In this issue…

• Firefox in 2011
• Meet Mike Hommey
• Help teach girls the power of the Web!
• What’s up with Socorro?
• Results of the Firefox 4 FIXED Bugday
• Introducing Perf-O-Matic 2.0
• Mozilla and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation partner
• More on Do-not-track!
• Mozilla in Summer of Code 2011
• An Overview of the AMO Review Process
• Design Jam London #2
• It’s a wrap: FOSDEM
• Software updates
• Upcoming events
• Developer calendar
• About about:mozilla

Firefox in 2011
Our Firefox roadmap was updated, and outlines Mozilla’s strategy and overall direction for Firefox this coming year. Mike Beltzner shares that,”We succeeded in re-energizing the browser market, creating competition and innovation which benefits Web application developers and users alike. This newly competitive market has presented challenges for the continued success of Firefox, and in 2011 we must ensure that we can deliver a product that is compelling to users in order to continue to be able to demonstrate our vision for the Web.” You can see more here.

Meet Mike Hommey
Bonjour Mozilla, a French Community blog, has been regularly spotlighting contributors. This week Bonjour Mozilla takes a look at Mike Hommey. He’s been working to optimize Firefox startup performance. Fun fact about Mike: he speaks Japanese!

Help teach girls the power of the Web!
Mozilla will be participating in Saturday’s Dare2BDigital conference in Mountain View which aims to get young girls exposed to technology. Lukas Blakk has taken the lead on a video workshop that will show off both HTML5 and Universal Subtitles. She’ll be joined by Marcia Knous, William Reynolds and Rainer Cvillink. Sign up to volunteer on-site or translate subtitles online!

What’s up with Socorro?
The Socorro team has a new blog where you can track what’s going on with the crash statistics and everything Socorro. Find out more about how the Socorro team works to identify crashers and make Firefox more stable.

Results of the Firefox 4 FIXED Bugday
QA Engineer Anthony Hughes reports on the excellent Firefox bugday which had 30 testers testing over 114 bugs. One participant tested 45 bugs on his/her own! Please read more about the results from the test day. If you’re interested in helping with Mozilla’s QA effort, please consider joining our next test day as it is a great opportunity to work with more experienced testers in realtime over irc.

Introducing Perf-O-Matic 2.0
Rob Helmer introduces the next generation web application that will be used to track Mozilla’s software quality. It shows graphical charts of performance based on different tests and different operating systems. Rob and the WebDev team would like everyone to take a look at the new app, and file any bugs you might find to make it even better.

Mozilla and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation partner
Yesterday we announced a Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, a Mozilla Drumbeat project. According to Barbara Hueppe, “For the next three years, we will have the opportunity to engage a huge community, bring people together for trainings and in-person events, and ultimately build software to address the challenges facing news organizations.” Read all about it here.

More on Do-not-track!
Sid Stamm keeps us updated on Do-not-track (DNT) and brings us news that you can use it for older versions of Firefox while today’s new Firefox 4 beta has it! Although it’s always best to use the latest version of Firefox there’s an add-on you can install to take advantage of DNT. Learn more and how to get it on Sid’s blog or get the new beta here.

Mozilla in Summer of Code 2011
Gerv Markham writes that Mozilla will be applying to participate in Google’s Summer of Code 2011 program. If you have a Mozilla project that might be appropriate for Summer of Code, please get in touch with Gerv. Once we have a list of possible projects, we will also be contacting appropriate people to ask them to be mentors for these projects.

An Overview of the AMO Review Process
Add-ons Developer Relations Lead, Jorge Villalobos, has a lengthy overview of the AMO review process for those who may not know the details or policies involved. The AMO Review process is run by a group of volunteers named the AMO Editors. As Mozilla prepares for the release of Firefox 4, the AMO Editors are busier than ever. If you develop Add-ons please be sure to read Jorge’s post and a huge thanks to all the AMO Editors out there!

Design Jam London #2
Dees Chinniah of Mozilla Labs is organizing the next Labs Design Jam in London in conjunction with City University London on Feb. 26th. If you are in London or interested in finding out more about Open Design, please see Dees’ blog post.

It’s a wrap: FOSDEM
Mozilla took part once again at the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting 2011, with a two-day Dev room and a busy booth. 15 talks were delivered in Mozilla’s Dev room that covered many key areas of the Mozilla project! The Mozilla Belgium team also had a kickoff meeting to plan activities for 2011 and to start work on their upcoming community portal. A hearty thanks to everyone who helped out with the Mozilla booth and our overall presence. We also managed to squeeze in some fun with another fantastic Community Social Night!

Software updates
* Firefox 4 Beta – now with ‘Do Not Track” capabilities.

Upcoming events
* Feb 12, Mountain View, CA, Dare 2b Digital 2011
* Feb 26, London, UK, Open Design Jam
* March 1 – 5, Hannover, Germany, CeBIT
* April 9-10, Bulgaria Web Summit 2011

Developer calendar
For an up-to-date list of the coming week’s Mozilla project meetings and events, please see the Mozilla Community Calendar wiki page. Notes from previous meetings are linked to through the Calendar as well.

About about:mozilla
about:mozilla is by, for and about the Mozilla community, focusing on major news items related to all aspects of the Mozilla Project. The newsletter is written by Mozilla’s contributor engagement team and will be published every Tuesday. This week’s issue is a collaborative effort.

