This Thursday is Independence Day in India. It’s one of only three national holidays (the other two being the Republic Day on 26 January and Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday on 2 October) and is observed in all Indian states and union territories.
On Independence Day a celebration takes place in Delhi, where the prime minister hoists the national flag at the Red Fort and delivers a speech from its ramparts. The holiday is observed throughout India with flag-hoisting ceremonies, parades and cultural events. Indians celebrate the day by displaying the national flag on their attire, accessories, homes and vehicles; by listening to patriotic songs, watching patriotic movies; and bonding with family and friends.
The Webmaker Community is celebrating by organizing Maker Parties especially for the day, and preparing some makes that you can remix to participate in the celebration. We’re calling it the “Day of Remix”, and we hope everyone takes part!
The community invites us to:
Host a Maker Party event using ‘Indian Independence Day’ as the theme.
Make an inspiring interactive biography. The Indian Community are focusing their biographies on influential Indians or 5 things they love about India that they think the world should know about. What will your biography be about? Check out these submissions and choose one to remix!
Remix these Indian makes to be about your own country.
If your make is about India or Indian culture, you might get a Webmaker shout-out on August 15th, when we announce the best makes from the day of remix.
We love to see what you make, today, and for special days like India’s Independence, so tweet us your creations at @webmaker or @mozteach
This is re-posted from Matt Thompson’s OpenMatt blog:
TLDR = your summary of what’s happening with Mozilla Webmaker this week, focused on mentors and builders — the community making Webmaker
Dave Humphrey calls it “web media sequencing.” Jacob calls it “cloudmashing.” We like to think of it as “web-based video editing,” or video editing in the cloud. It lets users weave multiple video and audio clips from across the web into a single experience — then seamlessly publish and share with a click. Like copy and paste for web media.
We think sequencing is going to be big. But we need your help testing it first. The Webmaker product folks humbly request you try to make something with it now. Take one video from You Tube, for example, and layer it on top of another. Tell us what you think. Is this too hard? Don’t get the point? Missing a feature?
Need inspiration? The web is full of fun:
Their mission: create an open web literacy standard for the world. Following lots of great response on the Webmaker List and other channels, the Web Literacy Standard team is starting a new open community call. Their goal: work with you to launch a beta version at the end of this quarter.
Web Literacy Standard | new community calls. open to all. Thursdays at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT
Get involved
Stats! Stats! Stats! JP and others have established an infrastructure for measuring Webmaker statistics. This presentation from JP and Ross walks you through it. As of the most recent Webmaker update, we are now tracking:
OpenNews Learing will be a regularly updated section of case studies that dig deep into the thinking, design, ethics and execution of code in journalism, written by the people that know this world best.
Lots from Planet Badges this week:
“As [badges] mature, have the potential to disrupt formal education in a way that none of the technology innovations we’ve seen in the last couple of decades have.”
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