Archive for the ‘jam days’ Category
Design Jam Rome #1: Open-Design Spreads Across Italy. Let’s Jam!
A guest blog post by local champion, Cristiano Siri. Design Jam Rome #1, a two-day community collaboration event focused on User Experience Design (UX), where designers, professionals and students – gathered in teams – end up with different solutions in terms of web and mobile applications in response to a common social challenge. Background Based [...]
Design Jam Iasi #1: Intense, Fun & A Rip-Roaring Success, Say Over 50 Jammers!
A guest post by local champion, Dr. Sabin Buraga. The dust has finally settled on Summer Web 2011 and — myself and other local champions Stefan Negru, Dr. Lenuta Alboaie & Andrei Panu — have just about recovered. Phewwww! Background The event, which included the inaugural Design Jam in Romania, saw over 50 keen UX [...]
Design Jam London #3: All Systems Ready & Raring To Go!
After two successful events, the third London Design Jam is happening on the 2nd of July, thanks to continued support from Mozilla Labs and City University London. Local champions Johanna Kollmann, Joe Lanman, Desigan Chinniah & Franco Papeschi will take learnings from the recent jams across the globe to further improve the format for a [...]
Knight-Mozilla Initiative: Round-Up of the UK #MoJo Tour (Dundee, London & Manchester)
Over the last week and a bit, Michelle Thorne (@thornet) and myself have been on a bit of a road-trip — up, down and around the UK (Dundee, London & Manchester), promoting the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. These physical events formed part of the whirlwind worldwide schedule and related specifically to the x3 #MoJo challenges. [...]
Design Jam Oxford #1: Time To Wrap-Up A Fast & Furious Jam Session
A guest post by, Al Power one of the local champions from Design Jam Oxford. The first Oxford Design Jam was held on the 14th May, and two weeks later I thought I would collate some of our thoughts now it’s all over. My two co-organisers, Mariana Mota and James Morris were both Design Jam [...]
Design Jam Iasi #1: Romania Opens the Jam Jar as Part of Summer Web 2011
Local champions — Dr. Sabin Buraga (@busaco_), Stefan Negru (@blankdots), Dr. Lenuta Alboaie & Andrei Panu — invite neophytes, apprentices, and experts in Human-Computer Interaction and related fields on 3 & 4 June 2011 to attend the first edition of the Design Jam Iasi, Romania, an event organized in conjunction to Summer Web 2011. Background [...]
Knight-Mozilla Initiative: Manchester Jams & Hacks (the Future of Journalism) at the BBC’s New Broadcasting House
Head to Manchester and join the BBC — in collaboration with Mozilla & Knight Foundation . Do you have ideas for how news and journalism can be edgier, cooler, and more interactive online? Are you a web developer, designer or just a news junkie with a hankering to hack? An evening of brainstorming over beers [...]
Knight-Mozilla Initiative: ‘Hacking the Future of Journalism’ at University of Dundee (fuel provided by Irn Bru!)
Hosted by Product Design Dundee — in collaboration with Mozilla, Knight Foundation & Hack/Hackers Edinburgh. Do you have ideas for how news and journalism can be edgier, cooler, and more interactive online? Are you a web developer, designer or just a news junkie with a hankering to hack? Why not head to the University of [...]
