24-hour Challenge Event

24-hour TouchUp marathon

There is endless Web content, but have you ever had the disappointing experience of Firefox not being able to properly display something, especially interactive content? TouchUpWeb is a Firefox extension that intends to solve these issues, from the browser side. If a page displays improperly on Firefox, then create a TouchUp script to correct its problems. If the corrections are successful, then submit the script to the TouchUpWeb server. With the 24-hour TouchUp marathon, work will focus on improving Web compatibility, and this includes script writing tutorials. How many websites around the world can we debug in 24 hours? (This event is Japan only)

24-hour Challenge Event

DocFest M24

Much of open source software would be more accessible with better user documentation and developer documentation. OSS (open source software), including Firefox, is written collectively by an extensive community; therefore empowering this community with the appropriate and necessary documents is critical. In “DocFest M24”, documents for both users and developers of OSS software will be worked on in a 24-hour collective effort. Participation is open to all groups and individuals with access to OSS documents and includes writing original documents, translating past manuals, or doing maintenance work on outdated materials -- all excellent ways of contributing to this effort. A lonely task when done alone can be energizing when done collectively! (This is a Japan-only event, however participation online is welcome at the Mozilla 24 IRC channel.)

Hands on event

The Matisse Machine

This new workshop combines the art of paper cutting with the latest digital devices. While in Nice, France, Impressionist artist Henri Matisse created many masterful works with paper cutouts. This art form was not only one of Matisse’s unique artistic styles, but also a powerful means to purify and simplify an image. "The Matisse Machine" does not use a computer mouse or a tablet, but instead, colored paper, scissors and glue. As the culmination of this event, the paper cutouts will be converted into digital images and connected together. (This is a Japan-only event.)

Hands on event

Making T-shirts with Foxkeh

Design and print your very own Foxkeh T-shirt in this workshop. Participants will be able to take home their original T-shirts. For this workshop, only the image of Foxkeh will be used, it is to be remixed, and then printed onto T-shirts. (This event is Japan only.)

Hands on event

MOGA

Contemporary database search systems usually use character strings as their search keywords. But, is it possible that information such as "body movements" and "striking poses" can be used as search keywords in the future? In this program, you can experience a next generation search system where "body movement" is the used as the search keyword. Program participants will become the search keywords themselves. Experience MOGA, and try striking some poses in front of the screen. Someone else might strike the same pose as you in the screen in front of you. And as you try out this new search system, your pose will become part of the database as well. If a person strikes the same pose as you, maybe your image will appear on the screen as the search result.

About MOGA

The name MOGA comes from kanji characters representing "to copy and draw" the motion of the participants, fitting for this interactive content. People can participate in the full-body interaction network using MOGA. Currently, we have to enter many tags and character strings to search the massive databases and pools of information made available on the web. However, the existing search systems require moving images to be tagged, which shows its age in the world of the ubiquitous digital cameras. MOGA aims to maybe change this world by creating new relations between people using their captured motions, perhaps a representation of a new future social environment.

Hands on event

dotSPACE

BenchWarmersPort (BWP), a research group from Keio University’s Research Institute of Digital Media and Content, is designing new entertainment content to be shown on a 10 Gb/sec. high-speed network and 10-piece multiple display system. As technologies develop, our communication tools must scale to meet the new capabilities. Therefore, we are designing new experiences to provide and receive very high bandwidth information. Right now, our concept is "United Creative Movements" and our entertainment content is "dotSPACE." dotSPACE uses wireless sensors on the human body to create movies and sounds in the display space. dotSPACE is a test of using networks to collapse distance and the separation between the user and the network. (This is a Japan-only event.)

Presentation

Shibuya.JS 24

Onsite technical talk session held by the non-profit JavaScript programming group "Shibuya.JS".

• Introduction
• Main Talks
  • INSIDE Gecko (speaker: gyuque)
  • AutoPagerize (speaker: swdyh)
  • Cross-platform development for next generation browsers (speaker:id:amachang)
  • Multithreading of JS for JS by JS (speaker: D.Maki)
• Lightning Talks
  • Reference implementation of ECMAScript4 (speaker: Yu Kobayashi)
  • Learn how to use Photoshop properly in 5 minutes (speaker: cho45)
  • Nibbling on jQuery (speaker: send)
  • Optimizing SHA-1 (speaker: Herumi)
  • facebook.js (speaker: kawa.net)
  • JaveScript.GIF (speaker: id:TAKESAKO)
  • JSONP Loader on ustream (speaker: mala)

Panel discussion

Crossfire! The future of the Web: Users vs. Web Designers vs. Browser Vendors

Invited panelists include vendors of the three leading Web browsers. They will hold a live debate about the past, present, and future of the Web. To incorporate users’ points of view, a special IRC channel will be opened, so that the panelists, the live audience, and global viewers are all connected. This event will be broadcast over the Internet. (The debate will be held only in Japanese.)

Challenge Event

LiveCoding @ Mozilla 24

LiveCoding is a new trend, a live programming show that allows heckling and cheering on the spot. Seeing amazing programmers coding live is a great way to liven up the evening. This will be fun. This is the fourth edition of this event, and we have chosen the late night time slot because that is when geekdom comes alive. There are many different LiveCoding events planned, from network games to browser extensions. Participants of all stripes are welcome, from the confident hackers to those that just want to see them in action! # <> will be used in this event to record the coding keystrokes, and playback files will be made available. (This event is Japan only)