Joint Mozfest session
This is a space to collaboratively work on a session proposal for MozFest. The basic idea is to bring together various organisations working in the open space to discuss ideas and possibilities for collaboration. There's so much that can be done, but how shall we do it? What do we want to achieve? Please either edit the below directly or comment on the talk page. But be quick! The closing date for applications is 31 August.
MozFest takes place at Ravensbourne, London from 25-27 October. Details, and proposal form, here.
If you're interested in taking part please sign below and include the name of the organisation / community you're involved with and include an email address of Twitter handle for follow-up :)
Thank you! Stevie Benton (WMUK) (talk) 09:40, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Interested parties
- Christian Villum, Open Knowledge Foundation - christian.villum@okfn.org / @villum
- Stevie Benton, Wikimedia UK - stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk
Questions from the proposal form
What will your session allow people to make, learn or do?
The idea of the session is to bring together people and organisations that work in the space of open - whether open maps, open data, open source, open knowledge and so on - to explore ways that we can share our information with each other, and how we can support each other's communities. So far the communities approached for this include Wikimedia, Open Street Map, Open Knowledge Foundation, Mozilla and Open Data Initiative. All groups working in this area are welcome to participate and encouraged to do so! (to be expanded)
How do you see that working?
The idea is to try to map activities, resources and information that all these communities are producing, and see how they overlap and complement each other. This would naturally be followed by a conversation about identifying shared goals, shared practices, shared communities - and figure out how we can help each other better. The session would be a combination of larger shared discussions and brainstorms combined with breakout group work - depending on the number of participants.
How will you deal with 5, 15 or 50 participants?
The session can be run with pretty much any number of participants and is easy scalable. With members from both Wikimedia, Open Knowledge Foundation and X, we would be fully manned to facilitate even a large number of participants.
How long within your session before someone else can teach this?
The outcome of the session will be a set of ideas and suggested best practices that can be used (and taught) immediately by anyone.
What outcomes would you like to see after the session?
A better understanding among communities of how to better converge and take advantage of shared goals and practices. This will be discussion that will hopefully fuel many more conversations in and between communities following the festival.