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FOSDEM, Mozilla Antarctica, WebFWD and more…

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

FOSDEM 2012
Last weekend many Mozillians attended FOSDEM in a freezing cold Brussels. A huge thank you to Benoit Leseul and team for organizing our efforts there. Rob Hawkes talked about open Web apps and open Web games, whilst Tristan Nitot announced six grants to international non-profits who will strengthen the Web, free and open source software and user sovereignty.

Mozilla AntarcticaMozilla Antarctica
The Mozilla Antarctica Community Site recently launched which will provide news, interviews and other stuff from the coolest Mozilla community. Not only do we love the penguins but Antarctica is the only continent to have a majority Firefox market share. Must be all the intelligent scientists using it!

Become a WebFWD Affiliate
Do you want to spread some open source love? You do? Great! Because you can now become a WebFWD affiliate and increase awareness of Mozilla’s open innovation program. Signing up is super simple and in a few clicks you can display your love of WebFWD.

Bedrock ready to go!
The Web Development team have finished the new Bedrock platform which will power the mozilla.org website. Bedrock is a complete rewrite of the site, clearing up years of cruft and implementing cool new features.

Interview with Nikhil Suresh
Havi Hoffman interviews Nikhil Suresh about Bouncy and the Apple, his non-violent 2-person shooter game which won him the November MDN Developer Derby. She learns a little bit more about Nikhil and what inspires him.

Meet Some Mozillians
Bonjour Mozilla says bonjour to Serge Gautherie, Melek Jebnoun, Tim Taubert and Felipe Gomes and Sean Martell. A special hello to (quite possibly) the youngest Mozillian on the planet: William Joseph Markham. Read more about how these people are contributing to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* February 10, Online – Firefox Beta for Android Test Day
* February 23, San Fransisco, USA – WebQA ‘Live’ Test Day
* 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!

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Firefox Developer Tools, DIY Love Letter and more…

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!

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