This Saturday: Calling Everyone Who Loves the Open Web to Drumbeat Berlin!

I am attending Drumbeat Berlin this Saturday, May 8th - it's an all-day, Aspiration-facilitated event and looks like it will be a fun, participatory and informative event. I am new to the Mozilla Drumbeat initiative, but it looks promising from a poke around their website. I like the combination of projects, people and events. Here's the tweetable description: "Drumbeat is Mozilla’s initiative to keep the web open for the next 100 years and beyond."

According to the agenda, Mark Surman from the Mozilla Foundation (makers of the ubiquitous web browser Firefox among other great open source software) will welcome participants at 10am and we'll spend the morning learning about and discussing the Open Web, and the afternoon getting into specific projects.

Drumbeat Berlin is free and as of this writing it appears to still be possible to register - so if you're interested, in Berlin and willing to spend Saturday indoors, then by all means sign up to join us!  

You can follow Drumbeat on twitter: @mozilladrumbeat

Read on for details shamelessly grabbed from Aspiration. If you can read German, you may also want to look at Andrea Goetzke's blog post about it on Netzpolitik.de. 

Date: 8 May, 2010

Location:
Betahaus, Berlin, Germany
 

Event Details:

Calling Everyone Who Loves the Open Web to Drumbeat Berlin!

Drumbeat is Mozilla’s initiative to keep the web open for the next 100 years and beyond. Aspiration is partnering with Mozilla to lead the Drumbeat Local Event strategy.

Drumbeat Berlin is an invitation to get involved for teachers, artists, lawyers, filmmakers and other everyday internet users who can do things that will make the web better, and keep it open for the long haul.

Online, Drumbeat is catalyzing new open web projects that address critical needs and make the Web healthier. Check out current projects or initiate your own at www.drumbeat.org/projects.

Come to Drumbeat Berlin to learn about, work on, or even propose a new Drumbeat project!

Like all Aspiration-led events, Drumbeat Berlin will be:

• Active and participatory: we’re going to be making and building the Open Web. Less talk, more action!
• Inviting to people who love the Web, but may not be geeks. As part of Drumbeat, people can make more than software. Videos, universal subtitling, design projects, training courses, books, and more!
• Opportunities to weave together local networks of creative, Web-loving people and share their exciting local work with the global community.

Come prepared to share your vision for the future of the Web, the challenges you have with the Web in your work, ideas you have for new projects to address those challenges. Most importantly, come prepared to collaborate and build the Open Web!