Hackjam Parking Lot
This past week, we ran a Hackasaurus/P2PU hackjam to implement functional changes to the P2PU platform and create challenges curriculum for Hackasaurus. It was a… Read More »Hackjam Parking Lot
Participation
Designing for participation is a huge part of what it means to be an open source advocate. This category has posts about things I’ve participated in and things I’ve helped create that invite other people to participate and contribute.
Thinking about Mozfest
Mozfest ended, and I am just outright inspired (and exhausted). I haven’t yet processed the information and ideas that Mozfest brought up for me, so… Read More »Thinking about Mozfest
10 Days til MOZFEST!
I’m volunteering at the Mozilla Festival in London on November 4th to the 6th. I’m pretty excited about it. I had a lot of fun… Read More »10 Days til MOZFEST!
Unfocused, yet fully awesome blog post
It’s Tuesday, I usually blog on Tuesdays, so here is a blogpost about not writing a blogpost. A lot of stuff has been going on,… Read More »Unfocused, yet fully awesome blog post
Response to Mozilla as teacher
Inspiration for this post is: Mozilla as teacher by Mark Surman When I read the first line of Mark’s post “We need to teach the… Read More »Response to Mozilla as teacher
Give us the Easy Ask!
Today I want to focus on the easy ask. What can you ask your users to contribute that is easy? It seems obvious, doesn’t it?… Read More »Give us the Easy Ask!
Game Mechanics and Participation
Let’s start with a stat: A shitload of people are playing games. Ok, it wasn’t a stat, but in 2007 Comscore found that 217 million… Read More »Game Mechanics and Participation
Friendly Tips for Keeping your Contributors
One thing that I constantly hear colleagues in the Open Web community talking about is the lack of participation on the part of the user.… Read More »Friendly Tips for Keeping your Contributors
Newsle Pitch
The 2 Minute Pitch The Problem Newsle addresses the problem that people aren’t very curious about what’s going on in the world. They’re curious about… Read More »Newsle Pitch
Feedback Session
Last night I had a Feedback session with my fellow MozNewsLabbers. It was fantastic. They pointed out both the problems that I was already aware… Read More »Feedback Session