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

Mozilla + Web Makers 2012
Mark Surman talks about the need to move people from simply using the web to making the web and what concrete things we could do in 2012 to create a web literate planet.

Hackasaurus in Africa

Mozilla Kenya ran the first-ever Hackasaurus event in Africa last week. The event held in a Nairobi school introduced youth and novice web makers to the basic building blocks of HTML.

MozCamp Asia Report
David Dahl has posted about his experience at MozCamp Asia. Meeting Mozilla contributors from all over Asia was the highlight and his talk “From Web Developer to Firefox Hacker” had helpful information for people looking to contribute to Mozilla.

What’s Up With Firefox Support
This week Michael Verdi shows us how to use the new Contributor Dashboard features on SUMO. Watch the video and learn more about Firefox support.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Stefania Ioana Chiorean, David Bruant, Mozilla Sénégal fait sa rentrée and the Spanish community. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* December 1, Online Webinar: IndexedDB with Jonas Sicking
* December 1, Online SUMO Day
* December 2, Online Web Applications TestDay
* 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.

Mozilla Europe
Mozilla Europe will be folded under the umbrella of the broader Mozilla organization so that ideas incubated in Europe can now be more easily rolled out on a global scale. We’re also expanding our presence in Europe by opening more Mozilla Spaces early next year! Please discuss and provide feedback on mozilla.governance.

MozCamps: Many voices, one Mozilla

We’ve just wrapped up two inspiring MozCamps in Asia and Europe which brought together close to 500 Mozillians. Ludovic Hirlimann gives a very nice personal account of his time at MozCamp Europe in Berlin, Germany. Check out the community collages that were presented in Asia and Europe. (Photo courtesy of Ludovic Hirlimann)

BrowserID on Mozilla Websites
Over the next few months, we’ll be rolling out BrowserID on Mozilla Websites. When we do, we’ll point users to this blog post to explain what BrowserID is and why we think this is good for users. If you would like to find out more about BrowserID watch the video posted by Ben Adida on the WebFWD blog. If you have any questions please join our mailing list or just tweet with the hashtag #browserid.

Native UI for Firefox
Android users on the Firefox Nightly channel will soon get an update offer to switch over to the Native UI. If you come across bugs in this new version of Firefox, please file a bug and if you are interested in helping us test the new nightly; please download the latest release, and hop on IRC to provide any feedback. For more background information about the new changes to Firefox please read Mark Finkle’s blog post.

Planet A-team
If your working with Mozilla Tools & Automation and struggling to keep up with the Planet firehose we now have a focused feed just for the A-team.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Desigan Chinniah, William Duyck and Leo McArdle from Mozilla UK. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* November 25, Online DevTools Aurora Testday
* 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!