share their experiences and ideas to make Mozfest a more inclusive and diverse event in the future.",
"goal": "We want to be as transparent as possible and share with the attendees the efforts to make this an inclusive event to all our community. We also want to encourage the dialogue among the community members on how we can make not only this event but other community-focused events more inclusive, diverse, and safe.",
"required": "We could probably do with some post its or cards for attendees to write comments and suggestions",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Go Passwordless",
"owner": {
"name": "Mehul Patel",
"organization": "Auth0"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "71444896-159c-415b-a47d-fa65c4e439d3",
"description": "We’re using the same authentication methods devised at the dawn of the web. Unfortunately, passwords are increasingly broken. Here passwordless solutions evolved from the need to create a system that was more secure and easy for users to maintain.In this session, we are going to show;* What is Passwordless Authentication?* Where can Passwordless Authentication be Used?* The benefits of passwordless authentication* Real World Test* ConclusionYou’ll have lots of opportunities to ask questions both technical and non-technical.",
"goal": "* Promote and Educate participants about passwordless. E.g. How Mozilla implemented passwordless authentication? Small demo. * Learn about the different concepts that make up the passwordless identity.For the participants, we have a couple of questions prepared which are locked and they can choose any one question on a card and unlocked them to know the questions and then they can answer and share their views. Sharing some of the most common questions about passwordless :1. What type of passwordless login system should we use?2. Are passwordless login systems more secure?3. How user-friendly is passwordless login?I'm adding more such questions to the list and obviously it's fun. ;)",
"required": "Markers, Sticky notes, One/Two LED. Also, it would be great if we can give them one batch whoever visit our space. Obviously, the batch will be designed by us. Thank you.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Burst the Bubble: Visualize your social bubble in WebVR",
"owner": {
"name": "Rabimba Karanjai",
"organization": "Rice University / Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f6f0cc4f-798f-4ecc-b5b7-b70ead978c61",
"description": "I will demonstrate how we can extract our friend and connection information from social media (specifically Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) and if we group them based on similarity of interest, affiliation and inclination. How they create clusters forming our opinion bubbles.The session perfectly demonstrates our social dynamics and how we create our own social bubbles in the social media. They will have a polished Immersive Visualization to explore their filter bubbles inside a VR scene where they will be able to interact and explore the data.Those with ARCore capable phones will be able to see them in Augmented Reality as well.",
"goal": "- To make people aware of how we create our own social bubbles even when we are not conscious of them- How anyone can passively extract this information from our public profile to infer and analyze our inclinations- How they can extract and analyze their data with the code (will be open-sourced in github)- How to do data visualization in aframe",
"required": "Screen/TV with Laptop Stand",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Patterns for Decentralised Organisations",
"owner": {
"name": "Richard Bartlett",
"organization": "Loomio, Enspiral, The Hum"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "62fe8efb-6a31-46d5-bdd8-617bf63961e5",
"description": "We have built a few non-hierarchical organisations (Loomio, Enspiral), and researched a few hundred, from anarchists in Barcelona to corporate consultants in NYC. In this session we'll share the patterns we discovered: what goes wrong when nobody is in charge, and what you can do about it. We have games and exercises so participants get to know each other, co-create knowledge, and learn by doing.",
"goal": "Practical tools to support decentralisation (e.g. how to equalise care labour; distribute power; different decision-making methods).New ways of understanding how groups work.New peer connections.",
"required": "",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Sparkle to Make Meaningful Work - The Dream Team",
"owner": {
"name": "Daniel Szuc",
"organization": "Apogee"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "10d9c6e1-b2ac-4314-929d-0572c4341a69",
"description": "In our fast changing world we need to build a team environment and projects that foster meaningful work, collaboration, creativity and a continuous and supportive learning environment to succeed.Our aim is to create team environments where people from all disciplines in the team make, learn and thrive in a sustained and optimal manner.We all want to work in a \"The Dream Team\" to help \"Make Meaningful Work\" together and cultures to support it.",
"goal": "This workshop will:- Identify frustrations in projects that block meaningful work- Demonstrate how to build a team that will have the edge on your competition- Provide a \"Journal Template\" to help you and team log project stories- Provide a \"Meaning Canvas\" to demonstrate individual and team value- Provide a \"Learning Portfolio & Sparkle Plan\" to sustain individual and team practices to nurture meaning and a culture of continuous learning for \"The Dream Team\".",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Let’s Play with Rust: A Friendly Introduction",
"owner": {
"name": "Mehul Patel",
"organization": "Mozilla India"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9329db35-3c79-4fe4-b2b3-12c1c3d4b524",
"description": "The Rust programming language will be important to the future of the web, making it safe and great. In this session, I will teach you how to use Rust to write fast and trustworthy code.P.S. There is no need of prior Rust knowledge.* What is Rust?* Why should I use Rust? https://goo.gl/NN7RhH* Install Rust with rustup* clippy - the popular Rust static analysis tool* Cargo - Rust’s awesome package manager* rustfmt - the Rust source code formatting tool* Play with Rust: A short demo with kits.* How to get in touch with the Rust community?Rust has a great presence in the programming world so would like to take pride & present it during MozFest with all young minds.",
"goal": "As per the current rust goal, we are more focused on productivity, especially for early-stage Rust users so our aim is to reach out to as many enthusiastic people around and take the best learning from this awesome programming language. we hope toProgrammers/students are introduced to Rust* Awareness and share Rust teaching kits among young minds* Get in touch with people outside of the tech community* Let people know about current Rust projects and how they can help us* Leaders -> Form and lead regional Rust communities",
"required": "A projector, Something to write on, like a whiteboard or a flip chart would be helpful and markers, sticky notes. Thanks. :)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Proxy: Using Board Games to Educate Young People About Privacy and Security Measures",
"owner": {
"name": "Azza El Masri",
"organization": "SMEX"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1ca28605-93bd-439e-8bf0-ba9e5da450b9",
"description": "Participants will play Proxy, the board game that we have developed to teach Lebanese youth about privacy and security. The game, which will have been played by various groups of young people in Lebanon prior to Mozfest, is a competition between the “hacker” and a team of three activists, each with a unique identity and skillset. We would like to run a ninety minute session, where a few groups play the game for the first sixty minutes (fifteen minutes to explain, forty five minutes of playing time) and then not only propose changes to our specific game, but also think about the core issues board games like this should address.",
"goal": "We want people in the community to think about how board games like the one we've developed, or other offline tools, can teach young people about privacy and security. We also aim to refine Proxy to more accurately teach Lebanese youth about the measures they should be adopting as the government continues to crack down on free speech. Some of the questions will be more technical (i.e is it smart to promote two-factor authentication as a solution) and some will be more existential (i.e can activists really ever win against the threat of a hacker). Having experts in the field answer these questions after it has already been tested will allow the game to be both playable and informative.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Local to Global: How rural artisans leverage digital technology to improve their lives!",
"owner": {
"name": "Osama Manzar",
"organization": "Digital Empowerment Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8183f803-58bd-42b3-87d1-d02688a2c564",
"description": "In India, more than 150 million organizations comprising of nano and micro enterprises working on traditional art and craft form a part of informal economy.This entire sector highly dependent on market linkages to sell their exquisite products is digitally excluded and disconnected from the global market. DEF has created a sustainable model to transform the lives of under-served artisan communities and help them regain their status as digital-designers and linked them with mainstream markets through ecommerce and social media.The session will provide an overview of how digital media and information literacy (DMIL) has empowered them through a gallery walk and small-group discussions.Two field experts will also narrate their experiences of working with this community and how it all begun.",
"goal": "The session aims at creating awareness on the inclusive and decentralized use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and other DMIL tools in critical aspects of rural development. It seeks to involve and engage the international community in understanding the extent and impact of digital exclusion of the artisan community and share innovative solutions to improve their socio-economic conditions.",
"required": "Projector and Screen or LCD screen with speakerHeadphones/earphones (in case participants forget to bring their own)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Designing safe and inclusive Virtual Reality environments",
"owner": {
"name": "Peter O'Shaughnessy",
"organization": "Samsung"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "43c1e5d9-f320-457e-8b65-8251832043d1",
"description": "As shared and social Virtual Reality experiences become more common, there is a growing need to ensure that users of virtual environments are safe from harassment and abuse. We need to consider issues relating to existing online communities, as well as new concerns - as evidenced, for example, by Jordan Belamire’s experience of sexual harassment in the VR game QuiVR. Reports such as Jessica Outlaw’s “Why Women Don’t Like Social Virtual Reality” also demonstrate the scale of the challenge in ensuring that Virtual Reality is inclusive.Can we build safety into the design of our VR experiences? How could anti-harassment features work? And can we design VR spaces to be inclusive, accessible and appealing to all?",
"goal": "We would ask participants to discuss the problems and come up with suggestions and solutions in groups. They would generate ideas for features and designs and sketch them out. The outcomes of the session would therefore include a set of ideas and designs, as well as reaching a greater level of shared understanding from the discussions.",
"required": "Just the office supplies should be fine, thanks",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open Sesame: persuading people to work openly",
"owner": {
"name": "Richard Norris",
"organization": "The Open Data Institute"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b93cf5ce-5cf5-4f30-80b9-5219d87b8b0a",
"description": "We will collaboratively create a guide for how to sell the idea of open working. This will draw on the - experiences and viewpoints of participants, and will include:- examples of where open collaboration has benefitted their work and how.- barriers that prevent people from working openly, such as emotional, technical, commercial obstacles.- how to overcome these these barriers, make it easy to get involved, and build a sense of mutual self-interest. Some content will come from our experiences working at the Open Data Institute, but contributions from participants will be essential. Those with no experience in working openly can share reasons why they haven’t done so, or they can learn from others.",
"goal": "By the end of the session, participants should be able to:- identify the barriers that prevent people from thinking or working openly - such as emotional, technical, or commercial.- overcome these barriers and sell the idea of working openly, including how it can benefit different types of work.- implement potential methods, tools or approaches that can help people think and work more openly.",
"required": "Projector and office supplies will be sufficient materials for the session.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "What does it take for a community to build a better Internet?",
"owner": {
"name": "Karen Reilly",
"organization": "Metaliq"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1fe1b7f6-ed74-430f-9f07-e10b8692f5f5",
"description": "In our session, we will challenge assumptions about building an open, resilient and fully secure Internet that respects individual privacy without compromising on usability.Google is the de facto standard for online productivity, but using their products comes at the cost of privacy. Similarly, AWS has become the global market leader in cloud computing to solve the ever challenging task of managing servers at scale. How do we build alternatives?We’ll be asking participants:1. What works already - what doesn’t?2. What is feasible?3. What needs to be changed in order to _rewire_ our current Internet?4. If we need to make something new, what would it look like and is decentralisation really needed to achieve this vision?",
"goal": "At the end of the session, we aim to have a list of features a privacy-respecting Internet would have. This includes views on the topics of:- Self-governance- Anonymity- Equal access- IncentivesThat way we can keep the conversation going and hope to lay the foundation for a community-driven movement.",
"required": "1. Office supplies (paper, pens, post-its)2. ProjectorWe could also think of adapting our talk to be a \"Shed\" session. We would need to talk to you beforehand about that. It also depends on the progress on our side until end October ✨",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The modern art of Web Designing",
"owner": {
"name": "Piyush Agrawal",
"organization": "BVP Mozilla Open Source Club"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9e95a987-fbfa-4e98-b175-5df0424fa621",
"description": "Today the technologies have grown to such an extent that we are not limited to the traditional methods to create a web page i.e., by coding it. We are heading towards the tech where we can create complete websites with the use of Artifical Intelligence. We can now talk with the smart assistants and instruct them to build the webpage or can draw UI by hand which will be scanned by A.I. to get complete coded UI. There have been great researches going on under this domain. I would like to present the methods which we used in the past, using in the present, and the A.I. methods we will be using for web designing in the future.",
"goal": "The audience will get to experience, how we started and where we are in terms of building pages. How this A.I. tech will make it very easy to create a website just by telling it what to do either by speaking or giving it a design.",
"required": "Projector and cables. If possible, GPU access but I am positive that I will able to get some free credits on AWS for the event.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Using Phaser, a fantastic web game-making tool, to learn JavaScript.",
"owner": {
"name": "Mick Chesterman",
"organization": "EdLab Manchester Met University"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Youth Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bef6cefc-3e45-4e21-85da-968abb5bdeae",
"description": "We will work together to create a remix of a platform game built in JavaScript and share what we have created. We will explore the potential of these tools for learners and educators looking for a fun way to teach coding and game making. The session has 4 sectionsIntro, on our web game making project and setting up the platformer game workspace on laptopsFollow your randomly allocated playful mission cards to remix game elementsShare your progress and reactions with other participants, could you would you use these tools?Final mission, balance your game elements to create a challenging experience, and play each other’s game",
"goal": "Participants will get an overview of two key elements of web game making the logistics of coding and the importance of balancing game mechanics.They will also see the benefits of the use of code playgrounds as an code learning environment that gives learners immediate feedback. This is applicable beyond the setting of game making, and thus this activity can be a gateway to more complex web development. Ideally other educators present will see the value and potential here and use the tools in their own communities. This process is supported by this OL project. https://github.com/webgameclubs/edlab-gamemakers-club",
"required": "A project or a large screen would be ideal.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Offgrid connections: from the South Pacific to Mars",
"owner": {
"name": "mix irving",
"organization": "scuttlebutt"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7802d8ae-fdd0-4842-95e5-e9b39d5b94e0",
"description": "This session will be a brief introduction to how Scuttlebutt works (with visual analogies, and conversation), followed by a hands on session where participants will be invited to install a p2p client, and we will simulate communicating over poor connectivity (e.g. talking with a mars colony, or my family in rural New Zealand)",
"goal": "There's an emerging branch of the internet (scuttlebutt, DAT) which is radically different to the current mega platforms. It harkens back to the much more personal 90s web, but is a different space again - where communities host themselves / each other, communication is secure by default. The shape of agency, ownership, governance, and identity are radically different here. I want to offer attendees the opportunity to join a living community which 100s of welcoming humans already, and hopefully help them to dream brighter and richer (healthier) futures together. (The future could use any tech, but here I want to focus on joining a sociotechnical space that is alive and thriving)",
"required": "Just a projector would be great. I might need a dozen USB sticks, but I can likely source those",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Private Data vs Social: Trade-Offs We Make",
"owner": {
"name": "Thomas John Behe",
"organization": "DataSelf"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8521aafc-9afb-4a70-a335-bd4873fa9b33",
"description": "1. Quick Discussion:a. Social media use and it's impact on private data in 2019b. Discuss possibilities of protecting private data while using social media features we need (and want)c. Can we really \"claw\" back private information from corporations, organisations and individuals?d. Product, technology and social behaviour options for protecting private data2. Product prototype testinga. Play around with Beta tool to see if social media features can still be compelling while keep data private3. Gauge Feedbacka. Understand what trade-offs must be made (social use vs private data)b. Discuss possible social feature enhancements that still keep user data privatec. Big thanks",
"goal": "1. Understand if / how much people care about private data2. Understand how much people care about protecting private data while using social3. Learn which social features are important enough for people will sacrifice their private data4. Learn which social features people might sacrifice in order to protect their private data5. Play around with new product prototype that might reduce the trade-off",
"required": "Projector or flat screen would be ideal",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "youth with Data",
"owner": {
"name": "faith zuma",
"organization": "mombasa tech organisation"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "afa6debd-c65b-4ddb-a9b7-383a40bebda5",
"description": "i]during my session i will showcase a video observation from youths at my community explaining what data is by their understanding and how data has impacted their lives.after the video display and the interaction with the participants will engage in a small raffle game. that will involve them been closed eyes and allow them to pick small piece of paper been place inside a hat which will have different color representing sides of which environment they have to learn in questions.",
"goal": "to have a collection of ideas on how data usage has improved from the last decades.to measure improvement of data usage and safety measure.",
"required": "projector, sticky notes, markpens",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Targeted advertising: Holding companies accountable for human rights harms",
"owner": {
"name": "Nathalie Marechal",
"organization": "Ranking Digital Rights"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5e01fa98-cfe3-4a70-b21d-b5d922f80240",
"description": "The internet’s primary business model relies on tracking user activity, combining it with data from other sources, and monetizing the resulting big data to serve users with targeted advertising. While many people have been uncomfortable with this arrangement for a long time, the 2016 Brexit referendum and U.S. presidential election, and the subsequent Cambridge Analytica scandal, have brought public awareness to the political and civic implications of targeted advertising. However, there is no consensus yet about the exact nature of the problem, much less solutions. Ranking Digital Rights is seeking input from experts and stakeholders (notably the Mozilla community!) on what companies need to do to mitigate the harms caused by targeted advertising, and hold them accountable when they don’t.",
"goal": "After introducing Ranking Digital Rights (RDR), the Corporate Accountability Index, and our research methodology, the facilitators will share preliminary insights from RDR’s ongoing research on targeted advertising’s impact on human rights, and will solicit participants’ input on human rights risk scenarios and company best practices that can mitigate human rights harms. The consultation will inform RDR’s work drafting new indicators that will evaluate companies’ policies and practices related to targeted advertising and human rights. Insights from the discussion may also inform Mozilla’s next Internet Health Report.",
"required": "Projector, paper, pens, post-it notes.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Panopticon",
"owner": {
"name": "Matías Licursi",
"organization": "Privacidad.Global"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "028ffedb-2f99-42a8-95f1-f11df8a3c85f",
"description": "We propose a Poster. But with a switch : a Poster that became an Installation to interact.The main actor in the total installation, the main centre toward which everything is addressed, for which everything is intended, is the viewer.",
"goal": "We need to everyone to focus at privacy and consider how important is to get closer to this problematics. Having a Poster that could became a creative and interactive way to be more consciousnees it’s a great wat to transform the perception of everyday devices and how they compromise our privacy. The viewer could try by himself how important is taking care in our digital age.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "digital skills to Leverage smart phones and adopt new products",
"owner": {
"name": "faith zuma",
"organization": "mombasa tech community"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bd71d96d-8336-477f-8b58-2ad3f4b51ae1",
"description": "Information from the digital skill observatory research, conducted in 2016 in Kenya, indicates a skill which identifies that people will need as a snap shot of their learning curve as they start their digital journey. From the research skills are1. Managing data usage and costs, 2. ethics on the internet, understanding web etiquette 3.understanding Smartphone’s as tools to learn, communicate and create, 4.understanding the open nature of the internet,I will have participants in the session discuss their encounter with any skills that are some show in the above list. While providing the descriptions of their skills, participants will engage in a bingo game that will involve them picking section of which place they feel comfortable in while learning.",
"goal": "Is to understand how we to help product designers work with these skills in mind.How might we embed the learning of these digital skills in the product journey?",
"required": "sticky notes, marker pens, manila papers",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Smashing the patriarchy - women in tech",
"owner": {
"name": "Bec Fullbrook",
"organization": "SAP"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c509e2ea-cc20-4b44-a24d-5cfeb1350368",
"description": "I will explain the issue of decentralisation in the corporate tech space, particularly in relation to gender diversity and inclusion. The company controls over 70% of the worlds revenue, so if that is run by mostly middle aged white men, that's a lot of influence we are having. I spent 6 months designing, building and implementing programs to better support women in tech by decentralising the decision making process, and challenging the status quo when it comes to walking the talk in the gender inclusion space.",
"goal": "To inspire people to effect change in their circle of effect in the world (particularly as we move closer and closer towards the digital era). It is not the responsibility of 1 person to change the whole world, but it is our job to cast a stone into the ocean of potential change and set things into motion. Break the still waters. Rock the proverbial boat.This is another pebble i'm throwing into a new pool of calm waters.",
"required": "Equipment to support a presentation would be appreciated but not 100% necessary. ie: projector + hdmi cable.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Living on a privacy and anonymity nightmare (an exercise to create a threat model and survive)",
"owner": {
"name": "Guillermo Movia",
"organization": "Privacidad.Global"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "72207a45-3930-4c2e-bb3c-ac4cf8097a16",
"description": "Participants will learn what is a threat model, think about their common day to day life and digital interactions they have with other individuals and organizations and we will plan the best ways to create our individual and organizational threat model to protect their privacy and/or anonimity.",
"goal": "Participants will leave the session understanding what is a threat model, privacy and anonymity features of the apps and technologies they currently use and learning how to create a threat model for their organization and individual life.",
"required": "Projector, paper and post-it notes",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Learning in / with / for the open web: ideas for schools",
"owner": {
"name": "Nele Hirsch",
"organization": "eBildungslabor"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "faf98dd0-7c63-412e-84c8-54d2ec858397",
"description": "In this session I would like to offer a space for exchange on the role that the open web can play in school education. The main questions are:How can teaching projects in schools be designed based on the open web?How can pupils become active creators of the open web?Which tools are suitable for open internet teaching projects?What ideas are there for cross-school / cross-border teaching projects on the open web?What are some successful examples of open web teaching projects that can be shared?",
"goal": "The aim of the session is to gather ideas and good practices on how the open web can be used in school-based learning processes. We will document the results of the session and make them available to all interested persons as an Open Educational Resource (OER).",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "How Your Work in Open Source Can Have Social Impact",
"owner": {
"name": "John Jones",
"organization": "The Case Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4e54b605-99fe-4dd5-a85c-12857f088e9e",
"description": "Join the discussion on how the open source community is beginning to embrace the nonprofit and social enterprise sectors and how individual developers can volunteer their talent for a cause or organization they're passionate about. Technologists use and create open source software to build cutting-edge products for consumers, but the release of that open source software also lives on to serve another audience - the social impact sector. Nonprofits and social enterprises rely on access to open source software as a tool for low-cost, high-value technology that empowers their efforts. Join the Case Foundation for a conversation on how your work can directly engage with nonprofit organizations using your open source software.",
"goal": "Topics explored will include how individuals and companies can work with nonprofits understand how and why they use the technology and how they can grow collaborative open source project.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Edge computing : Data getting an edge on the future of IoT",
"owner": {
"name": "Hitesh Monga",
"organization": "NIT Hamirpur"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d7baa595-8c3f-4404-aea3-539987ce94c0",
"description": "In practical application systems of IoT where a lot of data is generated and collected for analysis and monitoring purpose, the huge amount of data becomes quite difficult to store and analyse. Instead of sending huge raw streams of data via the internet, the edge computing just sends a handful of useful information to the user This session will comprise of:1.Discussion on how edge computing works and clearing the common misconceptions related to it2. Interactive demonstration of some demos related with edge computing including miniature oil and gas monitoring and traffic management system.3. Live demo on how edge computing works in real time application projects in the various management systems and it future scopes",
"goal": "Teaching IoT enthusiasts and common people the complicated concept of edge computing in a very easy and interactive way by the means of demos with hardware and softwareDemonstrating miniature versions of real-time applications of edge computing so that participants get to know how edge computing will transform the data storage and reduce burden of huge data on the world of the Internet of things.Making the audience aware of the concept of edge computing as well as teaching them about the edge computing side of basic hardware such as Arduino, Pi, etc. and sensors.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Our Future Internet",
"owner": {
"name": "Helena Webb",
"organization": "University of Oxford"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "47448ee9-07ee-497f-9ed3-d5f152295657",
"description": "Our drop-in session will help participants to learn and reflect on the pros and cons of algorithms that filter and personalise the content we see when browsing. Drawing on the work of our UnBias research project, we will use 'Be the algorithm cards' to facilitate reflection on personal data sharing, and create a 'data garden' to raise awareness of how web platforms collect information about us. Members of the project team will be available to talk provide more information about our work and opportunities for effective algorithmic/platform governance. We will also conduct a voting activity and an opinion-wall writing activity to encourage participants to express their views on these issues and tell us what our future internet should look like.",
"goal": "Through a series of fun and interactive activities, participants will learn about the ways algorithmic processes shape their browsing experiences online. For instance in relation to the benefits of personalised content and controversies over excessive personalisation, filter bubbles, the spread of false content, potential biases in search results etc. They will learn about potential solutions to these problems and feel empowered to make changes. This might personal changes to their privacy settings or browser use etc. when on online and/or collective changes to hold platforms to account or campaign for new policies etc. Participants will also learn about the UnBias project and be provided with resources to find out more information about the various issues we study.",
"required": "We would like the drop in session to run for longer than 90 minutes. For instance, two sets of four hours split over two days or a four hour plus session over one day. We will need a projector but can supply our own if necessary. We will need poster boards/wall space to accommodate 12 A1 size posters (in portrait); 4-6 tables; a wall space for projection; power sockets.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Back To Basics: Making Your Own Connections",
"owner": {
"name": "Nicolas Pace",
"organization": "AlterMundi"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Other",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "76f418a9-cf18-4780-a80e-3f38a9394fcc",
"description": "Participants will learn how to build a do-it-yourself Internet connection using mesh technologies. Nico Pace will lead a hands-on session using open source hardware WiFi router to create a network onstage, work with participants to build a peer-to-peer platform, stream videos and even show how peer-to-peer instant messaging can happen.It will be all about tinkering, exploring possibilities, and showing how anyone, anywhere, can connect their community.",
"goal": "To show that alternative solutions to access are possible and that anyone is capable of building connectivity​.",
"required": "I will need two power outlets and some extension cords​.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Decentralised App Speed Dating!",
"owner": {
"name": "Irina Bolychevsky",
"organization": "Redecentralize.org"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1cea1ba2-28d8-4e44-8777-ea88043db6a0",
"description": "Speed dating for decentralised products, services and applications and everyone who wants to learn about or try out decentralised apps!The products/services/apps will get 5 mins to pitch themselves to a rotating set of people - getting feedback, insight and practicing pitches multiple times.",
"goal": "The products/services/apps practice explaining themselves consisely, try out messages on different people (technologists/journalists/advocats etc) and get valuable feedback on what makes sense and doesn't, what comes across best, what people get excited about, what's missing.Everyone interested in decentralised apps gets to learn about lots of different projects, try them out, ask questions and provide feedback or offer help!",
"required": "Need tables and chairs. Session can be done in 60 mins.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Rapid reviews to filter information and control epidemics",
"owner": {
"name": "Michael Johansson",
"organization": "Outbreak Science"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9c0d1372-1f81-40ee-9e38-e9298c905aef",
"description": "First, we will briefly discuss how scientific preprints are important for accelerating and democratizing science during outbreaks but also pose complex challenges related to filtering information in the absence of peer review. Next, participants will form teams to rapidly review printed abstracts related to a particular disease by answering a brief set of yes or no questions (designed for a general audience). Finally, teams will be tasked with sketching then sharing a visualization (on paper) to convey the relative strengths and weaknesses of those abstracts. Depending on time and the availability of technical tools, I may also do a live analysis of the collective results from the reviews.",
"goal": "The goals are to (a) educate participants about the specific problem of rapidly filtering scientific information in outbreaks, (b) inspire ideas about how to efficiently filter broader content types, (c) test data collection tools, and (d) prototype simple visualizations. The first two are about broader engagement in thinking about information filtering and the last two have project-specific expected outcomes. Reviewing abstracts will provide insight on how individuals/groups filter potentially complicated information. Do individuals work together or divide the task? Are yes or no questions helpful? Does crowd consensus correlate with expert opinion? The visualization component will provide ideas from a broader community with knowledge of the collection process and unique perspectives on outcomes.",
"required": "A projector, paper, and pens/pencils",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open Community Metrics and Privacy",
"owner": {
"name": "Raniere Silva",
"organization": "Software Sustainability Institute"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "66eecbe4-b66d-4c36-9b67-9a27c79eee63",
"description": "We will discuss what data should and must not be collected, aggregated and made public when doing community metrics analysis. Participants will engage in small group and whole group discussions.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is data gathering and discussion of ideals and values. As outcome we will write a blog post after MozFest based on the notes of the session.",
"required": "A moderator kit with notecards and pens for small group discussions would be helpful.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Look but don’t touch: what’s wrong with open scientific software and how can we fix it ?",
"owner": {
"name": "Elizabeth DuPre",
"organization": "Montreal Neurological Institute"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "79b91bf9-a308-4c20-8a5e-0dc20f338992",
"description": "Open science is going mainstream as researchers increasingly make their work freely available by posting preprints and depositing code in public repositories. However, openly developing scientific software is still uncommon: if code is shared at all, it is usually at the end of the project on manuscript submission or publication. This prevents early feedback, impairing community buy-in and long-term support. In addition to structural barriers, a major difficulty I found when working on `tedana` (https://github.com/ME-ICA/tedana) during Mozilla Open Leadership Training was making highly technical, domain specific code accessible to outside contributors. In this session, we will facilitate a roundtable discussion on strategies for scientific software development to support new contributors from a diverse range of backgrounds.",
"goal": "Although resources such as `shablona` (https://github.com/uwescience/shablona) and `cookie-cutter` (https://github.com/mkrapp/cookiecutter-reproducible-science) exist for structuring small scientific projects, these are specific to the python language and do not include concrete recommendations for community engagement. We will work to expand on these efforts to create a white-paper of best practices in openly developing scientific software. We will also document Mozilla community-member experiences to-date in developing and contributing to highly technical scientific software and the remaining structural barriers to widespread adoption of open development.",
"required": "N/A",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Under the hood: How understanding Wikipedia’s internal structure and community can teach media literacy",
"owner": {
"name": "John Lubbock",
"organization": "Wikimedia UK"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2a7ef934-cf44-42bc-8018-60a0d926dc43",
"description": "Everybody uses Wikipedia but not everyone understands how it works. Participants in our session will be given an introduction to the sometimes complex internal processes of Wikipedia and how understanding them allows us to critique sources, understand context and analyse information.We will give people a deeper understanding of the ‘back end’ of Wikipedia, such as how disputes are resolved, and who decides what belongs on the 5th most visited website on the internet.",
"goal": "A good understanding of how a website everyone uses actually works, and why it works.That participants will learn to take a more critical view of the information they encounter online and to interrogate the source of the information. Participants will learn the skills to assess Wikipedia articles and to proactively improve the information published on the online encyclopaedia. They will gain a deeper understanding of the structure of Wikipedia and its sister sites",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Under the hood: How understanding Wikipedia’s internal structure and community can teach media literacy",
"owner": {
"name": "John Lubbock",
"organization": "Wikimedia UK"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": true,
"uuid": "8f6c54be-52da-4d80-89f9-3d30ba58b0ff",
"description": "Everybody uses Wikipedia but not everyone understands how it works. Participants in our session will be given an introduction to the sometimes complex internal processes of Wikipedia and how understanding them allows us to critique sources, understand context and analyse information.We will give people a deeper understanding of the ‘back end’ of Wikipedia, such as how disputes are resolved, and who decides what belongs on the 5th most visited website on the internet.",
"goal": "A good understanding of how a website everyone uses actually works, and why it works.That participants will learn to take a more critical view of the information they encounter online and to interrogate the source of the information. Participants will learn the skills to assess Wikipedia articles and to proactively improve the information published on the online encyclopaedia. They will gain a deeper understanding of the structure of Wikipedia and its sister site.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "CODENAME - NodeNoggin",
"owner": {
"name": "Adam Procter",
"organization": "Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "de9352f3-2a0b-4077-803f-fb8ad4e6a781",
"description": "A short presentation will introduce NodeNoggin and its purpose as a knowledge sharing platform designed to extend the physical design thinking processes from the confines of the physical studio to include a new type of collaborative digital space. Working in small groups we will run a design thinking activity using the theme of decentralisation in the form of a physical post-it note ‘ idea generation workshop’ combined with the use of an early Minimum Viable Product of NodeNoggin. NodeNoggin has a delightful and intuitive interface. It allows people to engage, connect and unpack knowledge in meaningful data visualisations and filters that enhance design thinking processes and create a meaningful shared collaborative environment to support and augment the design process.",
"goal": "The simple goal is to showcase a very early new open source platform and spatial interface designed to help design thinking processes and knowledge production. NodeNoggin attempts to encompass delightful humanity centred design principles, and hopes to take a slice of Edutech away from Silicon Valley, we are building a digital tool that is owned by the content creators and knowledge workers. This workshop is a real world test of NodeNoggin. However the ambition of the session is to facilitate community building around NodeNoggin, both in terms of visibility but also in terms of building advocates from within the Mozilla community who may want to provide future feedback, discussion and code contributions as the project develops.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open datasets in psychology & social sciences: from sharing to FAIRing",
