{"id":747,"date":"2018-11-13T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/?p=747"},"modified":"2018-11-14T19:13:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T19:13:04","slug":"mozfest-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/2018\/11\/13\/mozfest-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MozFest 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LIL team is a freewheelin\u2019 one, always looking for new people to collaborate with, new ideas to connect to our current projects, and welcoming a little bit of chaos – so, naturally, Mozilla\u2019s annual MozFest<\/a> was a great fit for us to attend! Held this year in London, the event spanned over a week culminating in a large scale conference over the weekend. By their own description, MozFest is \u201ca seven day celebration for, by, and about people who love the internet\u201d and they certainly delivered on the enthusiasm. Over the weekend Ravensbourne University was transformed on all nine floors into the home of six distinct spaces designated for varying facets of the web. Decentralisation, Digital Inclusion, Openness, Privacy & Security, Web Literacy and a Youth Zone were the main \u201cspaces\u201d, each with its own set of speakers, session leaders and artists. \u00a0Attendees were set free to visit each of these floors and facilitators encouraged to move away from lectures and towards hands-on workshops.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Perma.cc session fell, appropriately, in the Web Literacy space, which took over the Ravensbourne library for Saturday and Sunday. We had a great discussion with internet users who were both familiar with the concept of link-rot and those who were seeing it in a new light. We created a physical web to help us visualize the ripple effect of a website going down. Here are some of us in the process of creating it: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Throughout the rest of the weekend, I was able to attend and experience some other great sessions: <\/span><\/p>\n