Webmaster round table event in Mozilla online office last Saturday
Last Saturday (10/27) afternoon, there was a Webmaster round table event organized by Mozilla online. The event started from 15:10pm and some Mozilla relative forums' webmasters, (I knew Jin Jian before, who is current webmaster of Mozine.cn) and Mozilla foundation secretary Liu ZhiYong (also met him in last year's Mozilla New Year party) showed up in the event.
The whole meeting went on smoothly. First Liu ZhiYong gave a brief introduction of history of Mozilla foundation and Mozilla's developing process in China. Jin Jian told us current concerns and working model inside Mozilla community.
Then one person, which was accompanied with a group of people, gave a presentation on their newly started community forum for Lining sports products, and showed us their success of surpassing some other same kind of forums but with different brands , who initiated two years earlier than Lining's. It has some suspections of advertising their forum, but from another angle, we can see that long term sustaining activities and rewards in these activities are key point to attract audiences' eyeballs. From their data, every month, there were at least 3-4 times of activities, with themes, which indeed generated the number of registrations. But finally speaking, this business model is a little different from Mozilla's "business" model. The former one is based on selling goods and making profit. (They might have more budget support for activities (with rewards). ) For Mozilla, "making money" probably is not the number one goal. (But certain activities are welcomed. ; ))
Mozilla Manifesto is the archived goal for every Mozilla member. And thanks so much for Li Gong's kind help. Simplified Chinese version of Mozilla Manifesto is well polished and now it's Mozilla Manifesto Chinese Translation version 0.2 .
Anyway, there are some known and existed technical issues for promoting Firefox, like memory consumption, first starting up slowly, Active X support issue etc. In order to make Firefox a better internet experience for more users in China, it needs every community member's help to solve those problems and realize the dream. Maybe starting from translation of MDC documentation.
(p.s. Today when I loggin blogs.sun.com, just found that menus on my page were localized into Chinese. Was it community work? ;p )
Posted at 10:10AM Oct 29, 2007 by rachelzhang in Personal | Comments[0]
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