Specific action points

We made progress on many fronts this week.

1) Asa and I met with a volunteer who has dedicated a lot of his time to working on Bugzilla. We learned from him that many of the web tool developers could use a new Windows testing machine. We are thinking of buying a box with plenty of memory and disk so these volunteers can run Windows and Linux from the new machine. We’re trying to get something in place for next week. This is a great example of how the Giving Program will begin to support the community.

2) We ran queries using Bugzilla to see who has contributed patches, reported comments, and resolved bugs for all projects in Mozilla that we track through Bugzilla. We’ve gathered some good data that will help us reach out to many volunteers who have done so much for the project. It is likely we will use this information to reach out to people early week.

3) Many have indicated that they would be interested in having regional meet-ups where other volunteers and contributors could come together to discuss projects, have “test-fests” or “hack-fests” or just brainstorm new ideas. This is something the Community Giving Program will support. If you are a volunteer who would be willing to work with me to begin the planning process, I can provide some funding and logistical support. I just need to find those volunteers who would willingly help gather others in their locales or regions to attend and will help with the content and organization of the meet-up. Please email me if you’re interested.

4) Asa and I will start to talk more and more with the Mozilla Foundation to see how what I am doing on the corporate side can compliment what they are doing on the Foundation side. It is completely different and if enough people ping me, I would be happy to articulate the differences in a new post.

As always, please respond to this if you have any comments.