Mozilla Festival 8-19 March 2021

[pernillan]

Today is the launch of the virtual Mozilla Festival a.k.a. MozFest!

• Tickets can be purchased at no cost, with the option to make a donation.
• The festival is March 8 – March 19, but access to all recorded and on-demand sessions and activities will be available to ticket holders for 90 days after the event!
• You’ll find the 500+ Trustworthy AI and internet health sessions on the MozFest Schedule.

[pernillan]

Has anyone had time to look through the MozFest Schedule with its 500+ sessions yet? I hadn’t until now so I’ve only looked at the ones happening in the coming few days. I found some sessions I thought looked interesting:

16 March:

• 15:45 CET: Creating Connected Applications
• 18:00 CET: The Future of Community Networks: Can We Build A Collaborative Roadmap?
• 19:15 CET: Building Sustainable Open Source Projects Workshop
• 21:15 CET: Measuring project health: ethics, roles, responsibilities and why it matters

17 March:

• 14:30 CET: Does (Open Code && Open Data) == Trustworthy?
• 15:45 CET: Designing up to date content moderation principles for a new social network
• 19:15 CET: Alternative Business Models For The Web

18 March:

• 15:45 CET: Building openness, understanding, and trust in purpose-driven teams
• 21:15 CET: Civil Society Reimagined: developing narratives and forming coalitions on digital policy

Some that seem quite fun too…

17 March:

• 15:45 CET Collapse is here. Internet is dead. What would you save?

18 March:

• 14:30 CET: No more robots and glowing brains - making better stock photos for AI
• 16:00 CET: The Gratitude Machine Q&A
• 18:00 CET: Laughing with computers: using AI for comedic effect