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

Protect the Internet

Mozilla is joining a virtual strike against Internet censorship – along with others like Wikipedia and Google – to raise awareness of U.S. Congress legislation that could fundamentally alter the Internet. This harmful legislation, called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), will be voted on as early as January 24th in the U.S. Senate. Want to help?  Please visit mozilla.org/sopa or check the Mozilla Blog for further details.

Mozilla Firefox Challenge

Mozilla is pleased to announce that the Mozilla Firefox Challenge has raised more than $680,000 for social and humanitarian causes around the world.  We would like to extend our congratulations and sincere gratitude to all participating individuals and organizations that made the Mozilla Firefox Challenge a major success. Thank you all for helping us do a world of good.

Identity in the Cloud

Matt Thompson gives a nice overview of some of the recent blog posts on what Mozilla will be doing for the Web and You in 2012 to protect your online identity and personal data in the Cloud.

Firefox ESR

We are pleased to announce the Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox for use by companies, public institutions, universities and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments.

If you’re interested in the ESR or discussions around deploying Firefox in a managed environment, we’d encourage you to join the Mozilla Enterprise Working Group.

Universal Tab

We’re excited to roll out the next phase of the universal tab as part of the One Mozilla project. Right now it’s organized into four major areas, but it will surely evolve based on testing, usage trends and of course your input. If you have suggestions, please let us know in the comments section.

Mobile Newsletter

If you’re a busy reader looking to keep up with what’s going on with the world of mobile then why not try subscribing to the Mobile Newsletter.

Meet Some Mozillians

Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Yoric, Mouhammadou Moustapha NIANG, Michelle Thorne and Mozilliens en Croatie. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events

* January 18, Online, Contributor Audit with David Eaves

* January 19, Online, SUMO Day

* January 20-21, Online, MDN Doc Sprint

* January 21-22, Tokyo, Japan Mozilla Vision 2012

* January 25, Online, Mozilla CTF hacking competition

* 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 .

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Have a good week folks and keep rocking the Web!

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

MPL Version 2.0
We’re starting off 2012 by releasing MPL 2.0, the updated version of the Mozilla Public License that is shorter, better, and more compatible with other Free Software and Open Source Licenses. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the process.

Badges Competition

Mozilla is seeking designers and developers to participate in the $2 million “Badges for Learning” competition. Participants will have the chance to design digital badges for more than 60 different leading organizations including NASA, Intel and Disney-Pixar, all aimed at providing recognition for learning that happens on the Web or outside of school. To get involved check out the competition Web site. Deadline for entries is January 17. Good luck.

WebFWD Resolutions
The WebFWD team share their goals for 2012 and some of the ways you can participate in their efforts to keep the Web open, innovative and at the service of users.

Add-ons Compatibility
All add-ons will be made compatible by default in the upcoming Firefox 10 release, so it’s crunch time for testing them in Beta, Aurora, and Nightly. It would be super helpful for everyone to install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter and let us know through the reporter if your add-ons are working properly.

Mozilla Project Meeting
This is the first weekly Mozilla project meeting for January 2012. These videos are great for keeping up with the cool stuff happening all over the project.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Jason Haas, Ebarrun, Élisez Elisa and Bonne année Pandark. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* January 13, Online Firefox Add-ons Default to Compatible Test Day
* January 16, Zurich, Switzerland MozPub Zurich
* January 25, Online Mozilla CTF hacking competition
* 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.