This years Mozfest was again held at Ravensbourne College of Art in North Greenwich adjacent to the O2 Dome. Every view from inside through port holes a reminder of the spectacular transformation in the area since the new millennium.
One of the attractions for us this year was the more formal unveiling of the Firefox phone but there it was in little evidence after the opening night ( which I missed) Instead the mantra was of maker badges and the mushrooming interest and utility of Webmaker products.
One of these initiatives set out to specify a Webmaker teaching kit with kids in mind as well as those who are starting out.. by the time I found them much had already been done! All those post-it notes were transcribed and should appear on the mozfest site.. sometime.
Security and safety on the web was of course a theme on everyone’s mind this year the series of crypto workshops were well attended and explored how to use pgp for email, public key encryption tools for messaging and Tor for web browsers. Those of us with phones installed and configured ‘ChatSecure‘ for Android.
