[HacktionLab] Fwd: Come to London?

[mick fuzz]

Hi there,

We should get some kind of presence here, i can make a contact if a
few of us want to try to get in free

I'm not about as I'm going travelling but there is likely to be a lot
of people sympathetic to what we are doing.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Surman, Mozilla.org <joinmozilla at mozilla.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:22 PM
Subject: Come to London?
To: mickfuzz23 at gmail.com


Media, Freedom and the Web:

The Mozilla Festival is Nov 4–6 in London — and you're invited.

Are you in?

Dear Friend,

Mozillians do some amazing work making the Web a better place for all
of us. Our projects span a pretty broad spectrum, and I'm proud of
everything we've accomplished together.

Nothing shows the power of what we can make happen more than the
Mozilla Festival: one weekend that moves a huge number of our projects
forward in a remarkable way.

Last year, over 500 incredible educators, Web developers, and
Mozillians got together to brainstorm, share, and build. Two of our
most exciting projects came out of the festival — Hackasaurus, a
project teaching kids how to make things on the Web, and Open Badges,
an innovative way to offer and gather badges from any site on the Web,
combining them into a story about what you know and what you've
achieved.

The Mozilla Festival is a time where projects like these often get
their start or make an incredible amount of progress — and it's a
chance for folks like you who care about making the Web a better place
to connect with like-minded people, learn from each other, and
collaborate on your own personal projects.

This year's festival is in London, England, from November 4th–6th.
It'll be intense and exhausting, but absolutely thrilling — and I'd
like to personally invite you. I know it's a lot to ask, but I'm
hoping you can make it. What do you say?

Yes — I'll be there.

Sorry — I can't make it.

The cost of admission is ultralow for an event like this — just $100
[£60] for an adult and $50 [£30] for students — and that's because we
want to make sure that as many people as possible can participate. But
we can only keep that price so low — and offer scholarships to some to
help them attend — through the generous support of folks like you. If
you can't make it, I'd encourage you to support this work with a
donation.

The theme of the festival this year is "Media, Freedom and the Web."
It's about discovery, collaboration, and solving real problems.

If you can't make it, we will facilitate and support local events that
share these themes and keep the hacking going post-festival — we'll be
in touch with more information about how to be involved as the
Festival approaches.

And don't worry, you needn't be a master coder to participate in
London or to follow the event from afar — there'll be sessions of
interest for folks of all technical capability.

So — are you in?

You bet.

I can't make it, but I want to support the Festival and help build a
better Web with a donation.

Hope to see you in London,

Mark Surman
Executive Director
Mozilla Foundation