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Impact Mozilla – last call for submissions

deb — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:43:03 +0000

The Impact Mozilla community marketing challenge comes to a close on Friday October 24th, so this is your last opportunity to submit a one or two page idea summary. The purpose of this challenge is to help improve Firefox user retention. We know that tens of millions of people have downloaded Firefox but don’t continue to use it today. How do we get these past users back? How to we keep future users active once they’ve downloaded Firefox? If you have an idea about how we could solve this problem, we urge you to write it up and submit it through the Impact Mozilla website on or before this coming Friday.

Discussing Mozilla’s proposed 2010 goals

deb — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:33:11 +0000

Last month, Mitchell Baker posted a list of proposed goals she believes Mozilla should work towards achieving by 2010. Now Mitchell is looking to expand and continue the discussion around these proposed goals, and she has written a blog post outlining the next steps we’ll be taking towards ensuring that the whole Mozilla community has an opportunity to participate in the discussion and provide thoughts and feedback. “Mozilla has many groups of people who work together on particular aspects of Mozilla products, technology, adoption and mission. These groups are a natural setting for discussing the overall goals of the Mozilla project, and what motivates people to contribute. With that in mind, we’re planning a set of discussions to give more people a chance to participate comfortably. Some of these will be face-to-face meetings; others will be online discussions.” For more information about these smaller group discussions and other forums that are available for ongoing feedback, see Mitchell’s blog post.

Next steps for SpreadFirefox.com

deb — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:25:30 +0000

A number of improvements have been made to SpreadFirefox.com (SFX) over the summer, and Alix Franquet has been closely involved with that work. Alix has now blogged about the next steps for SFX, outlining a three-part redesign that will be undertaken towards improving the homepage and overall site navigation. These three parts include: creating a simplified homepage that better explains what SFX is about and that includes a community spotlight and a call to action; a new page for SFX members to track activity so they can better see what’s happening on the site including events, new groups, and new posts; and updating the site navigation to improve overall usability. There are lots more details about the planned changes in Alix’s blog post, and you can read the full plan over on SFX itself. We’re always looking for more help with SFX, so this could be a great opportunity to dive in and get involved with Mozilla’s community marketing projects.

Spread Firefox Affiliates program

deb — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:23:37 +0000

David Rolnitzky recently announced a number of improvements to the Spread Firefox Affiliates program. The Affiliates program is designed to make it easier for our community to spread the word about Firefox by providing website buttons and banners, as well as quarterly prizes for the top Firefox referers. “Some of the improvements are user-facing and some of them are back-end improvements which, while not immediately obvious, will be of great benefit to the program. You can find the initial details for this improvement plan here.” Improvements include clearer information about how to get started and how the points system works, better organization of buttons and banners, a new selection of international buttons, a custom button creation facility, and a new incentive system, among other things. For full details, read David’s blog post, and head over to the Affiliates program site to sign up and learn how you can help make Firefox even better.

Add-on developers survey: raw results

deb — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:43:38 +0000

The team responsible for the Addons.mozilla.org (AMO) site recently conducted a survey of the add-on developer community. A total of 265 people responded to the survey, and the initial results have been published. “The general summary is that most respondents were individual developers with 2 or more years of add-on development experience. Naturally they felt comfortable with JavaScript and XUL. They primarily built add-ons for Firefox and hosted them on their own.” The full results have been published, but they are simply the raw results. The team will be applying some correlation analysis to draw out more interesting findings and conclusions. To view and discuss these initial results, see the post on Basil’s weblog.

Mozilla Community sites: theme design

deb — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:11:52 +0000

Earlier this year, Stanislaw Malolepszy and Seth Bindernagel conducted the “Mozilla Community Survey” to learn more about the ideas and opinions of the people who make up the Mozilla community. One of the most commonly requested tools in the survey was a website template that could be used for all community sites. This has led to the inception of the Mozilla Community Sites project, which aims to make it easy to set up and deploy a website for your community project by providing some basic tools and templates. Zbigniew Braniecki has been working with designers on developing a prototype theme for these sites, and is asking for feedback. You can find screenshots of the mockup and leave your feedback over on this weblog post.