Students Projects: A good example of leverage
Student volunteers bring so much to Mozilla, whether by contributing to the code base, participating in our Campus Reps program through Facebook, or working on special projects for our community or for our marketing team.
I’ve had two great experiences with student teams in the recent past:
JT, Asa and I met with a team of students from Stanford’s GEM program who have done some research on internet users in Brazil & India. They are helping us understand a lot about the country context and how Mozilla might help empower more community members in those regions. Speaking of empowered, the students are also excited because they are providing us with highly useful analysis to help prepare our team as we reach out to our community.
The second experience was with a team of MBA students from Berkeley. The students were taking the Information and Technology Based Marketing class, and looked at our survey program from last summer that we created to understand why people were using Firefox, how they learned about it, and what kept people using it. The team found a lot of interesting new ideas for Mozilla to consider including how to make the surveys more simple, who to target to get better data, what types of responses to offer to allow for statistical testing, and how to avoid leading questions that greatly impact people’s answers. It was great work by the students.
If anyone is interested in learning more about what these students are doing, email me. Happy to share. Also, it would be good to learn about other examples if you have them. Finally, if you’re a student and want to contribute, email me.
p.s. Totally unrelated but I went camping in Arizona last weekend and hiked through Tonto Natural Bridge. Pretty awesome.
