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/

or

If you're unsure about where to get started with Mozilla, one of the best ways to learn more about the community is to spend some time running tests. You can read about how to use our testcase management tool at

http://quality.mozilla.org/documents-home/test-docs/litmus-tutorial

For any questions about this or other parts of the community, feel free to write me back.

Coding

Thanks for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla.

To get started coding for Firefox or other applications, one of the best things to do is spend some time running tests to get up to speed on our development tools. You can read about how to use our testcase management tool at

http://quality.mozilla.org/docs/litmus/triaging-guide/

If you know PHP, Python, HTML, CSS or JavaScript and want to get started with coding for our web sites, the following page has information about our biggest projects, with links to the source code, Bugzilla and more.

http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/get-involved/

I'd also encourage you to read this blog post that gives tips on how to get started with coding at

http://www.joshmatthews.net/blog/2010/03/getting-involve-with-mozilla/

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

Coding (Java)

Thanks for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. If you're interested in Java programming, take a look at the Rhino project. Rhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rhino

I'd recommend reading the recent discussions on the Rhino group and then posting there to get started working with the Rhino developers.

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.rhino/topics

Another thing to check out is our Developer Guide. This will give you a general overview of the code, processes and tools used in the community.

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

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

Coding (C-like languages and stuff)

Thanks for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla.

To get started coding for Firefox or other applications, one of the best things to do is spend some time getting familiar with our code-base. The best way to get more info on it and the tools we're using, is to read our Developer Guide:

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

Also, if you're one of the want-to-start-coding-immediately like developers, we also have a list of "Good First Bugs" generated, so you can take a look and help us in making a web better place!

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 interface design innovation:

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

You can also check out Test Pilot to try some of the newest and coolest user-interface ideas:

https://testpilot.mozillalabs.com/

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/

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.

or

Thanks for your suggestion about Firefox. I'd encourage you to look at the available add-ons to see if there's already something that does what you are interested in.

https://addons.mozilla.org/

You may also be interested in creating your own add-on to add this feature. You can learn more about how to do that at

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

Mirrors

Thanks for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. There is information about how to take part in our mirror network at:

http://www.mozilla.org/community/mirroring.html

You are also welcome to join the mirrors mailing list which is used to notify mirror admins of impending releases and changes to mirroring policy.

http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mirrors

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.

Accessibility

Thank you for your interest in getting involved with Mozilla. To learn more about our accessibility efforts, please take a look at the Mozilla Accessibility Wiki at:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility

I'd also encourage you to read through recent posts on the accessibility group and post there with information about what you're interested in:

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

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

Firefox Question

For questions about using Firefox, please visit our support site at

http://support.mozilla.com/

or

I'd suggest using our Live Chat service to talk to someone in our support community about this.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Live+Chat?new_chat

Careers

For information about available careers, please check out our career site at

http://www.mozilla.com/about/careers.html

Students

If you're interested in talking to other students participating in Mozilla as part of a class or if you're interested in finding out more about projects that are well suited to students, I suggest taking a look at the Mozilla Education site at

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/