Just a quick note…I was out of the office last week on travel for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday (if anyone noticed a lull in blogging activity). This week, I will be following up on some proposals that we are considering from the last selection process.
Specifically, I am investigating how Mozilla might further support the [...]
This morning at the Firefox 2 Summit, I hosted a session that was an overview of the community program. Firefox contributors from France, Japan, Canada, U.S. and Germany (I hope I didn’t forget any countries) attended and gave some really thoughtful remarks about the development of this program. Aside from the excellent opportunity [...]
On Monday, we held our community program’s second selection meeting, looking at seven different proposals. The selection committee comprised a group of six people who represent a good cross section of Mozilla.
We rejected a few proposals that just did not fit in the Community Program and were not highly-leveraged ideas for us to support.
And, [...]
I invited the nonprofit organization, Inveneo, to visit Mozilla to tell us about the ICT solutions it provides to the developing world. In the organization’s words, it is the on-ramp to the information superhighway for many in the world who have never accessed the Internet. During the introduction to the presentation, the members of the [...]
I’ve been reading through the application process for Apache’s incubator, looking specifically at how they solicit new projects and then evaluate them. Part of the extensive proposal writing process relates directly to community. You can read their guide to proposals for the incubator here. From the site:
“Apache is interested only in communities. [...]
Perhaps the most important thing we can do to support our community is to provide (relatively) small investments that help a large number of people. This has been described by others as leverage, an often overused word in the business context. But, it’s appropriate here. Leverage stems from the word lever. And, [...]
I know I wrote about Perl earlier, but I think the Foundation does a nice job articulating their process on their website. What they are doing is much more structured than what we are creating. I found this description of their selection committee process interesting. Frankly, I am not sure we’ll want [...]
