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Introduction

Mozilla is a free open source project whose code is used to cretae lot of innovative applications on Internet. Some of the popular examples include :
Firefox
Bugzilla
ThunderBird
Eudora and more
Mozilla is a global community where people are involved to build better internet . Mozilla open lot of channels to contribute in open source project framework. Some of them are :

User Support

How you can Support Firefox [SUMO] Project - Support Mozilla

By Improving Knowledge Base : https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Contributing+to+the+Knowledge+Base
By Translating Content into Other Languages : https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Translating+articles
By Providing Forum Support
Helping in Live Chat by troubleshooting and solution to issues

You need to create Live Chat account and log on to chat-support.mozilla.com

By staying Connected how

This feature makes the network and generate ideas
SUMO IRC Channel to chat with other contributors
SUMO Blog to discuss latest project developments : http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/
Twitter
Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
Contributors Forum : By asking questions about mozilla project : https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/3

By Supporting Thunderbird Project : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Support/GetSatisfaction/README

By Supporting Other Mozilla Projects : http://www.mozilla.org/support/other

Testing & Quality Assurances

Hunt Down Bugs / Quality Assurance is done by

Testers : They are casual users who perform testing job. Every Friday Mozilla keep Test Days.

Litmus Test : https://litmus.mozilla.org/
Test Days : http://quality.mozilla.org/events/test-days

Buggers : Take care of Bugs with Bugzilla : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ . Every Tuesday Mozilla keep Bug Days.

Bugzilla : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
Bugdays

Analyzers : Help users with their issues and web users with cross portability. Also give crash bugs.

TalkBack : Collect Crash Reports : http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/search/start.jsp
Hendrix : Gather User feedback : http://hendrix.mozilla.org/ : Mozilla.org feedback system
Website Reporter : Find out broken sites : http://reporter.mozilla.org/

Automaters : They are primarly Hackers who help Mozilla in improving quality of products. http://quality.mozilla.org/projects

Test Mozilla Websites[QMO] : Here Mozilla lists projects for testing.http://quality.mozilla.org/projects/webdev-qa

Localization

L10n

Mozilla Localization Homepage
Localization of product pages : https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Web_parts
https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n

Marketing

Evangelism : Small team at mozilla working for open web

Work with developers
Attend weekly meetings
Communicate via mailing lists : https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/evangelism

spreadfirefox.com

A Mozilla Community Project
Dedicated to market Firefox and Increase no. of firefox users
A original Marketing team for mozilla
Affiliation program : Place banner on website or blogs. Earn points and Gifts.
Campus Rep

Benefits

Get Mozilla Reference Letter
Opportunity to apply for Mozilla Marketing Internship
Knowledge about open source software and web
Network Building and Popularity

Students Program to spread firefox in their schools , colleges , local communities
Join Campus networking website
Become Regional Leader

One yr time period and I leader per region
Attend Roundtable meetings with mozilla marketing team
Plan and Execute Campaigns with other rep
Networking and Popularity
Leadership experience

How to participate

Create a Account
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
Start own marketing project by choosing an idea
Join Community@sfx project
Join a ongoing marketing project
Get feedback from Community@SFX Discussion Forums
Follow Mozilla Guidelines
Become Part of Advertising Project

Firefox facebook members and group
Orkut Community
Share Project on spreadfirefox.com

Create Events and Email Members
Get Mozilla Support

Mozilla Foundation Grants
Event Sponserships
Community giving programs

Coding

Code Repositories & Processing Tools

Documentation Topics

Working with Mozilla Source Code : : https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Source_Code
Build Instructions : https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Build_Instructions
Automated Testing : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_automated_testing
Patch Approvals : https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/How_to_Submit_a_Patch
Mozilla Modules and Module Ownership : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_Modules_and_Module_Ownership
Hacking the Firefox User Interface : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Hacking_Firefox
Code Snippets : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets
Mozilla Development Strategies : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_Development_Strategies
Debugging : https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Debugging
The Mozilla Platform : https://developer.mozilla.org/En/The_Mozilla_platform

Tools

Bugzilla : Track issues for mozilla projects : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Bugzilla
MXR : Browse and search the mozilla source code code repository : http://mxr.mozilla.org/
Mercurial : Distributed version control system : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mercurial
Bonsai : It tells who changed , when changed and what changed in the repository : http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsqueryform.cgi
TinderBox : A tool to check whether current source code compiles on various platforms & passes automated tested suites : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tinderbox
Open Source Crash Reporting System : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Crash_reporting
Perftastic : Gives Performance tracking of Mozilla Projects : http://graphs.mozilla.org/
Mozilla Developer Forums : http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html

Mozilla Web Development : http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/get-involved/

Interface Design and Usability

Test Pilot

Collects structured user feedbacks from Firefox and other projects
Learn how test results contribute to future designs
Automatically receive notifications on upcoming and finished tests
Need to Install Test pilot add-on and Liberty to choose tests
https://addons.mozilla.org/services/install.php?addon_id=testpilot

Design Challenge : Mozilla team with IXDa [ Interaction Design Association] and Johnny Holland [open collective magazine] for design challenge. To take part in it , you need to

Create a short video of 3 minutes
explain your idea and present mockup and show how your idea works
Upload video to Youtube or flicker with tag mozconcept and fill registration form to register your submission
Benefits : Fame, Good way to promote Designers, Increase in Knowledge

Usability : Discuss all the usability issues in Mozilla Usability Discussion Groups. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.usability/topics?pli=1

Add - Ons

To built an add-on

Learn the Basics - Firefox Add-on Developer Guide : https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Firefox_addons_developer_guide
Add-on Builder : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/tools/builder
API & Language References : Link to official documentation for Javascript, XPCOM, FUEL,XUL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/reference
How to Library : Tutorials , Walkthrough , videos : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/how-to

Become an AMO Editor

Experienced Add-on Authors
AMO Add-on Policies
Code Validation Tool Help
Editors Guide Wiki : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Editors
Community dedicated to security and reliablity of add-ons
AMO Editor group composed of volunteer add-on developers
To apply we need to send AMO editor application to mozilla : https://wiki.mozilla.org/AMO:Editors/Applying

Visual Design

Create Collective Challenge

A new design challenge topic posted every month
Need to be Registered member of Creative Collective to enter or vote in challenge
Winner will be with most votes
Winner will receive - Champion of the collective Badge on profile
4 Runner-ups - Minister of Design Badge on profile
http://communitystore.mozilla.org/gallery/featured

Add T-Shirt Design

Partership with zazzle.com[Custom T-Shirt Design Portal]
Files in png or jpg format with 150dpi resolution or greatar
Back of T-shirt will have firefox logo and url
Zazzle selling T-shirt starting from 17$ after adding design
All benefits go to mozilla , artist will gets its name on creation

Developer Documentation

Forums

Development Forums : http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html
End User Forums : http://www.mozilla.org/support/
Getting Started where user can improve documentation : https://developer.mozilla.org/Project:en/Getting_started

Extension Tools

Wikipedia : Free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
SpellBound : SpellBound is a port of the spellchecker code and user interface from the Mozilla Suite's Composer that enables spell checking in web forms such as html textarea / input elements (html input password elements are not checked by SpellBound) and rich text form elements. This allows you to spell check forms (e.g. message board posts, blog entries, wysiwyg, etc.) before submitting them when using your Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Suite browser

Guides & Documentation Listings : https://developer.mozilla.org/Project:en/How_to_Help

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