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Hello Mozilla Community!

I am incredibly happy and proud to announce that the Mozilla Community Directory is now live. This is a critical element of the Contributor Engagement team’s strategy to inspire more people to participate in Mozilla and make our community feel much smaller. This project has been a long-time coming and something our community has desperately needed. So, please, if you are a current contributor to Mozilla, have been in the past and want to be one in the future, go and register an account and get vouched by another contributor!

On this first 1.0 release, you’ll be able to create a profile with information about yourself, search for Mozillians and vouch those contributors.

Features

• Profile Registration: Anyone who goes to Mozillians.org can register accounts onto the site and add in information such as their E-mail Address, Full name, IRC Nickname, a short Bio and Profile Photo. They’ll need to confirm their account via e-mail after registration.
• Vouching System: Once a person is registered, they’ll need to find a Mozillian to vouch for them to go from a “Non-Vouched” state to a “Mozillian” state. The other Mozillian will need to be vouched beforehand. If the registered person is a part of the staff at Mozilla or the Mozilla Foundation, their account will be pre-vouched on registration. As a person with a Non-Vouched state will NOT be able to view other profiles in Mozillians.org, invite others to register nor search for other Mozillians within the application in this release.
• Invitations: If they’re a vouched Mozillian in the directory, they can invite other contributors into the directory as an already-vouched Mozillian.
• Search: If they’re a vouched Mozillian in the directory, they can search for other Mozillians by their name and e-mail address.

What are our Next Steps?

This is a first step for the team and we want this site to grow by leaps and bounds over the next year. Right now, contributors and staff can only do a few things on the site that are helpful in finding and contacting Mozillians. Over the next coming weeks, we’ll be implementing features such as “Groups”, Location, Log-in through Browser ID, Linking Phonebook accounts to as many mozilla.org services as possible and better user flows onto the site. So, stay tuned for blog posts and tweets from the team to find out about future improvements!

I would also like to mention what’s in store for the long-term. The Phonebook is the beginning of a set of tools we’re looking to build into a platform for contributors to get more easily involved into the Mozilla community. Over the next year, we’re planning on ways to let contributors know about and sign-up for Mozilla and Mozilla Community-hosted events, introducing bite-sized tasks that comprise of translating strings, testing our products, promoting Mozilla and helping submit patches to our products and projects.

How Can You Get Involved?

There’s three very helpful ways you can get involved:

1. Register and invite other Mozillians who you know in the community!
2. If you run into problems using the site, find an issue, or have ideas for making the site better, please file a bug (make sure to look for duplicates first, please!).
3. If you’d like to get involved with making this community resource even better, take a look at our code repository and contact tofumatt or davedash in #mozillians on irc.mozilla.org.

Finally, I’d like to thank Gerv, David, ozten, tofumatt, retornam, rforbes, mgoodwin, malexis, Andrew, Corey, Tobbi, jabba, Monique, Stas, Jason, Jay, Seth, Mary and everyone else who worked on this (as well as earlier phonebook efforts).

For a list of bugs fixed in this release, please take a look at our Bugzilla query.