Contribute/Canned responses

To help answer any questions that come in through the contact form on the Get Involved page or through volunteer matching sites, we have a number of canned responses for different contribution areas.

General

Can be used if someone fills out the form without indicating which area of interest they are writing about.

Thanks for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. If there's a type of activity you'd like to find out more about (marketing, coding, testing, localization...) please feel free to write me back and I'll be happy to help you get started on a project. There is a list of different project areas at

http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/

Coding

Thanks for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. If you'd like to find out more about coding for the project, a good place to start is the Developer Guide at:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide

This will give you a general overview of the code, processes and tools used in the community.

After looking through that, I'd suggest going through the list of community forums to find the one that fits with your interests. For instance, if you'd like to do some coding on our SVG implementation there's an SVG newsgroup that would be good to subscribe and post to.

http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html

If you have any questions about any of this, feel free to write me back.

Design

Thank you for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. For design projects, there are a couple of good places to get started.

There are monthly design challenges taking place at:

http://creative.mozilla.org/challenges

You're also welcome to add designs to our Community Store at:

http://communitystore.mozilla.org/upload

If you have any questions about any of this, feel free to write me back.

Marketing

Thank you for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. For marketing projects, there are a few good places to get started.

There is a Community Marketing Guide at:

http://contribute.mozilla.org/Marketing

There are also regular open meetings where you can join and hear about what's going on and talk about areas of interest to you:

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/cmt

The Mozilla marketing group is also a good place to find out what others are talking about and talk about your ideas:

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.marketing/topics

If you have any questions about any of this, let me know.

Usability / User Experience

Thanks for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. If you're interested in browser design, I'd recommend checking out some of the opportunities related to our user experience projects.

Mozilla Labs has regular design challenges focused on design innovation:

http://design-challenge.mozillalabs.com/

There are also other Labs projects you may be interested in:

http://mozillalabs.com/how-to-get-involved/

I'd also encourage you to read through and post on the usability group at

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.usability/topics

If you have any questions about any of this, feel free to write me back.

Add-ons

Thanks for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. For more information about add-ons, I'd recommend taking a look at the Add-on Developer Hub. This site has documentation, tools and ways to get in touch with other people interested in add-on development.

https://addons.mozilla.org/developers/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/how-to

There's a also the Add-ons Forum, where you can post questions and talk with other add-ons developers.

https://forums.addons.mozilla.org/

If you have any questions about this, feel free to write back.

Labs

Thanks for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. If you're interested in learning more about Mozilla Labs, I'd recommend checking out the following links:

http://design-challenge.mozillalabs.com/

http://mozillalabs.com/how-to-get-involved/

If you have any questions about this, feel free to write back.

Security

Thank you for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. To learn more about our security process, I'd recommend taking a look at our Security Center and then checking out and posting to our security group.

http://www.mozilla.org/security/

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.security/topics

If you have any questions about this, let me know.