Support Update (v.2)

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, although we had specific funding ideas that look very promising, the committee came up with some excellent probing questions about three of them that (when all questions are answered) we will move forward with supporting.

Those ideas include the following:

1) We will work with the Mozilla localizer team to find ways to provide basic hosting services where localizations teams can store files for work they are presently undertaking. (FYI, this idea initially came from a comment posted on my blog.)

2) We will investigate further supporting some of the Mozilla-related work that is being done by the open-source lab at Oregon State University, details to follow.

3) We are going to set up guidelines specific to the localization efforts so we can have a process to evaluate the proposals. Once set, we have a few ideas in the pipeline that we’ll be able to examine and possibly support. Those guideline will be posted for everyone to see and comment on once we come up with them.

If you have any ideas or comments on the above, please let me know.