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

Open Election 2012
Mozilla partners with public media to launch Open Election 2012. The event will showcase how open web technologies and citizen participation can make election coverage more accessible to diverse audiences, and provide new ways to engage with the news. Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include crowd sourced captions and subtitles provided by everyday citizens around the world.

Tomorrow’s Webmakers

Our Japanese community along with Mozilla staff and friends organised a wonderful hackjam event for young Web makers in Tokyo. The whole day was run as a series of Hive “Popups” which included activities like remixing the web with Hackasaurus and prototyping Web interfaces on paper.

Community Photo Collection

The Creative team needs your help collecting photos that capture the personality of our global community for an upcoming design project inspired by the new orange design of the Firefox download page. If you have any pictures that you’d like to submit, please tag them with mwcboothdesign by Thursday.

SOPA/PIPA Postponed
Thank you to everyone who spoke out against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act. It’s your actions that have postponed these bills. We have a breakdown of the statistics for the campaign if you would like to find out more.

Dev Derby for January
This month’s competition is about orientation, and we are looking forward to some really interesting ideas and demos from you people! So, what are you waiting for? Submit your demo now!

Thunderbird testday
The Thunderbird team is organizing an important test day to make sure that we aren’t breaking anything for people that will update from 3.1.x to 10. If you would like to participate find out how to get involved.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Eduardo Urcullù, Marco Zehe, Majda Dans and Roi et Reine . Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* January 24-25, Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco Node Summit
* January 25, Online Mozilla CTF hacking competition
* January 25, Mozilla, San Francisco Selenium meetup
* January 26, Online Thunderbird ESR testing
* 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.

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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.

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 .

You can also subscribe to the email version.

Have a good week folks and keep rocking the Web!