Mozilla Reps Newsletter - March 2019

Happy Birthday Mozilla! :star_struck:

Twenty One years!
It’s been two decades since we first logged on as the Mozilla project and got started bringing together the creative power of volunteers around the world. Still, we’re just getting started.

Council Updates:

  1. Reps OKRs – First half of the year 2019
    Here are the OKRs for the first half of the year Read more
  2. We want to hear from you, what’s missing in the Reps Program?
    We need your inputs Mozilla Reps Program Feedback Survey
  3. Review Team Update
    Welcome new review team member - Monica Read more
  4. Mentors Wanted! We need passionate mentors for our new reps. Interested? Apply
  5. LATAM Reps Call Survey

In the end of 2018, we’ve done a Rep survey to analyze the effectiveness of Reps call activity. Based on the survey and data that we’ve collected from various sources, we made this analysis. One of the recommendations from the analysis is then to organize an experiment call in LATAM time zone. We’ve done 2 calls in early January 2019. As a follow up of the experiment, we wanted to do a brief survey to find out if the calls were actually effective. The survey will be open from the 1st of April until 10th of April. Please fill it out before then. This will be a valuable feedback for us to evaluate our experiment.

Checkout info-graphics : https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/1heXbKtfDzvTqLh6Jwjq8B--AvMVug9hz/page/EtEb

Rep of the month:

New Reps:

Please join us in welcoming our new Reps who have joined recently.

New Recognition:

Mozillian of the Month - Pranshu Khanna [Read more]

You may know “Rep of the Month,” a monthly event to recognize the active and inspiring Reps for their work. In the past 7 years, more than 80 Reps 2 had won this honor for their great work.

However, we all know - not only Rep - there are so many of you, as a Mission Driven Mozillian, contributing to different Mozilla projects, doing various activities, highly investing daily in support of the Mozilla’s Mission and Internet’s health, everywhere around the globe.

So the Reps Council have created the “Mozillian of the Month” experiment, a prize dedicated to all of the Mozillians. With the Reps’ help, we want to share your stories, learn from your efforts, and inspire other Mozillians to rock the internet together.

The nomination for the second round of Mozillian of the Month recognition experiment has starts. Hurry up Nominate now!

Nominations and Timeline

  • Nominating: March 26 - Apr 6 (15:00 UTC)
  • Voting: April 7 - April 21 (15:00 UTC)

2019 Mozilla Communities & Contributors Survey and State of the Rebel Alliance Report

Mozilla is built upon openness and transparency as our core values, both in the products we make and in how we operate. We rely upon open, collaborative practices to bring in external perspectives, knowledge, creativity and contribution to many of our products, technologies, and operations. And this is only possible because of you: skilled, passionate contributors and communities with various backgrounds, disciplines, and motivations.

Read more

Firefox began an that blocks all notification requests

Mozilla and Google are exploring ways to block notification permission requests . Firefox began two-week experiment trying to fix that problem

Mark Surman - How to keep AI from turning into the Terminator

The AI of today is invisible to most of us, yet ubiquitous……

Mark Surman is the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, a global community devoted to keeping the internet open and free. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read full article on CNN.

Firefox Fission

Project Fission is the project name for revamping and strengthening the architecture of Firefox browser.

It aims to build a browser which isn’t just secure against known security vulnerabilities, but also has layers of built-in defense against potential future vulnerabilities.

Firefox 66

What’s in new !
Starting with the release of Firefox 66 for desktop and Firefox for Android, Firefox will block audible audio and video by default. We only allow a site to play audio or video aloud via the HTMLMediaElement API once a web page has had user interaction to initiate the audio, such as the user clicking on a “play” button.

Read more…

Browser through the Firefox Release Notes

Release Notes tell you what’s new in Firefox. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can also file a bug in Bugzilla or see the system requirements of this release.

Net Neutrality

Driven by its mission to build a better, healthier internet that puts users first, Mozilla is heading to Capitol Hill to defend Net Neutrality…

Read more…

What’s happening in the community

  • Mozilla at Maker Fest Vadodara
  • Mozilla at GMRT science day

This newsletter was brought to you by the Reps Newsletter Team - Ruwan, Ganesh and Mayur!

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Great round up of things! Thanks for doing this! :sunglasses::face_with_monocle:

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Thank you Ioana!! <3

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Huuuuge thank you for this excellent newsletter!

-Henrik

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