Testing the Mozilla Net Effects Program
Last week, I wrote about an experimental video program that I am coordinating for Mozilla.
I’ve now posted a more complete overview of the program, along with a draft guide for the program testers and an early FAQ on the program.
Helping us in our early stages are the following good and brave souls:
- Alina Mierlus, Free Software/Open Source advocate and a driver of Mozilla.ro
- Andrei Maxim, programmer, photographer and Free Software/Open Source enthusiast
- Brian King, Mozilla expert, consultant and director of MozDev.
- Chris Watkins, world traveler, sustainability pundit and director of the Appropedia Foundation
- Deborah Cavel-Greant, medical author, blogger, patient advocate and mother (mine, to be precise)
- Doug Plant, programmer and partner at Mugo (Disclosure: I’m president of Mugo)
- Jim Blandy, awesome Free Software programmer and Mozilla employee
- Kaj Arnö, photographer, marathoner, polyglot deluxe and VP Community at MySQL
- Karim Ratib, programmer, thinker and owner of OpenCraft. Karim has marshaled a small army of friends to help with the project, for which I am very grateful.
- Lucian Savluc, UX designer, Free Software/Open Source advocate and eLiberatica chair.
- Matthew Gertner, Prism developer, Mozilla expert and consultant
- Nnenna Nwakanma, FOSSFA Council Chair and Director at the Open Source Initiative. Professional firebrand and director of Nnenna.org, an African development consultancy platform.
- Patrick Fey, Programmer and Free Software/Open Source enthusiast
- Ricky Robinett, PHP developer and brave volunteer.
- Rory Macdonald, professional communicator and InitMarketing team member. Equipped with a wry sense of humour. Sometimes wears a kilt.
- Tiffiniy Cheng, a Director of the Participatory Culture Foundation (makers of open source video app Miro). Has a nice dog who helps with her videos.
- Tristan Nitot, blogger, Free Software/Open Source advocate and chairman of Mozilla Europe.
- Vivien Anayian, design blogger and independent web developer.
With the help of these fine folks (and a few people I am collecting videos from offline), we should have statements in an abundance of languages, including:
- Arabic
- Dyula (I’m guessing. Nnenna promised an African language, but didn’t specify which one. Dyula is common in Côte d’Ivoire)
- English
- Finnish
- French
- Georgian
- German
- Japanese (I’m hoping. Jim, are you up for it?
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
- Slovene
- Swedish
- Turkish
I’m pertty excited about how all of this shapes us. Wish us luck and let me know if you want to participate in this early test!
Posted on Friday, February 6th, 2009 at 17:57
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