about:mozilla - Extend Firefox 3, T-shirt contest voting, new localizations, Summer of Code, and more
In this issue…
- Extend Firefox 3 contest launches
- Firefox 3 T-shirt contest voting begins
- New languages shipping with Firefox 3 Beta 5
- An interview with Mike Shaver
- Mozilla at FISL
- Summer of Code applications open
- Updated mozilla.org license policy draft available for review
- Developer calendar
- Subscribe to the email newsletter
Extend Firefox 3 contest launches
Extend Firefox 3 is a global developer contest with prizes awarded for developing new Firefox Add-ons for the upcoming production release of Firefox 3. Entries will be judged by a panel of experts, with Grand Prize and Runners’ Up prize packages awarded for add-ons that take advantage of the new capabilities being introduced in Firefox 3 and that demonstrate excellence in user experience, innovation, and the use of open standards. For more information about the contest, see the Mozilla Labs announcement.
Firefox 3 T-shirt contest voting begins
With the submission deadline now past, the five finalists have been chosen in the Firefox 3 T-shirt design contest. Now the voting begins, and you’re invited to participate! Head over to the Mozilla Store’s Firefox 3 T-shirt contest voting page and pick your favorite of the final five. Voting will run for 7 days and the winner will be featured in the Mozilla Store as the official Firefox 3 T-shirt. For more information about the contest, check out the Official Contest site.
New languages shipping with Firefox 3 Beta 5
The upcoming Firefox 3 Beta 5 will include five new languages — Afrikaans, Indonesian, Mongolian, Norwegian nynorsk, and Serbian. Any help you can provide towards reviewing and testing these new localizations would be much appreciated. They will be available for download from the “all-beta download page” for Firefox 3 Beta 5. If you find a problem, please file a bug or send feedback to Mic Berman through her blog post.
The “How Software is Built” site has posted an extensive interview with Mozilla’s Chief Evangelist, Mike Shaver. The interview covers a wide range of topics, including governance of the project, how people get involved, changing contributors who fill key roles, ensuring high usability in an open-source project, and reflections on open and closed development models, among other things. Read the full interview at How Software is Built.
Mozilla is going to be taking part in the Forum Internacional Software Livre (International Free Software Forum) that is being held in Brazil from April 17 to April 19, 2008. Mitchell Baker will be giving a talk about the Mozilla Project; Felipe Tassario Gomes will be talking about XULRunner, JavaScript, and SQLite; Chris Hofmann, Marcio Galli, and Christopher Blizzard will hold a panel on Firefox in Brazil; and there will be a Mozilla room and workshop. For more information see the FISL website, the Mozilla wiki, or Chris Blizzard’s blog post.
Summer of Code applications open
The student application period for the Google Summer of Code opened earlier this week. The Mozilla list of suggested projects is now pretty much complete, although students should of course feel free to propose ideas outside that list. Mozilla community members should encourage students they know to apply to us. For more information about Mozilla’s participation in the Google Summer of Code, see Gervase Markham’s weblog.
Updated mozilla.org license policy draft available for review
Gervase Markham has been working on an updated mozilla.org License Policy, of which a draft is now available. You are strongly encouraged to review the draft document, particularly if you are the owner of a mozilla.org project such as Bugzilla, Rhino, Tinderbox, etc. For more information about the draft and what review is needed, please see Gerv’s weblog.
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