"owner": {
"name": "Melissa Kline",
"organization": "MIT"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "00c13735-1b86-4a92-9921-65d0b610a886",
"description": "Social scientists are beginning to openly share anonymous (or shared-with-permission) data on how people form categories, navigate the social world, and more. But uploading is just the beginning - how do we (as learners, scientists, and makers) actually discover and use these datasets? A key step is to build consensus (and technical specifications) for how we structure/document our data so we can find what we're interested in and extend each others' work in unexpected directions. This session consist of a roundtable on the principles of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) sharing, and then an open-tinkering time where participants 'test-drive' these principles by identifying datasets to play with, what we need to make them usable, and what we can imaging building.",
"goal": "1. To understand the idea of FAIR sharing as a step beyond open access data, and the importance of community and consensus in building the software and other tools we want to get the most out of our data. 2. To share and discover datasets in psychology and social sciences that people would be excited to use, rate how FAIR they are, and generate ideas for tools or ways we'd like to use these datasets for learning, research, and/or personal interest. 3. To discuss an evolving open-source technical specification for psychological datasets, especially understanding how to make it accessible for users with a wider varieties of interests and technical backgrounds.",
"required": "We can work with participants' own devices, but a projector for presentation and whiteboards and/or large sheets of paper & markers would be useful for brainstorming and discussion.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Recovering lost Tudor treasures with A-Frame",
"owner": {
"name": "Jo Pugh",
"organization": "The National Archives"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "860db57f-7910-4268-9806-4a2ba170a428",
"description": "In this session we will explore the use of virtual reality to reconstruct aspects of 16th century life. Working with documents including an inventory of the London house of Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey’s fixer Thomas Cromwell and Mozilla A-Frame we will consider what such documents can and can’t tell us about life in 16th century London, discuss the best way to turn text into VR objects and work hands on with A-Frame in order to demonstrate the simplicity of the platform. When working in 3D is this easy, what kinds of experiences should archives, galleries and museums be building?",
"goal": "There are two principle outcomes, the first is for everyone become more familiar with A-Frame and how easy it makes working in 3D. But I hope we can also have a really good discussion about what the best way to visualise these sorts of records and objects online is.",
"required": "A projector would be outstanding.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Openness or Inclusion? Challenges with Implementing Openness in Global South Cities and Communities.",
"owner": {
"name": "Richard Gevers",
"organization": "Open Data Durban"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "920ec1c8-8d9a-4d05-832d-8e2279589ceb",
"description": "In my session, I will engage with the fact that openness has historically largely been defined (by white men) in the global north, and despite these being some amazing individuals, it has created problematic framing for implementing openness (especially with digital tools) in the global south. I want the session to engage with how this leads to undesirable outcomes including exclusion, lack of buy-in, and distortion when trying to implement openness in global south cities and communities. I want the participants to engage with the dynamics of openness, inclusion and equality as we seen to explore how the open web and open knowledge facilitates or in fact, hinders openness, especially within local government and \"smart\" cities, and within vulnerable communities.",
"goal": "I would like to collaboratively come up with a framing and potentially a set of principles for applying openness (especially with digital mechanisms and the web) in two overlapping areas: creating 'open cities' and 'inclusive communities' that seen to understand and mitigate for the negative and distortive impacts of well-intentioned but misplaced efforts in driving openness. In our work in South Africa, we have created an open data toolkit (https://intact.gitbook.io/intact/) for South African cities, I would like to engage with tools such as this and see if they are useful, and can incorporate the learnings from the session. I would like to discuss other practical ways we can ensure the outcomes of openness are inclusion instead of just being self-serving.",
"required": "Sticky Notes, Wall Space, Paper",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Community Led Online-Offline Campaign Best Practices",
"owner": {
"name": "Mayur Patil",
"organization": "Mozilla Reps"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9ce31827-834f-4f16-9cd7-cd6f6727172c",
"description": "Every year Mozilla community hosts the “Privacy Month Campaign”. This is a community led local campaign. This year the campaign focused on the AADHAR issue in India and this campaign supported Mitchell Baker by volunteers signing the open letter and raise their voices about data protection within the Aadhaar system. So this will be the best case study to be brainstormed for the future campaigns. On each section, there will be discussions & sharing among the group.Sections:* Planninga. Forming the planning teamb. Designing the campaignc. Recruiting volunteersd. Marketing plan (online/offline)e. Creating resources*Carrying out the campaigna. Online activities b. Offline activities *Documentation/ feedback*Measuring Impact",
"goal": "Online and Offline campaign always play a important role in advocating the people against some internet and privacy related issues. Online campaign is the effective use of electronic communication technologies such as social media to enable faster communication by citizen movements and the reach out to a large audience base and encourages them to take action against it. In this session people will learn how to effectively mobilize volunteers for a cause. All aspects of the campaign planning, from planning phase to executing the movement. The attendees will be given insights from what the facilitators experienced in running. There will be discussions on best practices based on everyone’s experience and what they think will appeal to people to ensure success.",
"required": "Stationary: paper, pens, post-it notesElectronics: Television screen for presentation",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Interactive Origami & Adaptive Stories",
"owner": {
"name": "Thomas Preece",
"organization": "BBC R&D"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9e72b53b-9020-46b6-a02f-c00a20864184",
"description": "Tired of jumping from session to session and rushing around? Then come relax and take the weight off your feet with some origami. Participants during the session will be given a web based interactive origami tutorial which adapts to the user and prototype tools used to create the experience. After participants experience the interactive origami, we will then discuss with participants how they would use these tools to create their own accessible experiences and get feedback on the tools. The tutorial allows users to control camera angle, view diagrams and subtitles, adjust speaker vs background audio volume, repeat steps and will wait for the user. All of these features combine to make the experience inclusive and accessible.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to show participants the advantages of object based media and adaptive storytelling including the advantages for accessibility and inclusion. The origami experience shows several accessibility and inclusion features such as:-Multiple camera views for those with less 3D spatial awareness-Subtitles that move around based on what is on screen-Independent adjustment of background audio and speechWe also hope to get across that object based media can also be used for many more accessibility and inclusion features such as inserting extra narrative detail for neurodiverse audiences and presenting different visual experiences for different audiences.By the end we also hope to get them thinking about what adaptive stories they would make.",
"required": "Few chairs and a table to do origami folding at",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "How to Stop Booby Trapping the Internet",
"owner": {
"name": "Jackie Koerner",
"organization": "Independent"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "27715702-3fdd-4244-8b3e-cabd55bd1bb2",
"description": "Attendees will learn about the issues with inclusion of people with disabilities on the Internet and use design principles presented in the session to assess their own work or workshop a new project in the mix. This is a safe space where we will discuss together with enthusiasm and education in mind!",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to teach people about inclusion and great principles to create by using universal design principles.",
"required": "Preferred projector, no sound or computer required. Room with tables would be great.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Create your own interactive adaptive story",
"owner": {
"name": "Thomas Preece",
"organization": "BBC R&D"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "34f5f40a-9112-4beb-ab8b-23eb8a3e50a1",
"description": "During this session participants will be given a brief introduction to adaptive stories - stories that change narrative and/or media based on user information, input, device and accessibility needs. The main part of the workshop will be guiding the participants in creating their own accessible adaptive stories using the prototype tools. This will involve lots of discussion around how they can change their ideas into concrete adaptive stories, how difficult the tools are to use for them and what extra features they’d like to see in the tools.Also during the workshop several demos of existing experiences that have already been produced using the tooling will be shown and discussed.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to show participants the advantages of object based media and adaptive storytelling including the advantages for accessibility and inclusion. By showing demos of existing experiences we hope to show what is possible with this new tooling such as inserting extra narrative detail for neurodiverse audiences and presenting different visual experiences for different audiences. We also hope to get people inspired to create their own adaptive story. We also hope to get lots of valuable user feedback on using the tools and the process of creating an adaptive story.",
"required": "Projector/large screenChairs/Table + power adapters for mac minis.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Allied with AI: Get the Upper Hand on Misinformation",
"owner": {
"name": "Hugo Williams",
"organization": "Logically"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "We'll discuss terms like post-truth, fake news, and credibility, and try to define them as a group.We'll also explore concepts like confirmation bias, disinformation, and claim repetition.We'll divide workshoppers into teams, giving each an algorithmic tool to analyse news coverage. These’ll include: an Entity Sentiment Monitor (which outlets criticise/favour public figures, and at what points?); Story Continuance Graph (news-stories’ birth, growth, lifespan); First Source (tracing first recorded mentions of statistics/claims); and Headline/Body Dissonance (detecting misleading/clickbaitey headlines).Teams then choose topics/events/entities whose news presence they’d like to analyse.Finally, we'll assess results together, and draw possible conclusions from the editorial decisions/trends which the exercise revealed with the opportunity for participants to suggest their own tools to combat these issues.",
"goal": "We’d like to test whether algorithmic tools make a tangible difference to our news consumption. Can AI help combat the digital proliferation of misinformation? We hope our immersive exercise will trigger thoughtful engagement with misinformation. We will be urging MozzFesters to propose their own ideas at the end of the session. They’ll have just deployed new tools allowing them to investigate detailed or big-picture aspects of the news ecology. With that in mind, what different tools would they like to create?By providing a platform where consumers can step back and assess news content qualitatively and quantitatively, we hope to increase web literacy. We’d like to help fellow netizens recognise nuances of misinformation, from satire to inaccuracies, hyperpartisanship to hoaxing.",
"required": "Projector please",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "How to disguise data in a context of ubiquitous surveillance",
"owner": {
"name": "Paola Mosso",
"organization": "The Engine Room\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
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"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "68f3031a-e03d-4240-8f5c-18e40545bc69",
"description": "As an activist who encourages others to collect, produce or share information, living in a world where surveillance is ubiquitous presents as a big challenge.During this workshop, we’ll shine a light on the surrounding environment, and borrow from participants’ experiences to discuss challenges of producing, storing, and sharing sensitive information.For inspiration, we’ll look into examples from ancient Andean cultures who stored coded information, along with tactics from the contemporary ‘offline world’ to hide data, to discuss and compare ‘data camouflaging’ across different political contexts. Based on online and offline tactics, we’ll collaboratively ideate out-of-the-box ‘data disguises’, through which we aim to spur creative thinking around challenges of privacy and consent.",
"goal": "The goals are threefold:To encourage participants to think about what collectives or organisations can do around collecting & sharing information in a secure wayTo spur creative thinking based on offline/online security strategiesTo share experiences and tactics being used by activists to protect and expand activism through steganography & obfuscation techniquesParticipants will leave with an 'inspiration toolbox' based on the shared experiences as well as a set of tactics and tools that they can implement in their own organisations.",
"required": "A projector and office suplies would be ideal.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Fruit Machine",
"owner": {
"name": "J Dymphna Coy",
"organization": "Canada"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e62698cd-8330-4f74-a40e-e3dc291684e8",
"description": "Participants will be invited by presenters disguised as neuroscientists to use the Fruit Machine. The Machine is an acrylic box with an LED bulb inside, connected to a tablet computer and a headset disguised to look like some sort of neuroimaging apparatus. The booth is designed echo the appealing imagery of a puzzle game or a slot machine. The Fruit Machine claims to use “state of the art neuroimaging combined with cutting-edge psychometrics to scientifically determine a participant’s gender and sexuality.” While the tablet features questions taken from various scientific measures of gender identity and sexuality, it is a bait-and-switch; the test eventually segues into a discussion of what it means to measure and typify queer identities scientifically.",
"goal": "We give participants a brief overview of the history of queer and intersex taxonomies: from the RCMP’s Fruit Machine to the latest overinterpreted neuroimaging study.We argue that approaching gender identity and sexuality as necessarily innate, biological characteristics should be done with caution. We show how taxonomies of LBGT people can enable surveillance and oppression by authorities. Queer communities under the Panopticon may end up policing themselves in ways that hurt their most vulnerable members.We conclude on an upbeat note, embracing the possibilities of queer life in digital spaces. We discuss the proliferation of infinite queer identities in the digital world, and its potential for creating and organizing new genders and sexualities that science has never dreamed of.",
"required": "We will be bringing a physical device (the Fruit Machine): an acrylic box no larger than 12”x12”x12”. Inside of the box is an LED bulb; we will require an outlet to plug in the device. Attached to the Machine is a headset and a tablet computer; we will also provide these.We would like to have one reasonably comfortable and friendly-looking chair for a participant to relax in while taking using the Machine. Next to the chair should be a small side table suitable to for placing the Machine on. Because the headset is physically attached to the machine, the table should be an appropriate size and small enough that a wheelchair-using participant can also access it.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Open and Independent",
"owner": {
"name": "Jackie Koerner",
"organization": "Independent"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "969d002c-8bde-4e05-84d8-0983c59bdeda",
"description": "Open and independent people will join together to discuss the issues, hurdles and successes of being open and independent professionals on the Internet. We will develop a piece for open publication about working on the Internet as an independent.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to develop some communication pieces that we can share with the broader community about being open and independent on the Internet. I’d love to share resources, perspectives, and growth opportunities with each other and the Internet-at-large to develop our sense of community in this big and scary world.",
"required": "A projector and tables would be great! No computer or sound needed.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Algorithms and data structures: Core of computer science",
"owner": {
"name": "Aman Jain",
"organization": "Coding Ninjas"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f889a67f-669b-4eb1-897c-05b310f07b79",
"description": "In this session, I will tell my journey to creation of project that got positive response from people. I will then tell them the use of implementing the code in different languages at one place and my future aspirations. My future aspirations includes a forum like stackoverflow for algorithms and data structures only.",
"goal": "My goal is to encourage people in open source. To tell them that the complexity of project is not necessary. Small project can get lots of positive results. It is better to start then giving up.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "I read the comments and here’s what I found",
"owner": {
"name": "Jackie Koerner",
"organization": "Independent"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "29dde077-451a-43c1-ab48-79b12e91cee5",
"description": "I will present about findings from Internet harassment on Wikipedia. I will discuss solutions for those situations and invite the participants to create solutions for the Wikipedia community or their own community.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to discuss preventative solutions to online harassment. Much of what is happening online is reactionary, which creates solutions only after users are victimized. Fire extinguishers are no longer a solution. We need to get ahead of this dumpster fire.",
"required": "A projector and tables would be great. No sound or computer needed.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Global Net Neutrality Updates",
"owner": {
"name": "Thomas Lohninger",
"organization": "Mozilla Fellow & Executive Director epicenter.works for digital rights"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "cd1b9374-edaa-4f7d-8545-48385c9b7edc",
"description": "We want to update each other on how the global debate about net neutrality and internet measurement is progressing. With experts from diverse world regions we want to starts a discussion on how to tackle the global problem of network discrimination. Our particular focus is towards data driven approaches and measurement software to enable a factual debate about these issues. With the increased availability of Deep Packet Inspection equipment and policy shifts around the monetisation of telecommunication meta data we also want to explore privacy implications of new business models in the telecom sector.",
"goal": "We all learn new things from the participants of Mozfest. We can share new approaches about the ongoing policy debates around network discrimination as well as data-driven solutions on how to measure the health of the internet.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "crowdAI - the open source data science challenge platform",
"owner": {
"name": "Marcel Salathé",
"organization": "EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6c3c4cd9-2756-4c74-93bc-0cd3f74389c2",
"description": "crowdAI is an open web platform designed to make data science and AI as accessible as possible in the form of open data challenges. In this workshop, we will show how the platform works, and what we do so that anyone, from beginners to experts, can collaboratively tackle difficult data problems using machine learning.We will also demonstrate how simple it is to host a machine learning challenge, and launch an example challenge during the session.We will present how we design challenges to be as inclusive, as easy to start, and as rewarding as possible. After over two years of activity, we have a large and lively community who help each other and collaborate on open data science challenges.",
"goal": "After a presentation of the crowdAI platform, we will open the discussion and brainstorm:- How to attract and involve a larger community of developers in open-source projects around AI- How can academic AI researchers learn from the experience of other open-source communities in creating and managing large and diverse communities- How can we help ensure that all the open solutions for various problems that are created in our community have maximum impact- How to facilitate more bi-directional collaboration between open-source communities and communities of AI researchers.- How platform builders and project participants can make a project accessible and easy for collaboration- How to shape a project so contributors feels included and rewarded for contributions",
"required": "Projector only.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "GraphQL - \"Let me know what you want\"",
"owner": {
"name": "Rigin Oommen",
"organization": "Red Hat"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "da9e3891-c6f2-43b8-9d39-cb4eb6475cc1",
"description": "In my session the i will guide the participants to explore the GraphQL technology and its possibilities through hands on practice. We will build our own server and client and we will start talking with our own servers.Our participants will get more information about the differences between REST APIs vs GraphQL and effective usage also they will start think differently on client server architecture https://graphql.org/",
"goal": "Goals & Outcomes1) Participants will start thinking differently on client-server architecture 2) They will learn a new skill and start using it on their life.3) Participants will start talking more about GraphQL and the explore tools associated with it like \"graphql-tools, GraphIQL\" and a plenty of it.4) They will make their life easier.",
"required": "* A Hosted VM (Amazon EC2 Preferred) * Some Sticky Notes and Pen* Projector* Mic* Presentation Remote",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Life after Advocacy",
"owner": {
"name": "Su Sonia Herring",
"organization": "Independent"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"[YZ] Waiting for response"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "18248c2a-f30a-49cd-934d-258d936965d6",
"description": "Life After Advocacy is a unsession in which we match participants with existing youth initiatives focused on digital policy and digital inclusion. The session will start with introduction videos of the four groupings which will represent our breakout match-making sessions, including: i) Digital Policy ii) Digital Inclusion iii) Internet Governance iv) Capacity Building of YouthAs facilitators of the session, we will start the match-making process through a fun and interactive pop quiz to vet participants interests and experiences, and where best they can contribute to the global ecosystem of grassroots youth initiatives.Once matched, participants will be placed in breakout groups to interact and come up with realistic, implementable strategies for increased impact of their given initiatives.",
"goal": "There are tons of youth initiatives focused on digital policy, where young people learn, collaborate and share experiences topics related to how to create a healthy internet. National and regional Youth Internet Governance Forums, as well as Schools of Internet Governance and digital capacity building projects such as Digital Grassroots. The creators, facilitators and participants of these open, informal, multicultural spaces need more support, structure and opportunity to interact more with private sector and governments. Creating healthy digital policies require holistic, inclusive and participatory approaches. Our Life after Advocacy is to match stakeholders with causes they can potentially contribute to, fueling new supporters, increased visibility of grassroots projects across the globe, and consolidated commitments to building a healthier internet.",
"required": "FlipchartColorful stickers + markersProjector",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Bias and You: How to rewrite your code",
"owner": {
"name": "Jackie Koerner",
"organization": "Independent"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "601c679c-531d-4b1f-afca-934cc586e0c7",
"description": "Humans are imperfect tools, and we are creating an open movement. We are using all our skills and our faults, including our biases. Implicit bias affects us all, and we don't even recognize it. It can't be changed, but something can be done. Partipants learn how to become aware of their implicit bias, and how they can make progress toward changing the unchangeable. Facts about bias and tools will be presented. Partipants will have time to apply those tools to situations in their lives.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to educate participants about implicit bias and the impact is has on the open movement. The hope is participants will change how they interact, create, and participate online.",
"required": "A projector and tables would be great. No computer or sound needed.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Who the heck is mark and why is he going up... Mark up and decorate text.",
"owner": {
"name": "Frank Thomas-Hockey",
"organization": "Resident of the uk"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1170add8-cb82-4537-a600-36c15069134d",
"description": "I will take newcomers and those who would like some refreshment through the use of HTML to mark up a plain text document. Starting from a raw text file and ending with some decoration with CSS. If I have time, we will use some Jquery to code some interactivity into the page.",
"goal": "To show newcomers that web languages aren't that scary and back fill for all the bright young coding sessions that will take place in the youth zone. Let the attendees know that facebook and blogging CMSes are useful but not essential to use the tools of the web.",
"required": "Just bring your own laptop a text editor and a web browser.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building a Code of Conduct Builder",
"owner": {
"name": "Alexander Morley",
"organization": "University of Oxford"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6890e99a-b6ef-4baa-9594-2e8bea524704",
"description": "We will be discussing and building on resources designed to help people build and deploy Codes of Conduct in their online and offline communities. We will be build off of resources hosted at https://github.com/alexmorley/CodeOfConduct.Builder",
"goal": "-> Create a meta-resource for learning about Codes of Conduct.-> Decide, as a group, whether building a web-app or interactive framework for building and agreeing to Codes of Conduct is a good idea (and/or where it may/may not be appropriate).",
"required": "A projector would be ideal but not essential. Pens & post-it notes are essential!",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Personal Data Product Development Workshop",
"owner": {
"name": "Benjamin Falk",
"organization": "Yo-Da (your data)"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "778cff69-f062-4eb2-8e5c-ac1b3968071d",
"description": "We would like to invite volunteers with a background in data science and software engineering to build useful products for the community using their own personal data fetched by exercising their data rights under the GDPR. In the run up to the session, we will help volunteers to execute subject access requests from their service providers in order to come to MozFest armed with their own personal data. Then on the day, we want participants to design an open-source product that can help other members of the community extract value from their data.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to build a community of data scientists and engineers who care about privacy but who nonetheless want to extract value from their personal data. A tremendous amount of computational power resides on our smartphone devices, and with a richer personal data set made available, a range of privacy-preserving products could be designed. Ideally we would have 10 to 20 simple products which could be made available on our platform for other customers to use. For example, if we help a volunteer fetch their grocery basket purchase history from Sainsbury's, can they build a nutrition product using that data and other information publicly available?",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "How to protect your Digital Tattoo",
"owner": {
"name": "Mayur Patil",
"organization": "Mozilla reps"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "02e6aefc-a48c-45cd-8421-b0a9369d54f9",
"description": "Tattoo is permanent, much like the information we post online. The photos we share, the comments we write, the videos we 'like'. Even if we delete them, they may still be out there – saved and shared by others, or even kept by the site or app itself.This session focuses on raising questions, provide examples and links to resources to encourage attendees to think about their presence online, navigate the issues involved in forming and re-forming their digital identity and make them aware about their rights and responsibilities as a digital citizen. It’s really just all about making informed decisions and their own decisions.This session will focus on some of the applications used to protect user's Digital Tattoo.",
"goal": "This session will make them think on the following questionsA] Five things they will think BEFORE POSTING: *What do I look like? *Is this 'ink' permanent? *Am I giving away too much? *Would I want this shared about me? *Do you really want to share it?B] Five things they will think AFTER POSTING *Mind your privacy *Choose your friends wisely *Remove and report *Know what you look like online *Shut down or deleteC] Best practices online:*Various Privacy addons that can help user guard against unwanted tracking, ads and third-party cookies.",
"required": "Stationary: paper, pens, post-it notesElectronics: Television screen or projector for presentation",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Let’s design playful approaches & uses for data",
"owner": {
"name": "Emily Goligoski",
"organization": "Membership Puzzle Project (former MoFo staff)"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9ba8af67-3dc3-4ffa-b3da-0d4d777bea6a",
"description": "We live in an era in which we’re constantly bombarded with information and, simultaneously, in which our data is collected everywhere we go. It’s hard to process and often leaves us feeling disempowered and vulnerable. But there’s a better way--likely lots of them! How might we make data collection and usage more secure, playful and--dare we say--delightful? Let’s consider better sensemaking for data from collection, synthesis, sharing, through to regular study.",
"goal": "From user testing sessions that don’t feel like a bore to displaying data for your city in comprehensible ways that go beyond infographics, this session aims to answer the question: how might we better use play to improve the user experience of data so that the people can deeply (and joyfully) engage with data that is useful to them?",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Holographic Learning",
"owner": {
"name": "Ashish Mishra",
"organization": "Mincero"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "66ea01a7-9fc9-4573-aa43-f53c763baff0",
"description": "We want to teach participants the development of holographic games with holographic device which will project things in the air. Importance of holographic, future scope of this technology & how this will gonna change technology trend forever.",
"goal": "Goal : Aware more about the this technology & future scope in terms of career. Outcome: people will get to know how to develop small games in this session.",
"required": "PA SystemProjectorStationary (paper, pens, sticky notes)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Women and Open Source Software – Research presentation and review",
"owner": {
"name": "Maurice Sayinzoga",
"organization": "Digital Impact Alliance"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c2eb67cf-ec0b-47da-b2e0-1efa95b5e8a5",
"description": "The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), in partnership with the Digital and Technology Research Group from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex developed research on gender and open source and will share research findings for feedback. This research explored what type(s) of involvement of women in open source communities are likely to reflect their voice and experiences and result in projects that are better informed by a gender perspective among other related questions. After opening remarks, moderators will divide people in attendance in three discussion groups according to themes of analysis used, namely – institutional factors, agency, and resources. Teams will then share what they discussed and how/if findings resonate with them and their experiences.",
"goal": "The outcome of this session is to drive the conversation on the issue of gender in open source and to gain feedback on research developed. Both male and female technologists and non-technologists attending Mozfest will benefit from insights collected by the research team and will get a chance to provide feedback on resulting recommendations.Mozfest convenes a diverse audience whose feedback on findings and recommendations is important to the research team. Moreover, given Mozilla's commitment to promoting collaboration, inclusion, and open innovation; this conference is a natural fit for disseminating this type of work.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Project Things by Mozilla",
"owner": {
"name": "Ben Francis",
"organization": "Mozilla Corp"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2165ad54-bfee-43f4-86e2-be64fdae3628",
"description": "The “Web of Things” is a W3C proposed standard to improve IoT interoperability. Visitors will see how easy it is to control IoT devices using an interactive web interface, to create rules to automate interaction between devices using a drag and drop rules engine, to arrange devices on a floor plan, and even to control devices using a smart assistant which understands both spoken and written natural language commands. All within the privacy of their home.There will also be demonstrations of a wide range of fun DIY web things that makers can build themselves using the Things Framework. Examples will be shown using several low-cost developer boards such as Arduino, Espressif, BBC micro:bit, Adafruit Circuit Playground, and Raspberry Pi.",
"goal": "The goal is for visitors to leave with a better understanding of some of the issues surrounding the Internet of Things today, and how Mozilla is working to build a decentralised IoT with the Web of Things, to improve interoperability, privacy and security through standardization. Visitors who pick up a pre-flashed microSD card will leave knowing how they can use it to get started building their own smart home. In addition to buying and controlling off-the-shelf IoT devices, makers will be exposed to Mozilla’s Things Framework so that they can build their own smart devices.",
"required": "Ideally both of these opportunities: Gallery (for exhibit tables all weekend)Workshop (30-60 minutes for live demonstration and detailed presentation of the project)For the exhibit area we request two tables, A/C power, and two power strips. Ideally a wired Ethernet connection to the Internet and a large computer monitor or TV display would also be made available, but these are not essential.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Wacky Inventions",
"owner": {
"name": "Alan O'Donohoe",
"organization": "exa.foundation"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Returner"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "900eadaa-1758-4052-ab7d-2c1dd22b3640",
"description": "Participants (youngsters, parents, teachers) will work together to design and develop a prototype for a 'Wacky Invention' using some low cost hardware and software eg. Raspberry Pi computers, Micro:bit, Scratch, EduBlocks and Python.",
"goal": "The outcome of the session is for all participants to be engaged and inspired by the potential that Digital Making has to change the world in which we live. Physical outcomes will be prototypes of inventions designed and developed by participants.",
"required": "We will be fully equipped to lead our session. We just require furniture and electricity. However, if we can use the PiTop room that would be advantageous or else we need particpants to bring their own devices in order to program Microbits .",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Imagine a future where more of our spaces & gatherings to offer caregiving support",
"owner": {
"name": "Emily Goligoski",
"organization": "Membership Puzzle Project (former MoFo staff)"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e0a2585e-3c3e-4162-9633-c9fffac43e03",
"description": "If you're a working person with ambitions to attend industry conferences that can help your career and your endeavors, having a child and others you are accountable for can make 99% of conference participation completely inaccessible. It doesn’t have to be this way.What does a modular caregiving pop-up look like? We'll imagine more of our gatherings being able to include a space for attendees to bring their children while they give talks, attend workshops, and join networking events. Inspired by Open News and other conferences that offer high-quality childcare as part of their social contract, we think this shouldn’t be a luxury.",
"goal": "Let’s co-design a new standard for professional groups that provide equal opportunities to their community members to contribute to in-person gatherings. We'll collaboratively create a guide that every conference can adopt to easily make this part of their on-site support. We'll emphasize approaches that allow individuals to contribute referrals and recommendations for local caregiving.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "I am differently ABLE",
"owner": {
"name": "Reon Saji",
"organization": "Mozilla Kerala"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9a5df8f4-97d3-40d0-9a95-75db827ce9a6",
"description": "Our session aims upon the upliftment of specially abled friends to make their life more manageable by the help of internet.Throughout the session we interacts with our listeners, share their experiences and difficulties in their life and then we guide them how to deal with their troubles and worries in their daily life and in future effortlessly with the power of internet . The session defines about various techs and technical practices that helps them to manage their life more efficiently than before and to open up the opportunities they have in life .The session will be taken in English along with sign language so that everyone can understand and interact with us more easily.",
"goal": "The session provides solutions for social exclusions and gives them the power to deal with disability and help them to contribute more in the workplace - and improve their quality of life.They can do things that would have never been possible before. They will have knowledge about how the internet open up opportunities for them.",
"required": "Projector and Office Supplies",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "MemoryCast: Share stories about the Web's past",
"owner": {
"name": "Frances Corry",
"organization": "University of Southern California"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "abadfdc5-6d06-4350-a2a9-3b5f04301968",
"description": "MemoryCast is a platform that uses web archives to tell stories about life online. Contributors reflect on a website that has been personally important, then record a narrated screencast of that archived site. These videos are available for playback on the MemoryCast site. Anyone can watch, and anyone can contribute.In this installation, festival-goers can visit MemoryCast's browsing booth and/or recording booth. In the browsing booth, attendees explore stories from MemoryCast's collection. In the recording booth, attendees learn how to make a MemoryCast, and then record their own–sharing their personal story of the web's past. The browsing booth will be updated throughout the festival to include these newly recorded sessions.",
"goal": "On a philosophical level, MemoryCast aims to capture the range of experiences we have online. By recording personal histories, it attempts to diversify the ideas we have about the online world's development. By using web archives for storytelling, it hopes to expand web archiving's usefulness beyond historians, journalists, and researchers. On a more practical level, the installation hopes to gather stories over the course of the festival, which will be published on MemoryCast's site (memorycast.online).",
"required": "For the recording booth: a booth set-up that facilitates audio recording would be useful, i.e something that limits surrounding noise. I can provide the computer and headphones for recording. For the browsing booth: a projector, or monitor, would be useful.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Work Open Lead Open",
"owner": {
"name": "Viral Parmar",
"organization": "Mozilla India"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f126a1fe-a8e0-493c-9f40-74f18d18d817",
"description": "My session is for someone running or starting an open project that supports a healthy Internet. We'll focus on the principles, practices, and skills of open leadership. This track will help them understand how to design and build an open culture that promotes understanding, sharing, and participation and inclusion so they and their teammates feel empowered to make the change they want to see in the world.It might be especially useful to them if they: Work day to day within their community to promote openness. Lead cultural change in their community, organization, or project. Serve in a particular outreach role to help people make change on a peer-to-peer basis.",
