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

New Developer Tools
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds new in-product developer tools that make it easier to visualize page elements. Nicknamed Tilt, the brand new WebGL-based website visualization tool highlights the structure of a page better than a flat view, so anyone can immediately understand the relationship of the code to the page output.

Extraterrestrial Fun with HTML5

Ondřej Žára and Rob Hawkes, two Mozillians who love experimenting with HTML5 and other modern web technologies, have recently started a new project called Just Spaceships, which is a space shooter based on HTML5. It’s a simple game with a space shooter theme. A notable thing is that it doesn’t use WebGL, only canvas-based rendering. It also supports multiplayer games and finally, it’s completely open-source. You can take a look at the source code or just play the game.

Girls Learning Code
The Mozilla Toronto community space was recently full of girls aged 11 to 14 spending a week learning how to code. It’s one more step towards tackling the gender divide in tech and bringing kids closer to the modern techniques of making and building. “I don’t want them to see coding as nerdy and geeky. I want them to see it as cool and empowering.” said Heather Payne, the driving force behind the camp. If you want to host your own youth hack jam, take a look at the Mozilla Hackasaurus event kit.

New Open Badges site
Jess Klein, talks about how she redesigned the Open Badges website. The new design makes use of illustrations that embody the different types of people who interact with badges—an issuer, user and displayer. Read more about how she created the design and then check out the new Open Badges site.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Ben Turner, Chris Jones, Neil Deakin and Haitham El Ghareeb. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* March 14, Paris, France Paris Hackers Meetup #4
* March 15, Internet SUMO Day
* March 21, Zurich, Switzerland Mozilla Coffee Table
* March 24, Manhattan, New York MDN Hack Day
* March 30, San Francisco, California TLDRconf
* April 6, Béziers, France Web 5
* 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.

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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.

Firefox Flicks
We are excited to let everyone know that the Firefox Flicks video competition is now open for entries. So if you’re a creative filmmaker or animator who would like to educate users about the issues that affect our online lives why not create a short film and enter the competition? All entries will be judged by a panel of Hollywood Judges and entered to win cash prizes. The deadline for entries is May 1, 2012. For more information please visit firefoxflicks.org.

A Look at Gaia

Josh Carpenter, who is the Lead Designer for Boot to Gecko has posted a number of screenshots of the new Gaia interface for B2G. What makes Gaia truely awesome is that it is all developed using the Web technologies HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. The other wonderful thing about Gaia is that it is developed completely in the open! All the Gaia code is available on GitHub so you can check it out and test or contribute right now! If you would like to learn more about Gaia and the B2G project watch our talk given last week at the Mobile World Congress.

Growing Mozilla
David Boswell gives an update on Grow Mozilla, an initiative to help Mozillians achieve their crazy and ambitious goals by bringing in volunteers to their teams. Grow Mozilla brings together the tools, channels and expertise from our team and from other parts of the project into one place.
If you’d like to talk to us about how to find volunteers for your team, come to our regular real life discussion forums or join our online discussion forum.

Q & A With Michal Biniek
Michal Biniek is a frontend developer on the Innogames Lagoonia team, and an enthusiast of JavaScript and new web technologies like HTML5/CSS3, WebSockets, and WebRTC.
If you’ve been following Dev Derby since it launched last year, you might remember seeing Michal’s entries Fly, fly! or Too Many Fish in the Sea. Check out the Q & A to find out more about Michal.
Submissions are now open for upcoming Derbies: CSS 3D transforms, Audio, and the Web Sockets API.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Marcia Knous, Brendan Eich, Andreas Gal, Santiago Hollmann (Nuno), Haitham El-Ghareeb, Matjaž à la tribune and Jardín Firefox en Cuba. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* March 9, On the Web, Mozilla Persona (formerly known as BrowserID) Testday
* March 25, London, England Mozilla Popcorn Learning Lab

* 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.

For more on what has been happening this week also checkout the Mozilla Project Meeting.

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!