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Field notes on experiences, gaming, community and digital culture.

11 Jun 2026 · Experience Design

It's their world, and you better join in...

Notes from Roblox, Minecraft and SXSW on designing for the room that's already full.

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01 Oct 2021 · Festivals

Mozilla Hosts 100% Virtual Global MozFest Using Zoom

How the MozFest team ran a fully virtual, globally accessible festival on Zoom — 530 participatory sessions and nearly 9,800 participants across two weeks.

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01 Jun 2021 · Festivals

Building a distributed and global festival platform

Lessons from building MozFest 2021 across time zones — why a distributed, open-source platform beat a one-size-fits-all approach.

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16 Dec 2020 · Festivals

Building a Virtual MozFest

Designing MozFest's first fully online edition — the five session formats and the connectivity, hardware and privacy criteria behind every platform choice.

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04 Nov 2020 · Festivals

Building the next Volunteer community online and in Amsterdam

As MozFest moves online and to Amsterdam, a call to capture ten years of volunteer knowledge in a community cookbook.

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29 Apr 2019 · Open Practice

Working Open: Successes and Challenges

What working open really takes — the wins from open design and community translation at MozFest, and the honest challenges of building in the open.

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09 Aug 2015 · Festivals

Kids These Days: The Festival of Code

Behind the scenes of Young Rewired State's Festival of Code 2015 — the world's largest hackathon for under-18s, and why it's the best week of the year.

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