"goal": "If your project is just getting up and running, or if you haven’t even started yet don't worry this talk is all about helping you find, connect with, and keep contributors on your project. you’ll have the basic knowledge and initial technical skills to lead your own open project, or to get an existing open project back on track by improving your open practice. Points to be covered :-How to work open, lead a project, vision and roadmap, building community and support network, getting participation, making guideline, getting project online, sharing work open and setting communication channels, planning awesome events and documentation and reporting.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Play Datopolis : the open data board game",
"owner": {
"name": "Peter Wells",
"organization": "Open Data Institute"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "077b1a80-b456-4cd1-ac56-0a7f9a093b26",
"description": "We will bring three sets of Datopolis a boardgame about data. In Datopolis people play a role in the data ecosystem - for example an open data activist or a big company monopolist - and use data to build services and help save the town of Sheridan. With three sets we can accommodate up to 18 people playing simultaneously, each game lasts 15-30 minutes. There will be at least two facilitators throughout the session to help participants. Datopolis is openly licenced, available on github, and has been used in multiple countries to help people learn about data and have fun.",
"goal": "Open data can be a little… exclusive. If you’re working with data, talking about data, or in an area where more open data could be useful, then it’s easier to grasp. If you’re interested in access to information, or transparency and accountability, then you might have come across open data. But if you’re not already on board (hehe) with open data, you may need other ways to understand its role and impact. A board game is one way of capturing interest in open data, without people necessarily realising they’re absorbing knowledge about open data. Also, it’s pretty clear board games are hip right now",
"required": "none",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Power of WebAssembly",
"owner": {
"name": "Jayaditya Gupta",
"organization": "KDE"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "53e8fbb4-35ab-43b1-9c31-9e938bebc9a6",
"description": "In my session i will demonstrate what webassembly is capable of and how it can change our interaction with web. In my session user can follow along to create a demo application on their system or they can watch me and understand about webassembly.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to demonstrate the power of webassembly and how it can revolutionize our interaction with web. what things are currently supported and is still left. I will demonstrate with help of game that we will create in the session.",
"required": "if the participants wants to follow along , they will need their laptop and good internet connection.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Making data ethics practical:",
"owner": {
"name": "Peter Wells",
"organization": "Open Data Institute"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "25155cff-8ea7-450d-8051-224a067d9165",
"description": "Everyone talks about data ethics but few people are consciously making more ethical decisions about data. In this session the Open Data Institute will talk about the role data ethics plays in building an open future for data, and what they have learnt from working with governments and businesses to help them take practical steps towards more ethical decision making. The session will end with debate on the ODI's openly licenced Data Ethics Canvas, guide and workshop material and provide the opportunity for participants to input into the next iteration",
"goal": "To raise discuss Data Ethics with new audiences, give them live examples from a range of companies, show them the Ethics Canvas tool and gather thoughts and ideas on how we might develop the next iteration",
"required": "None",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Be a DJ for a Day",
"owner": {
"name": "Burt Blackarach",
"organization": "Salamani Music"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b29a0982-5ebb-4562-be4b-c3fcfc9446c1",
"description": "Learn the basics of DJing, including handling vinyl, transitioning songs, scratching and more -- depending on your skill level -- in just one hour. I have successfully worked with hundreds of students through my sold-out classes on Airbnb's Experience platform - https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/67342",
"goal": "The goal of my session is to inspire guests to try something new in an inclusive and safe space. In my group sessions, participants walk away with the fundamentals of DJing AND the accomplishment of exceeding at something new.",
"required": "The session requires one turmtable, needle, mixer, speaker, per every 2-3 students. The session also requires records (vinyl), slip mats and speakers (that I can have shipped from Los Angeles). I would also need a few assistants to help.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "InfoSec Needs Better UX. Blame TV Dinners.",
"owner": {
"name": "Chad Calease",
"organization": "WIMZKL"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "40937df0-600d-46f0-8773-853df7d59d2a",
"description": "The messages we've been sent about privacy and security over the previous century haven't been very friendly, accessible, or intentional. They're also in direct contrast to today's requirements, definitions, and expectations. We'll address questions about how to address this cultural challenge in order to prepare for an evolving set of data protection and privacy laws, threat landscapes, and emerging technologies? We'll take a brief but memorable stroll through the past 100 years or so to uncover some of the tracks we've made while illuminating a new path forward for how to elevate an entire culture's understanding of and interest in how to protect ourselves, our families, friends, colleagues, and clients, not to mention, our reputations, and the bottom line.",
"goal": "For practitioners to consider their audience in more empathetic ways. When we do this, we better achieve our goals, make our work more valuable and satisfying, and deliver more friendly and accessible information and tools to our culture at large.",
"required": "No thanks. The basics sound great!",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Creating a Blockchain manifesto",
"owner": {
"name": "Samuel Fry",
"organization": "IBM"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "46d32579-c583-4ac3-a4a3-9865011411ba",
"description": "We will look how companies are planning to use Blockchain, how the technology works and then we will work together to capture our hopes, fears and a manifesto for the right ‘use cases’ for Blockchain.",
"goal": "To create a combined view on how Blockchain technologies should be used.",
"required": "Wall space and a screen. Ideally not many chairs (i.e. we will set it up as a workshop).",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Helping learners combine Scratch 3.0 and the micro:bit",
"owner": {
"name": "Neil Rickus",
"organization": "University of Hertfordshire"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "dd3ca91f-45c8-4246-a2b0-88f6a7347def",
"description": "The release of Scratch 3.0 sees the micro:bit physical computing device supported within this popular block-based programming environment. Participants are welcome to grab a micro:bit (provided) and, working individually or in pairs, experiment and tinker with this engaging technology through a range of open-ended, collaborative activities to solve real world problems. Once attendees are familiar with programming the device, we’ll break into groups to discuss and develop possible tasks and sequences of lessons suitable for primary / elementary school aged children. These activities, which could be suitable for a range of settings (schools, clubs, makerspaces, online, etc) will include a clear progression in children’s development of programming and computational thinking, along with collaboratively produced example programs and resources.",
"goal": "Participants will have an enhanced understanding of programming using a block-based programming environment (Scratch 3.0) in conjunction with a physical computing device (micro:bit). Those attending will also have a greater appreciation of the benefits of using physical computing to teach programming in a range of settings, along with appropriate pedagogy. Through the production of activities and sequences of lessons, participants will develop a resource they are able to use when working with children and can share with others in the teaching community. Attendees will improve their knowledge and understanding of progression in teaching programming concepts to children and how this can be undertaken in an engaging manner, which can be applied to a range of technologies.",
"required": "I will require a projector and office supplies",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Blind Code Reviews: Debiasing the Open Source Contribution Process",
"owner": {
"name": "Tomislav Jovanovic",
"organization": "Mozilla Open Source Experiments"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6445738f-4186-4df4-aae8-d8ff17a426d8",
"description": "Even when we are trying to be fair, most of us still have unconscious biases that influence code reviews based on the author's perceived gender, race, and/or authority. Blind Code Reviews is a Mozilla experiment that hides the identity of pull request author on Github, letting reviewers focus on judging code on its own merits.Following an introduction and a brief show-and-tell installing and using the browser extension, participants will be invited to install it themselves, browse some repositories in blind mode, and report on how it changes their perception of PRs.This will spark a discussion about bias, and how separating contributions from the author/authority may influence our judgement of code quality.https://github.com/zombie/blind-reviewshttps://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/03/08/gender-bias-code-reviews/",
"goal": "The goal is to introduce open source maintainers who are motivated to increase the diversity of our community to the idea of blind reviews, starting with the original inspiration: blind audition process used by symphony orchestras to curb gender bias.The secondary goal is to learn from the honest discussion about different biases in open source, peer/contributor authority, impostor syndrome and other issues related to inclusion in open source.",
"required": "A digital projector and wifi for attendees.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Safely building communities of sexual minority youth",
"owner": {
"name": "Charles Haynes",
"organization": "Traveller"
},
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "431b9866-549f-4738-bdc3-8c5e49f69f1f",
"description": "Agree on who the audience is, what the goals are and are not, and identify risks.Brainstorm possible solutions, including both technical and social components Synthesize a solution as a paper prototype.",
"goal": "A \"paper prototype\" of an app or web page (or something else!) and a description of the problem as defined and solution as prototyped.",
"required": "Butcher paper, easels, and markers.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Try to read my screen",
"owner": {
"name": "Mattias Östblom",
"organization": "Resident of Sweden"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "030e70c6-1767-4993-8611-bd286786e965",
"description": "The participants will research how a screen reader interacts with the web accessibility API depending on which browser it is interacting with and which operating system it is running on. Each group will be assigned a website and test it with the following screen readers, VoiceOver, Jaws, NVDA, and TalkBack, and these respective web browsers, Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. They will take notes of how the user experience is in each test and discuss among themselves what the biggest differences are in user experience . Then, by the end of the session, all groups will compare their findings in an open discussion.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to give the participants a basic knowledge of how a screen reader interacts with the accessibility API and why it differs depending on the combination of screen reader, web browser, and operation system. The goal is also for the session to reflect how a person working with digital accessibility might test their product for users with visual impairments.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Science for the people",
"owner": {
"name": "Sara El-Gebali",
"organization": "EMBL-EBI"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4224b182-4b85-4f72-979a-a3a4fb7a8e6a",
"description": "Storytelling is so powerful in shaping our world view, it is also a great way of reaching young children and expanding and enriching their world. How do we integrate scientific facts in the narrative to promote an interest in science. For young adolescents, we need to make it more engaging and interactive, learning by doing.After a brief icebreaker, people will work together in groups to come up with ideas and proposals for stories/platforms/databases/game that can help deliver scientific content to children and adolescents. Also to provoke discussions. Which scientific topics are most likely to translate into games?",
"goal": "The outcome is to extend the outreach of science to the public with focus on children and adolescents, i.e. school age. -Story telling for small children (how to convey scientific knowledge in children books)-Platform of scientists in direct contact with adolescents ? How can they reach us? -Adolescents are more technology based, how do we create a game/interactive tools where they can learn more science. How can we reach them?-The outcome ideas could be modified to work to deliver science to rural areas for ex. a scientist traveling to remote villages.",
"required": "Drawing and writing material, additional tablets that people can draw on, recommended to bring laptops.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Are you safe online?",
"owner": {
"name": "Mayur Patil",
"organization": "Mozilla reps"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "55f99c71-233d-4b74-b1a4-7f600dd0c19d",
"description": "Thousands of e-commerce platforms tracking its users everytime they visit their website. Internet chat rooms where identities are bought, sold and traded. In this modern internet age the advertising firms are gaining as much as any from personal data collection, But has never been visualised by the users.This session focus on demonstrating tools that can help internet users * Visualize 3rd party tracker activities. * What information your browser knows* Facebook predictions by analyzing your own Facebook activities FEAR IS THE KEY. Fear can motivate the users to take necessary against overcoming it. Visualization of the data leakage can open eye of the users.",
"goal": "Part 1: Learning* How 3rd party trackers mine for use data* Configuring your browser to thwart tracking* Analyzing how well your browser and add-ons protect you against online tracking techniques* Analyzing how facebook intelligent algorithms work* How email provider reads your emailsAfter making people aware about the data loopholes, the next session would be how to take control over the data breaching activities.Part 2: RemediesRemedies to all the above problems will be answered in this session.* How to stop 3rd party tracker* How to mislead Facebook algorithms * Tweak browser and add-ons to protect your data* Steps against finger printing* Secure emails, search engines, emails",
"required": "Stationary: paper, pens, post-it notesElectronics: Television screen for presentation",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Facebook Data Breach - A Wake up Call",
"owner": {
"name": "Viral Parmar",
"organization": "Mozilla India"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f8ba0f6a-e12d-4053-a9f9-8e1d1442a035",
"description": "Session is on recent case of Cambridge Analytica breach in Facebook user data and How all the Social Media websites compromise our \"Private Life\". will show how Cambridge Analytica company works and what’s the strategy they use to manipulate the behavior of people and do Micro-Targeted Marketing to Influence the market or Elections also how they harvested data of 50 million user of Facebook by not hacking it but via third party apps used by the users in Facebook which helped them to access all the data from users account.",
"goal": "This topic is on latest issue of Facebook data breach which will help people to understand how social media account and other third party companies keep consumer's privacy on risk.After attending this session people will come to know about how their privacy is compromised every day and how social media is affecting our real life, what would be the prevention we can take to protect our digital identity",
"required": "",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Using data standards to get funders to open up",
"owner": {
"name": "Rachel Rank",
"organization": "360Giving"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "673167ee-3fee-4f26-b63c-7d17974a2204",
"description": "Our chair, Fran Perrin, will talk about why she founded 360Giving and what inspired her to do that. Our CEO, Rachel Rank, will talk about setting up an open data initiative, how to build communities in a low-tech sector and our learning from doing that over the past three years. Our Data Labs Manager, Mor Rubinstein, will talk about what opportunities standardised, open data sharing offers, as well as the challenges of responsible data sharing and managing quality issues. The session will showcase examples of how 360Giving data has been used in online tools and for analysis. Participants will be encouraged to ask questions and to explore challenges around responsible data sharing and tools we have developed to support that.",
"goal": "- To share ideas and learning with people interested in open data sharing and \"open by default\" approaches.- To discuss responsible data sharing and hear thoughts on new and emerging issues.- To tap into a community of people interested in the governance of open approaches to sharing and using data and code online.",
"required": "N/A",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building an International Digital Inclusion Community",
"owner": {
"name": "Angela Siefer",
"organization": "National Digital Inclusion Alliance"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5f152f59-c028-4cb9-8a32-083a6af99643",
"description": "Our world is becoming increasingly digital - which could be great, if you have access to the internet and the skills to use it. But if you don’t have internet access or digital skills, you will become increasingly marginalised in all aspects of life - education, work, health, civics and socially. Digital inclusion is the active work to make sure no one is left behind. That means addressing connectivity, affordability, digital skills, and accessibility for disability or other difference. Participants will learn about digital inclusion, share experiences and help develop national and international digital inclusion strategies and opportunities.We will engage, interact, tease out, explore, brainstorm, use interactive tools to identify greatest-impact opportunities and perhaps even personally commit.",
"goal": "While the ‘what’ of how we build digital inclusion changes from place to place, country to country, the ‘why’ remains the same: that everyone needs and has the right to fully participate in our digital world.The goal of this session is to increase engagement in the international digital inclusion efforts. This coalition recognizes that it’s not just about waves, wires and connectivity - it’s about people and it’s about our communities. Participants will leave the session with specific actions they can take to grow a digital inclusion alliance locally and energized to become part of the growing international digital inclusion movement.",
"required": "Facilitators request flip chart paper (preferably butchers paper sized ‘Post it’s’, markers, a projector and a screen.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Libre Graphics print shoppe",
"owner": {
"name": "Larisa Blazic",
"organization": "Libre Graphics Meeting"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bab6022b-d3cb-4eaa-8ddc-abc6c0cc77b7",
"description": "We will make graphics using Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, etc and print. It will be a mini one-stop-shop for all participants who may want to design for their cause and experiment with free software for visual communication.",
"goal": "Promotion of and education about Libre Graphics, skill development, diversifying the tools use, decolonisation of graphic communication design!",
"required": "A colour printer and a scanner would be just great! If possible, a larger monitor, should participants want to have a little software demonstration, but this is optional.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Medical VR Therapy",
"owner": {
"name": "Srijan Kapoor",
"organization": "Hindu Rao Hospital"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3a347d48-9826-4d87-a8d2-a6319f692508",
"description": "The VR we know is all about Gaming, Entertainment, Architecture Industry but there is a lot going on in Medicine as well. VR can make significant improvements to the lives of people with autism, lazy eye, chronic pain, and other health conditions. Virtual Reality is being used to train & support healthcare professionals, change lives and heal patients.Session Outline:* How is VR helpful for patients? : 25 minRelaxing Hospitalized patients, Provide peace of mind before crucial surgeries, Restoring low vision, Phobia Treatment* How is VR helpful for medical students and professionals? : 25minIncrease Comprehension of Complex Concepts about the aging process, Watching Operations, VR Diagnostics, Medical Training and Dentistry`* Q&A / Discussion : 10min",
"goal": "During the session, participants will learn:*-*how VR plays a crucial role in smoothening healthcare system in the near future*-*benefits of VR in medical(safety,time,money,remotely-used,ability to re-use regularly,skills refresh,etc)*-*potential for VR in healthcare sector is huge,limited only by the creativity & ingenuity of those creating and applying the technology*-*how healthcare gets innovative with VR*-*how can they help medical institutions to come up with VR projects/experiences to help students,professors and patients*-*how VR provides an affordable and safe way for patients to better their lives and regain the life they have lost due to pain or other health-related issues*-*how can participants(techies) help medical fellows with VR by creating VR experience for them at a very basic level",
"required": "Projector, Blank paper and pens",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Why should you be afraid of Artificial Intelligence? *should not",
"owner": {
"name": "Pratik Parmar",
"organization": "Student"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9ebebdf9-7f29-474b-a34c-1b5232ae7223",
"description": "Artificial intelligence brings with it a promise of genuine human-to-machine interaction.This talk explores the basic components of AI, its importance in today's world, who're using it and describe how various technologies have combined to help machines become more intelligent. You’ll hear about popular machine learning methods and algorithms and some interesting use cases. You’ll also hear about job implication due to advancement in AI and role of data regulation laws like GDRP in AI.During this session, first introduction to AI will be covered. Later, we’ll divide the audience into two groups, one will represent their opinion on the positive side of AI and the other one will represent the negative side of AI.",
"goal": "Almost other day we hear news that AI will replace human and take their jobs. Thus, along with web literacy, “AI Literacy” is also important in this era where it’s revolutionizing almost every domain. People should be able to understand what AI can do and can’t do. Audience will also get to know why and where their public data is being used. After the session, people will have better understanding and awareness about AI.",
"required": "",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Cryptogame: The Guardians of the Galaxy Use End-to-End Encryption",
"owner": {
"name": "David Kohan",
"organization": "King's College London, UK"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2c7b6c76-2689-4063-94b3-aa6958ff8ef7",
"description": "Our session is essentially a collaborative game with participants. The game is based on our “gaming” framework and aims to intuitively motivate and teach complex concepts through a set of challenges. In this case, we will focus on end-to-end encryption schemes. Participants are split into 3 or 4 teams (depending on the attendance) and aim to find the password for the locked treasure-chest that is secured in the middle of the room. All communication between participants and teams happens through bottled messages that are visible to everyone (including the opposing teams). As the teams progress through the challenges, they incrementally start to use more complex schemes, eventually reconstructing some popular schemes used in real world cryptographic applications.",
"goal": "We want to motivate the use of End-to-End Encryption (EE2E), help participants create correct mental models of E2EE tools, and introduce some common encryption schemes in practice. We use Game-based learning to increase the audience engagement, especially as Data/Communication Security and Cryptography is a complex and involved topic. During the game even non-experts will build an intuition around the topic, which will be later put in practice as the players move forward to more advanced challenges, while trying to avoid leaking data to opposing teams. During the game we will study in depth only specific schemes, but we will also provide some quick intermittent slide-breaks to skim through broader areas of application to further intrigue the audience.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Reality Vertigo",
"owner": {
"name": "Shina Dhingra",
"organization": "HSBC"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c705fd31-ce2a-45fa-9691-12f865f89f49",
"description": "This interactive session will seek answers to the questions, \"Why is it important to detect misleading information that's available online?\" & \"What are the societal consequences & ramifications to the mass consumption of misleading information which is often dubbed as fake news?\" The session is divided in two phases: I.Categorization:Attendees will get into groups to come up with potential categories under which data sets can fall to decide a categorization scheme. We'll project examples for the audience to identify from the fake and noisy data created on social media.II.Solution Building :It involves brainstorming and prototyping algorithms and solutions along with the audience's participation to make sure that at least some of what people see online is, in fact true.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is for the attendees of any age to understand what is fake news, evaluate the information online to identify the consequences, have a general discussion on how, by doing this, the trust in statistics and facts and real news, can be restored. Having human intelligence and not artificial intelligence as the key input for this session since AI won't be affected by consuming misleading information, human lives will. The output will be a model that can accurately predict the likelihood that any given article could be a sham. More so, the very people who get affected by these gimmicks and the ones around them could be well informed about protecting themselves.",
"required": "A projector, pens, papers.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Exploring a New Model of Digital Government",
"owner": {
"name": "Anne Kainic",
"organization": "United States Digital Service"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8c488907-ca20-4afd-b0ba-532b2643ef17",
"description": "Governments provide countless essential services, ranging from health care to aid programs to defense; implementing each of these diverse services is often done in isolation from one another. What if there were a common set of tools that could be used in each of these functions, and what if these tools were open to the public? Our talk will explore what a new model of government, government as a platform, could look like. Drawing on our experience of building and maintaining an open-source library in government, we’ll cover examples of how government is moving towards building open APIs and shared tools, and how that creates new opportunities both to influence how our government functions and to serve more people.",
"goal": "Our first goal is for participants to learn about specific examples of open government projects and to understand the benefits of open-source software in government. We hope to demonstrate how building open APIs and open-source projects in government leads to more inclusive government services: by enabling private citizens to directly shape the software the government uses, we’re bringing more voices into government, as well as creating opportunities for more services to be created, and therefore for more people to be served. Our second goal is for participants to think about ways they can take this new model of government home to their own communities or organizations through a brainstorming session at the end.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Technology, Consciousness, and Agency: Deconstructing Digital Design",
"owner": {
"name": "Julie Sykes",
"organization": "University of Oregon"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ac7eb00c-48ab-4039-ad12-6b210975a7a3",
"description": "This interactive session focuses on how to foster conscious engagement in online spaces (digital mindfulness) as a fundamental component of current conversations in design ethics.The session explores how UX design shapes our use of digital tools and our thoughts, emotions, and reality—for better and for worse.In a guided interactive format, participants will explore how digital design shapes user behavior in both on- and offline spaces. Following this discussion, facilitators will provide participants with an exclusive look at a mobile app prototype that helps users engage more mindfully with technology. Participants will play with the prototype in small groups, and facilitators will lead a design challenge for expanding the app with an eye toward viable scalability and feature enhancements.",
"goal": "This session explores how UX shapes consciousness and thought, and how it enhances and hinders users’ self-determination. In addition, participants will discover how a shift toward a more mindful use of digital devices can further enrich our lives. Through the session’s guided discovery, participants will develop a greater understanding of and appreciation for the ways in which digital technology and digital design shape not only our online interactions, but our offline lives as well. Participants will engage in a design challenge to conceptualize additional prototype features and approaches for enhancing user autonomy, agency, and self-determination.",
"required": "The facilitators would like to request a projector. They will bring additional devices for participants to interact with the prototype.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Online safety programmes for schools",
"owner": {
"name": "Agustina Melchiori",
"organization": "Google"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "32b4d3ed-30a3-43b9-8dcd-b6215b169701",
"description": "Present Google's 2 main online safety programmes called Be Internet Legends (g.co/beinternetlegends) and Be Internet Citizens (internetcitizens.withyoutube.com) to primary and secondary school teachers:1- Be Internet Legends is an educational internet safety programme for teachers of 7-11 year olds. Developed in partnership with safety experts and teachers at Parent Zone, the programme is the first of its kind to be PSHE accredited. 2- Be Internet Citizens is an educational safety programme for teachers of secondary school (13+ yo) designed to teach teenagers about media literacy, critical thinking and digital citizenship, with the aim of encouraging young people to have a positive voice online. Developed in partnership with safety experts at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and it's also PSHE accredited.",
"goal": "Provide teachers with all the tools and methods they need to teach internet safety to their pupils with our 2 programmes.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Ethiopian News Advisor: Collaborative Web News Ranking",
"owner": {
"name": "Melkamu Beyene",
"organization": "Addis Ababa University"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4039c969-b03a-4a4b-b82c-51dc8dcbb3dd",
"description": "A list of top news/posts will be extracted from social networking sites. A group of people from the session will be asked to rate the trustworthiness of each news. These people will be assigned a weight indicating their level of importance in the network. This can simulate the network of strong and committed community of users and experts that collaboratively rate the trust worthiness of certain news in Ethiopia. Once, they rate every news, the importance of it will be calculated as a weighted sum of the raters importance times the rating provided for it. This can demonstrate the fact that fake news can be detected by collaboration of users.",
"goal": "Social Media becomes a mean of sharing information, news and opinions among Ethiopians and the number users, particularly Facebook is increasing. The propagation and spread of deliberately fabricated, misleading, fake, false information by individuals or groups in favor of political or economic advantages are some of the practical problems observed.There are numerous users engaged in fueling disputes among people with different ethnic groups or religion. The situation becomes a threat for peaceful coexistence of the people in Ethiopia. This was the only reason that motivate this session. Thus, we use this opportunity to demonstrate the proposed idea and receive feedback on how to proceed further.",
"required": "Laptop or smart phone to install the sample application is necessary.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Girl Empowerment through Competitive Robotics",
"owner": {
"name": "Misa Rojo",
"organization": "Girl Scouts of Central Texas, Inc (GSCTX)"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone",
"[YZ] Youth Lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "fcd4e84a-7580-4e7a-82a3-8e9cba5111ee",
"description": "Members of the Girl Scouts of Central Texas (GSCTX) Robotics team, the Lady Cans, will demonstrate the robot they built and programmed as a team and discuss their unique process for hands-on STEM learning for their all-girl team that empowers them to become future leaders. The team is given an annual robotics challenge to solve and use the engineering design process to program and build their robot. Volunteer mentors lead the team meetings, guide them through their competition cycles and design process, and connect the girls to STEM professionals. Mentors also ensure the girls experience every aspect of the design, building, programming, and team management processes, starting when they are in middle school and following them through high school graduation.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to increase the audience’s awareness of the benefits of all-girl spaces in hands-on STEM education and address innovative ways to build leadership and STEM skills in girls through project-based, collaborative learning. Through our unique STEM engagement in our robotics program, GSCTX has helped girls, grades 6-12, achieve better grades in their STEM-related classes, enter competitive engineering programs at the University of Texas at Austin and the California Institute of Technology, among others, and prepare for future STEM careers. Engaging with the girls and their mentors would be inspiring for Youth Zone attendees and help them apply methods that were successful for the Lady Cans to their own STEM engagement efforts.",
"required": "Robot, tools, equipment, and booth collateral will need to be shipped over for this gallery",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Community-driven internationalization of technical documentation and training material",
"owner": {
"name": "Bérénice Batut",
"organization": "University of Freiburg / de.NBI"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] French",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bf116ab7-94e2-458c-a4ec-6b37ccc484fe",
"description": "English is the de facto choice to provide documentation and training material to the majority. Internationalization makes content accessible and understandable by a large audience of users. One of the major challenges of internationalization is to create good quality translations in different languages and keep them synchronized even when the original text evolves over time. A manual, constantly updated translation is the best solution for users, but it involves a strong, broad, and active community that most projects do not have.During this session, the participants will work in small groups (based on their spoken language) to evaluate strategies and develop prototypes to automatically translate documentation or training content, but also identify recommendations for efficient internationalization of documentation and training.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to identify the challenges and solutions for the translation of technical documentation such that it is easy to keep it up-to-date for any community. Secondary aims of the session is to come up with recommendations for internationalization of written content: writing of the original text, tools to use, tricks to improve a translation, etc. The outcomes of the discussion will be developed into guidelines other projects can apply to their documentation resources.",
"required": "ProjectorPaperPens / MarkersPost-it",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Online-you: how does it look like?",
"owner": {
"name": "Simonetta d'Ottaviano",
"organization": "Nettoken"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "be3ebcdb-68e9-4ff7-970c-03f120343cb0",
"description": "We have organized a number of exercises and will invite people to participate, either in small groups or as individuals, to brainstorm ideas on how to represent the various facets of their digital identity and its values. They will then make mock-ups, by writing or sketching, to visually represent a scale of values. They are invited to share their thoughts to provoke a productive conversation about the ‘online-you’.",
"goal": "Generate a scale of values and a library of visual representations of users’ digital identities, in order to design tools that, whilst making our scattered data less abstract, will help us easily manage and protect our daily online activity. The findings will help us reinforce our existing features and promote digital awareness through our platform.Our goal is to gain exposure and give everyday internet users the chance to take control of their data using Nettoken. After gaining an understanding of the values they have for their data, if they wish, through the Nettoken platform they can discover how many accounts they have signed up to, to start empowering them, no matter how good they are with computers!",
"required": "It would be fantastic if we could have 1 big screen and stationary",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Privacy Personas: how to connect and communicate effectively and make people care.",
"owner": {
"name": "Anamika Ved",
"organization": "Least Authority GmbH https://leastauthority.com/"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4996c8c7-d06e-42b1-9c7b-01156c44ca48",
"description": "Through the use of personas, we’ll host a conversation about how to educate people ‘why privacy matters’ and to better understand the ‘privacy’ they are surrendering when they choose convenient or no-cost tools that collect data for profit. We have designed a session that puts fictional people in situations where their privacy is compromised. We split the attendees into small groups. Each group will be assigned a persona and be asked to suggest persuasive strategies they would use to tell their respective persona to change their behavior online – to consider their privacy and refrain from giving information away. The task will be to have a conversation with the personas that focuses on privacy rather than technical aspects and jargon.",
"goal": "Our goal is to actively discuss the topic and feel better prepared to communicate the value of privacy beyond our everyday circles. We will produce notes and suggestions that can be used by any technical project in this space. And perhaps have some collective action items for the community.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Who is Spying on you?",
"owner": {
"name": "Viral Parmar",
"organization": "Mozilla India"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ae941587-3b73-4c3d-a0ea-f065f85ade77",
"description": "Talk is about how our privacy is compromised every day, how it happens due to mass surveillance by governments, big tech company, data brokers & 3rd party apps etc., what are our rights to privacy & why it matters, what are the precaution we can take to secure it, secure communication channels like TOR and also will discuss about Broadband Policy, Net Neutrality & Cyber Warfare with case study.",
"goal": "After attending this session people will be aware about How our privacy is compromised? how tech company, government and other spy agencies spy on us, Why encryption is important?, What are the secure way of communication to maintain privacy? and how to prevent such data leakage.",
"required": "No Thanks.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Haunted Houses With Google SketchUp",
"owner": {
"name": "Elise Ainsworth",
"organization": "Girls2Geeks"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Returner",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "44d2e816-f9a2-4fa0-9bbd-1de6fe8bf9eb",
"description": "Each participant will use a laptop set up beforehand with Google SketchUp. Each year, as MozFest falls close to Halloween, I enjoy adding a 'spooky' theme to fit in with the time of the year, as seen in my previous 'Spooktacular Sounds' and 'Processing Monsters' workshops. Using basic SketchUp skills, the participants will create a house, before using textures, colours and their own designs to add a 'spooky' vibe. They will learn simple gestures and actions within SketchUp to first draw shapes and add colours, before then going on to use 'Push/Pull' and 'Follow Me', as well as more, to add a third dimension to their Halloween-themed environments.",
"goal": "My goal through this session is to be able to give participants a basic and simple guide to finding their way around the popular Google SketchUp application, before then being able to apply this knowledge to create a 3-dimensional, coloured and detailed house, potentially fitting in with the Halloween theme. This will add a further element of fun to a workshop that will already have a child-friendly atmosphere, creating a welcoming environment for children and adults alike to learn how to apply computational and architectural knowledge and imagination to their own creations.",
"required": "I would need laptops that would be able to handle a single download of Google SketchUp, as well as a projector and HDMI cable for my laptop to be able to provide live instructions and demonstrations.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "User Flow liquid data visualisation",
"owner": {
"name": "Matt Stempeck",
"organization": "Bad Idea Factory"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c38462de-2044-467c-a70b-b319372170c6",
