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Hello there, Mozilla Community!

When Mozillians.org (i.e. Phonebook 1.0) went live last month, we offered a way for Mozillians find each other through a simple directory application. It had a minimal set of features and what we were looking for was a way to determine how many Mozillians were in our overall community as well as how to make it easy to find anyone in the community. One of the major problems we face is that its still hard to find Mozillians within specific sub-communities and groups. Well, Mozillians.org 1.1 aims to fix that particular problem.

The team has landed a new major feature called “Groups” where Mozillians can list themselves as part of specific sub-communities such as “Quality Assurance” or “Firefox”. Here’s an example of my profile:

Also, vouched Mozillians will be able to search for who and how many contributors list themselves as a part of specific groups [1]. So, what can do you with this new feature? Well, here’s a small list of useful use cases:

• Find the contact e-mails for Mozillians within a specific group for closer communications within other active/core set of contributors.
• Put a face and name to a IRC handle to all the folks that seem to hang around your team or project’s channel.
• Get to know a little more about the details of each contributor within your sub-community in their bios!

For you Mozillians out there who want to host a Testday in the QA community, a SUMO day in Support or even mix and match contributors from separate sub-communities (but not spam everyone), this’ll will help save a lot of time and effort to get that information! So, go to the “Edit Profile” page after logging-in to Mozillians.org and help yourself and the Mozilla project to better communicate with each other!

Major Features

• Tag Yourself to Groups – Mozillians can now add themselves and search for other Mozillians within groups/sub-communities that are known and unknown. To use it, simply go to the “Edit Profile” and add/remove groups on the bottom left of the edit panel.
• Search via Firefox – Ever met a Mozillian at an Event or on a Mozilla IRC channel, but didn’t know who they were or what they worked on? Well, we made the act of searching for a Mozillian even easier with a Firefox Search plugin! To find it, go to Mozillians.org and add it via the Firefox search plugin drop down list. A special thank you to Antoine Turmel and Leslie Orchard for this completely contributor-made feature!

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

A big thank you to tofumatt, malexis, ednapiranha, lorchard, davedash, Andrew Findlay, Tobbi, stephend, mbrandt, Jason and Milos for their fantastic contributions and making this release a success!

We’re looking to add in Location information to Mozillian profiles and have BrowserID hooked up with Mozillians.org next. There’s plenty more things we want to do after that though. So, if you’re interested in following what the team is planning to work on, take a look at our roadmap, planned releases and how to contact us (or get involved!).

[1] There are two caveats in this release: Phonebook users can only perform a search for a single group per search in this release. Also, searches within groups with more than 20 Mozillians will only show the first 20 Mozillians in that group.