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.

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.