"description": "This is a visual aid to help explain the work: http://bit.lyliquidmotiontoysUser Flow is series of art pieces that animate the web's dark patterns. Each piece visualizes the flow of users (represented as colorful oil bubbles) through a set of common conversion marketing funnels. By building on an existing accessible metaphor, liquid motion toys, each piece invites participants to pick it up, flip it over, and enjoy watching web analytics unfold in real-time in the physical world. Together, the set instills web literacy while offering a moment of reflection on how marketers channel our attention through their elaborate scaffolds.Materials:Laser-cut acrylicAcrylic cementMineral oilFood dye",
"goal": "It can be difficult to understand or visualize how web service providers treat users. This exhibit will vividly bring to life abstract ideas like conversion marketing and multivariate testing. Each laser-cut acrylic \"wireframe\" emulates a common approach to extracting value from streams of web traffic (in other words, us), including:- Drip campaigns- A/B and multivariate testing- The effect of interventions on conversion rates- Re-targetingParticipants will come away with an experience seeing how each tactic operates.",
"required": "Colourful markers and sheet paper would be wonderfulIf you'd like me to demonstrate creating one's own liquid data visualisations, I could also use a couple bottles of mineral oil, food dye, and salt",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Biased data for biased algorithms",
"owner": {
"name": "Tim Head",
"organization": "Wild Tree Tech"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "49a6f90f-0cdc-461d-bb3a-8b37e8c34347",
"description": "We will introduce an innocent looking dataset that allows participants to train a machine-learning algorithm that can separate pictures of dogs from cats. We will have a short humans-as-neural-network role play that demonstrates how machine-learning algorithms work and why what they do is different from just memorising things. We will then let participants train a pre-prepared algorithm to solve the cats vs dogs problem. A second set of images will have indoor dogs and outdoor cats on them. We will discuss ways to remove the bias problem in this case as well as discuss potential sources for bias in real world data and how you could check for it.",
"goal": "Participants will know how it can happen that an algorithm is \"biased\".Participants will know questions to ask when \"algorithms\" are being designed that let them tell if they are biased with respect to gender/race/<some property>Participants will know that they can train a machine-learning algorithm themselves.",
"required": "a projector.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Play 'Scrabble' to share your web experiences",
"owner": {
"name": "Md Anisur Rahman",
"organization": "Mozilla Bangladesh, Ex Mozilla Reps"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Bengali",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "77523d5a-29c8-4ca2-97c4-9f33fcd812df",
"description": "I would like to share some common good practices, as a regular web user to follow so that we are safe from the web-traps, both from a user perspective and a developer(web-builder) perspective. But having experience of taking many sessions and also following MozFest for years, I know the sessions must be engaging and interactive. So, I thought why not do it using a game where everyone can participate regardless any age group or profession or background.We will play \"Scrabble\" on the wall using sticky notes to form words only related to \"Technology\". And then a 5-10 min presentation sharing some very simple yet effective good practices for both users and developers.",
"goal": "Participant will share their experience or the definition or anything why they think it to be a word related to technology after forming a word, so that others can know about it. This way each participant will have a chance to play a role in the session sharing something related to technology/web. This year’s Web Literacy space is a place for sharing, discussing, and learning the superpowers of the Internet and I think through this game we will be able to do all of that.After the game, a small presentation will let us be more aware, careful and literate about how we can save ourselves from those daily traps.",
"required": "Marker Pens, Post it notes, A large paper with square boxes to post on the wall where each square can hold one post-it note, A projector, A camera with a volunteer to capture what people are sharing(optional)",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "How can we make desentralised technology more user friendly than centralized solutions?",
"owner": {
"name": "Nils Norman Haukås",
"organization": "Netlife"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "58d23a69-ea8a-4192-80f7-057d685b057c",
"description": "We will start with a 20 minute introduction to user experience design. I'll give some examples of good and poor UX design. Participants will be introduced to the concepts of usability goals, user experience goals, problem space and interface metaphors.Going from there participants will be introduced and engaged in the \"Wizard of OZ\" paper prototyping technique. This is a technique where we draw user interfaces on paper. We then breathe life into the paper UI by having someone click on the paper and someone else switch out the paper. Participants can either dream up new services, or try to re-imagine existing services. And we'll pause to share our experiences in the end.",
"goal": "The goal is to give participants a taste of some good concepts and tools they can use to help make the decentralized future more user friendly.",
"required": "I would love to have a projector and some office supplies (paper, pens and post-it notes).",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Our movements blossom when we connect to the web: My FGM campaign.",
"owner": {
"name": "Stacy Dina Adhiambo Owinio",
"organization": "Student"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1ed3c67a-ae21-4917-86ff-78789691d9c8",
"description": "The culture of a people is what defines us as humans. However, with modernization,we realize that some of what we practice and uphold cause more harm than good. In my session, participants will give examples of practices we still uphold in our individual lives,communities or countries that are harmful. After which I will be able to share data on Female Genital Mutilation and how the data helped a group of us to design iCut, an app to help in reporting cases. We will then discuss what iCut looks like and what we plan to do with it in the future and give a chance to those who have tried to solve similar problems to contribute to the project.",
"goal": "To help people understand the importance of challenging the norms we uphold that are harmful and bring to light the FGM situation in my country.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Magical Mystery Musical Tour With Sonic Pi",
"owner": {
"name": "Elise Ainsworth",
"organization": "Girls2Geeks"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Returner",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3b2b2437-5eda-4a2f-abc6-0b883208e732",
"description": "This activity will allow people to code well known pieces of music with the brilliant programming language of Sonic Pi. They will be provided with one of several songs to create and will be able to remix it as they wish.This workshop will cover the basics of Sonic Pi, including creation of notes, rhythms and introducing samples. As the software is free participants will be able to continue with their music and create new pieces at home if they wish. We will cover the importance of learning to code, and how coding music is one of the most fun ways to program your own projects.",
"goal": "Every person, or pair if they wish, will have a Raspberry Pi to work on. This will already be set up, along with Sonic Pi open and ready. Each participant will have a worksheet for their preferred piece of music but I would also be doing the same thing at the front. However, they can carry on faster if they would like, following the worksheet. At the end of the session we will make a big piece of music by combining aspects of everybody's work and ideas for each track. This will be our Magical Music remix of several popular songs, and can be shared online for participants and the public via Twitter and my website girls2geeks.com.",
"required": "Headphones will be required for each participant to be connected to the Raspberry Pi's in the room, also the Pi's will need Sonic Pi pre-loaded.I will provide the worksheets for the musical code.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Measuring Impact in Tech Communities in Emerging Economies",
"owner": {
"name": "Dorcas Owino",
"organization": "LakeHub"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4677bc02-076c-4d4c-bbf1-5f5a7e941d87",
"description": "Participants will exchange ideas on:1. What defines a tech community (membership, tools of trade, events) in emerging economies.2. How to create a successful tech ecosystem in emerging economies.3. Metrics used to measure impact in tech communities in their locales4. Success stories in running tech communities in emerging economies",
"goal": "1. A collection of ideas on some of the metrics used in participants’ local tech communities to measure impact (based on goal)2. Build a global community of leaders and activists to push the agenda of successfully running nascent tech communities in emerging economies",
"required": "Paper, pens (marker), post-in notes and manila papers will do for the session.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The African art of social engineering",
"owner": {
"name": "Brenda Nyokabi",
"organization": "Code for Africa"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d830cc45-5741-456a-9c51-99c220647a6a",
"description": "Despite the increasing recognition of the psychological nature of cyber attacks, research into the role of psychology in cybersecurity has continued to be undermined. In this session, we would like to engage the audience in some of the social engineering techniques that attackers use to gather sensitive information from the target. Using different activities, we will explore how psychological approaches are applied by African hackers to gain information/sensitive data from unsuspecting internet users. Some of the issues we will discuss include the M-Pesa frauds in Kenya by prisoners and the Sakawa/Yahoo boys frauds which are quite prominent in Africa. Additionally, provide and discuss ways in which participants can protect their data against social engineering culprits.",
"goal": "Participants in this session should be able to understand and easily identify the various social engineering techniques used by malicious actors. Our goal is to shed a light on the different attack vectors that non-technical attackers employ to gain access to sensitive data for monetary gains",
"required": "We would need small stickers, pens, papers, a whiteboard and a projector for this session",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Blockchain Live Game",
"owner": {
"name": "Pedro Marins",
"organization": "cripto.eco"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6e270bed-5439-46cf-a4a7-6805b8345fb4",
"description": "We will play a card game that I developed to help people understand how a blockchain word and how a decentralized validation protocol operates. We can play in waves of 30 people and the game last 30min~60min. People use the cards to understand how a descentralized ledger can work and why this is so important. People will have the opportunity to experience in a live way how this technology will revolutionize sensitive information that we store today.",
"goal": "People will leave with a real undestand of how the blockchain technology works, what are the incentives an ways it can help in any developement of initiatives to foster decentralization and deal with sensitive information that we store today.",
"required": "No need of anything extra. People will play the card game that I already have printed!",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Tracking Local Television Around the World",
"owner": {
"name": "Daniel Schultz",
"organization": "Bad Idea Factory"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "755f86cf-1e25-470e-a06f-3487822c8cfe",
"description": "This session will teach participants how to turn local television channels into streams of data (captions, coverage patterns, word extraction, etc), share those real time data streams with one another, and use that data for novel journalism and reporting. We will share code, lessons learned, datasets, and analysis approaches that came from our time at the Internet Archive's TV News Archive.",
"goal": "We want people to learn how to unlock their own local television streams for themselves and for the rest of the world. Technically inclined participants should walk away knowing how to run code locally that takes a video stream and converts it to data. Journalistic / design inclined participants will learn about a new category of data that they can use to create new kinds of stories and data visualizations.",
"required": "Projector would be great, but we can survive without one!",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Designing your own website and running it on a raspberry pi. What cybersecurity tools do you need to consider?",
"owner": {
"name": "Claudia Hernandez",
"organization": "PhD Student at the University of Cambridge"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "6f2dd8d4-61c8-4e68-b2ef-aba576ffa511",
"description": "Low cost software and hardware creates the opportunity to bring empowering technology to people with low-budget. During this session the audience will learn to install an operating system and the software needed to design a website using a raspberry pi. Prototyped source code to design the website will be tested in advance to be re-used during the session. The structure of the code will be modular and flexible to incorporate people ideas.",
"goal": "Teach the participants basic programing concepts to design a website taking advantage of using low-cost technology, such as the raspberry pi. We expect that the audience take this exercise as a initial step to think about how to create secure websites and which tools exist to prevent cyber attacks, spam, online censorship and monitor the unusual virtual traffic going into the website. By learning the vulnerabilities of virtual websites we could discuss how sites with sensitive data such as personal banking/DNA data services or digital blogs of journalist or activists protect themselves in the cyberspace.",
"required": "1 projector2/3 external monitors with HDMI connection to connect with the raspberry pi",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Decolonize the Internet",
"owner": {
"name": "May Hashem",
"organization": "Wikimedia"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c1549691-e43c-43c9-9997-93fc94ec95f0",
"description": "HerStory campaign aim is to double the number of articles about gender and empowerment of women and girls on Wikipedia between 2018 and 2020 by editing existing articles to enhance its quality, translate featured articles from other languages, and adding new articles and photos about women and gender equality. In the Arab States, this target entails the production of 23,676 articles by the end of 2020. UN Women initiated a collaboration between Wikimedia Foundation, Empower Women, the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth and a group of volunteers, and launched HerStory in the Arab States region.",
"goal": "Spread awareness on:●\tIncrease and enhance the quality of articles on Wikipedia about the global challenges and risk that women and girls face;●\tProduce crowed-sourced knowledge and social media campaigns to engage youth in finding solutions for global challenges and develop new governance models; ●\tStrengthened cooperation with knowledge, research, and communication partners;●\tIncrease public awareness on the role of women in achieving the SDGs;",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Paper Programs",
"owner": {
"name": "Paul Sonnentg",
"organization": "Stuttgart Media University"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Adult lead"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "277c39ba-1113-4e5e-8e51-1448e3541de0",
"description": "Together with the people attending MozFest, we want to create an interactive installation during the two days of the conference. This project will be based on [Paper Programs](https://www.paperprograms.org) which is a programming environment that brings coding to the physical world.**Each program is a piece of paper.**![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/650540/43486033-134ee6ac-9513-11e8-8e38-a58cab9cab87.jpg)*this program draws a blob onto itself***Papers can interact with each other**![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/650540/43486038-15fd3db8-9513-11e8-9c2c-5adfed4e94b9.jpg)*the color picker paper changes the color of the blob***Papers can interact with the physical environment**![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/650540/43450760-be3b7a54-94b3-11e8-9bc5-08e1a4c04806.gif)*this paper draws particles whenever it sees a marker***The setup works with a camera which tracks the papers and a projector which can project things onto the paper**![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/650540/43486035-14d1da34-9513-11e8-989b-6ca48cb1ae9f.jpeg)",
"goal": "We want to introduce children to coding in a physical environment. Paper Programs encourages learning by doing. Initially, kids can get familiar with the system by just interacting with existing papers. Next, they can learn how a single paper in the system works and how they can modify it or even create their own papers. It's also possible to create new things by combining existing papers. Because all the papers exist in the same physical space, the system encourages collaboration and building stuff on top of the papers which other people have already created. The final result of the festival will be an interactive collage which combines all the papers people have built over the weekend into a single installment.",
"required": "We will bring our own projectors and the truss system to mount them.Here are pictures how the setup will look like. In the picture the second arch (which is the same size) is hidden behind the projection screen on the left.![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/650540/43486676-c0430a36-9514-11e8-8ab2-e8a2bc78fb05.jpeg)It would be great if you could provide 2 tables with chairs to put under the arches.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "The psychology of cybersecurity: The human mind as the first line of defence.",
"owner": {
"name": "Brenda Nyokabi",
"organization": "Code for Africa"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1de16408-649f-4d97-b6a0-4f358dd424a5",
"description": "This session will be a follow up of the first session (The African art of social engineering), where we brainstorm more about social engineering. We will propose some of the solutions that have been effective in protecting oneself from falling victim of social engineering attacks.Activity One: Phishing attacks-Generate a scenario of a phishing attack, Brainstorm ideas on how to keep safe from phishing attacks anddiscuss incidence response in case of a phishing attackActivity two: Man-in-the-middle attacks through rogue access points -Have participants figure out a way to send information securely to the intended recipient without the message falling into the hands of third parties. These activities will be used to highlight the need for encryption, VPNs and other security tools.",
"goal": "Our main goal in this session is to make the participant aware of common social engineering tactics used by fraudsters and inform participants on how to recognize and act accordingly. Additionally, we want our participant to be aware of policies that are in place when they fall victim to social engineering.",
"required": "We would need small stickers, pens, papers, a whiteboard and a projector for this session",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Creating a Culture of Data Consciousness with Endangered Data Week",
"owner": {
"name": "Jason Heppler",
"organization": "University of Nebraska at Omaha"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "cb455345-bea7-45d1-bdda-c53b61c4b28e",
"description": "Endangered Data Week (EDW) is a project that helps communities collect, maintain, and use data for good. Our community is especially interested in helping people protect and preserve “endangered” data -- data in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost due to social, technical, or political issues. In this session, we’ll share a scenario and dataset (inspired by real endangered data) with participants and invite them to problem solve how they might save and steward that data away from erasure or misuse. We’ll use participants’ responses to set up a closing discussion about how all of us can help our communities work for better data consciousness, civic literacy, and government transparency.",
"goal": "Attendees will:- Understand what “endangered data” means and why it should be protected from erasure and misuse.- Collaborate to develop a way to save data and use it for good through scenario-based role-play and discussion.- Develop greater senses of data and risk consciousness, civic literacy, and the value and characteristics of government transparency.- Leave with ways to connect their communities and datasets with EDW and allied projects.",
"required": "Large paper pad (or markerboard), post-it notes, markers, projector",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Reframing the Story: Media Analysis by Indigenous Communities",
"owner": {
"name": "Eddie Avila",
"organization": "Rising Voices (Global Voices)"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "831ce33b-87ed-4b05-83d2-ce40258e8210",
"description": "Rising Voices will share our experience introducing tools and concepts for digital media analysis to communities that have historically been marginalized and misrepresented. The Media Cloud platform offered members of these communities the opportunity to explore the ways they are represented in local media. The workshop will focus on our work in Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile, where members of Kichwa, Shuar, Wayuu, Arhuaco, and Mapuche indigenous communities used collaborative media analysis as a starting point for conversations about media representation. The Reframed Stories project is a joint media literacy initiative of Rising Voices and NewsFrames both a part of the organization Global Voices. The session will feature the multimedia commentaries, or “Reframed Stories”, that resulted from participants’ media analysis work.",
"goal": "Session attendees will gain insight into the development of “Reframed Stories”, which allowed participants to not only explore media representation in depth, but also to report on their initial findings. The session will include a demonstration of how the Media Cloud platform was used to collaboratively create the initial data sets. The session will help communities already leveraging the power of the internet for storytelling to consider another perspective that could help shape their own communications strategies. By showcasing stories produced by indigenous communities based on media analysis, we aim to offer attendees a sense of how such tools and concepts could inform their own work.",
"required": "Overhead project, post-it notes, markers",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "technoaware rad sex ed: let the youth have fun",
"owner": {
"name": "Yuan Stevens",
"organization": "McGill University, Open Privacy, Head & Hands"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1cdfd783-551c-45e1-8aa7-449d012e2667",
"description": "In this fun, interactive, practical session, the facilitators (us!) and participants will take part in guided discussion on the process of planning a sex education workshop (aimed at youth) centred on consent and privacy online. We'll decide communication norms together (eg. keeping personal stories confidential). Charlie and Yuan will share a few stories from That One Time where they planned rad sex ed workshops for Head & Hands, the Montreal-based organization that offers free and holistic health, legal, and social services to youth. We'll discuss the frameworks of harm reduction, non-judgmental approaches, and youth empowerment. We'll ask youth to share their experiences of building community online. Attendees will learn the key issues to consider for planning technoaware sex ed workshops.",
"goal": "The first purpose of this session is to create judgement-free and empowering spaces of intergenerational learning. Our session will allow attendees who work in online harassment and/or with youth, and young people themselves, to discuss emerging norms around consent, privacy, and building community online. We want to help less technologically literate people (often those who are older) see their blindspots when it comes to online youth culture.Another major goal is to support and validate youth culture and to advocate for harm reductive empowerment in online spaces. Our session explores the ethical contours of relating to each other online, such as sending nudes and how to do so while ensuring consent and better protecting privacy of everyone involved.",
"required": "We would appreciate access to a projector and stickies for our workshop, otherwise will bring all other material ourselves :) We would *so* love to share our knowledge and learn from others at Mozfest — thank you for your time and energy in reviewing our application!",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Create your digital signuture using 'Class' and 'Id'",
"owner": {
"name": "Md Anisur Rahman Rahman",
"organization": "Mozilla angladesh, Ex Mozilla Rep"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Bengali",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "de317160-5f24-4f6c-9ac2-307fbbe15824",
"description": "HTML and CSS are the easiest language to learn. 15 minutes and Google are all what anyone needs to create his own digital signature. This will be a fun session where anyone from any age group or background can join. I will ask participants to do whatever they like for example write, sing, draw, take photos etc and document it any means possible, lets say record using mobile or mail the writings, take a photo of the drawing. And then I will show them how can 5-10 identical HTML lines and 5-10 CSS lines can help them to create their digital identity using whatever they like to do. And how to use Google to start learning from there.",
"goal": "This session will help participants to understand that Web is not that complex as it seems to be. This session will inspire them to look at it in a more funny and friendlier way in terms of learning Web developing. This will be a start for people unfamiliar with how web works to go forward and contribute to Digital Inclusion by exploring web, and sharing their own creativity and activism to bring more people than ever online.They will know how different free and/or open platforms can help them sharing their own works with others, in other words creating digital signatures.",
"required": "White A4 papers, post-it notes, marker pens, projector, a laptop to conduct the session",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Breaking invisible barriers: Are you working with MIL?",
"owner": {
"name": "Roslyn Kratochvil Moore",
"organization": "DW Akademie"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "638f19c1-c808-4677-8e86-432d3c8a7a23",
"description": "Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is the ability to access, analyze, and create media across many platforms and formats. It encompasses a variety of approaches, such as digital inclusion, addressing misinformation, fact-checking, and digital rights, essential for global citizens to fully achieve their personal and collective rights to freedom of expression and access to information. This diversity is reflected in a new initiative called the MIL Experts Network (MILEN) convened by DWAkademie. This session will include practitioners from MILEN from Georgia working on combating fake news, from India working with web literacy in rural communities, and from Latin America working on media analysis with indigenous communities. They will share their experiences working collectively to curate and provide open-source MIL resources.",
"goal": "At the conclusion of the session, we want participants to have a better understanding about the need for MIL and their own role in supporting communities to better understanding how media works, to analyze more critically the messages transmitted, and to make informed decisions as consumers and producers of information, especially on the web. Session attendees will work in breakout groups to identify resource needs, feed into the design of the network, and collect ideas of how the network can help disseminate MIL ideas and resources. We hope that participants will be motivated to engage in MIL activities in their own communities knowing that they can count on the support of MILEN curated resources and initiatives to raise awareness.",
"required": "Overhead projector, post-it notes, flip charts and markers",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Cyber Disorder",
"owner": {
"name": "Viral Parmar",
"organization": "Mozilla India"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d2a74904-2a4a-4683-939f-6fe0ea0c0fd0",
"description": "This talk will cover how people are getting addicted to social media, how excessive use of social media can effect their personal/real life and what are the causes of this disorder. A social networking addict could be considered someone with a compulsion to use social media to excess constantly like checking Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Whats App status updates or stalking people's profiles for hours to end. I will share few real life case study to explain how our post or info that we shared online lead us to become a victim of cyber crime and I will also share the details about kind of prevention we can take to protect our digital identity and to control the \"Cyber Disorder\".",
"goal": "This session will help people to understand the sensitivity of using social media which effects our real life and lead us to become a victim of cyber crime like cyber bullying, cyber stalking, cyber harassment, defamation, identity theft etc and also put some light on case of grooming and blue whale game.Key points: What is Cyber disorder? Causes of cyber disorder. How it affects us? How to get secured.",
"required": "No Thanks",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "#GirlsInSTEM Wikithon",
"owner": {
"name": "Alan O'Donohoe",
"organization": "exa.foundation"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e035d85d-95b0-44c6-be53-7b7adcbdd818",
"description": "Working as a group, we aim to edit existing Wikipedia pages and create new ones that shine a light on the incredible women in STEM who act as role models to present and future generations.Open to everyone, regardless of background and gender; we invite complete beginners and experienced editors to attend - we'll provide training for anyone new to editing Wikipedia.",
"goal": "To inspire others to create a more inclusive, representative Wikipedia that shines a light on those who achievements have not yet been recognised.",
"required": "It will be helpful if those attending our session have a web-enabled device, eg. tablet or laptop, though this is not essential.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Hidden Fragility of the Internet",
"owner": {
"name": "Clare Stanton",
"organization": "Harvard Library Innovation Lab"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone",
"[WL] Email"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "828d5085-f447-4eae-84bf-08d1b4ba314d",
"description": "This session will function as a crash course in the technical steps your browser takes to make a webpage show up in your browser and a hands-on demonstration of the problem of linkrot. Participants will work to visualize in their own way the components of a webpage on a communal canvas during the first part of the session. Then we will admire each other’s work and “link” our drawings together, much like how we cite things from the internet and link our pages to others. Finally, and most tragically, the group will systematically black out the parts of their linked pages that would be affected by one of their webpages going down.",
"goal": "As librarians, our team is interested in preserving information that is essential not only for the historical record, but for the short term in journalism, law, and scholarship. The web is a powerful place, but it’s more fragile than most might think. The goal of this session is to get internet users of all levels to better understand how information lives and dies on the web.",
"required": "Potentially some art supplies like scissors, butcher paper, tape/glue and sharpies but mostly will be working with drawings",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Training elves to fight internet trolls",
"owner": {
"name": "Aslak Ransby",
"organization": "cybernauterne.dk - a danish network of trainers in digital security and litteracy"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3444fd86-4304-413a-96b2-2873b6c162f1",
"description": "In this session we'll collaborate on developing the strategies, skills and organizing patterns needed for aspiring internet elves.Provocations and griefing from internet trolls have a chilling effect on our ability to have our voices heard on digital platforms.Trolling can drain the energy of entire communities, by baiting discord, provoking emotional responses and spreading misinformation.Harassment campaigns from trolls, that increasingly targets women, minorities and activists, threatens our safety and well being.We can fight trolling, but we need internet elves to do it.And to deal with trolls effectively, without jeopardizing ourselves requires training.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to develop understanding and facilitate sharing of experiences and ideas among the participants on:- Trolling and it's impacts on online participation, safety and well being.- The trolls we meet online. From the lulz troll, the misogynist trolls to the state sponsored trolls.- How to train bands of elves to fight trolls.- Bootstrap a handbook for aspiring elves through group work, that formulate strategies, teach skills and suggest organizing patterns for elves.",
"required": "MarkersLarge post-its (A5 ish')",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Beyond the Headlines: A European Approach to Media Literacy and Fact-Checking",
"owner": {
"name": "Luc Steinberg",
"organization": "Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ca7a9d4a-d387-4897-bbab-3b1cf70ea873",
"description": "Three facilitators from the European University Institute - the co-founder of Factcheckers, a non-profit association focusing on educational fact-checking, Gabriela Jacomella; a literacy and digital rights activist, Luc Steinberg; a political scientist (PhD), specialising in media literacy, Alina Ostling - will run this hands-on session on the challenges to media and web literacy. We will briefly illustrate the state of play of media literacy in Europe (with specific reference to the challenges presented by next year's elections), test some of the best available fact-checking tools, and try out with the participants the Online News Verification game developed by Luc and successfully launched by EAVI:https://eavi.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/beyond-the-headlines-game_POSTER.pdf https://eavi.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/beyond-fake-news_COLOUR_WEB.pdf",
"goal": "The aim is to inform on the latest developments in media literacy, and to share and test the Online News Verification game with different participants. The game has already been translated into 9 languages and tested with European NGOs but not with a broader range of people from different backgrounds and cultures. At the Festival, different participants would have the chance to compare and discuss their scores, which would result in valuable feedback about how to improve the game, adapt it to different contexts and about how to use and disseminate it in broader circles. Another key goal would be to gather quality information to share with the EUI research unit working on media literacy and freedom of information.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Build the most amazing game ever (with Scratch)",
"owner": {
"name": "Alan O'Donohoe",
"organization": "exa.foundation"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Adult lead",
"[YZ] Returner"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c75db8c8-d7eb-4e84-b164-339daf107b3d",
"description": "Participants will work collaboratively to develop their own amazing games using Scratch. The session is suitable for participants of all ages, backgrounds and experience levels. Expect lots of fun, laughter and a few things you may not have known about Scratch.",
"goal": "Everyone to develop a successful game with lots of creativity and collaboration involved, with an opportunity to share our creations afterwards.",
"required": "Ideally, participants will have access to a PiTop computer or a computer with web-access.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Censorship circumvention from a publisher's perspective",
"owner": {
"name": "Michał Woźniak",
"organization": "Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4b6ba401-126b-4947-bc13-f8f28b008ba0",
"description": "We will go through different Internet censorship circumvention tools that can be used to access censored content, from the perspective of a publisher.Reader's perspective is pretty well described, and there is a myriad of known tools - Tor Browser, for one. From the publisher's perspective, however, things look grim. All such tools (Tor, DAT, IPFS, etc) require readers to install additional software, and often configure it in very specific ways, to be able to access the blocked content. This usually proves unreasonable an expectation.OCCRP is an investigative journalism outlet, which is blocked in places like Azerbaijan. We'd like to explore different methods of making our content available so that information can reach our audiences.",
"goal": "Noting challenges with how the Internet currently works (\"centralized content delivery networks\", \"DDoS protection systems that rely on a large single provider\") that skew the playing field towards the censors.Cataloging available censorship circumvention tools available for publishers as ways to make their blocked content more widely available, with pros and cons of each.Creating a list of actionable items (like \"Integrating Tor into Firefox's Private Mode\", \"integrating the DAT protocol in major browsers\") that could potentially improve publishers' ability to reach their audience, even when blocked.",
"required": "A whiteboard or flipchart would be very useful, plus markers and post-its. A beamer would also be very welcome.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Queering the Name Badge",
"owner": {
"name": "Emma Humphries",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "29b244b6-5cae-41ab-b7d4-f49190ed1064",
"description": "Brightly colored name badges are a familiar part of conferences the world over, and pronoun stickers have become part of those badges. And yet, the static nature of these badges denies our fluid selves. What about name badges that reflect the multiple facets of our identity (see also https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/1024331334661992448) and that they shift from femme to androgynous, masculine to non-binary over the course of the day. Events such as DefCon have made the name badge a place of play (https://twitter.com/search?q=defcon%20badge%20photos&src=typd), but DefCon is a masculine space. Let's take the masculine hacker badge and queer and complicate it, explore how we can balance the safety of diverse attendees and report back what we learn and develop.",
"goal": "Starting from some existing prototypes (https://gist.github.com/emceeaich/2ce5fa6eeaa421cff77840c96f492765, https://twitter.com/triagegirl/status/1002087822487044096) attendees will develop ideas, using both programmable micro-controllers with displays, and paper models, for name badges for that reflect genderfluid and non-binary identities.",
"required": "We will need paper (of multiple colors), scissors, tape, and markers to make mockups. Microcontroller boards with LED/LCD/ePaper displays, breadboards, jumper wires, resistors, switches, and USB cables. We don't plan to do any soldering at the workshop.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "A preview of the 2019 Internet Health Report",
"owner": {
"name": "Solana Larsen",
"organization": "Internet Health Report | Mozilla Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b6a76e19-64c9-4afa-a6a0-723a7a9b3c59",
"description": "In this session, you'll hear our early ideas for Mozilla's 2019 Internet Health Report (and about reactions to the previous version). We need your input and suggestions!",
"goal": "Mozilla's Internet Health Report is an open source compilation of research and stories that explain what’s helping and what’s hurting the internet from personal experience to global concerns.More than 200 people took part in writing and editing and hundreds more shared ideas for how to \"measure\" the health of the internet. https://internethealthreport.org/2018",
"required": "If there is the possiblity to show a slideshow that would be great.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Making the right choices (Web Literacy)",
"owner": {
"name": "Alan O'Donohoe",
"organization": "exa.foundation"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "50910e34-fb40-4577-910a-3373cf181194",
"description": "As an alternative to learning about web-literacy in traditional methods, participants in this session will work together to develop an interactive text-based adventure that teaches web literacy through presenting the player with choices and consequences.",
"goal": "Each group will develop a web-literacy focused, text-based adventure",
"required": "Only requirement is that participants will find it of use to have a laptop.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Big Open and the future of the internet.",
"owner": {
"name": "Alek Tarkowski",
"organization": "Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9845c9c8-bcc1-455d-9d40-24104136f0eb",
"description": "In the previous two years, Mozilla, Wikimedia and Creative Commons participated in a series of public conversations about the scope for connecting more closely around the “open” internet, In this session, we will present a summary of the conversation so far, and propose a framing for continued dialogue around more urgent questions of internet health. If we are to turn the tide against big tech, what role will the biggest vanguards of the open internet play in defining the future?",
"goal": "The goal of the workshop is to initiate a conversation among organizations and activists forming the Big Open Movement, focused on current and future challenges to the open internet. With this conversation, we aim to further explore the idea of collaboration around the vision of the Big Open. Participants will take part in imagining future scenarios through a moderated process that explores alternatives for software, communications infrastructure, regulation and financing.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Design for Renaming",
"owner": {
"name": "Emma Humphries",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "879b5398-93a2-49a7-9ca9-749f6ee73dde",
"description": "Participants assume the roles of users who, for various reasons, have a name or gender inconsistent with official records, private, and public systems. They may be changing their name because of adoption, divorce, gender recognition, or personal safety (escaping abusive situations). In this framework, we'll explore how systems can fail, betray, and endanger these users, and how to design systems that center the idea that names are not-permanent. This workshop is based on a 2015 talk at OSB http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/1669, https://youtu.be/WJa_taQh0q8",
