I was digging through old archives and revisited this 2009 post by Mark Surman about Mozilla Drumbeat. The blog was part of a series thinking out loud and sharing a strategy for how Mozilla could grow—from only creating software that protects the web to growing…
> 60 newly trained Webmaker Mentors. 12 amazing Webmaker Super Mentors. 200 students taught how to participate on the web. 1 epic weekend in Kampala! **Mozillians from Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda gathered together for the first time to run a train-the-trainer event for East Africa.**…
Just coming home from a **[truly fantastic week](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Workweek)** in Toronto with the talented Webmaker team. This was the first time the Webmaker product + community teams, plus Mozilla Foundation’s engagement and operations teams, **met face-to-face to hack on Webmaker.** There’s only one way to describe…
Here’s a post looking at the **principles of the [Mozilla Webmaker](http://webmaker.org) community** and the **top-level ways** we collectively further these efforts in 2014. **[Lots](https://michelle.makes.org/thimble/the-manic-tremors) [of](http://brettgaylor.tumblr.com/post/70626520407/webmaker-in-2014) [people](http://hivelearningnetwork.org/) [are](http://amiradhalla.com/2013/11/14/maker-partys-around-the-world-4-month-review/) shaping this work,** and by next year **hopefully [many more will have joined in](https://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/what-would-a-million-mozillians-do/)** and help Mozilla’s mission…
On September 15 we hit a milestone for the **Mozilla [Maker Party](https://webmaker.org/party).** **With over 1,700 events in 330 cities worldwide,** the campaign to make and teach the web had really picked up steam. As we transition from campaign-mode to **[an ongoing webmaker party](https://webmaker.org)**, I thought…