Drumbeat building an Open Web |  |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 12:13 PM PDT Mozilla Foundation’s Drumbeat is gaining momentum. Drumbeat is a movement combining projects and events focused on making the web better, using open-source DNA and Know-How and focusing on “maker culture” and “building”. Their goal is to engage a wider global audience in the active discussion and participation building an open web. The One Web Day team recently joined forces with Mozilla Drumbeat and at OpenSRS, we’re huge supporters of their initiatives and happy to carry over our support to Mozilla Drumbeat. If you’re interested in the Open Web, you’ll want to consider getting involved. My OpenSRS colleagues and our resellers are often early adopters and proponents of all things Internet. We are the ambassadors who can engage others in our careers, families and neighbourhoods. A Tucows core values is “the Internet is the greatest agent for positive change the world has ever seen”. Drumbeat is built on that vision too. Will the web still be open in 100 years? What is your vision of the Internet? How can you help build it? In true Mozilla fashion, the brainstorm of “What is the open Web” can be found on their wiki. About DrumbeatAnyone can volunteer or suggest a Drumbeat project. Two projects that might be of interest to Resellers are P2PU: creating an Open Web Developer Degree and Web Made Movies: a video series highlighting people who are building an open, participatory Internet. To spread the word about Drumbeat projects and build the open web movement, Drumbeat includes events across the world. Previous events were held in Rio and San Paulo, Brazil. At the recent Toronto event, the day included small scrum-like discussions on how to explain the open web to diverse audiences and topical discussions ranging from open source activism to MESH networks to HTML5 Video Players to building the Drumbeat.org community.
How can you get involved?Drumbeat projects are open for collaboration. Simply hop onto the Drumbeat site, join Drumbeat mailing lists, or read/subscribe to the Drumbeat newsletter. The next Drumbeat event is in Berlin on May 8, 2010. To attend, you can sign up for free here. |
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One of the most interesting elements is the .com 25. Later this year, a panel of Silicon Valley influencers will select “the ‘.com 25′; the 25 people and/or companies whose inspiring contributions were fundamental in shaping the Internet and, thereby, our worlds.”
While we can pick a few obvious ones and try to provide you some resources ourselves, it occurs to me that there is potentially a bigger opportunity here. There are 10,000 OpenSRS resellers all developing solutions to these types of problems every day. You are writing bits of code on top of our API to improve your purchase paths and your control panels. You are developing marketing materials and documentation. You are experimenting with everything from pricing to promotions to newsletter subject headers. Some of you are direct competitors. But many more of you service such completely different geographies and customer segments and offer such different services that I don’t think you would regard each other as competitors at all.
KPN is the leading telecommunications and information and communications technology (ICT) service provider in The Netherlands, offering wireline and wireless telephony, internet and TV to consumers, and end-to-end telecommunications and ICT services to business customers.
In the weeks and months before the big switchover, OpenSRS worked very closely with KPN to ensure that both companies were ready. “The team did a fantastic job, quite literally working day and night in the weeks leading up to the switch. They had a tremendous job to do and everything was successful,” says Pisters of the work done to get everything ready.
