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

Survey: Calling all Mozillians
David Eaves has asked our community to share their experiences as contributors by sending feedback via the Mozilla Volunteer Contributor Survey. Feedback is essential for assessing how well we are engaging and empowering Mozillians, and to improve the contributor experience so please fill it out.

Mozilla Ireland

Come and join us in Dublin, Ireland on November 2 to discuss how we can build our irish community and get more active contributors on board. If you’re attending the Mozilla Festival in London, this is a great opportunity to hop across the pond and get involved.

Hive NYC Learning
Mark Surman announced recently that Mozilla is taking over stewardship of Hive NYC (who co-developed Hackasaurus with Mozilla Labs ) a network of over 30 organizations that run out-of-school learning programs using web tools and web culture to help kids learn about whatever they are passionate about.

Firefox Affiliates
Last week we relaunched the Firefox Affiliates program a one stop place for finding and sharing Firefox and Mozilla download buttons. Please sign up to be a Firefox Affiliate today. Host a button on your blog or website and win all kinds of great Firefox prizes. If you’re interested in becoming a part of the Firefox Affiliates team, drop us an email at affiliates@mozilla.org or come and hang out with us in #affiliates in irc.

Ben Adida on BrowserID
This is the second installment of Mission:Mozilla, a series of interviews that link Mozillians, the technology they produce and the Mozilla mission. Ben Adida is in the hot seat to discuss BrowserID, Mozilla’s identity initiative.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Arky, Christina Haralanova and Ben Adida. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* October 28, online, Firefox Crash/Hang/Performance Test Day
* November 2, Dublin, Ireland, Meetup in Dublin – Mozilla Ireland
* November 4 – 6, London, England, Mozilla Festival — Media, Freedom and the Web
* November 12 – 13, Berlin, Germany, Mozilla Camp Europe 2011
* November 19 – 20, Kuala Lumpur, Asia Mozilla Camp Asia 2011
* 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.

State of Mozilla
Mitchell Baker announced the release of this year’s annual State of Mozilla report and invites you to learn more about the Mozilla Project and to join us in our ongoing efforts to build a better Internet.

Mozilla Festival

Michelle Thorne invites you to the Mozilla Festival this November in London for some brainstorming, collaborating and hacking with journalists, open web developers and media educators.

Next Generation Web Apps
Mozilla is launching a cool innovation challenge this November to build the next generation of web applications to explore how the Web will work in the future given an internet with no speed limits. If you would like to get involved stay tuned and leave your feedback in the comments.

Ada Lovelace Day
Womoz was recently relaunched alongside an event at the Mozilla Paris Office to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. We had a lively debate about getting more women involved in FLOSS. Read the report and find out how to get involved.

Get involved with Firefox
If you’re interested in helping out with testing Firefox on desktop or mobile check out these posts by Al Billings from the Firefox Team and Lucas Rocha from Mobile.

OpenWebApps Challenge
If you would like get involved with development / testing in our very cool openwebapps project, we have a challege if you choose to accept it.

Mozillian Stories
David Boswell has been collecting stories about how contributors have been getting involved with Mozilla and talks about the importance of Mozillians helping new contributors. Please feel free to add your own story.

Upcoming events
* November 4 – 6, London, England, Mozilla Festival — Media, Freedom and the Web
* November 12 – 13, Berlin, Germany, Mozilla Camp Europe 2011
* November 19 – 20, Kuala Lumpur, Asia Mozilla Camp Asia 2011
* 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.

Have a good week folks and keep rocking the web!