Why does Mozilla care about news?

Why does Mozilla care about news? P2PU Open Web News Course - Sept 2010

Our Mission “Guard the open nature of the internet.” Mozilla invites people to innovate and build. Together: we shape the web and make it awesome. 2 P2PU Open Web and Journalism Course

Making an awesome web Firefox is driving ... Innovation on the open web. Powered by developers. 3 P2PU Open Web and Journalism Course

Making an awesome web Now we want to spark: Innovation on the open web. Powered by *everybody*. 4 P2PU Open Web and Journalism Course

Everybody? Everybody = *everybody*. • The people formerly known as users. • These people call themselves things like teacher, lawyer, ﬁlmmaker, artist, blogger, web developer ... and journalists. • They all can play a role in pushing the web in the right direction. And many of them already are.They use Firefox. 5 P2PU Open Web and Journalism Course

Open web? Open web = the free, decentralized and participatory parts of the internet. • Free like free software. It’s transparent and remixable. • Decentralized in both architecture and control. • Participation is baked in.There are people inside it. 6 P2PU Open Web and Journalism Course

Innovation? Innovation = new tools, practices and ideas that push the web in the right direction. • The Mozilla community builds the core technologies that drive innovation and openness on the web. • We also want people to implement and use these technologies to the same ends. • This what we want to do w/ Drumbeat, and this course. 7 P2PU Open Web and Journalism Course

Bottom line Mozilla wants more people build cool shit that makes the web awesome (and open). 8 P2PU Open Web and Journalism Course

An example! An open video lab for ﬁlmmakers. webmademovies.etherworks.ca/popcorndemo/ 9 P2PU Open Web and Journalism Course

The stakes Future of cinema > future of the web. One shapes the other. Also true with news. 10 P2PU Open Web and Journalism Course

Luckily The right posse has gathered. And you’re part of it. Have fun. Kick some ass. 11 P2PU Open Web and Journalism Course

Why does Mozilla care about news? P2PU Open Web News Course - Sept 2010

Why does Mozilla care about news?

by Open Journalism on the Open Web on Sep 27, 2010

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