Last weekend was the **[kickoff of Mozilla’s Summer Code Party](https://webmaker.org/en-US/events/about/) [(#mozparty)](https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23mozparty).** In a summer-long campaign, there’s **over 400 scheduled events in nearly as many cities,** hosted by passionate people who want to **share their knowledge of the web and learn together with friends.** I’d like…
How to Host a Kitchen Table View more presentations from Michelle Thorne Just grab a few friends, a laptop, and something to hack on together! Prepared for [Mozilla’s Summer Code Party](https://webmaker.org/en-US/events/).
About 12 years ago, the day before Thanksgiving, **I stopped eating meat.** I had just read [The Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t Eat Meat](http://www.amazon.com/MAD-COWBOY-Plain-Cattle-Rancher/dp/0684854465), which offered enough facts about the meat industry to **churn your stomach and forsake the next…
Sometimes half the fun of hatching an idea is thinking through all the silly things you’d do, even if you’re ultimately too lazy to dig in and actually do it. In this spirit, I’d like to share **a hack to playfully disrupt the [Descriptive Camera](http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/),**…
>**How would you teach something about the web using a game?** This was the [design brief](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Events/London_Learning_Jam/Design_Brief) we gave a talented group of educators, designers, and developers last week at the [Mozilla London Learning Jam](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Events/London_Learning_Jam). Our thesis is: * **Use game-like mechanics** to encourage learning and…