Game time at the Global Sprint
Counting down and gearing up for the Mozilla Privacy Arcade
We’re just a day away from this year’s Global Sprint, a 2-day whirlwind of volunteer contributions to open projects from around the world. There’s still plenty of time to get involved and plenty of ways to contribute to registered projects.
You can start by registering as a participant. Then you can browse the list of awesome open projects to find one or more that speak to you and your interests. After that, you can look for a local site to visit during the sprint. Local sites bring people together face-to-face to share their work on different projects or to jam on projects together. If there’s no site near, you, don’t worry. Online contributions are welcome, and each project will have a lead available online to help you and answer any questions during the sprint.
Once you have a project in mind, read up on its participation guidelines and how to contribute. You can use the “Issues” feature in GitHub, our Global Sprint platform, to send messages back and forth with your project lead once you create a GitHub account.
If you like playing games or coming up with games of your own, this is your official, last-minute invite to contribute to the Mozilla Privacy Arcade project. The Mozilla Privacy Arcade has four different game-based challenges to help you find just the right way to contribute.
- The Cryptomancer Challenge needs new role-playing game (RPG) players and people curious about online safety to help RPG developers and privacy experts test new adventures to make sure they teach online safety clearly.
- The Privacy & Security Game Jam Challenge needs gamers and developers interested in making bite-sized, web-native micro-games to jam together on little games that teach transferable, real-life privacy and security habits to players.
- The IoT Escape Room Challenge needs tinkerers and problem-solvers eager to design puzzles and sets for Internet of Things (IoT) mysteries that teach players about they connected devices they have to outwit to free themselves from the snooping technology around them.
- The Offline Games Challenge needs educators, activists, and playtesters invested in creating offline privacy and security resources that can be used to teach about online safety anywhere in the world.
You might contribute a question, a sketch, or a line of code. All contributors and contributions are welcome.
We hope you find a project you love and even consider submitting your own next year! If games are your thing, join us in the privacy arcade to invent fun, low-risk ways to teach about privacy and security on the web.
