Posted in Accessibility, developers, evangelists, marketing, planet on June 9th, 2008 13 Comments »
In my opinion, one of the coolest features of Firefox 3 is full page zoom. From the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the [...]
Posted in marketing, planet on May 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
After reading countless blog posts on planet about Download Day and a chance to get into the Guinness Book of World Records, I admit, I got a bit of nostalgic and curious. So, I thought I’d write a bit of different post than the ones we’ve read so far…
To start, how cool would it be [...]
Posted in marketing, other mozilla stuff, planet on April 30th, 2008 4 Comments »
A series of blog posts has been written about how we might start to apply the idea of “Powered by Mozilla”. I’ve read posts by Slater, Tiffney, DougT, and David Boswell. These posts all came just before or after a nice lunch time conversation we had about what the term “Powered by Mozilla” actually represents. [...]
Posted in community, community building, marketing, other mozilla stuff, planet on March 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
Recently, I’ve been interviewing candidates for a community/marketing role that will work directly with the Mozilla community in Europe. It’s been a really interesting process that I think is worth discussing.
The biggest challenge that I have had when interviewing these candidates is trying to find out how the potential hire will interact with our [...]
Posted in community building, marketing, planet on March 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
This past Wednesday, about 15 students from the Information Science Students Association (associated with University of Ljubljana) came to Mozilla to learn more about the project and what we do. The students are in the U.S. for two weeks doing a tour of software companies in Silicon Valley and we were the first stop on [...]
Posted in India, marketing, planet on February 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
Another student team from India has posted their report to Spread Firefox. If you follow that link, you’ll see the team, an executive summary about the project, and a link to download the .PDF. Please take a look and participate in the forum there if you have questions or comments.
From the student team’s executive summary:
“India [...]
Posted in India, evangelists, marketing, planet on January 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Chofmann and I returned from India last July with a few opportunities to work with various campuses where students had shown interest in doing “something” for Mozilla. I took a chance at setting up four different teams to do projects related to community building and market research.
As it turns out, managing student teams to do [...]