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

What exactly is a Webmaker?
Want to know what Mozilla means by Web making? Or why you (and Mozilla) should care? Mark Surman and Michelle Levesque recently gave a 20 minute talk that answers this question.

Winding down Drumbeat.org

Later this month were going to be winding down the Drumbeat brand and web site. We’re going to be focusing on our most successful projects that also happen to be ones that will help us build the next generation of webmakers. If you would like to get involved with building our new Website or help us with reinventing our brand or with other things that were working on check out our Mozilla Webmakers wiki for details on our projects, community calls, and others ways to stay in touch.

Dev Derby February
It’s February and time for our next Dev Derby! This month, we want to see what you can do with touch events. Your submitted demos will be showcased in our Mozilla’s Demo Studio, and we would also like to feature you in an article here on Mozilla Hacks as well! Go for it!

Popcorn Learning Labs
If you would like to organize (or take part in) a Mozilla Popcorn Learning Lab that introduces developers and filmmakers to remixing web content into video using open tools then check out this guide for more information.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Cédric Menge (Chewey), Paul Berettoni (cmal), David McNamara (Mackers), Otto de Voogd and Philipp Kewisch. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events

* February 21, San Francisco, USA and online, Firefox Add-ons Made Easy
* 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.

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.

Firefox Developer Tools
The latest version of Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. Watch the video to learn more.

DIY Love Letter

Jess Klein is giving a helping hand to young Web makers this valentines with her prototype DIY love letter. Now anyone can start hand coding a valentine for their loved one.

FOSDEM 2012
If you’re going to FOSDEM this year and are interested in Add-ons development or Firefox performance there are a number of interesting talks & events you should attend and hackerspaces where you can get a beer!

Mozilla Labs: Pancake
Pancake is a new Mozilla Labs project to better understand what people do on the Web, why and how they do those things, and how we can make those things easier and more efficient. If you would like to get involved or talk with us about the project, please visit our wiki.

Community IT
Mozilla IT started including Community specific goals last quarter. Find out how they’re getting on.

New Year’s Resolution
Chris Leary has information for how you can become a more awesome javascript coder and get a pretty great Ionmonkey shirt too.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Eduardo Urcullù, Marcela Oniga, Mozilla (the dog) and Alexandre et le cupcake. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* February 3, Online Firefox 11 Beta 1 Testday
* February 4-5, Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting)
* 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!