I received a note from one of our student teams in India who volunteered to do market research for us.  If you remember, I blogged about Team 21 from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadebad and the research they did about marketing Firefox in India.  For their hard work, they “won the best industrial project [...]

Zak Greant visited Mozilla yesterday and it was really good to catch up with him over lunch.  Among other things that he is working on, Zak has been speaking at conferences about the importance of open source software, net neutrality, and the long-term implications of not promoting each of these ideas.
He’s written an interesting abstract [...]

The past month has been busy for me with distributing stuff through the Community Giving/Empowerment program.  Here is a list of what we have done.

Philipp Kewisch, who is our first participant in the Community Loan Program.  He is helping on the Calendar project.  Philipp has been a critical member to the team and figured out [...]

FOSDEM’s coming.  I’m going.  So are a ton of others.
Why am I going?  Primarily to present about the Community Survey Program.  We’ve conducted two surveys with over 1,000 responses to each one.  Pascal, Stas and I will use this time to present our findings and then I’ll post our presentation here or to Spread Firefox.
The [...]

Some time ago, Shaver and I had a discussion about adding a new focus to our community giving/empowerment efforts.  (n.b. To be clear, this was in addition to the new community loan program I mentioned in an earlier post.)  In this post, I’d like to take some time to describe just where we are headed [...]

Believe it or not, the Community Giving and Empowerment Program has been distributing resources to our community for just over one year.  In that time frame, we have distributed several hundred thousands of dollars in grants, hardware, software, and other services to the Mozilla Community.
As part of the 2007 Q4 goals planning, Mike Shaver and [...]

In Mid-may of 2007,  Stefan Sitter initiated a discussion among Mozilla build and release, the IT team, and the Calendar community about setting up a dedicated auto-update system on a community server for their project.  Sunbird was using the aus2.mozilla.org server for nightly updates, but releases are a different story.  The issue surfaced in Bugzilla [...]

If you’ve been following this blog, you may have seen some posts over the past few months about Mozilla’s participation in India’s largest open source conference, FOSS.IN.  Our initial planning culminated with Mozilla’s project day proposal being accepted by the FOSS.IN planning team.  That was exciting.
What did I learn in this process, and what, if [...]

Today, Staś, Pascal and I launched the first of several surveys using the community survey web tool that Staś created.  You can find the first survey here.  We also created a blog where we will post information about upcoming surveys, gather your feedback, and post results about what we learn.
Here’s a snippet from the first [...]

Staś Malolepszy spent his summer working with Pascal Chevrel in Paris on a variety of projects for Mozilla.  One such project focused on creating a survey tool that could be used as an information gatherer from our Mozilla community on all sorts of topics.  Staś began grinding away on a web-based platform to post brief [...]