"goal": "Raising awareness in the participants as they design systems that request personal information such as names and gender markers. Identifying issues in existing systems and proposing responses to those failures. A draft of a best practices guide.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Decentralised identities, storage, and applications with Blockstack",
"owner": {
"name": "Yann-Aël Le Borgne",
"organization": "Université Libre de Bruxelles"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "24d3174d-df29-469d-9cf8-43cbb367d370",
"description": "Blockstack is a new decentralised Internet ecosystem that users -- not big Internet companies -- control. The session will be divided in * An introduction to the Blockstack ecosystem: Motivations, and a high-level overview of the main building blocks (i) decentralised naming and discovery, allowing users to register and control their identities, and (ii) decentralised storage, allowing users to keep control on their data. * A non technical, hands-on experience: Registration of a Blockstack ID, and test of different Blockstack applications such as Graphite (decentralised replacement for Google G-suite), Stealthy (decentralised Instant messaging) and others (https://app.co/platform/blockstack).* A short, more technical, overview on how to get started for developing a decentralised application (log in, storing and retrieving data, using JavaScript)",
"goal": "The goal of the session is:* To increase awareness on why decentralising Internet applications matters, and why a model like Blockstack benefits both users and application developers (https://app.graphitedocs.com/shared/docs/yannael_leborgne.id-1532151143633)* Have participants to concretely register a decentralised ID, test decentralised applications, and understand why they are full owner of their data * Introduce participants to the Blockstack community (https://community.blockstack.org/), and how they can keep track of the developments, or contribute: Github repositories, meet-ups (14000+ members in 36 meet-ups - https://www.meetup.com/topics/blockstack/), reward campaigns (https://contribute.blockstack.org/), Slack, forums (https://forum.blockstack.org/).",
"required": "The session will require a data projector for the presentation. Participants should ideally have a laptop in order to test the Blockstack ecosystem (ID registration, testing of applications).",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Librarians for Open Government",
"owner": {
"name": "Laura McShane",
"organization": "1963"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c9432598-1a39-44f1-b1c2-1c45c2db1591",
"description": "Discuss how Cleveland, OH is slowly responding to pressure to provide open and transparent government",
"goal": "Push cities to achieve responsive government through open and transparent data",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Commons Platform’s 'Big Open' Response: Creating a Movement",
"owner": {
"name": "Sophie Varlow",
"organization": "Commons Platform"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "917f8376-9482-4567-bd22-1b188bd7b29a",
"description": "A year on since the ‘Big Open Conversation’ at Mozfest, we will explore the open source movement through a lens of accessibility and inclusion; and building resilient, sustainable communities.We believe that EVERYONE has the capacity to be involved in creating the tools to make life better for themselves and their communities, and to craft the world we want to live in together.We will look at how to reach those people, create accessible, inclusive and diverse spaces where anyone can feel at home no matter their identities and skills.We will explore all of the different roles people play: not just developers but those who do the many other forms of sometimes invisible labour, that form a decentralised collective.",
"goal": "We hope that this workshop will be food for thought about how to make Open Source a stronger movement, and that participants will come away with ideas about how they can make open source projects relevant to communities, centering the voices of marginalised people - passing the mic rather than speaking for anyone, learn from the groups they may be creating software for, and reach the people who most need open tech to come together and solve problemsWe will look at the open/safety paradox - how can we balance openness with creating spaces that are safe and accessible for everyone no matter their identities, finances and dis/abilities, and where everyone can belong.",
"required": "Paper, pens, post-its and projector please!",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Creating the Conditions for Collaboration",
"owner": {
"name": "Nick Wood",
"organization": "The Commons Platform"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b2168a4b-0b2a-4370-9e9f-0ddcf11a3342",
"description": "To create the conditions for collaboration we will demonstrate that what works in practice works in theory; so this session will explore how to make participation accessible to everyone by creating a hands-on collaboration experience with a spirit of safety, inclusion, and openness. We will share the experience we’ve gained at the Commons Platform in building an open and sustainable co-creation community so that participants can actively create and innovate together. We’ll be looking at how nurturing dialogue rather than debate, needs rather than strategies and at how the process of collaboration is as important as the destination so that we can help each other learn how together we can craft the kind of world we want to live in.",
"goal": "The goal will be to demonstrate how to create the conditions for collaboration without hierarchical or centralised structures. Participants will gain an insight into how true collaboration can only be achieved through a decentralised approach. They will find out about how to create systems based around consent that are accessible to everyone and how creating spaces of safety, belonging, openness and nurture create the enthusiasm and energy that allow space for creativity and innovation. The session will show how the process of collaboration itself is the beating heart of any collective project and as vital and intrinsic as attaining the project’s goals if the result is to be a truly sustainable and resilient community of collaboration.",
"required": "Paper pens post-its projector, please!",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Immerse Yourself: Build your own virtual reality with Google’s Tour Creator",
"owner": {
"name": "Heather Stone",
"organization": "hstone@louisiana.edu"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1010a602-4fec-4737-be51-58db525958f5",
"description": "Participants will learn the process for producing a virtual reality tour on site. The session will introduce participants to ways to use Expedition outside of the classroom; show them how to create a tour to reach a defined audience; and, give them a platform to share their work. The session will begin with a group brainstorm in which participants will share ideas and innovations. Participant groups will receive templates for tour creation and a description of a goal. Each group will focus on a defined goal to manipulate their tour to reach a specific audience. At the end, participants can publish the tour and view in 360 headsets. The URLs for all published tours will be made available to all.",
"goal": "The discussion and creation of a model Expedition enables participants to engage with different tour scenarios which can be then be implemented and modified to share the participants own message with a diverse audience. The aim is to demonstrate the opportunity to disseminate participants personal knowledge and skill set on a large scale through the engaging and immersive platform of virtual reality. The participants will be able to access the created tours and the sample templates in order to replicate the process shown during the session with their own goals and audience in mind in order to contribute to the already created tours.",
"required": "We will bring all of the equipment needed with us.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Commons Platform Gallery area",
"owner": {
"name": "Nick Wood",
"organization": "The Commons Platform"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "cb364a13-11b4-450c-a084-3ceeddb8987a",
"description": "We plan to invite people with a variety of creative approaches, diverse backgrounds and interests in a commons based open vision of collaboration to create a thematic space over the whole weekend. People will experience in a variety of creative, innovative and collaborative events the variety of opportunities that will be available in an online Commons Platform and will be able to exchange skills, ideas and contacts. As well as exploring ideas through art and music people could conduct interviews and create podcasts. The whole thing might function as an interactive art installation based around a ‘tree’ with different ‘branches’ representing different thematic elements relating to a collaborative approach to decentralisation.",
"goal": "People will have the opportunity to come and relax together and exchange ideas and explore what decentralisation really means to them and each other and why it is useful in developing their own communities. We will be exploring how we bring that into relationships and how we can bring it here, to Mozfest. As well as collecting ideas and developing conversations around them we will be creating the conditions for people to continue networking and collaborating with those they encounter.",
"required": "Space!! Maybe wall space also and enough floor space for a seating area.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Blessed are the queer for they shall consensually inherit the internet!",
"owner": {
"name": "Sophie Varlow",
"organization": "Commons Platform"
},
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bc64936b-7029-488b-b7f1-79f82b447676",
"description": "Let’s imagine the future of the queered internet - one in which hierarchical patriarchal structures are broken down, leading to genuine decentralisation and a web for everyone.To bring queer voices from the margins into the centre of the conversation, how can people’s identities be made safe online? How do we deal with trolls? How do we mediate this tension in a space where opinions from the wider world may prove harmful to marginalised communities?Using interactive exercises and role-play we will focus on the tension between openness and safety as it affects queer folk, creating role-swaps where people with normative views and privileged positions might begin to learn about the difficulties and microaggressions experienced by those currently marginalised.",
"goal": "To have an open and instructive interactive experience where people can explore and gain a greater understanding of the issues pertaining to people with queer identities and to use these conversations to look at how the huge amount of experience of queer communities in dealing with a multiplicity of issues can be an instructive benefit for everyone interested in a genuinely open and diverse internet.",
"required": "Pens, paper, post-its and projector please!",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "VRstorygram: Community Environment in Virtual Reality",
"owner": {
"name": "Heather Stone",
"organization": "University of Louisiana at Lafayette"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "803136a0-a38f-416b-9806-90b91a17fdd5",
"description": "Participants of all ages and skill levels will learn how to create and publish a short story of a VR environmental issue using A-Frame. Participants will search a library of 360 photos and videos of environmental issues and quickly create a 360-degree tour with text pop-ups and voice narration. The short story they create, codenamed VRstorygram, will be published and viewable for all conference attendees help educate and promote environmental concerns. Previously created VRstorygrams will be shown on topics such as Louisiana’s disappearing coastline which is a community, state, and local problem with international implications. This session will provide participants the opportunity to learn how to share previously unheard voices and visual images regarding a local environmental issue.",
"goal": "Participants will become part of an inclusive community where people from around the world and even next door easily make connections about the changing environment. Participants will learn how to use technology as a vehicle to promote activism. Community voices become world voices through the sharing of the effects of local environmental changes using virtual reality. The community voice becomes both visual and global with the help of 360-degree video and virtual reality. Multiple voices, perspectives, and languages enhance the meaning and purpose of digital inclusion. Participants will deepen their understanding of larger environmental concerns through the sharing of community environmental experiences. Demonstrating the power and value of an inclusive internet as a global public resource.",
"required": "We will bring all of the equipment needed with us.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building Scientific Hardware",
"owner": {
"name": "Andre Maia Chagas",
"organization": "University of Sussex, Trend in Africa, Open Neuroscience"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c6282f29-21a3-434e-9365-4d6ef3289933",
"description": "In this session, participants will use basic electronic components and code to prototype OS scientific Hardware. Their projects can be inspired by requests/necessities of the scientific community (coming from an online survey that will run previously) or be suggested/created by the participants themselves. Once they have established what they want to build, they will start an online repository and document their progress on the go (if not familiar with online repositories, they will receive a short intro and \"learn as they go\" - and guided as necessary). We will also discuss particularities in building open hardware and more specifically of hardware for science (calibration, reliability, trust from the community).",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to kickstart collaborative projects related to Open Science hardware, demystifying the idea that building hardware is very complicated and to spark the discussion about hardware being one important barrier in making science truly open. A fantastic outcome would be to have groups willing to keep working collaboratively on their projects after the festival is done",
"required": "1 Projector, 10 power sockets (one plus extensions should work fine), 2 white boards and appropriate markers.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "How do I defend my castle?",
"owner": {
"name": "Sarah Huffman",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "afdf33c6-514a-4eb9-83ba-9f9b3262f2d7",
"description": "We will collaboratively participate in exercises using characters and ensembles from pop culture, moving from risk identification and threat modeling to designing potential defenses and mitigations with the focus on activist and intersectional issues, harm reduction, and real-world applications.",
"goal": "To improve awareness and understanding of potential threats and risks in our on- and off-line lives and to learn skills to find creative and inventive paths to defense, mitigation, and harm reduction around their unique risk profile.",
"required": "Whiteboards or easels with poster-sized paper for sharing group work would be amazing. Barring that, paper and markers would work!",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Queering and Hacking Your Fashion with JavaScript",
"owner": {
"name": "Marion Daly",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "fed28128-fe1c-4673-87a3-8f406377f142",
"description": "Working with tools like Arduino and node.js/JavaScript Marion will walk you through the process of hacking your clothes and will show you some examples of her creation. Our fashions are often a representation of who we are and how we broadcast ourselves to the world. What if you can make your clothes broadcast your identity? What if you can code different colours and styles for different identities? Make your dress broadcast your pronoun, make your boots display your pride colours. The possibilities are limitless. Come, queer your fashion with Marion.",
"goal": "Working off of the basic prototypes and examples provided attendees will be able to hack and queer their own fashions. This will set the stage for attendees to hack their own fashions and sharing them worldwide.",
"required": "Projector for my laptop.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building Open Markets Atop Open Blockchains",
"owner": {
"name": "Mark Beylin",
"organization": "ConsenSys - The Bounties Network"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "dd5f6fc4-7863-4595-b668-c0cd778b3f2d",
"description": "Participants will first hear from us about what we've discovered so far when attempting to build web based marketplaces which are open and interoperable, contrasting their 'walled garden' predecessors. We'll guide attendees through a workshop where the end result will be them building their own marketplace, for whatever niche they desire. This will help participants understand the importance of open markets, while also teaching them how approachable Ethereum development can be to novices. Finally, the session will be sprinkled with discussions focussing on various questions related to the openness of markets, in an attempt to encourage participants to debate amongst themselves.",
"goal": "After the session, participants should have a better understanding of what factors constitute open and closed markets, and the natural benefits which arise from open markets on the web. Along with that understanding, participants will have begun forming opinions of their own, and will have participated in discourse on the topic to further their support for open and healthy web based markets.",
"required": "We would need a projector and screen to be able to code live in front of participants.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "\"Logout\" - The Cyber Awareness Campaign",
"owner": {
"name": "Viral Parmar",
"organization": "Mozilla Reps"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8ef0bc5f-c437-47ce-9e48-8bcec4396f11",
"description": "We are planning for Global privacy awareness campaign where we will reach out to maximum fellow netizen, our aim is to aware them about cyber security, what is privacy, cyber war, encryption, cyber-crime, how to prevent cyber-crime and cyber law. To reach the target of minimum 50,000 people we need army of awesome people who can spare some time to teach people and educate them about cyber security. We are signing up people for our campaign from different-different city all over the world. So, it’s time to learn and get Secured, Safe and Stay Protected against the Cyber Theft and Cyber Crime which happen just with the few clicks.",
"goal": "We are trying to aware 90% world's population who are not aware about privacy and security and make them realize that privacy is major concern for us this days, Just because you have nothing to hide doesn’t mean privacy isn’t important. Just because you have nothing to say, doesn’t mean free speech isn’t important. our aim is to make them stand for net neutrality, against Mass surveillance, data brokers&how to secure our digital identity(bio-metrics)/ADHAR Card details,how to prevent cyber crime,What are issues we face regarding privacy in day to day life?,Why encryption is important?,What are the secure way of communication to maintain privacy?,How to be secure while surfing the internet and protect your identity?",
"required": "Sticky Notes, Sketch pens.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Proactive Knowledge Retention in Open Source Software",
"owner": {
"name": "Mehvish Rashid",
"organization": "Lero- The Irish Software Research Centre"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0115d8fe-446e-42f1-a947-ca8e43938904",
"description": "Open Source Software (OSS) development is knowledge focused activity, which relies heavily on contributors who can be volunteers or paid workers and are geographically distributed. While working on OSS projects contributors acquire project related individualistic knowledge and gain experience and skills, which often remain unshared with others and is usually lost once contributors leave a project. This session will discuss that proactive knowledge retention practices in OSS projects that can transform contributors’ use of knowledge and engagement in knowledge relevant activities including knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer. Furthermore, the objective of this sessions is to encourage the feedback from the participant based on their experience with OSS.",
"goal": "The goal is to share and learn from the participants while collecting theirs views on formulating proactive knowledge retention practices in OSS projects. would like participants to share their thoughts on the best possible way to encourage OSS community to adopt proactive knowledge retention practices.",
"required": "As writing aid paper, Pen, and post-it notes would be useful for the participant.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Abuse and Accessability",
"owner": {
"name": "Ginny McQueen",
"organization": "http://ginnymcqueen.com"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c498035f-5fcd-4d62-88d5-ef966b6dc636",
"description": "Forgive me for not having a full plan yet, but I hope to discuss different experiences with online abuse from different demographics of users and how software can both enable and deter harassment and other abuse.",
"goal": "The goal would be to have participants think of online abuse as a proper barrier to software accessibility, and foster discussion on how to incorporate anti-abuse tactics into the earliest stages of development.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open Source Timelines",
"owner": {
"name": "Nick Vidal",
"organization": "Open Source Initiative"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f248cf82-d952-4b20-9039-07f7d31b59be",
"description": "Both Mozilla and Open Source are celebrating their 20th Anniversary in 2018.As a way to collect and preserve open source stories, the Open Source Initiative has launched Opensource.net, inviting open source projects from around the world to highlight their significant accomplishments and milestones by sharing text, images, and video through an interactive timeline.During MozFest, we'll work together with participants to build the timelines, either personal stories from these individuals or from their favorite open source projects.",
"goal": "We hope that participants will be interested in building and sharing these milestones.For a few examples of milestones that have already been created:- https://opensource.net/members/document-foundation- https://opensource.net/members/eclipse-foundationMore adventurous participants are welcome to develop new ways to create and display these timelines. For example:- Creating milestones from tweets.- Visualizing and interacting with these timelines using AR/VR.",
"required": "Our application works on a smartphone, but a projector or large-screen TV is welcome. If possible, we would also like to hang a printed timeline, where individuals can use post-its to share their open source milestones.We'll work together with the Mozilla Foundation to create their timeline.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Principles of systemic thinking to save the world!",
"owner": {
"name": "Jaime Maretoli",
"organization": "Mozilla Brazil"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Localisation support requested",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Portuguese",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c6795e5c-69c2-49c9-8680-15aacca0ad4b",
"description": "Principles of systemic thinking will be presented based on software architecture through playful forms such as painting, trimming, organizing, teamwork, pattern recognition, abstraction, overlays and more. Some points of computational thinking that will be addressed are: data decomposition, processes, separation of processes into smaller processes for resolution, standards, regularities of data and more!This activity is applied in Brazil in public and private schools for children from 7 years of age. After this activity, all participants will be able to identify the general principles of algorithms and will be able to develop step by step to solve various problems. Join us to learn about computational thinking!",
"goal": "The objective is to present to the participants the power of computational thinking through play concepts, decomposing large problems into smaller parts and structuring the thinking in an interactive, recursive, parallel and logical way. By providing efficiency for performance constraints in debugging and detecting systematic errors, it is of utmost importance for digital literacy that it seeks to increasingly include technology in a way that develops not only students but good technology consumers and technology producers — bringing healthy concepts of good coexistence and professionalism through the construction of a more just and cooperative society with nearness.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Abundance is a Barrier: creating an internet that enables creation, connection, and real productivity",
"owner": {
"name": "Catherine Chiodo",
"organization": "Atlassian"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0d461535-5110-48e7-9d4f-c12418f80c59",
"description": "We will start with a self-reflection exercise focused on what goals we have in using the internet; these goals will serve as a touchstone throughout. Then we’ll discuss the applications designed to help users take control of their digital lives. These include strategies to reduce the power of certain stimuli (grayscalers), mitigate compulsive behavior (internet timers), etc. We will also look at personal practices developed by users to control their digital experience and how organizations try to support concentration and productivity. We’ll draw conclusions about the problems these techniques aim to address and whether these problems square with the group’s experiences. Finally, we will work together to identify new strategies for creating an internet that supports human endeavors, not clicks.",
"goal": "Fundamentally, this is a participatory design session, meant to foster collaboration that leads to new participant-created solutions for self-determination on the web.In the final portion of the workshop, we will break into groups and go through a visioning exercise focused on generating strategies, methodologies, or applications to support a purposeful internet. Our goal is for the workshop to generate a mix of ideas, ranging from personal practices to new interventions or applications to design guidelines for a creating a truly user-centered internet.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Data Detox: do your \"cleaning\" digital!",
"owner": {
"name": "Jaime Maretoli",
"organization": "Mozilla Brazil"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Localisation support requested",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Portuguese",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "988a1e7f-b84c-44d2-a5f3-15bd89b004e2",
"description": "You feel that your digital life has run out of control, you have installed several applications, lost count of how many times you clicked \"I agree\", already created many accounts, etc. So, this data detox is for you! This way, you will be on the way to a healthier digital life and under control! Come and understand how data is collected, generated, collected, traded and sold every day. Get Informed and protect yourself now!",
"goal": "The goal is to give an insight into the importance of our data on the internet, presenting the reasons companies pay, and very expensive by informations from users and where they are used the data sent to companies - showing to each person how to stay safer on the internet , and teaching you how to clean your data and make it safer.",
"required": "No.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "☑ I blindly accept… (T&Cs)",
"owner": {
"name": "Shreevari SP",
"organization": "Resident of India"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "73b34fd7-2697-437f-bd96-884aae68408a",
"description": "-We illustrate how companies can exploit user privacy by making them accept Terms & Conditions(T&Cs) using lightbeam(firefox add-on). -Visitors share their experience of such instances(if any) and log it in a book for others to refer.-Audience are engaged with an activity where they’re given clauses from a curated list of clauses from real T&Cs and they express whether it should have been mentioned outright or not.-We have a discussion about digital privacy and ways to curb exploitation.-Visitors try out our browser plug-in that filters out most important clauses from any T&C.-They can also contribute to the project on github.",
"goal": "-Create awareness about the risk of being exploited by blindly accepting Terms and Conditions(T&Cs).-Participants contribute via GitHub and enhance the data-set(for training) used by the browser plug-in built.-Create and spread awareness to bring about a change in something end-users have been taking for granted since the inception of technology.-Inspire developers to come up with more solutions like context classifiers.-We hope that people use our plug-in to make an informed choice instead of blindly accepting T&Cs",
"required": "A whiteboard with markersPost-it notesProjector and screen or a television display",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "The Javascript microservices world!",
"owner": {
"name": "Jaime Maretoli",
"organization": "Mozilla Brazil"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Localisation support requested",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Portuguese",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8b9f3434-4976-44ae-8654-9db3deca5596",
"description": "Will be passed a fun and collaborative tutorial flow for viewers teaching a fullstack open source technologies for creating fully Javascript-based microservices, using technologies like GitHub, Docker, Node.js and more.",
"goal": "Show to the world a easy, funny and incredible way learn and teach microservices to everybody, everything using Javascript.",
"required": "Laptops, a projector, paper and pens.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Global Consent Manager: improving user privacy and the consent experience for trusted web sites",
"owner": {
"name": "Don Marti",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "96b75990-dba6-4196-a819-eb90fe2f5843",
"description": "We will discuss how consent management on the web works today, and the relationship between user privacy and reputable content providers. Web users face a confusing array of data sharing choices, and click fatigue can lead to poor user experience and possible inadvertent selection of options that do not match the user’s privacy norms. Reputable content providers face revenue disruption arising from changing data privacy regulations.In this session, we will discuss how to improve the consent experience. New standards for user control of data sharing present an opportunity for sites trusted by users to work together with browsers to implement data sharing choices that provide a better experience and a more accurate reflection of the user’s privacy preferences.",
"goal": "Help users and web developers learn to protect people’s information. Help all web stakeholders understand the symbiotic relationship between data privacy regulations and the interests of reputable content providers. And how in-browser consent management support helps to meet those needs.",
"required": "n/a",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Tackling manspreading on online conversations",
"owner": {
"name": "Mariana Marcaletti",
"organization": "Chicas Poderosas"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "69afa5c6-1b8c-49db-9e7e-e50d802190d3",
"description": "Manspreading also happens on the digital space, and prevents the voices of women from being heard in the online conversation. Our session will be about understanding this issue, coming up with ways to promote equality. Participants will play a musical chairs game, to see who is left out, and to test whether gender differences arise. Then each participant write down anonymous notes to describe how they felt. After that, we will explain the meaning of this experiment: this exercise hopes to illustrate and help better understand how women and men react differently in a group situation, their relationship to space and their control over it. Through a guided reflection, we will analyze how this real-life behaviours also happen online.",
"goal": "Based on reflections and on the public sharing of participants' real life and online experiencies, they will be asked to come up with ideas on how to make women more visible in digital spaces like Twitter, correlating what happened in the physical exercise to the situation in the digital space. Practical suggestions, depending on different actors, will be brought up. We will also kick off a thread asking participants to show publicly their examples, hoping to get some traction on the trending topic #StopGenderBiasOnline. At the end of the session, we will write a manifesto on how to avoid gender biases online so that we can share it with the bigger community on social media.",
"required": "ChairsPencils/PensPost its",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open Science Organization (OSO) is building a community-managed decentralized platform for open, unbiased, and efficient science",
"owner": {
"name": "Gajendra Katuwal",
"organization": "Open Science Organization (OSO)"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "9fbe3340-e99d-4098-be8d-1cb84f134c33",
"description": "First, we will discuss the problems in current research ecosystem. We will brainstorm with the participants to list the problems, their adverse affects in our daily lives, and suggestions to solve them.Second, we will show how OSO, a non-profit, is creating a community-managed decentralized platform for scientific research. We will discuss how the platform can make science open, unbiased, and efficient.Third, we will use role-play to demonstrate the improvement in practice. We will split the participants into two groups. Each group will follow funding-research-publishing cycle; one will use existing model and the other will use our decentralized platform. Finally, we will collect the feedbacks from the participants on how we can improve to execute the vision of OSO.",
"goal": "1) Participants will know about the current problems in research and how it is affecting their lives (e.g. expensive drug discovery). They will be aware about the importance and value of open and unbiased scientific research and cross-pollination of ideas.2) Participants will now know that there is a solution to these problems if we act together and use decentralized tech wisely3) Participants will be aware of the existing movements in open science, particularly using web3 tech, such as OSO and other several groups we are aware of.4) Participants will act as ambassadors of open science, thereby increasing the momentum of open science movement5) We will collect valuable feedback from the participants",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Media Literacy Meets Computer Literacy",
"owner": {
"name": "Sarah Morris",
"organization": "Nucleus Learning Network"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "08218ed3-e98f-4034-a563-0373643f4853",
"description": "This session will seek to bring together ideas from both computer science and media literacy education, and will explore ways to empower people with the skills they need to become strong digital citizens. In this session, participants will first engage in a warm-up activity where we will unpack concepts, such as misinformation and internet health. Next, participants will have the chance to explore an open-source curriculum called Mission:Information, which was recently expanded during a Mozilla Open Leader's Fellowship. Finally, participants will break into discussion groups where they will develop ideas for how combined media and computer literacy education approaches can help empower people with the skills they need to be strong digital citizens.",
"goal": "The numerous issues that surround misinformation are often deeply connected to today's technological challenges, from online security, to Internet politics, to the very ways in which we consume information online. This proposed session aims to be a highly collaborative and participatory way to explore these challenges. The main goals are, first, to introduce participants to issues surrounding misinformation, internet health, and computer and media literacy education, including a chance to explore an open-source media and web literacy curriculum. Finally, participants will contribute their ideas and develop approaches that can help equip people with the skills they need to engage online, make the internet a better place, and tackle challenges like misinformation as empowered and confident digital citizens.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open Source Scientific Computing with Python",
"owner": {
"name": "Andrew Riha",
"organization": "Pythonista"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "This session will provide an introduction to using Python for scientific computing through the utilization of open source tools and libraries such as Jupyter Notebook, pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib.",
"goal": "This session will walk attendees through the process of performing basic scientific analysis with open source tools. Specifically, the session will cover installation and usage of Python and open source scientific computing libraries and using those tools to analyze an open source data set.",
"required": "Projector",
"time": "90 mins"
},
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"title": "Tackling Misinformation with Open Leadership Principles",
"owner": {
"name": "Sarah Morris",
"organization": "Nucleus Learning Network"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "I recently completed a Mozilla Open Leader's Fellowship where I worked on expanding a media and web literacy curriculum project aimed at tackling misinformation. During this Fellowship I had the chance to explore Mozilla's Open Leadership principles, and in striving to apply these principles to my own work, I've grown increasingly interested in considering how the concepts of open leadership can potentially be applied to approach challenges posed by misinformation, from communicating ideas to engaging with diverse views. In this session, we will first unpack concepts surrounding misinformation and Mozilla's Open Leadership Framework. Next we will break into groups where we can dive into the Framework and brainstorm ideas for ways the Framework's principles can be applied to misinformation challenges.",
"goal": "This proposed session aims to be highly collaborative, participatory, discussion-based, and audience-driven. The main goals are, first, to introduce participants to issues surrounding misinformation and to Mozilla's Open Leadership Framework. Participants will contribute their ideas and will explore potential avenues to using and drawing upon open leadership concepts to address challenges posed by misinformation.",
"time": "60 mins"
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{
"title": "Decentralized Publishing",
"owner": {
"name": "Sethu Sathyan",
"organization": "Mozilla Kerala"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
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"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "Our session aims to educate people on the decentralized future of the internet, we are ushering in a new era of inclusiveness using Blockchain and other decentralized technologies. We will explain how anyone can become part of a decentralized system of news and content sharing free from any censorship. This will enable journalists and whistle blowers from all over the world to securely and safely exchange immutable reports and content to the audience. News dissemination and self-expression should be open to all and should not be controlled by a few corporations, the advent of blockchain network, which can arguably never be taken offline is the best way to do it.",
"goal": "The goal of our session is to educate people about the nuances of decentralized technologies and their potential. Once people are able to wrap their heads around the concept of Blockchain, we will talk about the benefits of an open-ledger news dissemination platform. We need more journalists and content creators to be aware of this platform. The larger goal is to help participants to appreciate decentralization as a philosophy and the concept of trust over the internet to build decentralized applications on their own or contribute to existing projects.",
"required": "Projector and Office supplies",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Build an Immersive web page with A-frame",
"owner": {
"name": "Jasper de Tarr",
"organization": "Raktor"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "59045d2e-8a7e-4f02-a979-5b9a7cfc001b",
"description": "We will use an immersive web page to teach attendees how to build experiences that integrate VR, Mobile AR, desktop and mocap data all into One social XR immersive web experience",
"goal": "To teach people the fundamentals of building social Xr spaces as well as the vocabulary of immersive experience design. We aim to teach people how to use this code with these devices to create cooperative intimate group experiences that boost the neurochemicals of sustainable happiness through positive group activity, Seratonin.",
"required": "A projector on the wall projecting the experience, a plaque with website for mobile devices, a desktop and 2 Vr headsets. Remote attendees not physically at mozfest can also join.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "How to wish someone Happy Birthday using Augmented Reality",
"owner": {
"name": "Pratik Parmar",
"organization": "Student"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "964d725f-1434-4a4b-b44d-d4217f1c8a2f",
"description": "Keeping all hurdles like Coding, 3D modeling, tracking etc aside, we'll dive into augmented reality for people from age 10 to 90+. This sesssion will cover how you can wish someone using Augmented Reality. We'll start with basic introduction to HTML and AFrame and make a simple demo using it. Later we'll forward to AR.js which is a framework to create augmeted reality on web. We'll also cover use of 3D models in AR. At the end of session, we'll talk about future of AR and how someone can learn more about it.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to introduce Augmented Reality to people from 10 years old to 90+. Our goal is that at the end of the session, all attendees should have an AR web app, built by themselves. That's such a big thing who never tried coding before to building something on their own.",
"required": "For the coding purpose, all attendees should have a laptop with internet connection and a smartphone to try the demo. Additionally, we'll need to print some HIRO marker on A4 size paper, depending upon number of attendees.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Digital inclusion in Acre with free browser firefox",
"owner": {
"name": "João Lenno Do Nascimento Azevedo",
"organization": "Mozilla Brasil"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Localisation support requested",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Portuguese",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f22121ab-bad9-4034-896b-8ef682a563ce",
