Join Mozilla’s Global Sprint with Glitch
Mozilla’s Global Sprint is a fun, two-day collaborative hackathon that runs from today, May 10th until the 11th. The event brings together a diverse network of educators, engineers, artists, scientists, and many others to build projects for a healthy Internet.
The Global Sprint is open to everyone, no matter your skill level or background. It’s an opportunity to leverage your design or writing skills, expertise in coding, teaching, QA testing, game design, or whatever else, to help make the Internet better, safer, and healthier. You’re able to collaborate with partners in person, or work online with folks from the other side of the world.
This year, the Global Sprint is focusing on five key Internet Health Issues:
- WEB LITERACY: Projects that teach individuals skills to shape — and not simply consume — the web.
- OPENNESS: Projects that keep the web transparent and understandable, allow anyone to invent online without asking permission, and encourage thoughtful sharing and reuse of data, code, and ideas.
- PRIVACY & SECURITY: Projects that illuminate what happens to our personal data online, and how to make the Internet safer for all.
- DIGITAL INCLUSION: Projects that ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to access the Internet, and can use it to improve their lives and societies.
- DECENTRALIZATION: Projects that protect and secure an Internet controlled by many, so that no one actor can own it or control it or switch it off.
Here at Glitch, we love these themes behind the Global Sprint, and we want to help you make them happen! So we’ve put together a collection of starter projects that you can use to kickstart your sprint project.
By building on Glitch, you can get straight to hacking without the need to worry about setting up your dev environment. And you can code together with partners in real-time, like editing a Google Doc.
To find a hackathon near you, or to join in virtually, register here for the Global Sprint. And here’s Mozilla’s guide for participating in the sprint.
We can’t wait to see what you build!