Where Are They Now? MozFest Facilitator Success Stories
With hundreds of Facilitators bringing their work to MozFest each year, there are now thousands of success stories that prove passion and community can make a positive impact in our digital world.?
Today, we’re celebrating just a few of those success stories by exploring the incredible projects and people that shine bright in our community.? Below you’ll find successful and active projects that are looking for contribution - from you!?
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Bringing Indigenous Voices to MozFest: Wampum.Codes
Caption: Image provided by Amelia Winger-Bearskin, commissioned from Mek Frinchaboy ?
Instead of making excuses, Mozilla Fellow Amelia Winger-Bearskin turned the face-to-face isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic into an incredible collaborative online opportunity to support indigenous voices.
MozFest really served as the catalyst to launch her podcast, Wampum.Codes towards success. She saw boosts in podcast listens following shares in the MozFest community, especially after her festival sessions. Wampum.Codes has evolved since that initial launch and was featured at the Imagine Native and Sundance festivals.
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Peer-to-Peer Learning & Web-native Storytelling | Incredible Connections at MozFest
Caption: Philo van Kemenade at MozFest 2021
From peer-to-peer learning, to web-native storytelling, to art curation, and community collaboration, Philo van Kemenade has found incredible success in bringing his work to the Mozilla Festival Community.?
With a partner, he started working on an idea for a skill sharing tool and decided to bring it to the MozFest Science Fair. At the time, Philo’s project, Gradual, took the form of an early Slack bot prototype, which was used to gather input from participants on what they were excited to learn and share with others at the festival. Besides countless insights about the power of social learning, this resulted in amazing encounters such as one over the shared joy of handstands! Fast forward to 2022, where Gradual has partnered with MozFest to map the community’s interest and turn ideas into emergent sessions!
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Unlocking the Value of Data: A Global Effort
The Data Values Project is a global campaign to shift power in how data is designed, collected, managed. Janet McLaren brought the Data Values Project to the MozFest community in 2021, looking for inspiration, learning, sharing, diversity, and connection. And that’s exactly what she found!?
The Data Values Project’s workshop at MozFest on Creating a Fair Data Future brought new ideas to the campaign and deepened participants’ understanding of the trade-offs involved in designing data systems. During the workshops, participants shared a wealth of personal experiences and knowledge about ways to ensure people are represented in and empowered by data. These ideas along with others throughout the past year fed into a white paper that we published in May for public consultation.