Mozilla’s Japanese team will be hosting a series of events in December for Mozilla contributors to get together to discuss different items. A few of the Mountain View team members will be traveling there to help guide the developer activities that will take place. For my part, I have sent some information to [...]

From last week’s selection meeting, we agreed to provide the following support:
1) Windows 2003 server license to test Bugzilla.
This will be set up on Landfill as a VM. It is follow-up to Bugzilla after the upgrade to the Landfill server, which is a much more powerful machine. The new Landfill will accommodate [...]

Today was the first selection meeting we conducted to review requests of the community program. Rather than evaluating each case as it comes in, we are now filling a pipeline of proposals that will be looked at occasionally by a committee and decided by consensus. The group represents a good cross-section of the [...]

Last week, I blogged about how the community program is evolving and that we might work to rename “community giving”. Since then, I have been trying to ask around to see what nouns and adjectives might help define this program. Here are some words I have heard. What do you think?

Development
Give-back
Investment
Resource allocation
Venture
Enrichment
Facilitation
Empowerment
Encompassing
Participant
Good [...]

It’s been over a week since the last blog post. Sorry about the radio silence.
A few updates:

Congrats on the release of Firefox 2.0. Now that the community of volunteers who have worked so hard to created Fx2 have shipped, we are gearing up to contact them to see how the Community Program can [...]

Our program supported some Mozilla volunteers working on accessibility issues with Aaron Leventhal. The team of contributors met up in Boston to discuss their work and we provided some catering for a few days of lunches. Aaron and team did a great job getting support from several other resources and we were happy [...]

The more I discuss this community project with everyone, the more I realize that this is something bigger than simply giving resources to volunteers of Mozilla. It is about empowering, enabling, and developing the community. Chris Beard has some great thoughts about this and he, Asa, and I (and a few others) will [...]

Just a quick (not-so) off-topic article for everyone to read from the New York Times World Section.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/world/africa/11laptop.html?ref=africa
The article tells about the One Laptop per Child Initiative that Nick Negroponte started and how he presently is working with the government of Libya to get a computer into the hands of every child in school. “Mr. Negroponte [...]

I have been trying to research other models that we can learn from as we build our program. For those who have been involved in Mozilla for a long time, it may come as no surprise that it is hard to find anyone who is doing exactly what we are trying to do. [...]

Community Giving purchased a new testing machine to replace the existing Landfill machine used by the Bugzilla developer community. Bugzilla is used everyday by so many people in the Mozilla community. Now, Bugzilla developers will be able to use an updated, better machine to test their latest builds. We will host the machine on our [...]