Archive for December, 2011

Firefox Flicks, Gaming and the Apps Project and more…

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

Firefox Flicks
We’re excited to announce Firefox Flicks, a campaign giving everyone an opportunity to produce a short film that highlights what makes Mozilla Firefox different. Submissions will be accepted February–April 2012 . We’ll be sharing more details soon, so follow us on Twitter at @firefoxflicks for news.

Gaming and the Apps Project

We really are now at a point where amazing games can be created on the Web with nothing but open technologies. Rob Hawkes gives a very nice overview of how the Mozilla Labs Apps project and other technologies at Mozilla relate to Web gaming.

Firefox on Android
The mobile UX team recently reviewed the latest designs of the native UI for Firefox on Android. If you would like to provide feedback join us on #mobile at irc.mozilla.org.

Web Maker newsletter
Matt Thompson will be providing a weekly series of round-ups that will summarize what is happening with our Mozilla Web Maker community. The best of these news items will feed into a new monthly newsletter. Please sign up if you’d like to receive it.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Julien Vermet, Bienvenue Alexis Métaireau, Majda Nafissa Rahal and Jérémie Patonnier. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* December 21, online, SUMO Day
* 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 and find other Mozillians in our community who share your interests.

About about:mozilla
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engagement team
and is published every Tuesday.

If you have anything you would like to include in our next issue,
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Have a great christmas everyone and we will see you again in the new year.

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Apps Developer Preview, Organizing Community and more…

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

Apps Developer Preview
Ragavan announces the launch of the Apps Developer Preview. The preview is limited to 3,000 developers so reserve your spot now to test the features of the marketplace app submission and sale process.

Organizing Community

Nukeador from the Mozilla Hispano community shares how they have grown their infrastructure to accommodate new contributors and projects.

Popcorn Shakespeare
Matt Thompson discusses how Kate Hudson from the Knight-Mozilla project has taken Shakespeare and created an outstanding interactive film that highlights the potential of hyper-video for learning and education.

Rawkes Weekly
If you’re interested in Web development and building space games with HTML5 you should definitely be checking out the weekly installments of the all-new Rawkes Weekly. The tenth installment is out now.

Goodbye Sync Add-on
This week we announced the end of official support for the Firefox Sync add-on. To ensure that you continue to get all the features provided by Sync and the best Firefox experience, please upgrade to the latest version of Firefox.

IT Volunteers
Matthew gives a run down of the number of responses to the five different IT volunteer positions and what will happen next. If you’re interested in any of these positions be sure to apply.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Selim Sumlu, Élodie Lesag, Mohamed Amarochan (محمد أعمروشا) and Jérémie Patonnier. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* 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 and find other Mozillians in our community who share your interests.

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[dot]com or send us a status message on mozilla.status.net or a tweet @aboutmozilla .
You can also subscribe to the email version.

Have a good week folks and keep rocking the Web!

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