Hello world. Again.
A schweet new site. We want MOAR! *Update* And here’s the RSS feed: [http://michellethorne.cc/feed/](http://michellethorne.cc/feed/) Thanks, Christopher!
Wissenswert: €5000 for Free Knowledge projects
A fantastic initiative from Wikimedia Germany: an idea competition, “Wissenswert”, calling for projects that further Free Knowledge. Winning submissions can receive up to €5000. I’d love to see projects in the spirit of the “School of Open“, an idea Jane Park (@janedaily) proposed during the…
The Mozilla Festival: Less yak, more hack!
The Mozilla Festival, which kicks off Nov. 4 – 6 in London, will be a three-ring circus of brainstorming, collaborating and hacking. It brings together 500 journalists, open web developers and media educators to learn and make the web they want. Following a series of posts by…
Why do you participate?
Prompted by a filmmaker’s uninspiring suggestion to “crowdsource” footage, we had a good round of spontaneous chatter at ODC about: what motivates you to participate? Given how participation is now the metric driving all Mozilla Foundation projects, the topic of motiviation certainly deserves some reflection.…
€1,000 from Awesome Foundation Berlin – Apply by July 10
It’s been one helluva few weeks for Awesome Foundation worldwide. Our fearless founder, Tim Hwang, was awarded $244,000 from the Knight Foundation to: experiment with a new funding model for local journalism, The Awesome Foundation: News Taskforce will bring together 10 to 15 community leaders…