If you have any news, announcements, events, or software releases you would like to have included in our next issue, please send them to: about-mozilla[at]mozilla.com.

You can also subscribe to the email version!

In this issue…

• Game On Finalists: Voting ends today!
• Contributor Engagement Town Halls: North/South America + Asia
• Thanks to all MDN Doc Sprint participants!
• New Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo here
• Evolving the front door to Mozilla
• “Best in Show” Mobile Add-on Developer Gives Back!
• Update on Mozilla’s web security bounty
• Introduction to Ehsan Akhgari
• PBS NewsHour and Mozilla team up for an awesome project
• Join Mozilla – First looks at creative
• Upcoming events
• Developer calendar
• About about:mozilla

Game On Finalists: Voting ends today!
Julie Choi reports that the Mozilla Labs Open Web Games contest has narrowed the finalists to 35 and community voting is open until Feb 1. Even if you don’t vote, you can enjoy these excellent browser-based games with friends.

Contributor Engagement Town Halls: North/South America + Asia
The new contributor engagement team (that’s us) will be hosting a series of town hall meetings to share early 2011 plans, get feedback and brainstorm. They’ll be hosted across three regions to accommodate the most timezones and community. First up: North/South America hosted by Mary Colvig, David Boswell and Juan Becerra (habla español). If you’re a contributor in these regions please vote on the best time and date.

Gen Kanai is planning the same for contributors in Asia. This meeting would be a conference call and IRC chat to discuss contribution at Mozilla. If you would like to participate and/or give feedback, please visit Gen’s blog post to select the best times on Feb 7-9.

Thanks to all the MDN Doc Sprint participants!
Janet Swisher reports back on this past weekend’s doc sprint and the participation was great! 30 people from over 12 countries worked on 300 documentation pages. According to Janet, “This sprint provided a couple of instances of cooperation with other organizations that I believe bodes well for MDN’s future as a resource, not just for Mozilla technologies, but for open web technologies in general.”

New Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo here
You can get the latest Firefox 4 Beta from the Android Market to test on your Google Android device or go here to get Firefox 4 Beta on your Nokia Maemo device. It’s the fastest yet: “You will notice faster start-up, page load times and responsiveness to panning and zooming.”

Evolving the front door to Mozilla
David Boswell writes about the efforts to update the “Getting Involved with Mozilla” website. David also shares the news about a new community phonebook project that will help community members get in contact with each other across communities. This is something that has been requested for a long time and should help communication between Mozilla’s communities. Gerv Markham has a proposal for the community phonebook up for review.

“Best in Show” Mobile Add-on Developer Gives Back!
Chris Finke snagged “Best in Show” in the Mobile Add-ons Cup with Tapsure, an add-on that allows you to input passwords on sites by tapping a rhythm on your touchscreen. Not only did he create a great add-on, but elected to donate proceeds of his prize to Mozilla’s Open Web Fund, Drumbeat. Thanks, Chris!

Update on Mozilla’s web security bounty
Chris Lyon, Mozilla’s Director of Infrastructure Security, writes to remind us that Mozilla has expanded the list of Mozilla web services that are eligible for a security bug bounty. Please read Chris’ post for a full list of eligible websites as well as a link to the FAQ for the bug bounty program.

Introduction to Ehsan Akhgari
Ehsan Akhgari has a wonderful post about how he came to contribute to Mozilla. He writes about how the path to Mozilla was not necessarily direct and that it was the impact of the software on users that was a critical factor in why he chose to work on Mozilla. It encapsulates many of the reasons many of us contribute to Mozilla.

PBS NewsHour and Mozilla team up for an awesome project
Brett Gaylor shares a “blow by blow” summary of his trip to Washington, DC last week where he participated in a cool web video project with the PBS NewsHour team (an evening TV news program). They created an annotated version of President Barack Obama’s State of The Union Speech using popcorn.js, showcasing the kind of innovation that Mozilla Drumbeat is trying to foster with Web Made Movies.

Join Mozilla – First looks at creative
Chelsea Novak shared the design concept for the landing page for the Join Mozilla program. Join Mozilla is a program that combines the best of Mozilla’s user engagement and fundraising activities in the past and takes them to next level: making it easy for the millions of people who love Firefox and Mozilla to be connected to what we’re doing and help us create the new projects and ideas that will keep the web open for decades to come.

Upcoming events
* Feb 5-6, Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM 2011
* Feb 12, Mountain View, CA, Dare 2b Digital 2011
* March 1 – 5, Hannover, Germany, CeBIT
* April 9-10, Bulgaria Web Summit 2011

Developer calendar
For an up-to-date list of the coming week’s Mozilla project meetings and events, please see the Mozilla Community Calendar wiki page. Notes from previous meetings are linked to through the Calendar as well.

About about:mozilla
about:mozilla is by, for and about the Mozilla community, focusing on major news items related to all aspects of the Mozilla Project. The newsletter is written by Mozilla’s contributor engagement team and will be published every Tuesday. This week’s issue is a collaborative effort.

If you have any news, announcements, events, or software releases you would like to have included in our next issue, please send them to: about-mozilla[at]mozilla.com.

You can also subscribe to the email version!