Submissions/GlobalMelt

This is an open submission for Wikimania 2011.

Notes from the sessions

Prototype of Sparklez: http://sparklez.org/
Video recap with the Mozilla community, featuring summary about Global Melt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7b4JiKST-k&feature=related

About

Review no.

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Title of the submission: Global Melt - how to make events not suck

Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation): workshop

Author of the submission: Michelle Thorne

E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences): michelle [at] mozillafoundation [dot] org

Country of origin: USA/Germany

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.): Mozilla Foundation

Personal homepage or blog: http://thornet.wordpress.com

Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)

Global Melt is a workshop for members and leaders of global peer-driven movements to explore how accelerate projects and build community through events. Events are precious opportunities to do things together in real life (IRL), but often, these moments are squandered sitting in dark auditoriums or squeezed between too many unstructured panels.

How can we organize events that readily fit our principles of openness, collaboration, and participation? How do we make the most out of our time together face-to-face? What tools, tips, and tricks make events more meaningful?

In Haifa, we will rapidly develop paper prototypes and shared events resources that can be used immediately at Wikimania as well as across peer-driven communities. We will iterate on tools developed at Global Melt Berlin, a workshop that brought together representatives from Wikimedia staff, board and chapters, Creative Commons, Mozilla, and many other Free/Open projects, and hack on ways to increase the impact of live events.

Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure): People and Community

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?: Yes

Slides or further information (optional)

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Global_Melt
Quora thread on what makes a conference great: http://www.quora.com/What-makes-a-conference-great

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