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

Ideas for Improving Locale Management in Firefox
Firefox is right now available in over 90 languages, but what if you suddenly want to use it in a different lingo? Well, it is possible to download a language pack and change some settings, but this is honestly not very easy. That’s why Arky decided to explore some ideas to improve the locale management experience inside Firefox in his blog post. After looking at his Firefox Language Panel mockup, you can also feel free to share your thoughts, suggestions and criticism.

Introducing Mozilla Webmaker: Helping the World Make the Web

A few days ago, we launched “Mozilla Webmaker”, a program to help people everywhere make, learn and play using the open building blocks of the web. Matt Thompson explains why it pushes us one step closer to creating a web literate planet. The goal is to help people move from using the web to making the web by offering tools, projects and a community where you are always welcome. Mozilla Webmaker will be kicked off with a massive summer learning campaign, and everyone is invited! So check out his blogpost and start meeting, making and learning.

London Learning Jam
How would you teach something about the web using a game? A talented group of educators, designers and developers at the Mozilla London Learning Jam was given the design brief. During the first two days of the learning jam, they came up with lots of great ideas, some of them even prototyped their ideas by using paper and a pen. After playtesting the new games twice, Michelle Thorne’s take-aways were certain: Working in pairs, showing what others have made and giving a clear mission are definitely important.

Are add-ons keeping you on Firefox 3.6?
As we make a stronger push to move users away from old and potentially insecure Firefox versions, we need to make sure they don’t lose the add-ons they love. If there are add-ons holding you back on Firefox 3.6 or older, then check out Jorge Villalobos’ blog-post. He spent lots of time looking for the most-popular add-ons still in use on 3.6 and lists their best alternatives. And thanks to the amazing add-on developer community, where no abandoned add-on goes unforked, you probably never need to worry about upgrading again.

IPv6 is Here!
Finally, after many months, the Network Operations team rolled out a number of the top-tier websites over IPv6. Last year’s World IPv6 Day was a trial run. The goal was to have as many sites as possible turn on IPv6 connectivity for the day and fix possible problems. And unlike last year, the plan is to turn it on and leave it on. Make sure to read this blog post if you want to know which sites have full IPv6 connectivity.

Meet Some Mozillians
Mozilla says bonjour to Brian Groudan, Firas Alhaija and Katherine Naszradi. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* May 29, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France MOSQUITO
* May 30, San Francisco, California Fluent
* May 30, Aulanko, Finland OUG Harmony
* June 1, Bletchley Park, UK Over the air
* June 6, Mountain View Creating Successful Add-ons
* 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!

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

Congratulations To the 2012 Firefox Flicks Winners!
And the award goes to… you? Well, if you took part in the Firefox Flicks contest, then we have great news for you. The winning videos were announced a few days ago on the official website. We’d like to say congratulations to everyone who submitted a video. The judges had a great time watching the videos, just like many other users who were able to vote for their favourites. You can still watch all of the clips and an interesting show-reel in the blog post.

Mozilla supports Liberated Pixel Cup for Open Games

While the Firefox Flicks competition has ended, another competition will start in June: the Liberated Pixel Cup. Mozilla announced the support of the cup, which is a great competition aiming to spark the creation of artwork and code for games that are free and available for others to use. It was an obvious thing to do since we’ve improved our performance for games in Firefox, added new features for games, hosted a work week to discuss the future of games and much more. Make sure to take a look at the Liberated Pixel Cup website if you are ready to create some game-related goodness.

Code Signing Coming to Firefox Mac Builds
Apple has announced a new version of their operating system, Mac OS 10.8. It comes with some new features, including a security setting that prevents Firefox from running on it when the default settings are applied. This is because 10.8, by default, only allows programs to run if they are signed with an Apple Developer certificate. Because the new version of the OS could be released to the public in less than a month, we must have a signed and released Firefox out by then, and we will. Check out Ben Hearsum’s blog post to read more about it.

Native Firefox for Android Beta
We’ve been doing some progress on Firefox for Android as well – the first public beta with the new native user interface that is sleeker, lighter, and faster was released. If you’re using it already, you’ll notice how smooth panning and zooming are too. As you can see, the upcoming Firefox for Android is a whole new beast, make sure to put Lucas Rocha’s blog post onto your reading list to know what it’s up to.

270,000 New Direct Relationships Every Week for Firefox
As Firefox occupies lots of people’s pockets, it also occupies their hearts. Jane Finette’s blog post is all about the significant milestore that the User Engagement and User Volunteer Community teams reached. They passed 15 million direct relationships for the popular browser. Only one year ago, we were talking in English only to around 4 million people, today more than five and half million people receive the monthly Mozilla newsletter in five languages and 10 million other fans are actively engaged on social platforms. That’s incredible growth!

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to the workers at the Paris Office, who adapted to spring and stripped their winter coats off. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* May 23, Melbourne, Australia Web Directions Code
* May 24, Oslo, Norway Web Rebels
* May 25, Toulouse, France SudWeb
* May 25, Moscow, Russia .toster
* May 26, Vancouver, BC Polyglot
* 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!