Summer Projects at Mozilla

You'll be seeing a lot more activity over the coming months as we roll out new marketing programs and campaigns, and accelerate into the launch of Firefox 2.  There are also many new names and faces as we grow the team and community who are working together to raise awareness and drive adoption of Firefox worldwide.  (There are now more than 170,000 people registered on SpreadFirefox.com to participate in Firefox marketing activities!)

This week marks the start of Mozilla's summer internship program.  We had an incredible number of applications for these internship slots, and I'm very pleased to introduce you to the folks who have joined the market and product management team full-time for the summer:

• John Carey comes to use from Firefox Flicks (his entry was "Drama Queen") and he is currently attending college in Springfield, Missouri and plans to attend USC to pursue a degree in Film Production. In addition to experience on music videos, documentaries and events, John also has on-air radio experience.
• Matthew Shichtman also comes to us from Firefox Flicks (his entry was "Get Foxy") and he is currently studying Film and Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. Matthew brings with him extensive short-film production experience and has recent directed a fifteen-minute documentary for A Safe Place, a women's abuse shelter in the Chicago area.
• Rachel Werner joins us as a diehard Firefox fan from UC Berkeley, where she is currently working on her MBA at the Haas School of Business. She also has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

So what will they be working on?  I'll let them each give more details over the coming days and weeks, over on SpreadFirefox.com.  In brief, we're planning on launching new videos projects (possibly including a regular video podcast as part of a revised AirMozilla), the next phase of Firefox Flicks, and a community-based market research program to coordinate focus groups and surveys to support our marketing and product planning.

We've also started planning for the next SpreadFirefox Summit.  (More details soon.)

- cbeard

Comments

[graphicsguru]

welcome aboard John, Matthew and Rachel

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