WEBVTT 00:00:05.996 --> 00:00:10.681 [music] 00:00:10.681 --> 00:00:11.863 The Mozilla festival is an annual event. 00:00:11.863 --> 00:00:15.982 Bringing together a 1000 developers, designers, educators, 00:00:15.982 --> 00:00:18.784 journalist, people who are interested in promoting the open web. 00:00:18.830 --> 00:00:20.563 And learning and hacking together . 00:00:20.563 --> 00:00:24.937 There are different disciplines and cross disciplines to make the web a better place. 00:00:24.937 --> 00:00:27.857 [music-] 00:00:27.857 --> 00:00:28.845 Moz-Fez is were people come 00:00:28.845 --> 00:00:33.645 to make the future of the web and so we got people here hacking together 00:00:33.728 --> 00:00:37.504 software, hacking badges, hacking together new learning materials. 00:00:37.565 --> 00:00:39.793 and there are a thousand of them 00:00:39.793 --> 00:00:42.461 There is so many people they are all so friendly 00:00:42.461 --> 00:00:46.027 I can say things, give my views on stuff the are working on 00:00:46.027 --> 00:00:47.562 and they actually care what I think. 00:00:47.614 --> 00:00:50.713 Walk up to strangers talk to them try something. 00:00:50.713 --> 00:00:52.161 you haven't tried before. 00:00:52.161 --> 00:00:54.129 get your hands dirty 00:00:54.129 --> 00:00:57.778 I think people to Moz-fest with an idea of what they expect 00:00:57.778 --> 00:01:00.779 and part of what they expect is they don't know what they are going to get. 00:01:00.779 --> 00:01:07.118 And they know that there is a thing they want to do or a thing they want to make. 00:01:07.162 --> 00:01:10.271 They also know they are going to be surprised by who they find and what they do. 00:01:10.295 --> 00:01:12.045 It's like a years of education in one day. 00:01:13.461 --> 00:01:15.129 Ultimately I think it's about 00:01:15.129 --> 00:01:17.861 um turning the people who this year, who've been this year 00:01:17.907 --> 00:01:19.761 the learner's the observers, and stuff 00:01:19.761 --> 00:01:23.003 into next years teachers and makers. 00:01:23.049 --> 00:01:25.345 [music] 00:01:25.345 --> 00:01:27.262 You know I really like a high angle camera shot ! 00:01:27.262 --> 00:01:28.963 I would like to get up above the stage 00:01:28.963 --> 00:01:30.746 all the balcony's are on this side 00:01:30.746 --> 00:01:31.879 I cant get over here 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:34.095 so I brought a Blimp this year ! 00:01:34.095 --> 00:01:38.428 [music] 00:01:38.428 --> 00:01:39.929 Are hope , after the Mozilla festival is 00:01:39.929 --> 00:01:43.412 we have inspired. Future generations of Web Makers. 00:01:43.412 --> 00:01:45.145 to realize they don't need permission 00:01:45.145 --> 00:01:47.496 to realize they don't need anything other than passion, 00:01:47.496 --> 00:01:53.144 and understanding that the only thing limiting their ability to make is their own imagination. 00:01:53.144 --> 00:01:54.246 And Mozilla wants to help them . 00:01:54.246 --> 00:01:56.067 make what ever they want to see made. 00:01:56.067 --> 00:01:58.114 [music] 00:01:58.114 --> 00:02:00.395 The key component of what we do is 00:02:00.395 --> 00:02:02.097 openness and happieness ! 00:02:02.097 --> 00:02:05.028 So, I think as long as you are working in the open 00:02:05.028 --> 00:02:06.546 bringing in other people into your work 00:02:06.546 --> 00:02:09.712 sharing idea's, listening and having respect and doing it with joy. 00:02:09.712 --> 00:02:12.512 then I (uh) your in a good spot and your a web maker. 