{"id":222,"date":"2009-01-05T18:59:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T01:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=222"},"modified":"2009-01-05T19:00:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T02:00:33","slug":"introducing-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2009\/01\/05\/introducing-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Nick Nguyen, and I&#8217;m the new Add-ons Lead here at Mozilla.\u00a0 Having previously worked on the Delicious Bookmarks extension at Yahoo!, I&#8217;ve learned firsthand how Add-ons can be an essential part of life on the internet.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be working with the team and the community to figure out the best direction for AMO as we evolve.\u00a0 Along with the entire Add-ons team, I&#8217;ll help drive discussion both within Mozilla and with the greater community on how we can grow and improve.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, we plan to focus on the following areas:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Communicating the value of Add-ons to users who will benefit from them<\/li>\n<li> Improving the sense of community for Add-ons users and developers and fostering open communication between both groups.<\/li>\n<li> Streamlining and simplifying the process of both developing and submitting Add-ons to AMO.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Of course, like everything else at Mozilla, our decisions don&#8217;t happen in a vacuum.\u00a0 As a member of our community, your feedback is invaluable and helps us drive our product direction.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll continue to post updates with our thinking on a regular basis, and don&#8217;t hesitate to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2008\/07\/26\/new-amo-newsgroup-and-mailing-list\/\">let us know<\/a> if you have some feedback, positive (yay) or negative (boo, but we need to hear it).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading, and Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-223 alignleft\" title=\"nick\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2009\/01\/nick-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/\/2009\/01\/nick-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/\/2009\/01\/nick.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 102px) 100vw, 102px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nick Nguyen, Add-ons Lead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Nick Nguyen, and I&#8217;m the new Add-ons Lead here at Mozilla.\u00a0 Having previously worked on the Delicious Bookmarks extension at Yahoo!, I&#8217;ve learned firsthand how Add-ons can be &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2009\/01\/05\/introducing-myself\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[121],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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