Mozilla Ignite - Eureka Idea Jam!

Access Humboldt hosting Mozilla Ignite Challenge event - "Eureka Idea Jam!"

What would you do with an Internet without limits?
How can next-generation apps change the world?

Come to Access Humboldt's "Eureka Idea Jam" and share your ideas!

You don't need to be a developer or technologist to participate -- at this stage we're just seeking good ideas. All are welcome!

Mozilla Ignite Challenge - Eureka Idea Jam
at Access Humboldt's Community Media Center, Eureka High School
Monday August 20, 2012, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Open to the public, free of charge.
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To: Residents of Humboldt County (and adjacent lands)
Fr: Access Humboldt
Re: Mozilla Ignite Challenge - Eureka Idea Jam!
http://accesshumboldt.net/site/mozilla-ignite-eureka-idea-jam

Access Humboldt hosting Mozilla Ignite Challenge event - "Eureka Idea Jam!"

On Monday August 20, 2012 from 4:30pm to 6:00pm, Access Humboldt is
hosting "Eureka Idea Jam" at the Community Media Center - Eureka High School
This event that is part of a national project called Mozilla Ignite.
https://mozillaignite.org/

Monday's event is part of the Mozilla Ignite Challenge -
Mission: "Build Apps that Change the World!"

Between now and August 23rd, hosting a big public brainstorm - online
and at salons and hack days across the U.S.

Eureka Idea Jam is a chance to share your idea,
connect with other innovators and meet potential collaborators.
Ready? Go!

[If you can't join the Eureka Idea Jam in person - please jump in
online anytime!]
https://mozillaignite.org/about/

"Mozilla Ignite is an open innovation
challenge hosted by Mozilla and the National Science Foundation as
part of the US Ignite initiative. The goal: imagine and build apps
that show the full potential of next-generation networks, in areas
that matter -- like healthcare, education, energy, manufacturing and
public safety."

The "Eureka Idea Jam" will be an informal brainstorm session -
gathering ideas about future possibilities. We'll consider some big
fun questions: What would you do with an Internet without limits? And
how can next-generation apps change the world?

Come to Access Humboldt's "Eureka Idea Jam" and share your ideas!
Attendees will be rewarded.

We'd particularly like to hear from local residents of Humboldt County.
Please share this invitation widely!

You don't need to be a developer or technologist to participate -- at
this stage we're just seeking good ideas. All are welcome!

Mozilla Ignite - Eureka Idea Jam
at Access Humboldt's Community Media Center,
at Eureka High School, enter from Del Norte & L Sts.
Monday August 20, 2012, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Open to the public, free of charge.

Statement of Sean McLaughlin, executive director of Access Humboldt and Knight Media Policy Fellow with New America Foundation:

"The Eureka Idea Jam is another important part of Access Humboldt's ongoing efforts to develop sustainable community broadband and media access for our region. We are grateful to ZeroDivide and Mozilla Foundation and other partners in the Mozilla Ignite Challenge. Following up with our recent Future of Community Information workshop (http://accesshumboldt.net/site/future-community-information-workshop-hel...), the Eureka Idea Jam is also funded in part through grant from the John. S. and James L. Knight Foundation and aligned with the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy - http://www.knightcomm.org/ . We are delighted to do our part for the Digital Redwoods of California's North Coast."

For more information, contact:
Sean McLaughlin c: 707-616-2381
e: sean@accesshumboldt.net

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