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

Firefox user experience news
Madhava Enros posts about how the user experience team is getting Firefox to feel more like one product—Firefoxy—across all our platforms, desktop to tablet to phone. There are lots of awesome mockups and wireframes in the slides to check out. You can find out more details about these plans on the Kilimanjaro wiki page.

Learn how to code this Summer

This summer, for the first time ever, Mozilla will teach about coding: we want to expose thousands of people to HTML, JavaScript and CSS to help them make things on the web. Or, at least, to give them a glimpse of how the web works. It’s an invite for anyone who wants to teach or learn webmaking to spend a few minutes building something with friends, it’s a big tent for anyone who shares our goal of a more web literate planet. You can get involved by running a small code party, becoming a partner or joining our weekly Webmaker conference calls.

Meet the “Web Arcade:” hackable games that teach the web
Because of the big upcoming Summer Campaign, the Mozilla Webmaker community has been hard at work on learning missions and starter projects – including a “Web Arcade” filled with hackable missions and very fun games. One of our favorites is definitely the “Make Me Pretty” demo where you can make the future by updating websites for today’s web. If you want to learn more about the Web Arcade, make sure to read Chloe Varelidi’s blog post.

Aurora 14 is out! What’s in it?
In Jean-Yves Perrier’s new blog post, it’s all about the new features that come with Aurora 14. One of the highlights is the native fullscreen support in Mac OS X. We also have great news for gamers: A new API lets games better control the mouse and in addition to that, there are privacy enhancements and lots of other improvements. These features should be released in 12 weeks as part of Firefox 14, but you can already test them by downloading Aurora.

Curate your Learning through Webmaker Projects
Have you tried to learn how to code, and signed up to get weekly instructionals? If you did stick with it past week four – are you proud with what you made or could you show a friend how to make a web project? No? Then you should consider to curate your learning through Webmaker projects. Jess Klein, Design and Learning Lead of Mozilla Hackasaurus, published an interesting blog post on why they could help you to how to come up with ideas, learning something new, finding a like-minded community and getting motivated.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Thierno Ndiaye, Tobias Leingruber and Aleksandar Savic. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* May 11, New Brunswick, NJ Professional IT Community Conference
* May 14, San Francisco, California AnDevCon
* May 16, Hotel San Marco, Via longena 42, Verona, Italy jsDay 2012
* May 19, Taipei, Taiwan JSDC.tw 2012
* May 20, Chicago (Rosemont), IL Society for Technical Communication Summit
* May 20, Buenos Aires MDN Hack Day
* See more on the Mozilla Community Calendar

Upcoming events in London, England
* May 9 Open House
* May 10 Geek Quiz
* May 12 MDN Hackday
* May 14 Monday Mobile Madness
* May 15 Open House 2
* May 16 Geek Bowling

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.

Firefox Introduces a Simpler Update Process
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux makes updating the browser easier and includes more than 85 improvements to built-in developer tools. We put a lot of work into making the Firefox update experience easier. Firefox simplifies the update process for Windows users by removing the user account control dialog (UAC) pop-up while maintaining the security of your system.

Firefox Flicks Contest Ending May 1st

The Firefox Flicks global video contest to tell our story ends soon. You’ll be eligible for some amazing prizes or for your video to be seen by Hollywood judges. Contest closes May 1st. Enter and vote today.

Webmaker Update
Matt Thompson, Chief Storyteller for the Mozilla Foundation, has posted some interesting news regarding the Webmaker project. Make sure to put it onto your reading list if you want to find out about “Augmenting Amazonia”, a new interactive video experiment or the metric that matters most for the Mozilla Webmaker project. It also announces the new Webmaker web site which shows projects, tools and events for webmakers and a small summary of the knight-mozilla OpenNews Hackathon in Buenos Aires. Also make sure to take a look at Jess Klein’s wireframes for the new webpage maker.

Tell us about your favorite add-ons and win an Android tablet
In 200 words or less, tell us how your favorite Firefox Add-on makes your day more productive, saves you money, or just makes you happy. A special panel of judges will pick 10 finalists, and the AMO community will pick 3 winners. Each winner will receive an Android tablet and be featured on the addons.mozilla.org homepage.

Air Mozilla – There’s something in the air
Air Mozilla is where we tell the Mozilla story in video, where, we hope, the open web meets open video. Matthew Zeier, network engineer at Mozilla, has proven that Air Mozilla is much more than just a website to stream and share videos. In his latest blog post, he announces that a complete refresh of the Air Mozilla website was rolled out which allows viewers to watch the most recent videos. But that’s not all! Together with his team, he’s already planning to work on the second phase of the reboot and we’re excited what the result will look like.

Announcing the March Dev Derby Winners
3D interfaces have always been a huge fascination and it’s been made possible with CSS 3D transforms which can add depth to effects and make more exciting and engaging user experiences possible. Without having to learn a new language, you can move and rotate content to create beautiful and breathtaking transitions or interfaces. Last month, we asked developers from all over the world to submit their CSS 3D demos to the March Dev Derby and just four days ago, the winners were mentioned in this announcement. Make sure to check out the stunning creations.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Cédric Corazza, Viking Karwur, Gniélé Niang and Alassane Dieng. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* April 23, Philadelphia, PA Node.Philly
* April 28, Buckinghamshire, UK Game Hack
* May 11, New Brunswick, NJ Professional IT Community Conference
* May 14, San Francisco, California AnDevCon
* May 16, Hotel San Marco, Via longena 42, Verona, Italy jsDay 2012
* May 19, Taipei, Taiwan JSDC.tw 2012
* See more on the Mozilla Community Calendar

Upcoming events in London, England
* April 28 State of the browser 2
* May 9 Open House
* May 10 Geek Quiz
* May 12 MDN Hackday
* May 14 Monday Mobile Madness
* May 15 Open House 2
* May 16 Geek Bowling

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!