About Us

The OurBlock project is a 2012 Mozilla Festival Design Challenge with a goal of answering the question, 'What does our block sound like?" For people around the world, radio offers a way to share experiences, culture, local news and critical information while building community engagement through a real time, collective social experience.

Building on SourceFabric's Airtime open source radio automation software, APIs from SoundCloud and Twilio and open web technologies, MozFest hackers can help design and develop features to create a platform that delivers real time continuous listening, a shared participatory audience experience and social community development.

The session will be split into three parts:

1. Part 1) This.IsOurBlock: an introduction to community-driven radio efforts around the world and the goals for this project at MozFest
2. Part 2) Idea and Feature Development: generate ideas and new features that focus on audio content workflows, audience participation and content creation and a highly social user-experience.
3. Team-Up and Hack: Build collaborative teams based on individual skill sets represented at the session and hack on new features and new designs for OurBlock and Airtime.

#MozFest OurBlock Community Radio Session at Mozilla Festival 11-10-12 on Etherpad