Here’s a round-up of press coverage from Mozilla Executive Director Mark Surman’s keynote presentation at Campus Party in Brazil:
“The Web is made of Lego:” Campus Party press round-up
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Mozilla Ignite launch at White House makes headlines
Last week’s launch of Mozilla Ignite made headlines. Here’s a round-up of press coverage, plus video of Mozilla Executive Director Mark Surman’s announcement at the White House.
Fast Company
Building The Next Internet, 250 Times Faster
“Developers in 25 cities are getting a playdate with GENI, an ultra-fast broadband sandbox, with the goal of building apps that push beyond the limits of today’s Net.”
techcrunch
White House Launches ‘US Ignite’ For Next-Gen Broadband & Apps, Partners With Mozilla For $500k Competition
The challenge is currently in its first stage, which invites you to submit ideas for what you would do with a 1 Gbps network. The focus here is on education, healthcare, emergency preparedness, public safety, advanced manufacturing and clean energy and transportation. The best ideas will be rewarded with a total of $15,000 in prizes.
Telecompaper
US starts Ignite project to support high-speed applications
The new US Ignite Partnership will create a national network of communities and campuses with ultra-fast broadband services at up to 1Gbps. This network will become a test-bed for designing and deploying next-generation applications to support national priorities areas such as education, healthcare, energy, and advanced manufacturing.
WebPro News
Mozilla And National Science Foundation Unite For Mozilla Ignite
Mozilla is probably the biggest proponent, outside of Google, of the power of the Web. They don’t believe in closed platforms or proprietary software. They believe in a future where everything is powered by a simple Web browser. To help advance that future, the non-profit is announcing a new contest.
Ostatic
Mozilla Launches Ignite Competition, Featuring Cash Prizes
In addition to the cash prizes, Mozilla Ignite is intended to bring together talented developers who can work in teams. A brainstorming round has already begun, and will last until August 23rd. Notably, Mozilla has also made clear that you don’t necessarily have to be a developer to participate in the brainstorming round. All you need is a good idea.
TPMIdeaLab
How Mozilla Wants To Help Ignite The Era Of High-Speed Broadband Internet
Fittingly, Mozilla, the nonprofit company behind the Firefox browser, is one of the major companies hoping to fuel the development of the new apps.
“Mozilla works to promote openness, opportunity and innovation on the Internet,” said Ryan Merkley, Mozilla’s chief operating officer, in an email to TPM. “The US Ignite program is a way for the public to directly contribute their skills and ideas to the future of the web. We believe it will drive innovation both through the apps that are created, but also through the investment in high speed infrastructure that benefits everyone.”
Digital Trends
White House, federal agencies and US industries team for ‘US Ignite’ program
Also onboard is Mozilla, which has launched its own Mozilla Ignite site, a collaboration with the National Science Foundation that’ll issue up to $500,000 in grant money to third party developers looking to devise and develop innovative apps.
Engadget
White House aims to make internet ’90 percent cheaper’ to build, teams up with Mozilla for $500k competition
Mozilla has decided to team up with the foundation to offer up a $500,000 prize pot for developers looking to help create the “internet of the future”. The challenge aims on education, healthcare, public safety and other (admittedly broad) topics, with the top ideas capable of grabbing $15,000 from the prize fund.
H-Online
Mozilla invites users to build “the internet of the future”
Mozilla and the US National Science Foundation have launched Mozilla Ignite, a web site that challenges “designers, developers and everyday people” to design web applications that will run on “the internet of the future”. The project is being supported by the White House and is part of the US Ignite initiative, which is an effort to research the implications of networks up to 250 times the speed of today’s internet.
Mozilla Foundation’s Mark Surman introducing the Mozilla Ignite Challenge at the White House:
Get Involved:
- Visit MozillaIgnite.org to learn more.
- Check out the “Ideas” section to see the latest submissions in the Brainstorming Round.
- Submit your own idea to win funding and support to make your app a reality.
Mozilla Popcorn on BBC World Service
The BBC’s tech program “Click” interviewed Kat Cizek about her new interactive documentary, One Millionth Tower, and how she used open source technologies like WebGL and Mozilla Popcorn to make it unique. (Listen to the MP3 or OGG version.)
Showcasing open source through high-profile productions
It’s inspiring to see media like the BBC make the connection between new open source technologies and the new forms of storytelling they open up. The interview begins with the example of how high-profile productions like Toy Story and Avatar changed the culture and market of film by showing what new computer-generated imagery could do.
In the same way, productions like One Millionth Tower can showcase the birth of new “web-native” storytelling, built using the open web as its canvas.
This is exactly the theory of change Mozilla Popcorn began with when it started two years ago: showcase the power of open through high-profile productions that make other filmmakers take notice and say: “I want that!”
As guest Bill Thompson put it:
As someone familiar with the patterns of linear storytelling that you see in most documentary films, it’s great to see somebody breaking away from all those conventions and doing something for the first time that a lot of other filmmakers are going to look at and think: ‘we want to start telling stories in this way.’
Just as early web pages broke away from the linear news narrative in news stories, this is breaking away from the linear storytelling narrative in documentary film.
The New York Times, BBC and German public radio on Mozilla Festival
Some further additions to the first round of media coverage coming out of the 2011 Mozilla Festival:
New York Times “Open” blog: MozFest!
[The Festival] centered on how technologists and newspeople can build bridges between the two professions and better collaborate — in keeping with the meeting’s slogan: “Less yak, more hack.”
The common thread between education and journalism for Mozilla Foundation is personal empowerment…. That empowerment, according to Mitchell Baker, is what starts people down the path to hacking, away from simply absorbing the contents of the Web, and toward mashing it up and taking control of their own experience.
BBC Radio Five: Mozilla Festival Fun
MP3 version (Nov 11)
German Public Radio (Berlin): “Mozilla meets media”
Nov 12 (from minute 30 to 40). MP3 version.
Libération: l’info en ligne de mire
(English version from Google Translate)
“Come on, get to work! What are you doing still dawdling in the introduction to this article? …
From the first to the sixth floor, the building is full of workshops and construction sites. And if you really can not make up your mind, a geek in a blue t-shirt will quickly materialize before you to suggest some ideas. They are like this, volunteers at Mozilla: always happy to lend a hand. Deeply imbued with this culture of sharing that characterizes the free software world.
“We must succeed in marrying those who make the stories with those who make the tools.” –Katharina Borchert, Spiegel online
“The first generation of Internet users was very focused on hacking,” recalls Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. “Today, things change: the Internet is increasingly tied to consumer behavior. We see great things that are easy to use, like the iPhone and iPad, that represent the paradigm of ‘elegant consumption.’ But it is rewarding and gratifying to be able to touch these tools, to change and build the Web ourselves.”
Determined not to let the future of the Internet fall into the hands of private companies and opaque entities, the Mozilla community advocates the ownership of network technologies by users themselves. We must raise the hood, examine the engine, get our hands dirty. In short, we must “hack” everything we can get a hold of.
WikiNews: Knight Foundation and Mozilla send geeks into newsrooms
One important announcement made at the event was details of five new fellowship places sponsored by the Knight Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation that attempt to bring together journalists and open source-minded software geeks. Wikinews spoke to Laurian Gridinoc, who … will move for a year to the BBC to work in the newsroom. Other fellows will be working for The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, the Boston Globe and Zeit Online.