In the past two weeks, I haven’t blogged a thing. It’s been a time for a slight realignment of teams, and I now am a part of the newly-formed Mozilla Evangelism team. I’ll bringing all that I have been doing with Community Giving to a great team where we all will work on empowering others, telling the Mozilla story, and building new communities of contributors. Perhaps it’s needless to say, but I am super excited to work with the new team.

What have I been up to in the past two weeks?

1) Mozilla 24

I scheduled a track for Mozilla 24 featuring Mozilla Accessibility contributors. We have quite a line-up ready to go, with a number of our blind or visually impaired contributors putting together presentations about how they are contributing to Mozilla.

Have you seen the stuff for Mozilla 24? It will be a great worldwide event so please participate on September 15 and 16. Because I have taken a lead in planning a session and have been supporting our lead organizers in Japan in pulling off the conference, I will be going to Japan from September 11 to 17. More travel. More meeting community. If you’re in Tokyo in early September, tell me and we’ll meet up.

Some other cool stuff about Mozilla 24:

• Three fun contests/ways to participate
  
• Information about the conference
• And, just for fun, the Road to Mozilla 24 from CNET Japan

Everyone on our Japanese team from our marketing team here has really put in a lot of hard work to make this happen.

2) FOSS.IN Project Day submission

After my trip, I got inspired by all the activity in India, so I decided to work with some developers there, Chofmann, and others at Mozilla to submit a project day for FOSS.IN. I hope it gets approved because there is really a groundswell of activity happening around Mozilla stuff. If you care to learn more about project submission for FOSS.IN, then read here.

I’ve been impressed with most of the process thus far. Everyone is communicating over a Yahoo! Group. We are all commenting on submissions and passing along ideas. It’s been pretty cool.

3) Community Giving & Empowerment stuff

We’re going to start moving faster here. Shaver, Asa and I will review a few request next week. In about 11 months, we’ve *officially* reviewed 45 requests….very close to 1 per week.

(I make it a point to highlight officially because a lot of requests have come through that I have simply passed along to the correct contacts, whether internal at Mozilla Corp or to the guys at Mozilla Foundation.)

We have a good process now and are going to keep moving forward with it, but how to be a bit more agile, experimental, aggressive…just a few of the things needed to scale.

What else…what else….

Interns are leaving Mozilla for the summer. A quick shout out to Andrew Stein, Rishi Mallik and Sarah Arora. All have been a real delight to work with and some really great stuff has come from their creative energy. We’ll probably see a few of their projects surface more publicly after they leave, but credit goes to them.

Last stuff to report: India has been going very well. Chofmann and I are spearheading an en-IN build of Firefox, optimized for Indian users. And, the student teams at IIM-Ahmedabad and Indian School of Business are all starting their projects next week. We’ll be sure to report on that going forward.

That’s all. I’m out.

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