Program Update
September 15th, 2006 by seth bindernagel
This week, the Community Giving Program moved forward in providing specific support to various members of the QA community who responded to our survey. We used that first piece of communication to uncover some of the barriers that key volunteer contributors are facing on a day-to-day basis, and then worked directly with those people to find out what we could provide. Today, we shipped some hardware and software to individuals who are dedicating a good portion of their personal time to work on Mozilla-related project.
Types of support we have now provided or will consider providing:
- –> Hardware
- –> Software
- –> Travel to professional development related experiences
- –> Grants to individuals who are running Mozilla related projects and present a need for direct financial support
- –> Scholarships to academic programs for those who might use their learning experience to improve their abilities as a volunteer contributor
- –> Funding for local meet-ups of volunteers
This list is not comprehensive and we are open to various suggestions that may not have been included. Please feel free to post your suggestions to this blog. And, if you feel that you have been a dedicated volunteer contributor who could use some support, please email me or contact me through this blog.
Finally, it might be understood by everyone already, or maybe it should be stated again, but this program has initially been about supporting key volunteer contributors to the Community, which some consider everyone and everything that comprises Mozilla. The Community includes the employees of Mozilla, the Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation, the users of our software, the volunteers who are helping to make this open-source project a success and probably much more that I have accidentally left off. This giving program is focusing its early efforts on supporting one very critical element of the community, the volunteers who are working on the various elements and projects of Mozilla. It will likely grow to include something more, but that is where we are focusing right now.