"description": "To present both government projects and community projects aimed at digital inclusion and internet access through free browsers in public spaces.",
"goal": "How open projects are important for the inclusion of people without access to the internet and its resources.",
"required": "I only need a projector and a whiteboard with brushes",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Build your own air quality sensor!",
"owner": {
"name": "Wiebke Herding",
"organization": "hackAIR / ON:SUBJECT"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1710498c-81f2-49b7-921a-58aa91861235",
"description": "Air pollution concerns all: it is the environmental issue that Europeans worry about the most, and has serious health implications. Air pollution is an invisible killer: official monitoring stations are few and far between – and their data not easily accessible for citizens. In the past two years, we have developed an open hardware design for air quality sensors that uses affordable electronic components. The hackAIR sensor design allows us to build a much denser monitoring network: by citizens, for citizens. In this hands-on session, we will help you build your own air quality sensor – and discuss how we can use participatory sensing to open up environmental information and take action to improve our neighbourhoods.",
"goal": "Very simple: You’ll learn how to build and programme your own air quality sensor and set it up in your home. You can use the sensor you build to learn about air quality in your neighbourhood – and contribute to a better map of the air that we breathe. Together with your neighbours, you can identify air pollution hotspots and campaign for improvements.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Swipes for Science",
"owner": {
"name": "Anisha Keshavan",
"organization": "University of Washington"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "534d3ab6-9383-4296-bd91-a678b6056305",
"description": "The more data a scientist collects, the more boring stuff they have to do with it. So we’ve made the “boring” parts into games for citizen scientists. For example, brain researchers need help checking the quality of thousands of brain images, and oceanographers need help filtering thousands of hours of ocean sound clips for whale sounds. In this session, participants will be 1) playing games their phones to help researchers with the boring parts, and 2) brainstorming new games for science.",
"goal": "Our goals for this session are to 1) user test various citizen science games we’ve developed, 2) collect valuable input from citizen scientists on these various games, 3) engage our participants in discussions on how to improve these games and brainstorm new game ideas, and 4) teach our participants something new about science.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Why Design Thinking is important for New Generation Youth ?",
"owner": {
"name": "Megha Khosla",
"organization": "Mincero"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "88ada095-7efe-4103-a7ad-abbb41147a58",
"description": "We will be focusing on importance of design thinking specially for youth because it is very important nowadays to mentally prepare upcoming generation in every aspects. We will be doing fun activity using one example of design thinking and teach students why you should start doing this type of activity again and again.",
"goal": "Goal : To focus on design thinking in new generation youthOutcome : They will get to know how it works.",
"required": "paper, pens, post-it notes",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Was I Always Meant To Fall?-Mental Health & Openness",
"owner": {
"name": "Anubha Maneshwar",
"organization": "Founder-GirlScript Foundation Pvt. Ltd, India"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d8841839-7cf4-4d5a-8b5f-6d1cdb4d8332",
"description": "1. Match The Pair [15 Min]- In this activity, a participant or small groups of participants will be matching the mental health terms like Depression etc with the symptoms in envelope.2. Bits of Paper [10 Min]- In this activity, there will be 24 bits of paper having 'myths and facts' written on them about mental health.3. Know Yourself [10 Min]- Participants will be provided with pen, paper and they need a mobile stopwatch and will be asked few questions. Based on the time taken to answer a particular question, they will be given points.4. How Working Open Helps [10 Min]- A small presentation will be given about open source, case studies and experiences from contributors worldwide.",
"goal": "As the technology is progressing, competition is increasing. People are running in a rat race to perform better and grow each day. Especially if we talk about programmers, big companies, startups and work spaces, the mental health of an employee can directly impact and contribute to the growth of an organisation. People are hesitant to talk about this extremely important topic and some of them who think they are not stressing out because of work, are wrong! This session will be helpful in understanding the mental health of the participants and give them an overview of 'HOW WORKING OPEN HELPS'. Not only this, they will also be learning about different myths, facts and mental health terms with our activities.",
"required": "Mobile Phone StopwatchWhiteboardMarkers2 small boxes for myths and facts activityPaperPenEnvelope",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Localizing #MeToo: Practical Strategies and Tactics to tackle Sexual Misconduct",
"owner": {
"name": "Kim Pham",
"organization": "Independent Community Catalyst :) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
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"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8838a686-0232-49b4-8127-6fbed91fb36d",
"description": "In breakout groups, community input on strategies to address sexual misconduct in the technology and rights space will be sourced to highlight regionally specific solutions. These will be mapped in a draft matrix framework that sorts preventative and reactive solutions at different levels (community - organization - individual). Based on the mapping, common elements (norms, accountability mechanisms, etc) will be collectively identified, as well as potential gaps. The session will close with an emphasis on solutions, community and connection: participants listing which area of the matrix they would like to prioritize in their home communities, the strategies they think are appropriate in that area, and person(s) they would like to liase with as they move forward.",
"goal": "The session aims to practically support diversity and inclusion by translating the momentum of the #MeToo movement into concrete strategies and tactics for community members from non-Western countries. It also aims to address the gap in resources to address sexual misconduct, most of which are tailored for international fora or Western organizations.Specific outcomes include:- Empower through sourcing culturally specific/country specific strategies that work for tackling sexual misconduct, including ally-ship strategies.- Build solidarity and support mechanisms through identifying others from similar contexts- Provide (and refine based on community input) a framework that supports tactical and strategic clarity on addressing sexual misconduct in technology and rights spaces",
"required": "",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Game of Data !",
"owner": {
"name": "Faisal Aziz",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0bd57115-947e-44a7-a597-473f8652a0e6",
"description": "We will collaboratively design an interactive board game that will sets out the problems of online privacy and consent engagement and understanding, to which an educational game is then positioned as a response. The nature of the game makes privacy both an extremely important and relevant issue, but also eases the complexity of understanding its dynamics..Users/Groups will have “1000 Data Points” resembling real world data, and a board with 100 steps. User/Groups will roll the dice and make a move to face blocks that will resembles real world privacy threats and challenges and it will cost them data points. User/Team who successfully crosses all hurdles and saves maximum data points will be crowned.",
"goal": "The goal is to develop alternative conceptual models of online privacy that would enable people to make more empowered online disclosure choices. Hoping that such approaches would support critical surveillance awareness, going beyond critique to provide educational resources and an innovative form of learning resource.",
"required": "A3 Sheets, Markers, dice,",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Learn to build an end-to-end, safe and high-performance blockchain application using @rustlang",
"owner": {
"name": "Jayesh Katta Ramalingaiah",
"organization": "Mozilla Tech Speakers"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b8f475f1-44a0-4584-b2aa-dfe6032368a2",
"description": "The blockchain is a hyped technology. As Rust is out there creating a new generation of system programmers, it has a lot to offer in terms of safety and performance. This workshop will start with an Introduction to blockchain technology and rust programming language. Then we will be learning why @rustlang would be better in building a blockchain application compared to other languages. Once participants are well versed and understand the advantages of building their application using Rust. We will have a hands-on workshop (https://github.com/jayeshkattar/Moz-Activate/tree/master/RUST/Projects/rustBlock) writing a simple blockchain application using @rustlang and then compile, deploy and interact with the application.",
"goal": "Attendees would gain knowledge about Blockchain Technology and Rust language and understand the merits of building blockchain application using rust. At the end of the workshop, the participants would’ve built their first blockchain application using @rustlang.",
"required": "I would need a few white sheets of papers, sticky's and markers.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Make Prosthetic Hands: Where the Open Web Touches and Heals the World",
"owner": {
"name": "Maria Esquela",
"organization": "E-NABLE Alliance"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "86f82de5-2373-4f05-b6ec-e4434962d8ba",
"description": "Come assemble 3D printed, open source prosthetic hands which will be given to children around the world for free. During the assembly, presenters will share stories, videos, and music from the e-NABLE Community. Models of the hands on the tables will be tested by participants acting as citizen scientists generating open data. Devices will be collected at the end of the workshop and gifted to children born with upper limb differences. Devices can be assembled by people ages 7-107.",
"goal": "At the end of the session, participants will be able to identify where to find the e-ABLE community on line, and will have personal experience interacting with community mentors, assembling devices and giving feedback/results as digital humanitarians and e-NABLE citizen scientists. They will also be able to apply for badges recognizing workforce skills demonstrated during the session. Completed hands can be displayed in the MozFest gallery.",
"required": "Extension cords, projector, speaker, screen Trash canTable coversBlank paper and markers to capture questions, feedback, ideas, designs",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Explore art at MozFest",
"owner": {
"name": "Anna Lowe",
"organization": "Smartify CIC"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4ddbe9a2-2a2d-4513-b436-03406f081b23",
"description": "Smartify is a social enterprise technology company with a mission to connect people with art and to support the resilience of museums.It is a free to download mobile app that uses advanced image recognition and AI to instantly identify artworks by scanning them on a smartphone. At MozFest, Smartify will select a handful of artworks with great stories to intellectually stimulate attendees and also allow all attendees to uploaded their own works. Through our partnership with institutions such as Smithsonian, Royal Academy of Art and Wikimedia GLAM, Smartify will inspire attendees by providing access to ideas and great thinkers such as Kehinde Wiley or Mary Beard.This session will take a gallery format and last throughout the festival.",
"goal": "The goal of this gallery session is to provide MozFest participants with highly interactive AR tool for discovering art and to make their experience more memorable through rich storytelling. Smartify believes that engaging with art encourages people to learn about their history, develop new opinions and ideas and promotes creativity and flexibility in thinking. This not only has positive impacts on wellbeing and community building, bringing joy and boosting self-esteem; but it also prepares people for careers in the ever-growing creative industries. By promoting knowledge dissemination and information sharing about art, Smartify would like to contribute to MozFest mission of promoting healthy Internet and exploring the intersection of the web and art.",
"required": "In order to take full advantage of Smartify’s solution participants will need to download Smartify app on their smartphone. Users don’t need to register in order to scan artworks and discover their stories, although it is encouraged to register in order to unlock other functionalities, such as saving favourite artworks to personal collection.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Future of art in the eyes of young generation",
"owner": {
"name": "Anna Lowe",
"organization": "Smartify CIC"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ca353dae-accd-4422-8064-221bd6ad32e4",
"description": "Smartify is a free to download mobile app that uses image recognition technology to instantly identify artworks by scanning them on a smartphone. Smartify is a social enterprise live in over 80 art institutions. We have a mission of democratising art and reframing the smartphone as an engagement tool rather than distraction.Smartify will host a workshop with young people on how they discover art. We want the young generation to tell us how they want to experience and interact with art. We would invite Wikipedia representatives to co-host this interactive workshop and explore together stories about art and how they could inspire young people to spend more time engaging with art.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to understand young generation’s needs and expectations towards experiencing the art and together try to find solutions for art institutions around the world to answer those needs. Helping people make meaningful connections with art is a part of Smartify’s mission and we aim to transform the experience of art for everyone. We love museums and want to make sure next generation is going to share our enthusiasm. We would like the young generation’s voice to be heard and together, with help of specialists and enthusiasts from Wikipedia, explore what museums could look like in the future.This session will contribute to MozFest mission of exploring the intersection of the web and art.",
"required": "We would require office supplies such as paper, pens and post-it notes to facilitate the brainstorming session.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "How Open Recognitions Can Save Imploding or Stagnant Decentralized Communities",
"owner": {
"name": "Maria Esquela",
"organization": "E-NABLE Alliance"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "64af9122-64ed-431f-8c7c-f7f49e2ed03e",
"description": "We will look at the digital badges offered in the e-NABLE Community, and how they are used to allow leaders, mentors and interest group s to emerge organically. We will also share how e-NABLE badges are used to match people with skills and experience to requests for prosthetic devices.",
"goal": "Small groups will brainstorm leadership, 21st century and workforce skills that are developed in their projects, or are needed by their community, and groups in their community that would seek activities where these skills are developed.",
"required": "This session can take 30-60 min.Need markers, postits, easel paper. Power strip, projector, speakers.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Vulnerable single sign on",
"owner": {
"name": "Dogan G",
"organization": "Private Bank at Turkey"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "cf7570a4-ce82-4dec-89e0-1a43d1fde268",
"description": "VulnSSO tool is focused on sso attacks.Nowadays most of the company use their own implementation for sso solutions.Some of the bug hunters found really good vulnerability on the big company.There are some tools(dvwa and others .. ) that contains vulnerability.They dont have any support for sso vulnerability.Our focus is only sso bugs. VulnSSO is training tool.It will contains redirect uri vulnerability , XXE on saml request and many others",
"goal": "Attendees will be understand oauth and saml related vulnerabilities.",
"required": "For personel pc for participants.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Everything You Imagine is Real",
"owner": {
"name": "Mohit Varu",
"organization": "Event Manager-GirlScript Foundation Pvt. Ltd."
},
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8df366d1-ce19-4856-8e23-3a8bfae0cd3f",
"description": "Different campaigns are going on to promote 'Diversity and Inclusion', but what we want to ask is - Whether these 'only things' will solve the bigger problems? Come let us sit, discuss and find creative ways to solve this 'HISTORICAL PROBLEM'.Session Contents-1. Guidelines and instructions- A small presentation on Queering, LGBTQ, Woman and why their presence is important2. A Quick Quiz- Participants will be given a case study of different incidents happened with people and when they felt left out. They need to answer some questions, based on their opinion after reading the stories.3. The Imagination Game- Each participant will recreate their own real story when they felt left out.4. Finding a Solution- Discussion.",
"goal": "Close your eyes and try to imagine a 'Doctor', most of you have thought of a man having stethoscope, while some of you might have thought of a woman. Try to imagine a 'Nurse', all of you must have seen a sexy woman with red lipstick. Now try to imagine an 'Engineer', all of you would have seen a man! Nobody imagines a 'Women' or anyone from 'LGBTQ' working as an Engineer.This shows how stereotyping has affected our mentality.The goal is to realize our daily life mistakes that we ignore somehow and later it becomes a bigger problem in the society. In this world of growth, nobody should be left out.",
"required": "PenPaperWhiteboardQuiz Question Sheets",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Message Delayed: Designing Interplanetary Communication Tools",
"owner": {
"name": "Sands Fish",
"organization": "MIT Media Lab"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Following",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "bebad396-382b-477d-bbe1-40e88fb8e6f4",
"description": "When communicating in outer space, large delays are the norm. For instance, the communications delay between Earth and Mars can vary between five and twenty minutes depending upon the positions of the two planets. Although there are designs for an Interplanetary Internet that is fault-tolerant to transmission delays, how will conversations evolve when every response is delayed? Can we imagine new modes of messaging that enrich the way we have conversations on Earth as well? What kind of data might fill these gaps in our conversations? In this session, we will explore how comm lags can inspire new communication tools. The attendees will create new messaging clients that imagine what conversations will be like at the limits of lightspeed.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to engage participants in a participatory design process for delayed communication environments (removing the common assumption of instantaneous communication), to create a more open and inclusive design space for how we communicate, and to generate novel messaging designs that take advantage of the affordances of delay.We will prototype a number of different conversational tools that take delay as an assumption and make creative use of this cadence, asking \"How can slow communication create quality and creative modes of conversation?\". In addition, we will discuss how we might design terrestrial applications that are more robust to slow connections.A messaging API with artificial delay will be provided so that we can test our designs.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building a Proprietary Future.",
"owner": {
"name": "Pranshu Khanna",
"organization": "Mozilla India; Open Leadership Training Series"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5828975d-942c-4bd3-9c67-8da8c459fb18",
"description": "In the now, with softwares, websites, OSes, services which are bound with the use of advertisements and we are in plot to not even have not even opt out to destruct the loop. We as people and the community are equipped enough to make whatever we have to instead of getting caught in the loop. These tools at our disposal have never been more empowering and the need hasn’t ever been more. The need for inspiring Leaders to work in the Open and giving them a platform to create is now, more than ever.",
"goal": "To help participants envision an Open project of their own. The need for an alternative to proprietary services and software is now more than ever which is what we all face, as individuals. The participants will be able to move forward with an idea of an Open alternative of their choice and turn it into a project. There will be an activity to support this, and the outcome would be to get more people working their skills into the Open Space.",
"required": "Pens, Paper, Projector, WiFi.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "E-Stipulation",
"owner": {
"name": "Tejaswi N",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1c7fed08-cd1a-42bb-97cf-ba184f42a3e0",
"description": "We will begin our session with a discussion on how to browse the web anonymously by securing the IP address. We utilize the Mozilla light beam tool to demonstrate how they play out their errands on the web. Subsequently, we will show how tracking protection works in Mozilla light beam.A technical and innovative speech on IP spoofing and techniques to prevent it will be given.The extensive hands-on session provides the practical experience which comprises configuring a host, employing TCP/IP tools, use application services and access TCP/IP-based Internet works.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to outline how to develop infrastructures and capacities to engage participants to support,develop and exploit their IP address.",
"required": "Projector-1stationary",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Generating Music with Deep Learning",
"owner": {
"name": "Akshita Gupta",
"organization": "IIT Roorkee"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d4aec21b-ee51-444d-b5cb-ecff7fadbcca",
"description": "Present a hands-on application session with Keras_aud (https://github.com/channelCS/keras_aud) which helps to build simple applications and create content for connecting people to explore the world of Speech and Music.Developing teams that would initiate discussions on new ideas for development, content and get underrepresented people with a background in another programming language and domains to learn about python and AI, and join the community.The project is designed to encompass people from diverse groups ranging from Python enthusiasts, people having interests in experimentation, to those who want to know more about how speech works.The participants would learn the basics of Audio with AI and contributing to the library. Participants can simultaneously clone the repo and code on their own laptops.",
"goal": "At the end of the session, people would be able to make a simple Deep Learning model in Keras, extract audio features which would be passed to the model and get some cool results.The participants wouldGet introduced to Audio Visualization, Deep Learning models and open source researchLearn an uncomplicated way of understanding audio and its research meet people who like to work on research open source projects and possibilities of collaborationsGive insights on how to make the project easier for the general public",
"required": "All demos would be shown on my laptop. Apart from that, I would need- Power Outlets.- Projector- Participants to bring their own laptops(can be any platform and any Specifications)",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Build Your Idea to MVP with Agile ( Doing and Being)",
"owner": {
"name": "Sai Kiran Alagundula",
"organization": "CA Technologies"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "72ee355b-c6fd-42a6-b646-326e9e44490e",
"description": "Build Your Idea to MVP in 30 Days With Agile. Agile is a Disciplined framework which helps beginners to quick start their idea and converts into user obsessed product in 30 days with shipping an MVP product using Agile Principles. Problem: There is a lot of misconception of building and shipping a software product among young folks, the result they end up in giving up or rolling non-viable product. Solution: With Agile (Doing and Being), A software can be built and shipped successfully by following agile principles.",
"goal": "Learning Outcomes : 1. Understanding difference b/w being and doing agile 2. How to build meaningful products and ship soon with Agile. 3. Basics of Agile Framework. 4. Converting Idea to product.",
"required": "No",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Use open data to monitor natural disasters",
"owner": {
"name": "Claudia Vitolo",
"organization": "ECMWF"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "88faebb4-1c1f-4973-b165-449ade6e42b3",
"description": "We plan to showcase a wide variety of open weather and environmental data available from the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast and the Copernicus programme. These data can be used to monitor natural disasters and we will show how in three simple steps:1. We will take participants to a short tour of the available resources2. We will explain how to get the data to reconstruct past natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes, floods, wildfires, etc.)3. We will make available user accounts to ECMWF’s Jupyter Hub and let participants experiment with interactive plots and maps.Attendees are expected to bring their own laptops.",
"goal": "We want to show the public all the wonderful things that can be done with ECMWF and Copernicus open data, beyond predicting the weather. Educating the public is a way of making them more resilient to natural disasters.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "MOZFEST - DESIGN CONSENT FROM THE GROUND UP",
"owner": {
"name": "Jonathan van Geuns",
"organization": "Mr"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "731e82d1-da76-407e-ad44-e9b616ce398a",
"description": "This workshop offers an holistic space to create digital tools and environments in which consent underlies all aspects, from the way they are developed, to how data is stored and accessed, and to the way interactions happen between users. Prototyping consent into our tools will make them more fair and unbiased. Using a specific designed prototyping loop, teams quickly hypothesize, develop, test and assess ideas consentful data prototypes. It enables us to see the shortcomings of our ideas and how our concept can be improved. Participants will likely get new insights during the process or encounter things they did not expect before.",
"goal": "Our digital identities consist of personal data existing in relationship with others. Our digital lives are frequently at risk being harmed. Users of technology generally lack a good understanding of the risks our digital identities face on a daily basis. We need to (re)define our understanding of digital consent. Those who are most adversely affected by design decisions tend to have the least influence on how those decisions are made. We need to develop consent-based responses into our data tools. Harm and violence will happen if we do not design with consent from the ground up. It the session we present and evolve a specifically consent-based design method for data technologies, and strengthening networks to address shared and common challenges.",
"required": "A projector (preferably).Flip chart paper (+/- 40) and flip over stands (+/- 8) (preferably)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "IVT Cipher",
"owner": {
"name": "Sai chaithanya raju G",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "69e98b4b-a81b-4cb9-95f1-791e8a841bac",
"description": "The session will begin with an introduction about the steganography moving on we would be discussing the different types of steganography and its future scope along with its applications in different types of techniques.To be more interactive the audience will be given some of the steganographic puzzles to solve and also the three types of steganography will be given them hands on.next, we will move on to some of the attacks done by steganographic techniques. To analyze these attacks we will be training the audience for steganalysis and some of the tools of it..At the end of the session we would have a discussion of the crypto-steganography and the needs of it.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to make the audience to know about the steganography and also make them to know how to hide their data behind the digital artifacts and text.",
"required": "Projector",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Data after Death",
"owner": {
"name": "Matthias Schäfer",
"organization": "Bauhaus Universität Weimar"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "4187b2c1-9a37-4c65-8f4a-773e6b5a5668",
"description": "After a short input session of how artists, activists and companies deal with data of a deceased individual, we will come up with tools, rituals and other things for our own digital afterlife. Participants are invited to download their data from different services and share them in groups. We will explore questions like: What data do we leave behind? What do we want to share with our loved ones? Who do we want to grant access to our accounts? How can we take action before our death?",
"goal": "There is no specific goal. The session can go into any direction: A prototype for an app, a new digital ritual, a performance...",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Open-source investigations : using Internet for citizen journalism",
"owner": {
"name": "Grégoire Pouget",
"organization": "Nothing2Hide"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0dfa8908-ce2f-4b7e-89cb-976c7b0ad2df",
"description": "Investigation based on open-source information available online has largely increased over the past years. It is now possible to crowd-source investigation work. We think it is a great opportunity to develop citizen journalism, independently or in collaboration with professional journalists..In this session, participants will do online investigation on a real-life investigation shared by a partner journalist. The session will start with an introduction about tools and methods for open-source investigation and a presentation of the case. Then participants will break off into groups and investigate on the case, brainstorm their findings within the group and share them with everyone through a collective pad.",
"goal": "The first goal of this session is to have participants being part of an actual journalist investigation with online research. We hope that participants can learn new skills but also leave the session knowing that they can be citizen journalists and keep in mind this experience. In a time where less and less people trust journalists, we think that such session can help to bridge the gap between citizens and professional journalists and show the importance of journalism and how collaboration between citizens and journalist can create a healthier society.The second goal is to help our partner journalist gather data on a investigation through a crowd of citizen journalists.",
"required": "* Projector* Computer* White board",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building Web Empathy - A Voice Interface Approach",
"owner": {
"name": "Mauricio Palma",
"organization": "SinnerSchrader"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "e6277b5b-3015-4124-a779-006c34b3f2d4",
"description": "Empathy is the ability to understand and feel another person’s perspectives, experiences, and points of view. It is a very important skill for building truly inclusive web applications. But in designing and developing web applications our cognitive biases often cloud our perspective. In this workshop we will dive into the story behind 3 personas with different disability spectrums; permanent, temporary and situational. The attendees will be separated into groups and receive cards from the game Questions & Empathy, a strategic game to gain deeper insights into these personas so we can develop accessible voice interfaces.Based on the understanding we will gain, the attendees will be able to develop a feature using the speech recognition API provided in the workshop.",
"goal": "Learn that empathy it’s not only a skill but a powerful tool to better understand the users trying to interact with our web applications. Learn that understanding empathy as a tool is a valuable asset, but most importantly we will learn how to understand someone else feelings and perspectives.Using the findings of the first half of the workshop, we will develop one feature using the provided application that includes the Speech Recognition API as a starting point. We will understand that accessibility and inclusiveness are the core concerns of our web applications.",
"required": "I will only require wifi access, thanks.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Demystifying GDPR with perspective of Test Data Management",
"owner": {
"name": "Madhuri Mittal",
"organization": "QA Contributor in Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1577b4c9-65f7-46e6-8152-d3ade7aa6bb3",
"description": "Test data challenges are not new to software testers. Manual testers consume 75% of their efforts on finding and making correct test data. When teams automate testing, full control of test data becomes a compulsion.Presently, the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) is further confounding the test data challenge by putting limitations on using production data for testing purposes.I will call attention on imperative facts about GDPR. Why are we confronting a significant number of Test Data Management(TDM) issues nowadays, how might we tackle our issues? Attention to what results it will have on TDM. To wrap things up, how to set up a legitimate TDM utilizing synthetic data in testing instead of data masking.",
"goal": "To give participants a greater perspective towards the overall benefits of better customer data security, how does GDPR fit into it along with proper implementation of Test Data management (TDM).They will be able to visualize their radar about TDM that its more about direct concept than the right tools so whenever you can go synthetic, do it.",
"required": "Projector to display slides and a Laptop to insert pen drive (laptop can be arranged, not sure).",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "How do you lead a distributed, virtual team openly?",
"owner": {
"name": "Martin Hawksey",
"organization": "Association for Learning Technology"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d76ef256-b13c-47e5-93bc-05e79b9c57ff",
"description": "How do you lead a team openly, both in practical terms and with respect to the culture you create? What are your strategies for putting open leadership into practice? How do you share your experience? These are the questions we invite you to discuss with us in this Learning Forum. From discussing how we use collaborative tools, open licences or deliver support to exploring the pitfalls of open practice we are here to share our experiences of putting the values of open leadership into practice whilst moving a small office based team to a fully distributed, virtual operating model. As part of this session we aim to surface best practice and guidance.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to start building shared knowledge about effective methods for developing and leading virtual teams. Outline:5 min - setting out the context and an introduction to our work30 min - discussion around the examples we and you bring along10 min - collate outputs and share how the work will continue beyond the workshop",
"required": "None",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Detect Internet Censorship with OONI Probe",
"owner": {
"name": "Elio Qoshi",
"organization": "The Tor Project"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] German",
"[LANG] Other",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "68e6d0fe-ae62-474e-8765-ef1fa587b921",
"description": "This is an introductionary session to OONI and the OONI Probe Software. OONI (short for Open Observatory of Network Interference) is a free software, global observation network for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the internet. OONI Probe is the software which allows contributors to take measurements of their network connections and submit these as open data for anyone to inspect and prove potential internet censorship. We will be trying out OONI Probe hands-on on Desktop, Android and iOS to show attendees what they can test and bring those lessons home.",
"goal": "Equip attendees with the knowledge of using OONI Probe so they can contribute with data to highlight internet censorship events in their respective communities.",
"required": "A monitor would be nice but not necessary at all. We will be using attendees phones and laptops as a hands-on session.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Memecracy: Freedom’s last bastion",
"owner": {
"name": "Sara Fratti",
"organization": "IPANDETEC"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8a55f9db-344e-4f09-9cb6-95c6e73e5d18",
"description": "We will discuss how memes are the most popular way to exercise our right to freedom of speech. During the session we will analyze how creating and sharing memes are legally protected by the freedom of speech laws in Latin American countries. We will highlight some bill projects that might ban and criminalize the memes on the Internet and how this will affect the freedom of expression in these countries and could be a new way of governmental censorship, especially in countries some with a critical political context.",
"goal": "The goals of our session are mainly:- To establish how the act of create and share memes on the Internet is legally protected by the right of freedom of speech.- To create public interest on the idea that some national regulations in Latin American countries could eventually ban this practice.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Being creative on this digital era.",
"owner": {
"name": "Sandeep Salmon",
"organization": "Mozilla Kerala"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2c4101e1-21e3-4337-9b43-929ce4f08ffb",
"description": "Nowadays all the people have access to good quality internet service. We use it for purposes differently with respect to the user. But to attract audience and being that standout character is hard. This will be our session. We'll be brain storming and it won't be a one person talk and others listen kind of session. It will be interactive, funny and will be something that will be hard to forget.",
"goal": "To help people understand how to be creative and to encourage them to take risks. To be one in a crowd.",
"required": "We'll need a audio mixer consisting of 3 inputs, aux cables for audio playback, xlr wired or wireless microphone or lapel mics.Projector for presentation and if the ambience have more light a led screen instead of projector.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Understanding Natural Language Processing & Bot Architectures by building Chatbots",
"owner": {
"name": "Gaurav G Punjabi",
"organization": "CCBR, IIT Madras"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "dc2c164e-5ccc-4b83-8e7b-e272879c34d0",
"description": "The attendees will get a chance to build chatbots with the various options that are available for Natural Language Processing (NLP) combining it with a dynamic frontend based on Python. Further, through the use of ready made platforms, attendees will also be made to understand the process of building a custom model for Natural Language Understanding and how the user experience can be improved by making use of this.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is for attendees to get the knowledge needed to build and use chatbots to enhance user experience in their fields. By understanding the numerous options offered out there, attendees will then be able to explore and make the right choice for their application. Additionally, they will be able to plug and play with the different frontend and backend languages involved to tweak it to their needs.",
"required": "A projector will do and preferably all attendees having laptops so they get a chance to follow along with our hands on session.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Modern Ambiente",
"owner": {
"name": "Tejaswi N",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a4fb185d-787d-4fbe-acd8-4b1b553e95c3",
"description": "The person with an innovative agenda would be confused due to the dearth of advice which leads to a sole point of failure. In our session, we would have a discussion on how to approach a work, decision making, and resource allocation. Further, we would train the participants on how to interact so that they can create their own perception based on their specific domains. Following the session, we would have a discussion on the demo and the methods to develop an open resource.Finally, at the end of our session, the participants would know the things happen in and around the day to day life based on the open source communities and graphs where the participants are being trained.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to make the participants experience a high impact creative activities that work for a variety of group sizes at different steps of innovation process.",
"required": "Projector-1stationary",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Better ways of funding quality journalism",
"owner": {
"name": "Bilal Randeree",
"organization": "Media Development Investment Fund"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2f044503-623c-43a8-9712-06f5c014b350",
"description": "I'm tired of attending conferences all over the world, complaining about the struggles of journalism and how good quality publications are currently impossible to fund through the usual channels. This session will gather all interested journalists, developers, hacks and hackers to explore potential models for funding media through the crowd.",
"goal": "For starters, I will present case studies of two African media companies trying out new approaches - Kwanza TV in Tanzania and The Daily Maverick in South Africa. We will highlight some key ingredients of their models, and explore how these can be packaged and shared with others, especially in the Global South.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Co-creating Participatory Resources",
"owner": {
"name": "Dirk Slater",
"organization": "FabRiders"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "61151fb4-522a-40dd-a356-f5da5d981f5e",
"description": "Participants will share knowledge and lessons learned around designing and co-creating people-powered and participatory resources. We will share proposed development cycles to identify challenges and best practices. We will discuss potential solutions and create a list of shared resources and tactics. We will also look at some examples of successful participatory resources, including IFRC's Data Playbook, Amnesty's Decoder Project and EFF's Security Education Companion.",
