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Beaten to the finish.
Isn’t always the same. You have an idea that could benefit people, but don’t find the time to work on it. You commit yourself to working on it and getting it done, you set a day to do it, you work on...
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First day on the job (Morning)
[This is cross posted on yii.wduyck.com] Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. — Confucius? Sure it’s a little cliché, however I am hoping that this is the case. In...
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An experiment into feedback through making
One of the things that makes Mozilla such a welcoming, and engaging community is that it, well, engages with its community. It does this through events, Dev Derby, social networks… the list goes on....
View ArticleResponse to: “New Community” or “Mozilla Community 2.0″?
For the past few months I’ve been having a recurring convocation with Tobbi about a number of issues he’s noticed within Mozilla. Until recently we’d been going round and round in circles, with no end...
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Making the Web @ Campus Party
A little over a week ago I was lucky enough to help #maketheweb at Campus Party, in the O2. Campus Party, for those that don’t know, is a week long festival held every year where hackers, developers,...
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Thoughts from our mentor community: part 1
tl;dr: Don’t be lazy. Reading is good for you! “The biggest challenge is planning for people you don’t know.” – Jeannie Crowley I recently conducted a series of conversations with members of the...
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Thoughts from our mentor community: part 2
tl;dr: Reading make you smarterer. You should read everyday. I continue my short series of posts about what makes our mentor community tick. Last time I spoke about the methodology used to gather...
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Stickmaker: Thimble on a thumb drive
tl;dr: Offline Webmaker tools are very blue skies, and fairly infeasible. Much less running off a thumb drive. However there are, very imperfect, ways to make it work. [HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL] HERE BE...
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Mozilla Festival 2013 – Behind the Scenes
It’s been 4 years now since the first Mozilla Festival in Barcelona, and its now almost 4 times bigger. Each year there are more people, more activities, and more amazing builds to blow your mind. The...
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Thoughts from our mentor community: part 3
If you haven’t already please ensure you read part 1 and part 2. If this summer is anything to go by the mentor community is a force to be reckoned with. Over 50,000 projects created, 58,000...
View ArticleCTA: What did Mozilla in 2013 look like to you?!
So this is just a quick shout out to all those within the Mozilla community who need an excuse to flex their video editing skills. Google, and many others are showing us what the world looked like in...
View ArticleOpen Education and the Open Web – Day 2
Today is day 2 of the open education week, and an interested question has been asked. Questions: What do you see as the link between Open Education and the Open Web? Does the former depend on the...
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Happy 25th Birthday, World Wide Web!
The web has become an integral part of all our lives, shaping how we learn, how we connect and how we communicate. Looking ahead, the web is faced with new opportunities and new challenges. As we...
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Playing with the workday.
For the past 8 months or so I’ve had the same basic morning routine. Get up at 6:30am and run through the 3 Ss 1. Hop on the train at 7:30 from the village train station. Sleep on the tain for an extra...
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Means to an end
That for me, is what university has always been about. The end hasn’t changed too much either if I’m honest with myself, though I have doubted the means a few times. A short blog post about why I will...
View ArticleComputing in the classroom?
Students will spend one half-day per week for ten weeks in a school with a nominated teacher. They will observe sessions taught by their designated teacher and possibly other teachers. Later they will...
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Note to past self
I consume a lot of content online. My RSS feed reader is always bursting at the seams, however once in a while I spot something that I just have to remix. This article – if you can call it that – is...
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[cross-post] Build Week
We have a habit of sprinting a lot at Mozilla. We also have a habit of having a lot of meetings. Recently I’ve started to feel the strain on balancing the number of builds I have in my queue, and the...
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