The Barcelona Drumbeat Festival was about Learning, Freedom and The Web.
It was about projects and initiatives, ideas and missions, but above all it was about PEOPLE - yes, people like you and us, people seeking an alternative way for learning, sharing and teaching knowledge, people caring about the web and the freedom to express themselves.

People trying to safeguard a critical approach toward social changes and willing to find a new evaluation system in order to give "credit" to alternative learning and teaching methods.

Thus the Barcelona Drumbeat Festival was about how all of us could contribute to create a better and more conscious future.

So this is why Mozilla Drumbeat is reaching out to people like filmmakers, lawyers, journalists and most of all in this case, teachers.

These people will play a key role in shaping the future of the web.

The goal is to build a new and open learning model using the web as an opportunity in order to get access to projects and contents and to reach and meet as much people as possible.

 

People are precious resources, they are full of experiences and knowledge to share.

 

The web is our venue to come together even if we are far away, the web is our tool to learn and get things done/teach things even if - in the beginning - we don't know how to do it, the web is our opportunity to change the thinking of tomorrow...
... and this is exactly why it is so important to ensure the openness of the web.

 
All of us must have the possibility to choose when, where and how to learn new things, all of us must have the oppurtunity to gain access to the large variety of information that people share in the web.

 

So, keep it open, share and you will see that you are not alone out there ;)
 
p.s. Check out our Flickr Drumbeat festival set!