"goal": "To give participants a better understanding of the hard work it takes to co-create learning resources that identify, share and highlight content from community/network members.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Build your own Citizen Observatory - A 'CookBook' for Air Q, Water Q, Land Use & Biodiversity monitoring",
"owner": {
"name": "Margaret Gold",
"organization": "European Citizen Science Association (ECSA)"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5b172dd5-c083-4b34-ad01-f7ee1eac3c44",
"description": "Citizen Observatories are community-based environmental monitoring initiatives, that lead to science or policy outcomes for Air Quality, Water Quality, Sound Pollution, Smell Pollution, Land Use, Biodiversity, and more. They are mostly top-down and invite participants locally - but many communities are starting their own investigations from scratch. In this session we will create a 'Cookbook' for DIY Citizen Observatories and prototype or wireframe a website to share that information online. The goal is for anyone interested in such an investigation to find the info they need, and dip into the stage of the DIY CO project lifecycle they are at.",
"goal": "There are a huge range of tools and platforms that can be used for environmental monitoring, and an equally large number of places where data can be found or shared - but it is all very scattered, and a huge research effort if you are concerned about an environmental measure in your own community. Our goal is to co-create a 'Cookbook' for building your own Citizen Observatory, sign-posting all of the possible tools and resources, communities and guidelines, and places to aggregate and share the data. With enough people, we will either wireframe or prototype a website to share this info in a logical & useful fashion. If non-tech we'll focus on user journey of how to DIY a CO.",
"required": "Projector to show examples (and display prototype if applicable), and office supplies for brown-paper work will be grand.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Transformative Internet: Exploring questions of the potential for MMORPG guilds to harm at-risk groups / communities.",
"owner": {
"name": "Brian McIver",
"organization": "Australian/British"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Comms] Facilitator Not On Github",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "37c0887c-d406-469f-bb85-fe4bc99e8567",
"description": "The session will start with a short 1-2 minute introduction presented by me.Then then session will move to a group brainstorming / practical focus, where all participants will form guilds. Each of these guilds will need to attract new players and retain existing ones in an online world. The guilds will be asked to consider how they can extend this protection / retention to any players that join, regardless of who they are, where they are, what they believe and what language they speak.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to start a conversation around freedom of speech versus a safe space for all, and whether both of these paradigms can exist alongside one another in online worlds.",
"required": "",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Privacy in the Web",
"owner": {
"name": "Mano Jeyagopi",
"organization": "--"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "93d9c968-0f97-4362-a760-e6322a2e3e15",
"description": "My session will explain the tools and technologies used to protect ourself in the web from outside threats.This will also make our footprints in internet hide from outside world.",
"goal": "Make awareness about privacy and security to each and everyone who use internet in daily life",
"required": "----",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Someone might be watching you",
"owner": {
"name": "Pooja Purswani",
"organization": "Mozilla Techspeakers"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Hindi",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "db805334-9593-4ec3-975f-6b171fdf9a71",
"description": "To aware the audience about* Data privacy on social networking sites* Encryption of data on Websites sites and appsSession will take place with a fun activity, where the audience can participate and learn about data encryption over the Internet.Audience will be given an Persistance of vision wand (made using basic hardware), by which the participant can draw a pattern or write message they want to send .The message can be seen only by the receiver by using a decoderso, in this case: the sender is using the wand to send an encrypted message and the receiver is using a camera to decode the message.The viewers in between (attending participants) will try to decode the message",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to aware the audience about data encryption. They will learn about how they can secure their data and stop anyone else to access their personal information or any personal data.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "What is a national data strategy?",
"owner": {
"name": "Sarah Gates",
"organization": "Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ec8453b2-cab6-4d3e-aaef-a99d0f7f8786",
"description": "In June 2018 UK Government announced we are developing a National Data Strategy to unlock the power of data in the UK economy and government, while building public confidence in its use. The UK has a strong record on data and this move will build on the UK Digital Strategy, Digital Charter, Industrial Strategy and Grand Challenges to break new ground on data. True to the principles of our Digital Charter, we are creating the strategy in an open and participative way, in dialogue with citizens, civil society, academic experts and business. This session will be a conversation about the aims of the strategy and what you want to see from UK Government.",
"goal": "An open conversation about the aims of the strategy and what you want to see from UK Government, which will help us develop the National Data Strategy.",
"required": "Screen for presentation",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Data ethics - the public sector should lead the way",
"owner": {
"name": "Sarah Gates",
"organization": "Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f20a2e64-ffc2-40a3-ba4e-1cbda4e6c21d",
"description": "The UK Government has been leading the global debate on the ethical use of data in the public sector since the publication of the first Data Science Ethical Framework in 2016. DCMS recently published a redesigned Data Ethics Framework following consultation with users and experts across sectors. This session will focus on the guidance and tools provided in the new framework, asking whether they are helpful and sufficient for monitoring projects. It will also ask what a strong leadership position from Government looks like and how we can practically embed data ethics across a range of public sector projects, including when procuring predictive analytics software from the private sector.",
"goal": "To engage with new and existing stakeholders on the quality of the framework and plans to develop the work.",
"required": "Screen for presentation",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "trans people speak for themselves",
"owner": {
"name": "Mud Howard",
"organization": "migrant"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "789c3501-d98b-4bb4-b343-2fb9c442a3f2",
"description": "i am a poet, activist and writer and i would love to host a session that collects trans people's experiences of gendered violence both online and in person (i.e. mr v. mrs or male v. female input boxes that will not let you move onto the next step without selecting, online comments, trolls and digital harassment, the rise of violence that accompanies the rising visibility of trans people, how the only trans bodies we see online are ones that fit into dominant beauty ideals including but not limited to thinness, whiteness, gender-conformity) and then take these first-hand stories and broadcasts them across the building that MozFest is hosted in-- a guerilla tactic of taking up sound-space and inhabiting air waves.",
"goal": "the goal of my session would be to give a platform for trans voices to be heard that extends beyond a \"safe space\" or closed-door discussion. most of the world is a safe space for straight and cisgender people, and this same world is very violent toward gender non-conforming people. this violence is often highly invisible, unless you or someone you love is experiencing it. i want trans voices and stories to disrupt everyday motions and make folks reflect on the ways that the unconscious ways the gender binary is so heavily knitted through our social fabric. i want people to hear real trans voices speak about this violence so that we can begin to end it.",
"required": "i would love the access to speakers and an aux cord. i can bring a computer or a smartphone with audio files, but i would need the sound system to match.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Improving Security with Visual Design",
"owner": {
"name": "Elio Qoshi",
"organization": "The Tor Project"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "85ce7471-8b39-4efd-a15e-88e221cd16c6",
"description": "I will explain how Security and Privacy-preserving software can be differently perceived by varying levels of consistency in its visual design. If phishing emails are easy to detect by their (lack of) consistent design, can't we ensure to create a consistent User Experience to also cultivate trust for the user? We will explore how consistently good aesthetics can reduce surprises and deliver expected results, hence creating trust for the user. We will go through real life examples of best practices.",
"goal": "Attendees will understand that security and privacy-preserving software is not only about the code underneath, but about the experience offered to the user. Many security concerns are often not technical but based on human errors due lacking User Experience. Attendees will understand how patterns and visuals we are used to being exposed help create trust and strenghten a user's relationship with the software.",
"required": "A Monitor would be great to show examples. If difficult to come up with I can find alternatives however.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Designing and Developing Technologies with Young People Living through Precarity",
"owner": {
"name": "Kieran Cutting",
"organization": "Open Lab, Newcastle University"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "af2fbb4d-dcca-46f2-ab15-a32340fa7295",
"description": "During this session, attendees will be sharing and learning about some of the problems facing young people living through precarity, including care-experienced young people and young people with experience of homelessness. Young people with experience of these situations (who will facilitate the session) will share some of their experiences before all attendees will start to work together in small groups to create a response to these experiences. Responses may include prototypes of Things or technologies which address some aspect of the young people's experience, methods of designing with these young people in mind, or suggestions for key values and features that technologies and designs must work with.",
"goal": "Attendees of this session will leave with a greater understanding of the problems faced by young people living through precarity in the UK, and the session will particularly highlight the barriers to technological inclusion that face these young people, inviting a reconsideration of what technology is and is for. Young people who attend this session will develop links with the technological and design communities which may be of benefit to them, and professionals who attend the session will be encouraged to rethink how their practices include and exclude young people living through precarity. In addition, this session will form some initial prototypes that can be developed in conjunction with Open Lab and Barnardo's.",
"required": "The session should only require office supplies, such as paper, pens and post-it notes, and any technology that participants choose to bring with them. If accepted, this session will make clear that participants may bring anything into the session that they feel might help them construct useful responses to the issues framed by the young people attending.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "AI Is Not Dangerous – What it means to be disruptive and responsible",
"owner": {
"name": "Mohammad Amin Bandekhoda",
"organization": "Iran Citizen (Or \"Amirkabir University of Technology\"?)"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8eb35335-463f-49ab-99e2-cc2fcb85130e",
"description": "I prefer presenting, step by step, my “template” material and, in each step, seeing what others think about the subject or have to add. Probably, with a total of 3-5 steps two of which could be:- Is “AI” Dangerous? Should we be afraid? Is it simply a very powerful tool and the possible dangers are from us? If so, do we have a practical way of making sure we won’t create dangerous AI entities? A way that, at least, “feels” like it can work.- Some widely known examples of irresponsible technology: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, Uber’s India marketing, Social network surveillance systems sold to oppressive regimes like Husni Mubarak and such.",
"goal": "(1) Better understanding of my own and others’ understanding of the subject and (2) Understanding the talent level and the level of activism and active concern in Mozilla and/or MozFest. For me, the thing about (2) is, it may be that it’s much more reasonable to expect collective understanding and actual results regarding some critical issues from “people” in activist gatherings like MozFest than it is from governmental and/or corporate-backed entities (like OpenAI?). Esp. when the members are younger. Of course, the two will only be achieved to some extent during the session and the rest of the festival.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Playing with Government Data APIs to build your next open data app",
"owner": {
"name": "Karan Sapolia",
"organization": "Citizen of India"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5dcb0249-899d-41b6-9743-e826245b2b19",
"description": "This session will be all about Open Government Data (OGD) license, how citizens can use APIs to legally and safetly extract and use government data and build desired apps or extract insights from the same. In this session, I will introduce the audience to the apis of various countries and independent data collection bodies, officially provided for citizen usage. We'll learn how to use CKAN APIs and build little hosted servers which request, store and compute on the collected data; and then a bare-bones application / front-end will be built together and hosted, which uses our created servers to serve processed information to the users.",
"goal": "At the end of this session, attendees will gain knowledge about the various open data practices follwed around the world by progressive governments and how can they as citizens productively use these exposed datasets to their and the general public's benefit. Attendees will build demos and gain confidence in building their own open government data application to solve specific issues like quickly locating public services during an emergency. Attendees will become more aware about the ways they can use open data and will find it easier to contirubte to similar projects which are working towards setting up decentralized and open data bases for and by the public.",
"required": "This session will require a projector and if it is scheduled in an auditorium or amphitheatre, a mic and speakers would be required for a large audience.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Enabling Learning",
"owner": {
"name": "Dirk Slater",
"organization": "FabRiders"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ece6950b-07d0-42ce-a8c9-8755dfb7a748",
"description": "Participants will explore how learning often happens through problem-solving or attempting to overcome challenges. They will reflect upon their own learning experiences, review research on learning and interact with frameworks for enabling learning. We will then explore ways to improve our own efforts to enable learning, whether they be online resources, in-person workshops or printed materials.",
"goal": "For participants to understand that learning, particularly with Adults is problem-based, not content oriented and how to shape their learning resources accordingly. They will also understand ADIDS (Activity, Discussion, Input, Deepening and Synthesis) as a framework to enable effective learning.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Creativity, Ethics, and Identity in Open-Source Computer Science Education",
"owner": {
"name": "Saber Khan",
"organization": "Processing Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "85cf5a29-6aed-4663-bb2d-f0f640e3ff3f",
"description": "Students, educators, researchers, and practitioners need to reimage CC education. Currently, CS education is dominated by industry and adopt its values and goals. To be an educator that empowers students CS education needs to be re-oriented with an ethical perspective, that values creativity, and is inclusive of diverse identities. In this session we will share a vision for this type of CS education and efforts being made to achieve this. Then the participants will be offered different opportunities to contribute to this effort by engaging in a brainstorm and discussion about how to build this project. The organizer of the session will benefit by gaining feedback and global perspectives. Parts of this project started at Mozfest in 2016.",
"goal": "We are building a movement called #ethicalCS to engage the larger community in a wide-ranging discussion about the ethical implications of computing. p5.js is a project of the Processing foundation, whose mission is to promote software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields — and to make these fields accessible to diverse communities. By sharing the lessons we have learned, gathering feedback on our open-source projects, co-creating new resources, we hope to inspire others to grow creative and ethical computing education in their own communities. We will also facilitate an online community that shares updates, projects, and experiences in the program. This session will thus improve computing education by creating wider global engagement in the movement.",
"required": "Just projector and office supplies",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "How would a real life social media be like?",
"owner": {
"name": "Aditi Bhatnagar",
"organization": "Microsoft"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "0b7c78fb-ea1e-4e1e-9dfa-f60734e6e135",
"description": "This session is aimed at identifying and learning about several unrealistic aspects that social medias have brought into our lives knowingly/unknowingly. The session will be split in three parts:(a) A quick mix and match of popular opinions about social media amongst the group and a sneak peek into their present interactions.(b)An interactive session where people will divide in groups and be assigned series of tasks (small acts/skits) that will help portray social medias by mapping the tech into real life space time. Thereby identifying the gaps and not required features of social medias.(c) A group activity to redesign the interface that can connect people across the globe in a more human manner.",
"goal": "A huge friend list, help people celebrate birthdays, last seen, seen by, online, chat off, timelines, tagging etc are all terms bloated into our lives by social medias but what are their real life significance. Tech is adding up to our perspectives on how we understand each other, flaws in tech are capable of misinterpretations at different levels. The outcome of the session is bending our minds to let go of what all we know of present day social medias, understanding the magnitudes of impact it has on present day lives of human beings and redesign the entire platform by cherry picking the useful features, that will cherish our human bonds better rather than getting people hooked.",
"required": "Projector, laptop, pen and paper, wifi connection, white board and marker(if possible).",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "We are building dystopia using AI & ML",
"owner": {
"name": "Viral Parmar",
"organization": "Mozilla Reps"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "854ab1f6-fdb1-4c50-b2a9-30ddc385b4d5",
"description": "Topic is about how AI and ML are building dystopia for us and lighting on the big companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon who are in business of capturing-selling data & our attention to advertisers, gathering our data, harvesting it and use against us to manipulate us & control us. Talk contains the following points:How Social media Ads influence us using its persuasion architecture.Will explain how AI prediction is a threat to our freedom with Case study of smart health care.How IOT products compromise our privacy.Bigdata is safe or a threat",
"goal": "The Goal of this session is to draw an attention on upcoming threat on our privacy from the growing technology like Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence which is very much useful for us in different ways but there are also disadvantages of AI which are harmful for us in this digital life of Bigdata and can create dystopia for us. Our data which are gathered from all the electronic devices can be used against us.",
"required": "No Thanks",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Everyone is invited: Increasing participation in peer review with live preprint journal clubs",
"owner": {
"name": "Monica Granados",
"organization": "PREreview"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1ffccfb1-9918-4288-9885-b35737d0fb1d",
"description": "Preprint journal clubs (preprint JCs) take an already existing infrastructure at academic institutions and coopt them to provide a medium to give preprint authors feedback and participants training in peer review. However participation, and by extension expertise, on the preprint topic is limited by geography. To increase the accessibility of preprint JCs, PREreview is introducing live preprint JCs. Emulating the Mozilla Open Leaders cohort calls, the live preprint JC will invite participants to discuss and review a preprint on the topic of open science/scholarship. They will be joined by remote participants that can increase the diversity of viewpoints. Two hosts will co-lead the session and guide the participants through the call using predetermined questions, silent etherpadding, and vocal participation.",
"goal": "As part of Open Access Week, PREreview is working with PLoS to organize several preprint JCs scattered around the world and across different disciplines. This Mozfest session will occur as part of this effort, culminating in the publication of a PREreview of the selected preprint acknowledging all the participants (with permission) on prereview.org.",
"required": "As we will have some participants calling in, it would be ideal if we could have a room that is more quiet than the open spaces.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Architecture Blueprints are Dead, Long live the Architecture Blueprints.",
"owner": {
"name": "Majdi Haroun",
"organization": "ThoughtWorks"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7727131b-74e9-4e0b-a79e-c810d1910008",
"description": "Discuss Enterprise Architecture in the Age of the Digital Enterprise.Will share lessons, insights, and patterns from the field. How EAs, SAs need to “Evolve” towards “Evolutionary Architecture to drive innovation in the modern Digital Enterprise.? 5 Case studies with 5 lessons to learn.",
"goal": "- Practical Patterns & Lessons from the field. - What good looks like? - The pitfalls of doing the new things the old way. How to tackle learning while doing & leading.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Internet of Health",
"owner": {
"name": "Wairimu Macharia",
"organization": "Pollicy"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1eb8f727-167a-40e4-9fee-4957062bfdf9",
"description": "We wish to explore, through a targeted set of questions, how much time people spend on the internet in any given day. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate what internet addiction looks like and why we must consciously examine our usage. Each participant will answer the set of questions and then we will project the results of the mini-survey on a screen and then open up a discussion on curbing internet addiction and how we can promote its healthy use.",
"goal": "The goal of the exercise is to bring awareness to mental health (and general health) and to understand that internet addiction is real and impacts us in more ways than we have imagined. The exercise will also go through strategies to maintain an appropriate level of internet usage.",
"required": "A projectorA screen HDMI cableA pointer (optional; only if available)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Mock Tech",
"owner": {
"name": "Nikita Singh A",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8db8f30b-2e1f-47fa-a00a-4520edcab8fe",
"description": "We would have an introduction to the deception technology and its emerging cybersecurity services. Later we would have a detailed discussion on various bait technologies like TrapX which would misdirect the breeches. Further, we would have an interaction with the participants where a discussion on new deception and cybersecurity techniques like camouflage are discussed. During the session, the participants would acquire the knowledge about various active defense strategies that have been materialized in past years. Subsequently,the participants would gain knowledge of machine learning and how the deception technology is used to fight on ransom wares.In the hands-on session the participants would be trained to deploy few deception technologies and would gain a knowledge and how to deceive the attackers.",
"goal": "Participants will walk out of the session with a technique to deceive attackers and learn how deception is changing the cybersecurity landscape.",
"required": "Projector-1",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Going Global: Let’s build a transnational coalition to fight online toxicity and extremism",
"owner": {
"name": "Rebecca Lenn",
"organization": "Media Matters for America"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "12c0cec7-e3a8-4fd9-8fee-b5edbd8650a3",
"description": "Extremists who game the internet to weaponize fake news and fuel harassment campaigns aren’t operating in domestic silos - they are organized as an international movement that targets women, people of color, and vulnerable populations across the globe. While advocates push back on this extremist network directly and urge tech giants to take action, none of these counter movements are functioning at a scale large enough to combat this global phenomenon effectively. Facilitated by Media Matters, HOPE not hate, and Avaaz, this session will offer a space for participants to explore and home a framework for developing an international coalition to fight online toxicity and extremism. Further participants and facilitators will discuss how to make this coalition a reality.",
"goal": "It is our hope that this session will be the first step towards developing more results-driven international cooperation among activists and advocacy groups, further building on coalitions that Media Matters, HOPE Not Hate and other groups have convened over the past year.",
"required": "Capacity to project powerpoint slides and screen video content.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Make it count: How to leverage open work in traditional academic spaces",
"owner": {
"name": "Monica Granados",
"organization": "PREreview"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3ba0f095-77e4-47d3-9d93-60e2cf9b8c9e",
"description": "We spend hours working on open projects and open advocacy, but for those in academia seeing no acknowledgement of this work relegates these contributions to the last pages of CVs. The problem is exacerbated by the lack of incentives within the traditional academic framework to encourage researchers’ engagement with open practices and, particularly for early-career scientists, can even be seen as a hindrance on scientific productivity. In this session, we will 1) offer suggestions on how to build a profile in the open science space such that our work is recognized and rewarded across communities and 2) show how to highlight contributions to open scholarship and open advocacy in job applications and CVs.",
"goal": "We want to invite participants to share their experiences in leveraging open advocacy and contributions to open projects in their job applications and CVs, particularly focusing on what worked and what didn’t. We will also encourage them to apply some of the tips and guidance provided during the session to their own content and receive live feedback from other participants.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Creative Coding with CSS Grid",
"owner": {
"name": "Daniel Harding",
"organization": "Keele University"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7cb72238-3dbb-4038-8c9f-5a0f2334cd72",
"description": "During this session, participants will use some of CSS Grid's main features to design and build their own pieces of art. This will be achieved by introducing CSS Grid via a short presentation, followed by offline design using pre-prepared grid worksheets, and finally transferring them to an online space using free, openly available tools. The ambition is to finish the session with a gallery of HTML/CSS creations that can be shared with a wider audience as MozFest artifacts to inspire others who may be interested in creative coding. The session assumes no prior knowledge of coding.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is for participants to leave with a basic understanding of CSS Grid and to demonstrate the benefits of learning frontend development concepts through practical, creative means. Also, the process will highlight the importance of prototyping/wireframing and how this can help to avoid problems when building for the web. As a personal goal, the opportunity to facilitate this session would consolidate my own knowledge of CSS Grid and begin to realise my ambition of teaching these types of skills in a fun and engaging way.",
"required": "I will provide my own laptop and worksheets, but it would be helpful to have pens and extra paper available for participants.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Twin Tech NLP",
"owner": {
"name": "RAFI NAQVI SYED",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f8f264f1-1176-477e-a57c-93ac9ea9f48a",
"description": "At present we are propelled to the virtual assistants like Siri, google assistant, Alexa etc. The major drawback of these NLP's are these will not work in the background. In our session, we would create a new NLP(natural language processing) to solve this problem, which can even work in the background. We would use libraries like DIALOG FLOW or RASA NLU, JSON PARSING etc to create the NLP. We would have a demo on how the parent NPL created a unique child NLP for individual applications.At the pre-end of our session, we would have a hands-on session where the participants would create a NPL for an application.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to create a NLP which works in background.",
"required": "projector is required.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Way towards a new open standard for Terms and Conditions",
"owner": {
"name": "Aditi Bhatnagar",
"organization": "Microsoft"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "69ee77db-d6d1-4ad5-a1cf-4e1791c213fd",
"description": "\"I have read the terms and conditions\" is the biggest lie on internet that we all are a part of till date.We need to make web more open and understandable to the users when it comes to what all terms and conditions they are accepting before using any web service. The session intends to be an interactive one,with informative discussion on what are the T&Cs of any of the major tech companies today and then demo-ing an open standard called \"Common User Privacy Panel\", that has been crafted by us to address these vital issues. The session will then be open for refining the standard or brain storming new standards that can help us address this problem.",
"goal": "The goal is to generate awareness, realising a need to define a common standard for terms and conditions which are today long, complicated and time consuming.Intention is to refine or come up with an open common standard that can help us solve this problem and help generate a more open, transparent internet full of aware users.",
"required": "Pen and paper, projector",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The #iotmark Pop-Up Nail Bar",
"owner": {
"name": "Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino",
"organization": "#iotmark"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c961e78c-6509-4107-9715-cc61ad1cbf6b",
"description": "Drop by all weekend to get your nails cleaned and polish applied with a logo of your choice while we walk you through our #iotmark tool to help you build a more open, sustainable, trustworthy product. Each session lasts about 25 minutes. The Open #iot mark is a free checklist to help startups make better business, customer support and end of life care decisions when they're in the initial design phase of a connected product.",
"goal": "To expose as many people to the checklist as possible and actually get them to complete it with us. This is very difficult in an attention economy of mobile phones and how busy the building is at any given time. So we're hoping that by taking care of their hands, their minds and attention can be focused on filling in the checklist and giving us feedback.",
"required": "Close to a toilet if possible.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "The dark side of quick mobile loans",
"owner": {
"name": "Tracy Kadesa",
"organization": "Affiliation-Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANET)"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "78c78468-a646-47da-817c-8f50ed9a0762",
"description": "1.Participant introduction2.3/more volunteers will engage in a game where,in exchange for a bar of chocolate,participants will have to list personal details of themselves &friends(fictitious),including location,no of children. where they go to school..3.After the game,we'll discuss different mobile money apps in the world(focus countries mainly those with inadequate/no data protection laws), we will explore these themes; (i)Use of AI in determining creditworthiness for those with no credit history ethical issues e.g Zestfinance in China uses Baidu search data to develop credit scores for individuals (ii)Proportionality principle:is amount of data collected proportionate to purpose? (iii)How long is this data stored? (iv)Have these apps brought financial inclusion?",
"goal": "1. to highlight gaps in policy 2. to sensitize on privacy 3. to get more actors to take part in policy discussions in their regions.4. to learn best practices on how to deal with the issue.",
"required": "Projector and and office supplies",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Live Dataset Publishing: MOZFEST EDITION",
"owner": {
"name": "Olivier Theraux",
"organization": "Open Data Institute"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1354ccee-db74-4a7d-9949-42460d0e0339",
"description": "Ever wanted to learn how to publish a live set of open data? At the Open Data Institute we've previously published live open data sets of government cats, foods to stockpile for Brexit and dodgy nightclub names from our youth. In this session we will crowdsource and agree a set of data to publish from attendees, agree values, research and create a dataset and then show how to order and publish through our Octopub tool and upload to Github. What more could you want?",
"goal": "Get people engaged with publishing data, showcase our publishing tool Octopub and generally show how simple the process is and how fun it can be!",
"required": "Participants may need laptops",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Co-designing tools for ethical reflection",
"owner": {
"name": "Annelie Berner",
"organization": "Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "333ddcf0-bce2-41bf-bf8d-53a13bbfb792",
"description": "We will run a hands-on co-design session to figure out what kind of tools IOT creators would like to have in order to engage in ethical reflection throughout their design process. We will bring and share our IOT-specific ethical framework that has come from the field research, workshops and analysis throughout our project thus far (VIRTEU), as well as some early prototypes that demonstrate possible ways of weaving ethical awareness into the process of designing new connected things.",
"goal": "The goal is to bring together a small group of IOT designers, developers, creators who can become part of our VIRTEU community of folks who are joining our project's quest to make meaningful tools for ethical reflection. We seek their feedback, experience and input. We know there are \"too many card games!\" Our project's research brings a unique perspective to the topic of ethics + IOT - help us imagine possible ways to bring this into the hands of the creators.",
"required": "It would be good to have a projector, paper, pens, post-it notes.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Satellites and human rights: when important evidence reveals too much",
"owner": {
"name": "Carolyn Thompson",
"organization": "Freelance journalist"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "24fc5ee8-dac9-459e-99b8-d1c470571f14",
"description": "We would use an interactive example to talk about investigative research techniques using satellite imagery and the privacy risks that come with them. We'll delve into the question: how far should you go to be open about your research process if your work starts identifying people's homes or people's location of death? What are the ethics of sharing geo-located, incident-specific information that could hold those perpetrating human rights abuses to account, when they also put the private information of victims or citizens in public view, potentially putting them at risk? And in some cases, low literacy levels or poor Internet penetration may mean those affected don't even know their information is out there.",
"goal": "For people to better understand the power of the new access to information we can have from satellite imagery, but also how it can breach privacy - sometimes of the most vulnerable. We'd discuss ways to make this information open without taking those risks - such as attempts at anonymizing individual data and ways to represent it on a national level. For example, if we use satellite imagery to make a public and searchable map of every burnt property in the country, we would identify individual homes. If you overlaid reports of attacks, refugees may learn their properties are destroyed or that a family member was killed through this public information.",
"required": "We would need enough dry erase markers for the participants to do the exercise with the laminated satellite images, but I'm happy to provide those.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Simulation on Social Media Mining",
"owner": {
"name": "Jayapreethi Mohan",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "The session begins via introducing and explaining about the social media mining to the participants. The session clarifies the questions based on social media like who are the main and important people behind the working of social network? The session teaches the participants how we would be able to see some of the interesting patterns for user generated content, like the number of views for a post on the news feed or the last seen of a person. The analyzation of user behavior online and measuring the influence of industries on the social network would be discussed. The algorithms like minimum spanning tree, DFS and BFS would be used to give a simple hands-on tasks based on social media mining.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to provide a clear view on social media mining for the participants and to make them understand how we are able to use some features provided, and by the end the participantswould be able to do the social media mining tasks given.",
"required": "Projector, stationary.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Interactive Poetry: Discovering Who We Are with Scratch and Makey Makey",
"owner": {
"name": "Jaleesa Trapp",
"organization": "MIT Media Lab"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy",
"[YZ] Laptops needed",
"[YZ] Waiting for response"
],
"closed": false,
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"description": "In this session, we will create interactive poetry about our identities using Scratch — an online platform and community where you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and the Makey Makey invention kit. We’ll start with a poem template called “Where I Am From,” then experiment with ways to make our words and images come to life. After sharing and reflecting, we'll brainstorm how to adapt this activity for youth in your own settings. (We recommend bringing a laptop to this session, if possible.)",
"goal": "We hope that attendees leave this session seeing coding as a creative material for self-expression, as a way to explore one's identity, and as a vehicle to cultivate community. The combination of Scratch and Makey Makey provides two pathways into learning (combining the digital and physical worlds); we also hope this workshop will help shape participants’ relationship to both modes of technology, where they feel more empowered to create, make, and share their work (and themselves) in digital and physical spaces.",
"required": "A projector and screen would be great!",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Analogue in a Digital world: Bridging the gap between terrestrial radio and the internet",
"owner": {
"name": "Nyambura Mutanyi",
"organization": "Radio Kikuyu"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "1f90e2ad-666a-4a74-a631-08987e810935",
"description": "Participants will have a chance to listen to terrestrial radio in their native language and then create transcripts of translations. They will then discuss in groups how best to marshal the archives generated by this exercise. There will be a crowd-sourcing of transcripts and showing the value of human transcription as well as opportunities for digital tools such as machine learning, using blockchain etc.",
"goal": "The session seeks to re-imagine the place of terrestrial radio in local languages in a digital world. Lots of radio stations are available online but do not necessarily publish archives online. Participants will interrogate a question that has exercised me for a while – how do we keep local languages alive, accessible, open? The session seeks to spur questions about digital archiving and accessibility in the audience.",
"required": "A few pairs of headphones so that participants can listen to audio recordings.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Reality Redrawn",
"owner": {
"name": "Lindsay Saunders",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "97d34025-705b-47f4-9dcc-504858e9f589",
"description": "The Reality Redrawn Challenge, launched by Mozilla, intended to tackle the current topic of misinformation with the help of mixed reality and other art media. Artists and developers were invited to conceive of projects, which reveal and illustrate processes of misinformation as well as their potential societal impact. The five winners’ works were presented at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. Two of these projects – Bubble Chaos Echo Chamber and Faking News – are ready to be exhibited at Mozfest",
"goal": "To encourage conversations about misinformation and the effects that it has on society.",
