Education & Culture Working Group Drafted an Open Planning Checklist and asked for feedback. Comments still welcome! We’re looking in to utilizing Webmaker as a way to implement an on-going version of the Mozilla Quilt. This relates to our goal of showcasing the work of local communities. Wiki Working Group Held our regular working group …
Scope and Mission of wiki.mozilla.org — feedback wanted
One issue to emerge for last December’s Community Building meet-up was how important the Mozilla Wiki is to the project and also how neglected a resource it is. The Wiki Working Group was formed to address this issue. Since then, the Mozilla Wiki has become an official sub-module of Websites, we’ve fixed a handful of …
Creating an “Open Planning Checklist” – your feedback wanted
As part of the community building education efforts I’m leading at Mozilla, I’ve created a draft of an open planning checklist. The inspiration for the current content comes from our book Community Event Planning. I’ve modified it somewhat to be more Mozilla-specific. This is meant to be a quick reference, one that project leaders can …
Community Building Education Update – 5 May 2014
This doesn’t fit specifically in either category below, but I still wanted to call attention to it: Last Tuesday we launched Firefox 29 “Australis,” our biggest redesign of Firefox since version 4! Education & Culture Working Group Further planning with Dino Anderson about diversity & inclusion efforts we’d like to roll out this year. I …
Community Building Education Update – 29 April 2014
Note: This is the first in what I plan to be weekly updates about the work we’re doing as part of the Education and Wiki Working Groups, part of the community building team at Mozilla. I’ll tag these updates with mozilla as well as cbt-education and wwg when appropriate. Wiki Working Group On Tuesday of …
An Explanation of the Heartbleed bug for Regular People
I’ve put this explanation together for those who want to understand the Heartbleed bug, how it fits into the bigger picture of secure internet browsing, and what you can do to mitigate its affects. HTTPS vs HTTP (padlock vs no padlock) When you are browsing a site securely, you use https and you see a …
On Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla
Today Mozilla announced a number of leadership changes, including the appointment of Brendan Eich as CEO. Amid the analysis of the change, there is a lengthy post on Hacker News specifically discussing Brendan’s support of anti-LGBT Prop. 8 in 2008 and whether or not it affects his suitability as CEO. As a single employee of …
Joining the Community Building Team at Mozilla
After almost a year and a half on the Technical Evangelism team, my role at Mozilla is changing. As of March 3rd, I am the Education Lead on the recently formed Community Building Team (CBT) led by David Boswell. The purpose of the CBT is to empower contributors to join us in furthering Mozilla’s mission. …