about:mozilla is a weekly round-up of news and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week:

Dev Derby Challenge
Enter our new Dev Derby challenge to show the world how much is possible using open technologies in a modern browser. The first challenge focuses on CSS3 Animations that will be introduced in Firefox 5. Check out the upcoming DemoParties in the events section below to get even more demo action.

Make Your Mark
Mark Up is a new 3D collaborative art project for the open Web. Get involved and make your “mark” for the world’s largest resource. The site uses the Graffiti Markup Language to help us create a visual statement that the web belongs to us all.

Join Mozilla Reps
Take your participation in the Mozilla project to the next level, apply to become a Mozilla Rep. This program is designed to make it easy for Mozillians to organize events, to inspire new contributors and to share their activities with the broader community.

Future of News
Vote for your favorite ideas from people around the world collaborating to invent the future of news. The Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership is looking for help to determine who advances to the next stage of our process of embedding hackers in the world’s most exciting newsrooms.

Who is in the Mozilla Community?

We recently put together an infographic to show who is in the Mozilla community. We want to hear from you to find out if this visual and the way we are describing how people can interact makes sense to you. Find out more and and give us your thoughts.

Upcoming events
* June 17, online, Firefox 5 Web Compatibility Test Day
* June 17 – 19, Boston, Mass., @Party Demoscene Boston
* June 25, Pune, India, Pune DemoParty
* July 2, London, England, Design Jam London #3
* July 15 – 17, Oslo, Norway, Solskogen DemoParty
* November 4 – 6, London, England, Mozilla Festival — Media, Freedom and the Web
* See more on the Mozilla Community Calendar

Get Involved
These are just some of the available contribution opportunities. Learn more about other ways to get involved!

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about:mozilla is a weekly round-up of news and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week:

Twitter Search Add-on
Twitter has just released the Twitter Address Bar Search add-on to make it easy to complete Twitter searches in Firefox. Search for #hashtags and @usernames by entering the searches directly into the Awesome Bar. If this inspires you with a great idea, learn how to build an add-on.

Rapid Prototyping with Chromeless
Mozilla’s Chromeless project makes it possible to rapidly develop a working prototype using standard web technologies. Ben Francis is using this to build Webian Shell, a full screen browser for devices that don’t need a desktop. Check out the demo and learn about how to use Chromeless to make your own prototype.

Progress on Progress
Aurora now has support for the HTML progress element that can be used to give visual clues of anything in progress on a web page. Take a look at this demo of progress and learn more about other cool developer features coming in Firefox 6.

Growing Communities
Dave Humphrey shares ideas about how to get people involved in projects based on his experiences with the Audio Data API, Processing.js and other community efforts. If you have other useful tips for getting people involved, share them on our contributor best practices wiki.

Meet a Mozillian
George lives in Crete and is a long-time Greek localizer and is helping enlarge the Greek and localization communities. Check out Bonjour Mozilla for a daily dose of more community photos.

Upcoming events
* June 6 – 8, online and Cincinnati, Ohio, Mozilla Developer Network doc sprint
* June 9, online, Contribute Group
* June 10, online, Developer Tools Testday
* July 15 – 17, Oslo, Norway, Solskogen DemoParty
* See more on the Mozilla Community Calendar

Get Involved
These are just some of the available contribution opportunities. Learn more about other ways to get involved!

About about:mozilla
The newsletter is written by Mozilla’s contributor engagement team and is published every Tuesday.

If you have anything you would like to include in our next issue, please contact: about-mozilla[at]mozilla.com.

You can also subscribe to the email version.