EU MozCamp 2009/Firefox in Europe

Mozilla in Europe

• 3/4 people at MozCamp EU read the Monday Meeting notes
• but not too many interested in dialing in. (Video is better for non-native speakers than audio)
  • Gerv: "When the community feels smaller, it grows bigger" (tweet it! <- done)
• some people consider their questions not to be important enough to get the whole project spend time on it - in result people prefer to use mailing list/newsgroup
  • Mike encourages everyone to be brave and ask questions But that would mean talking, not every likes that.
• many people use nightly versions, some use localized nightlies
• reasons not to use nightlies:
  • breaks addons
  • dangerous (may break something, remove your files etc.)
  • hard to find - please put links at a better place
  • there are three kinds of nightly builds -> confusing
  • downgrading is the land of unknown (bad experiences with losing stuff)

• Why Firefox has been more successful in Europe than N. America?
  • Germany had good Netscape market and Mozilla took it over
  • Localization may be an issue, especially for smaller languages - but Mike thinks the numbers don't support that idea well

• Engaged in development
  • attending meetings
  • staying informed
  • testing builds

• Engaged in evangelism
  • advocating Firefox
  • spreading the word
  • enabling volunteers and contributors