Austin, Texas Takes on the Mozilla Festival
Everywhere you turn at this year’s Mozilla Festival you’re bound to run into someone from Austin, TX.
Mozilla network leaders from the heart of Texas have brought their innovative ideas to add momentum to the global movement for a healthy Internet. You’ll find projects, programs, and prototypes that are leading the way in our most pressing issues online: Web Literacy, Privacy and Security, Decentralization, Open Innovation and Digital Inclusion. The annual event is the world’s leading festival for the open Internet movement.
Check out these amazing Texans and the work they’re sharing below.
MozFest Science Fair Demos
If you’re with us at the festival’s opening night “Science Fair”, be on the lookout for these three great projects funded by Mozilla and the Gigabit Community Fund in Austin. If you’re not, click on the links to learn more:
- VR Field Trip to Pakistan with Mark Danforth or PenPal Schools
- Austin Budget Party with Victoria O’Dell of Open Austin
- Mission:Information with Sarah Morris of Nucleus Network
Sessions
Long-format sessions provide an opportunity for network leaders to explore and propose solutions to the urgent issues that face the future of one of our most precious and vulnerable global public resources, an open and accessible internet. Click into the MozFest guidebook links to learn more about each one.
- Keeping Safe Spaces Safe and Secure with Allison Ivey of Learn All the Time Network in the Privacy & Security space on Sunday at 4:30 PM
- Saving Journalism from Fake News and Fake Records with Amy McCullough Mosley of Influence TX in the Open Innovation space on Saturday at 2:00 PM
- Fighting Fake News with Literacy Skills with Sarah Morris of Nucleus Network in the Web Literacy space on Saturday at 12:45 PM
- Fighting Fake News in the Library with Sarah Morris of Nucleus Network in the Web Literacy space on Sunday at 12:15 PM
- Meet Me Half Way: Team Relations & Communications in Open Source Spaces with Victoria O’Dell of Open Austin in the Open Innovation space on Saturday at 4:30 PM
- Design & Deception: A Crash Course in Data Distortion with Jess Sauer (@jessvmachine) of Fjord and Austin-based Data Scientist, Gilbert Slade in the Decentralization space on Saturday at 10:00 AM
- Re-decentralizing the Web with a peer-to-peer browser with Tara Vancil of Blue Link Labs in the Decentralization space on Saturday at 4:30 PM
If you’re in Austin and couldn’t join us in London, fear not! There’s always MozFest next year. Plus we’ll be back home before long, nose back to the grindstone. Let’s get together and collaborate to keep this work moving forward. Join regular Open Austin meetups, attend this year’s ATX Hack for Change event, or become a member of Learn All the Time to get involved now.