"required": "To put up these exhibits, we will need to rent or have available 2 TVs with mounts as well as have a large piece of art printed. Eith of these pieces will need an outlet near it to run the computer, TVs and tablet. Everything else will be brought to set up. Full descriptions for each of the pieces with pictures can be found here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g2bovOFvELvNecTCWDUoTrmp_zl0u0SOib8Yv6lJYCQ/edit#heading=h.9f7hhaq2bkpshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1hFHpSADD8W9dkzAVtiUgClrNFWuO42CWe6SH9k2kDyM/edit#heading=h.vrwwc9s0390n",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Pulsar Hunters",
"owner": {
"name": "Rachael Ainsworth",
"organization": "Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Gallery",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "640be4df-6f00-4766-b60d-ac9f66a8ecf9",
"description": "The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics needs your help in our search for pulsars - really dense dead spinning stars. Faced with tens of thousands of pulsar candidates, we need your help to identify interesting patterns in the data to improve our machine learning classifier and tell us which pulsars we should point our telescopes at again!Pulsar Hunters is an interactive Open Science installation where participants can learn in person about pulsar signals from Jodrell Bank researchers and contribute to classifying real data taken with the LOFAR Telescope. As part of a global citizen science project, you can make a significant contribution to our scientific endeavor and share your feedback directly with the scientists.https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/pulsar-hunters",
"goal": "During the event, our goals are - to meet a daily target of classifications (e.g. 1500 per day),- demystify the science behind pulsars through the use of 3D printed models,- engage with a non-standard audience, and - active feedback directly between participants and scientists.The outcomes of the session will be - increased contributions to the global science project,- widening of the Pulsar Hunter community, and - adding a MozFest results page so participants can see their combined contribution (https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/pulsar-hunters/about/results).",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "The great battle for ethics in #iot",
"owner": {
"name": "Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino",
"organization": "iotmark.org"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7104610f-fa20-475d-83b3-92967c9b7312",
"description": "There are now over 30 global efforts to help connected product companies make better decisions. This session will run all weekend, focusing on mapping each effort and where they overlap. It will end with a panel discussion from various stakeholders (iotmark.org, projectsbyif, doteveryone, thingscon, VIT-EU, Petras, BSI, Internet Society.) to discuss whether variety really is the spice of life?",
"goal": "We'd like to introduce to the Mozilla attendees the variety in the #iot ethics ecosystem and help us find out how to create collaborative approaches.",
"required": "A projector, chairs, a white board on wheels so we can add the mapping.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Changing the World, $5K at a Time: Exploring Mozilla Science Mini-Grants",
"owner": {
"name": "Stephanie Wright",
"organization": "Mozilla Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "432e5106-6db7-4b58-9047-44bcd9f71824",
"description": "Science mini-grant awardees will present where they are on their awarded projects, present challenges and offer up areas where folks can contribute and jump in to keep the projects going. We are also planning to open the new round of mini-grants at Mozfest and the most recent cohort of awardees.",
"goal": "Highlight the open projects available for contribution through mini-grant program, generate ideas for others to start open projects, raise awareness of the mini-grant program and encourage folks to apply with their open project.",
"required": "Monitor or projector for slides. Pens for sign-up sheets. This session would also work well in the Science Fair if that's a better venue, where project leads can do demos and have in-depth one on ones with participants.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Tour Delirio. Salsa y vigilancia",
"owner": {
"name": "Juliana Soto",
"organization": "independent\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Gallery",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "27c60d04-3318-47fc-bbd2-bcf265dff7f2",
"description": "I´ll will present my project \"Tour Delirio. Salsa y Vigilancia\", a project supported by Mozilla’s Creative Media Grant. Tour Delirio is a website that host a motion comics video serie create it with the goal of sensitize Latin American young women audiences about the surveillance systems that operate within their cities and trough their technology devices. Using a cultural connection with elements like salsa music, and traditional Colombian party (\"Chiva rumbera\") tour delirio present an imaginary story of a group of young women that star to question, for the first time, the surveillance occurring on the devices they use every day.",
"goal": "I understand that Mozilla Fest is an open and diverse scenario that gather together people with different levels of expertise. My project have two main public: non experts (especially young latin american women's) and also advocates or activist, experts on digital rights that create workshops and activities all the time. My goal is to share this creative and artistic tool to both of them and receive feedback. I want to see their reaction to the story, to the cultural elements within the comic and also their reaction to a questionnaire that will be in the site, a small kind of opinion poll that works like a video game survey: you can see what are the most common answers.",
"required": "Because the main element of the project is a serie of video comics is necessary also have sound.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Innovate like a DJ!",
"owner": {
"name": "Michael Van Kleeck",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Following",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5bd2be26-21fa-4805-96cb-a0edb06e4248",
"description": "Mozilla innovates by knowing what we can do, figuring out what the next hits might be, and remixing what we can do in new ways! In this session, we’ll each share our special capabilities in small teams and practice innovating like a DJ! What new ideas can you come up with to protect and enhance the Open Web, when you’re meeting new friends or working with new groups? Bring your imagination and think about the 2 or 3 things you most love doing- you’ll remix into small groups throughout, and you’ll learn the skills to innovate like a DJ!",
"goal": "The session will give participants a toolkit they can use to seed collaboration and spawn innovation in their own projects and groups. Participants will understand how DJ’s take existing music to put new sets and acts together, and learn from each new set- and that circular process can be applied to any group or project looking to innovate and build for the future. It’s a process we are starting to use within Mozilla to envision and create a future for our mission of sustaining the Open Web.",
"required": "Lots of index cards and some clipboards. :)",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Dissolve Surrogator",
"owner": {
"name": "Sai chaithanya raju G",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "925623ca-77da-4e48-b89c-d005b4968b23",
"description": "We will begin the session with an intro of proxy and its functions. Moving on we would discuss the different types of proxies. Later in the session, we would be training the participants how to build proxy firewalls by adopting packet filtering approach. Subsequently, We would discuss the modes to defend proxy hacking. Next, we will be discussing the proxy vs VPN. Continuing to this we are bringing the concept of decentralized proxy and why we need it. along with it, we will be showing a live demo on the decentralized proxy.To make the session more interactive we will make the participants build a decentralized proxy server and browse the internet anonymously without any risks.",
"goal": "The main objective of this session is to train the audience to access the internet safely without any risks by using the decentralized proxy server.",
"required": "projector",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Lab CoC: Why we need Code of Conducts, and how to get them in every research laboratory",
"owner": {
"name": "Daniela Saderi",
"organization": "Oregon Health & Science University"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f38b43f7-273a-4faf-92f3-fd87814d7bd3",
"description": "Common sense is enough until it isn't. A Code of Conduct outlines expectations for community members, and sometimes that community is an academic lab. CoCs are not only good for establishing productive collaborations between lab members and helping build trust between mentor and mentees. A good one will welcome new members, inspire the team, and make clear the kinds of behavior that won't be tolerated. Ultimately, a good CoC is a tool for fostering a safe, transparent, inclusive, and successful lab. Here, we will discuss why CoCs should be mandatory in academic laboratories and share open templates that can be adopted and adapted. We will invite participants to share experiences and contribute directly to CoC templates on our GitHub repository.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to spark a conversation around why scientific leaders and institutions should encourage (or even mandate) the implementation and enforcement of CoCs in research laboratories to help guide the relationships and expectations of lab members. Our goal is for participants to contribute their knowledge and experience to producing open templates that can be adapted to different circumstances, but are based on the shared objective of wanting to make the academic experience safe, healthy, respectful, equal, and inclusive. We will also share tips on how to engage PIs, department chairs, and program directors in such conversations.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Costing Convenience: A Game of Trade-Offs",
"owner": {
"name": "Okari Omariba",
"organization": "Tagelmust.com"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "a52684f9-fe7c-4831-b374-9e8973aa4c69",
"description": "In Kenya, mobile phone history, including mobile money transactions data, when combined with what was traditionally considered non-financial information, can be used to generate a \"financial identity\" even for people without a traditional bank account and banking history which is used to cultivate credit scores. However, according to a survey by Central Bank of Kenya, FSD Kenya and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, more than half of the 6 million Kenyans using these platforms are not aware of the privacy trade offs involved. We invite you to re-imagine what this lender-borrower relationship would look like in a mutually beneficial arrangement.",
"goal": "Participants will share and learn about emerging trends in digital lending and how it is being shaped by current user behaviours. The hope is the session will catalyze a conversation around this area and help shape its future developments. In addition to that, from an interactive design session we will call “a game of trade-offs”, we hope the participants will come up with a hypothetical outline of what a mutually beneficial relationship between digital lenders and digital borrowers would look like.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "IV Forum",
"owner": {
"name": "Sakthi Anand",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ab3463ff-0405-4512-8049-ed5314bb96f6",
"description": "We would be giving a comprehensive introduction to the tools and methods to create illusions. Subsequently, we will give a general explanation on what is Projection Mapping and how it is used in a space like an art gallery to give attention to a certain part of space. We would give a demo on how to create a moving animation and how to transform the stage into a magical display of moving lights and sounds. Participants will learn how to create a virtual animation and how to wrap around a real-world object. Introduction to Projection Mapping (10mins)Concept and Plan (20mins)Making Visual contents and Mapping (50mins)Conclusion (10mins)",
"goal": "The session intends to give the participants an overview of the different possibilities to create a 3D environment and live installation through the technique, Projection mapping. At the end of the session, the participants will get an extensive insight into what kind of content works best, based on the nature of the individual, illuminated objects.",
"required": "ProjectorsStationary",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Did You Use Tech Today? 3.6 Billion People Didn’t. Become a Part of the Digital Inclusion Movement",
"owner": {
"name": "Elizabeth Lindsey",
"organization": "Byte Back"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3fef5418-dbf9-4e71-9f77-c2614adf6e83",
"description": "We’ll start with a warm-up to help people understand exclusion from a digital world. Everyone will choose a piece of technology they’ve used that day and play a game to think of how they could have done that task without tech. This interactive activity will help them realize how difficult it is to function without tech. Yet, that’s the reality billions face. We’ll share our expertise in building a network of digital inclusion partners, investors, volunteers, and community in the national arena and in local contexts. This will be a design thinking session, working together to identify barriers, including economic and social, and solutions, including the power of cross-sector movements in participants’ cities and countries. We’ll collaborate to build strategies.",
"goal": "There are 3.6 billion people worldwide without internet access. Digital inclusion aims to bring tech equity to those without access to internet, devices, and skills. In this session, participants will better understand and feel the realities of the digital divide and how it is leaving communities behind. Inviting the participants to engage and share will help the whole group understand digital inclusion struggles from different areas of the world. They’ll have clear strategies for digital inclusion, including how to form successful networks – both on a national and regional scale. Participants will also come away with contacts who are invested in this issue and in building solutions together.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "DaSk",
"owner": {
"name": "Tejaswi N",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "fb345ada-c405-40d6-bcad-a7b9bd8865f5",
"description": "A general introduction to the overview on DASK and the various tribulations on DASK are addressed. Further, we would focus on distributed task scheduler, big data computing systems are built on python stack.Later we would have an open talk on the challenges that are faced while scaling the larger datasets. We would demonstrate how DASK and DASK-ML are used to solve the challenges and how DASK-ML is used to train the hefty datasets. The participants would be motivated to parallelize the existing codes with DASK-delayed (DASK. delayed) and associate DASK-distributed (DASK. distributed) system on their workstation.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to make the participants learn how Dask can enable efficient parallel computations on single machines by leveraging their multi-core CPUs and streaming data efficiently from disk.",
"required": "Projector-1",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "KibiGO: how valorize young talents and innovative technological ideas in 4 simple steps",
"owner": {
"name": "Ester Macrì",
"organization": "Kinoa SRL"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "2aaa4992-a3d7-415d-a34a-855c46429485",
"description": "In this session We will find out together KibiGO, a technological project that offers young people the opportunity to develop their talents and ideas by using a virtual currency, the Fiorino, the currency of creativity. KibiGO is an inclusive model aimed to help girls, boys and young people in finding new ways of work. In the session we’ll invite participants to experiment 4 levels of creativity (wow moment, bone up, shape up, packaging) in a brief simulation of what really happen every day in KibiGO.",
"goal": "The goal is to experiment how KibiGO could stimulate a creative and innovative process of ideas development in a technological frame (blockchain). In fact, the transactions stored during the KibiGO experience are made with a virtual currency, the Fiorino, which allows you to track each operation.Teams, ideas, Inventors, Patrons, courses everything else offered by the Affiliates are all uploaded into the blockchain. In this way, every time an Inventor buys a course, or a team participates in the creation of an idea, this data is imprinted in the blockchain, composing on one hand the curriculum of the individual and on the other a card of the innovative process of the project.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Responsible design for well-being online",
"owner": {
"name": "Kate Coughlan",
"organization": "BBC"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "d860ae3e-aa1f-47b7-840a-79da0355d3cd",
"description": "I will share a short summary of my research into the impact of digital product and experience design on mental health and well-being. Participants will be invited to engage with the research and discuss their own interpretations of it, and to come up with ideas to improve digital design for everyone. The research shows that the persuasive design commonly used online can cause unintended negative consequences, from anxiety to isolation, distraction to guilt, social pressure and stress. These are felt most acutely by more vulnerable members of society, including younger people and people with existing mental health conditions, and can have a profound effect on our health and well-being.",
"goal": "Participants will gain an understanding of the design techniques which can have unintended negative consequences for users, and the gaps in digital product design that could be addressed. Participants will have the opportunity to think about these issues from a personal and professional perspective. We will have a public debate about the way our digital world is designed – that is, designed to serve the interests of someone other than ourselves. We’ll invite all attendees all to take on the challenge in whatever way they can – whether a maker, designer or user of digital services. We'll leave the session with a collection of reflections and ideas of things that could be done to make a change.",
"required": "Post it notesFlip chartsMarker pensprojector or screen for presentation",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Internet of everyone",
"owner": {
"name": "Yadev Jayachandran",
"organization": "Mozilla"
},
"milestone": "Web Literacy",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5cf20f93-0889-4c5c-a3ed-cd5aade33f4b",
"description": "We believe that the internet belongs to everyone. This brings us to propose this session where we discuss, interact and execute programs that aims to make internet available to our remote friends, train them at the school level and higher levels enabling them to use, collaborate and understand the amazing world outside, which could make their lives much more better.Throughout the session, we will share our experiences of training sessions at remote villages, schools, housewives and how we could make a greater impact on the growth of the society, building collaborative communities that ensure effective use of available resources on the web.",
"goal": "The main aim of the session is to make the attendees understand the need, and share the know-how on the various ways to ensure web literacy, enabling the remote people to use and enjoy the features of internet which could help them know and share resources, which eventually leading to the formation of collaborative communities that could spread the voice of the web.",
"required": "Projector and a mic. We will have some animations, photos of outreach programs, and demographics which describe the need and know-how on web literacy.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Building a Planet Friendly Web",
"owner": {
"name": "Chris Adams",
"organization": "Planet Friendly Web Guide / Ecosia"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c4afea8f-0ef6-49a1-9a22-60770f58536f",
"description": "In this session, attendees will learn about the environmental impact of our use of the web, from mining minerals for devices we use to access services online, to generating power needed by the servers and services that support them.As users of the web they will learn steps they can take to make the web greener - how tell how green a site is, and see ongoing campaigns to get sites running on renewable power.As makers of the web they’ll see what actions are being taken by other organisations that have had a measurable impact. They’ll see specific case studies, with lessons they can apply themselves: from running green search engines, to sustainable servers, to low carbon web design.",
"goal": "Our goal is to build a formal community of practice around reducing the environmental impact of the web, by helping people find others interested and active in the field.We had some success last year with a spontaneous session run at short notice - which led to kicking off some public projects around web sustainability among the organisations who attended.We want to share the lessons learned since last year, to help grow the community formed last year, and offer clear next steps for those interested, who may have come across the subject since seeing it mentioned in Mozilla's Internet Health Report.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Planet is the School",
"owner": {
"name": "Diego Mora Bello",
"organization": "Fundación Karisma"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "5b0e04d3-8d7f-426b-af80-5a7e1ac7e959",
"description": "The session is a workshop in which we will take the participants to their childhood with the objective of simulating the activities carried out by the young people within the framework of the project in Colombia. We will ask attendees to remember someone that inspired them as children, and run an imaginary interview to then, tell the story of this person. what technology do they use to share this story with the people of the community? taking into account that it can not be just “Internet”. We will explain The Planet is the School as a project focus in sharing knowledge using technology in a broader way, for instance with draws, posters, local networks, etc.",
"goal": "Based in a creative methodology, focus in the motivations and stories rather than technology itself, we want to generate a conversation about the digital inclusion, innovation and opportunities for young people in complex territories with social conflict and low or no connectivity to the internet. This is important, because we need to give a special place to thought, creativity, communication, socialization and happiness, as the Colombian writer William Ospina said in his book \"La lámpara maravillosa\"",
"required": "Projector, office supplies.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "ChesSDGs,Digital Citizenship As a Catalyst for Peace Education & Culture:A UNESCO Primer",
"owner": {
"name": "Fred Sagwe",
"organization": "Tabaka Boys' High School"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "76fdb2e0-6688-42f0-b775-093a94efe61b",
"description": "“Handshake” Phenomenon\"Use chess game as a tool for teaching:ChesSDGs,Digital Citizenship As a Catalyst for Peace Education & CultureIn 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 goals for a better world by 2030. These goals have the power to end poverty, fight inequality and stop climate change.MIL CLICKS is a way for people to acquire media and information literacy (MIL) competencies in their normal day-to-day use of the Internet and social media and…a)Peace education is paramountb)Use chess as a tool to teach our students and the general populace on the benefits of peace.",
"goal": "Objectives:Themes:a)Global citizenship and culture of peace and non-violenceb)Promoting peace and sustainable building.c) Sustainable development and sustainable lifestyle.d) Intercultural learning and the appreciation of culture diversity and heritagee)Bring national cohesion to the country",
"required": "chess boards and laptops",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Online privacy mission statement for libraries",
"owner": {
"name": "Bonnie Tijerina",
"organization": "Data & Society"
},
"milestone": "Privacy and Security",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "3fcd1b0c-0f94-4a4f-a0ef-01ce34efad05",
"description": "Recently, library practitioners, privacy advocates, and technologists gathered to discuss a roadmap for a digital privacy strategy for libraries, from the tools libraries build and license to the programming they provide. This session will continue those conversations with the open web community.Participants will create a mission statement for the role of libraries in securing online privacy and safety through:Discussions about how libraries are seen and how that can translate to their privacy and security needs online.Group work on the needs of communities around us and how we can empower them with tools and skills they need to navigate the internet safely.Surfacing emerging privacy concerns for libraries to consider as they create their privacy-focused practices and programming.",
"goal": "We’re very interested in gathering perspectives outside of those who have participated in our Institute for Museum and Library Services-funded Library Values & Privacy gatherings. So, through conversations, small group work, and reporting to the whole group, we are hoping for the following goals:Participants will be a part of creating a new vision for libraries in support of online privacy.Participants will bring their perspectives to a conversation about the unique role libraries can play in supporting communities as they safely navigate the internet. Some participants would be inspired to become partners or advocates in supporting the work of the library community.",
"required": "",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Test",
"owner": {
"name": "Test Test",
"organization": "Test"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion"
],
"closed": true,
"uuid": "7322ce82-4d52-4d9a-9090-6487ae81b64c",
"description": "Testing",
"goal": "Testing",
"required": "Testing",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Forecasting for the future",
"owner": {
"name": "Megan Fitzsimons",
"organization": "Met Office Informatics Lab"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Digital Inclusion",
"[YZ] Waiting for response"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "b0753099-04ae-4f40-b7e7-fa327b193ed2",
"description": "Each participant will then have 7 minutes to come up with 7 ideas for a way in which to use new technology to communicate weather forecasts to the 'under 25' audience. Each participant will then choose their best idea and pitch it to their group (size depending on numbers). The group will vote for the best idea, then will need to get to work! The idea will be to storyboard and paper prototype a product, social media campaign, and user experience map of how we can engage with the younger audience - think scripts, posters, roleplay and logo designs!",
"goal": "As the Met Office we have a great number of dedicated users, but we often miss out on engagement with younger generations. We would like to open our discussion towards younger minds in order to collectively consider how the future will effect the way we communicate information. The outcome of the session for participants will be to get thinking on how we can incorporate new technologies in order to access different audiences, and to gain skills in prototyping and concept creation, as well as user experience mapping and product design for a particular audience.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Hacking Unicorn Horns with the Circuit Playground",
"owner": {
"name": "Lucy Bell",
"organization": "Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[YZ] Raspberry Pi Session",
"[YZ] Youth Lead",
"[YZ] Youth Stipend Requested"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "459f7216-5621-4424-bf21-ae38f8862cf7",
"description": "In this session the participants will hack the Neopixels on a Circuit Playground to create a colour changing Unicorn Horn! The Unicorn Horns have been modeled using CAD software and 3D printed so they could be fastened to baseball caps. The participants can code the sequence of the Neopixels and then wear their creation! All programming in this workshop uses MakeCode, a super simple graphical Scratch-like code editor.",
"goal": "The participants will get to learn about the Circuit Playground board and can experience using the different sensors to actuate their light and sound sequences, the coding editor has a basic block interface and also a Javascript interface for more advanced users if they wish to use it. They will also learn about wearable technology and the amazing, visually impressive projects that can be made with simple pieces of kit like Neopixels.",
"required": "This session relies on a classroom set of Raspberry Pi computers with internet access so the participants can access the online code editor. The NI Raspberry Jam will supply the Circuit Playground boards, baseball caps, and unicorn horns that we use when we run this workshop at the Jam. A projector would be useful but I have taught this workshop so many times that I do not rely on these visual aids so it is not essential.",
"time": "less than 60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Publishing and Hosting on the Peer-2-Peer Web",
"owner": {
"name": "Alejandro Ball",
"organization": "Agorama Server Co-op"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "c82590e7-dba0-4cd7-b548-8fdf7fff3457",
"description": "Participants will create websites using Dat and beaker browser before looking into self-hosting options for Dat based websites on the distributed web. The first half of the session will be spent introducing participants to beaker browser and Dat command line before setting up permanent hosting solutions using Homebase on user’s computers and raspberry pi microcomputers.",
"goal": "To learn about the p2p distributed internet, create a self-hosted DAT server and build a community that is interested in self-hosting and supporting the development of the distributed internet. Participants will learn how to make a website using p2p hypermedia protocols using beaker browser and Dat before installing the dependencies to run a Homebase Dat node that can host their websites on the p2p web.",
"required": "Extension leads for multiple power points is necessary. Our workshop is best suited for people with Linux or Mac computers, Tablet device users can take part but will be limited to publishing (no hosting). We will also aim to provide a number of RPI's for anyone that wants to deploy a Homebase Dat Server on a Raspberry Pi device.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Measure your Internet Health using an M-Lab testing device",
"owner": {
"name": "Chris Ritzo",
"organization": "New America - Open Technology Institute - Measurement Lab"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "7663f62d-5f0c-4892-92bf-931570133d6c",
"description": "In this session, facilitators will present options for regularly and automatically testing an internet connection using M-Lab tools, running on a RaspberryPi, Odroid, or other small microcomputers. Participants and facilitators will then setup one or more devices and talk about how to use them to collect data about your internet connection regularly, how to access and view that data, and how this contributes to the global M-Lab open dataset.",
"goal": "The goal of this session is to share open source tools for regular measurement of an internet connection, and to disseminate that knowledge to the Mozilla community, so that those who wish to regularly monitor the health of internet connections, using low cost microcomputer hardware.",
"required": "It would be helpful to have a display to connect a laptop or other computer to, in order to show code, instructions, etc.",
"time": "60 mins"
},
{
"title": "Prototypes for the “last billion”: a design jam on services for adolescent girls and young women in East Africa",
"owner": {
"name": "Justin Scherer",
"organization": "Ushahidi"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Following",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "ef441da1-99b9-4deb-880c-6e814ec892c8",
"description": "We will lead a design jam where participants create low-fidelity prototypes in response to the unique context of “the last billion”—people with little or no access to stable, reliable internet or smartphones. After explaining quickly how design jams work, we’ll introduce the constraints for the participants’ designs with 2 personas that we’ve developed from field research and ongoing partnerships with small NGOs in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania who work on HIV/AIDS prevention for adolescent girls and young women. The designs will respond to the prompt: How might we enable adolescent girls and young women with little access to technology to raise their voices so that those responsible for serving them can better respond to their needs?",
"goal": "Participants will spend the session developing empathy and understanding for the unique constraints facing specific marginalized groups with little access to technology—folks whom most technology companies completely neglect. They’ll also get a taste of how the unique methods of human-centred design can create inclusive solutions to for groups with different levels of access to technology. The artefacts of the session will be sketches and low-fidelity prototypes.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "The Creative Passport and a sea of cultural data",
"owner": {
"name": "Mark Simpkins",
"organization": "Mycelia For Music"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Openness"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "614776a0-754b-4f25-a28a-7f8c78c6301a",
"description": "We will present the Creative Passport, the technology that we are currently building to create a tool to manage a 'creative digital ID' through which you can manage your public persona data, your biog, links and data about your works, a definitive (as in by the artist) truth about themselves. We will then go through some of the possibilities and risks, how it might skew the cultural industries as they now operate. We would then workshop how this could connect to other data sources that exist and where they need to be opened and where they need to be created",
"goal": "To have a map on how the Creative Passport idea can start to join together the sea of creative and cultural data sources, how we might proceed in creating a source on which new innovations can be created and where this underlying data is open, shared and also working for those who's work creates it. A map of cultural and creative data will be produced, showing what exists and what needs to be built. If we do the workshop early on, we can post this map and allow people to contribute further over the weekend.",
"required": "We will use a laptop to present the initial work on the Creative Passport, then use a workshop model, using Artefact Cards, postit notes and pens.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Queering interfaces for activism",
"owner": {
"name": "Constanza Andrea Figueroa Bustos",
"organization": "Derechos Digitales, acoso.online, ciberseguras.org"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] Portuguese",
"[LANG] Spanish",
"[Secondary Space] Privacy and Security",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f43fbec5-8979-4024-9878-d53a71805ece",
"description": "We propose a experimental workshop to make a critical revision around the political/cultural decisions that takes shape throw interfaces; unveloping the narratives that are contained on them and how the interfaces are our way to communicate with technology, such as software, social networks.We are welcoming gender non conforming people, woman and people from different backgrounds to join our activity. We be starting by reviewing two feminist projects where we work: acoso.online, the first latin american guide of victims of non consensual porn, and ciberseguras.org, the site of a latin american collective who works around digital security with gender perspective, and moving to check another examples on the critical use of images and built our own queer-narratives.",
"goal": "- Build new narratives and expand the ways to talk, think and relate with technology.- Find the elements, thoughts behind the interface that built the diversity on an activist project;- Present a critical view on the interfaces we use;- Learn together how to deconstruct the interfaces;- Queering the interfaces!",
"required": "Will be awesome to get paper, pens, post-it notes",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Block chain understanding and development",
"owner": {
"name": "RAFI NAQVI SYED",
"organization": "MGR Mozilla Club"
},
"milestone": "Decentralisation",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "12722d4a-573e-47c6-9638-dea9b4bce24a",
"description": "Blockchain the popular buzzword of the time, which is gonna change the every single business model into a secure decentralized and distributed technology, The majority of people don’t know about Blockchain yet. But very soon, everything will change,In this session, the attendees would learn about blockchain from complete scratch and it's use cases along with development and implementation with the hottest programming language PYTHON and with the useful libraries.In the session we would build a blockchain with language python from very scratch, attendees will come to know about sha256, immutable leaguer,p2p network, Mining Pools, Bitcoin, Nonce Range, Blockchain Demo and lots more.",
"goal": "The goal of the session is to create a blockchain with python language and understanding of blockchain.",
"required": "a projector is required.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "OONI Project: a tool to monitor censorship in Argentina",
"owner": {
"name": "Jeannette Torrez",
"organization": "Asociación por los Derechos Civiles"
},
"milestone": "Openness",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[Secondary Space] Decentralisation"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f28cde65-1ce6-4f76-bbe5-1458a383ea45",
"description": "We will share our experience using Open Observatory of Network Interference tool in Argentina. Specifically we will share the use of OONI Probe. With this tool we are able to measure the blocking of websites and the blocking of censorship circumvention tools (such as Tor). We are going to tell about our country and how the tool gave us the opportunity to monitor the state of affairs of freedom of expression.",
"goal": "We want to share with the participants that the work in freedom of expression could be improved by using simple tools like OONI Probe.Also We would like to tell the state of affairs of freedom of expression in my country, the challenges we are facing and how this open technology helps us to our work from civil society",
"required": "we will bring our Raspberry Pi so we are going to need wi-fi and electricity",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Anonymous Avatars",
"owner": {
"name": "Gaétan Barbé",
"organization": "Artist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---"
},
"milestone": "Queering MozFest",
"labels": [
"Artist Open Web",
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Shed",
"[LANG] French",
"[Secondary Space] Openness",
"queering xp"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "60916609-a247-4bb4-a64d-bcd8aee3a0e3",
"description": "We are avatars and we are anonymous. Our project aims to show parts of your identities that have never been revealed yet. We propose workshops where your online version will have the opportunity to express through different languages, as a fragment of yourself. It may sounds easy, however what is at stake is to create a safe space where any feeling and sensation toward gender performance, sexual orientation, and race oppression can be shared.",
"goal": "The outcome of these discussions will be materialized be drawings (such as mind drawing, mind-mapping and other shape yet to be invented).",
"required": "We will need some cardboard, large piece of paper, woodstick and large piece of fabric.",
"time": "All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session"
},
{
"title": "Intentional Intergenerational Digital Inclusion: Suggested Activities for Tech Program Designers",
"owner": {
"name": "Kyla Williams",
"organization": "Henry Williams Love Foundation"
},
"milestone": "Digital Inclusion",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[Secondary Space] Youth Zone"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "f7cd819a-a743-4dd2-9399-db2afbeb9d52",
"description": "In this session, The Shuri Project will be introduced with a brief discussion of how that program unintentionally impacted intergenerational digital inclusion and the need to be more intentional. Thereafter, a design thinking session will be conducted to create a publishable and shareable list of low-cost activities for tech program service providers and designers to encourage intergenerational digital inclusion regardless of the intended population of service. Participants can also brainstorm the design of the web-page on the Henry Williams Love website where the list will live.",
"goal": "There are many community-based tech programs designed for specific populations of learners to help improve skills, increase equity and opportunity. Often in the design of those programs, the resulting impact to the participant’s village, which are often in need of the same skill building, is a secondary or tertiary benefit versus a primary one. We contend that if tech program designers are more intentional with intergenerational digital inclusion in their program designs, the digital divide that still exists will start to resolve. Understanding that many programs have limited resources, the goal is to identify through design-thinking, opportunities of intergenerational learning that does not tax the program, but proves to be beneficial to the community-at-large.",
"required": "We will need post-it notes, markers, and flip chart paper.",
"time": "90 mins"
},
{
"title": "Brain Workouts – Effective Ways to Exercise Your Brain",
"owner": {
"name": "Mehidia Tania",
"organization": "Beetles Cyber Security"
},
"milestone": "Youth Zone",
"labels": [
"Stipend requested",
"[Format] Learning Forum",
"[LANG] Bengali",
"[Secondary Space] Web Literacy"
],
"closed": false,
"uuid": "8dbe3978-37b7-4aa1-b953-ba5bc5e27671",
"description": "Most of us are extremely concerned about keeping our body fit and healthy,so we try to eat right and do regular exercises. But, what about the most important part of our body that controls all our physical activities and emotional responses? Yes, you guessed it right we are talking about the BRAIN. Just like our body, you need brain workouts to remain active and alert.The more you use your brain, the healthier it will be.You will enjoy better memory, enhanced analytical skills, and improved reflexive responses. The best brain workouts are those that present newer challenges for your brain that stimulate it and entertain it.In our session there will be some interesting brainstorming games like Rubik’s Cube,Sudoku,learn a new language.",
"goal": "Our goal is those who wants to work in a technical field or security world help them to think logically and those brainstorming games will stimulate neural growth and development, and to ensure that your mental performance does not decline with your age. Your brain is the center of everything you do, feel and think, and it is absolutely important to keep it healthy and fit.",
"required": "We need paper and pens also we need projector .",
"
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