Free Culture Roadshow 2009

Are you passionate about the open web? In addition to the scheduled talks, we’re inviting you to give your own five-minute talk at your local event.

What
You, delivering 5 minutes of pure passion in which you (1) outline a concrete project idea that will make the web better or simply (2) explain the open web and why it matters.

All talks will be featured on the Mozilla Drumbeat website, offering an opportunity to attract attention, volunteers and supporters. Your talks will also be entered into a global competition for best presentation. If your idea or presentation is among the best globally, you’ll have a chance to come participate in the Drumbeat Festival, tentatively scheduled for June 2010 in Amsterdam.

Why?
Mozilla is launching a new initiative called Drumbeat in early 2010. The first step: find talented social entrepreneurs and communicators who want to create a better, more open internet. Your presentation is a chance to get involved in Mozilla Drumbeat early on, ensuring that you and your ideas are a part of the Drumbeat story right from the start.

Some Guidelines

1. Ground yourself in the open web. Explain how your ideas help the internet become more:

• Open: Built on technologies that anyone can study, use or improve without asking permission.
• Participatory: Fueled by the ideas and energy of 100s of millions of people.
• Decentralized: In both architecture and control, ensuring continued choice and diversity.
• Generative: Evolving and improving as we each remix existing parts of the internet into something that is our own.

There are two categories of talks you can choose from:

• Category 1. Your Open Web Idea
  Describe a concrete project idea that will make the web better, more open, more participatory. It could be something you’re already working on, or an idea you’re just thinking about.
• Category 2. The Ultimate Open Web Presentation
  We’re looking for the ultimate presentation that explains the open web and why it matters. You’ve got 5 minutes—describe the open web in a way that will excite and illuminate.

2. Put on a show: Give us theater and drama, show us your passion and your dreams… Inspire us, but remember, be yourself.

3. Keep it simple. Don’t give us complex code and a technical specifications. Share your vision, paint a picture, keep it real and be specific.

4. Keep it to 5 minutes. That’s the rules.

Questions? Email Ben at benrito@gmail.com,