00:02:12.512 --> 00:02:23.996 [Music] 00:02:23.996 --> 00:02:27.245 Moz-fest is about bringing innovation into 00:02:27.245 --> 00:02:28.496 the way we think about the web. 00:02:28.496 --> 00:02:30.145 we use the web every day. 00:02:30.145 --> 00:02:31.312 we use the internet every day. 00:02:31.312 --> 00:02:33.963 often times, great things appear, and we use them 00:02:33.963 --> 00:02:38.463 But sometimes you want more or you want the ability to change something. 00:02:39.045 --> 00:02:39.628 Or sometimes you think 00:02:39.628 --> 00:02:40.728 WOW ! 00:02:40.728 --> 00:02:41.828 It would be nice to do X . 00:02:41.828 --> 00:02:43.996 Moz-fest is a way of getting people together 00:02:43.996 --> 00:02:46.428 who have an interest, and are comfortable 00:02:46.428 --> 00:02:48.479 enough to try and say What would it be like ? 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:50.350 If I understood more ? 00:02:50.350 --> 00:02:55.813 [music] 00:02:55.813 --> 00:02:56.813 This festival is remarkable to me. 00:02:56.813 --> 00:03:00.065 uhm, we've got a huge collection of people 00:03:00.065 --> 00:03:02.980 who are working on every thing under the sun 00:03:02.980 --> 00:03:05.212 as long as it is vaguely related to the net 00:03:05.212 --> 00:03:07.213 the network effects you get something like 00:03:07.213 --> 00:03:09.964 a worldwide internet that's open, that's is 00:03:09.964 --> 00:03:11.330 easy to access. 00:03:11.330 --> 00:03:13.847 You get huge collaboration when you start 00:03:13.847 --> 00:03:15.097 doing things like that. 00:03:15.097 --> 00:03:16.897 and for the most part it's all vollunteer 00:03:16.897 --> 00:03:19.181 And it is amazing to watch a communite come together and do something 00:03:19.181 --> 00:03:20.818 like this. 00:03:20.818 --> 00:03:23.298 So the Mozilla festival has a kind of unique 00:03:23.298 --> 00:03:25.546 (ah) value proposition. We are not 00:03:25.546 --> 00:03:28.064 traditional conference. We are not here with 00:03:28.064 --> 00:03:30.297 speakers on the stage and everyone sitting in a dark room. 00:03:30.297 --> 00:03:33.883 All of the sessions are built on collaboration and hacking on real problems. 00:03:33.883 --> 00:03:37.030 So our partners come here with a real problem set . 00:03:37.030 --> 00:03:40.931 And people that come and hack on that problem set together. 00:03:40.946 --> 00:03:43.347 And an interesting aspect of that is that 00:03:43.347 --> 00:03:45.097 is not a problem that only these partners care about, 00:03:45.097 --> 00:03:47.077 but it is something that helps the broader world. 00:03:47.093 --> 00:03:48.600 So a journalistic organisation 00:03:48.600 --> 00:03:49.930 doesn't just come and hack on their News Room, 00:03:49.930 --> 00:03:53.271 They are hacking on new tool's and idea's that can actually be applied. 00:03:53.281 --> 00:03:56.738 across news rooms and the journalistic as a whole. 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:57.604 [music] 00:03:57.604 --> 00:03:59.946 The first you get in a group 00:03:59.946 --> 00:04:02.169 and are trying to learn something about code. 00:04:02.169 --> 00:04:04.865 or how to build an app or how to take a video 00:04:04.865 --> 00:04:08.780 and actually add web based information to it 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:10.946 in real time. You know it all sounds intimidating 00:04:10.946 --> 00:04:12.946 But that is what we are here for. 00:04:12.946 --> 00:04:15.330 And it turns out if you take something about your life, 00:04:15.330 --> 00:04:17.866 something that is important to you, 00:04:17.866 --> 00:04:23.773 And you get a sence of what you can actually do with it . Then it's GREAT !