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1. Hello Kerim. To start out with, could you give us a little introduction and tell us a little bit about you?

Hi. I was born in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am 25 years old, I have an Engineer’s degree in Telecommunications and am currently working as an IT Director in a local company called Triland Development.

2. What are you working on right now as a Mozilla contributor?

Besides leading the Bosnian Mozilla Community, I am currently working on localizing Thunderbird into Bosnian language, promoting Mozilla and Firefox (evangelism) and am contributing to Mozilla Drumbeat project.

3. And have you been working on this since the beginning of your contributions, or has your work evolved in some way? Have you started working on anything completely new, that you were maybe not familiar with at first, since you have started contributing in Mozilla?

I started contributing to Mozilla through evangelism and localization and as I was learning more about Mozilla so has my work evolved. I started getting involved with more things than I was before. Now it’s a long list of things I enjoy doing in order to give my contribution to the wonderful Mozilla community and I look forward to learning new things and doing more work for Mozilla.

4. Had you already heard of Free and Open Source Software before becoming a Mozilla contributor?

Yes, I have. Inspired by the story of Linus Torvalds I was developing my own DOS clone, just for fun and pleasure. Part of the code was later donated to the FreeDOS project. I was also involved with few other projects but contributing to Mozilla was and is the greatest fun of them all.

5. What in Mozilla has been most helpful for you in your work as a contributor? And in your opinion, what has Mozilla brought you?

If I tried to list all the things I learned while contributing to Mozilla it would take me forever. And all those things, both knowledge and experience, were very helpful to me. I’ve learned a lot from community calls and from leading the Bosnian community about managing a team of people and about project management. It really helped me to improve my management skills which I apply in my everyday work since I, as an IT Director, lead a small geek team

6. And how did you start contributing to Mozilla?

I loved Firefox from the first moment I ever used it. So, I thought maybe I could do something to make it even better. And that’s how it all started. I first got into localization then evangelism and so on. Three years later it looks like a nice fairy tale - so many beautiful memories.

7. Any plans for the future?

Of course. I always have something in plan. Most of my current plans concern the Balkans community, since we’re currently in a process of building it, growing the Bosnian Mozilla community and promoting Open Web values through Drumbeat project.

8. Thank you Kerim. Would you like to add anything else?

Thank you for this conversation. I really enjoyed it. I would like to say thanks to everyone for giving me the opportunity to be a part of such a wonderful community and for all the good moments and memories. I love you guys and I LOVE THIS COMMUNITY!

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Margaret Thatcher és un dels personatges polítics més importants del darrer quart del segle XX, i també un dels més controvertits.

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Fer de la vida un blog o fer un blog amb la vida. Això és més o menys el que pretenem els blogaires, cada un amb les seves dèries, les seves manies, les seves "neures" i fent que es faci realitat allò de "cada loco con su tema".

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Un viatge a Praga a la recerca de Franz Kafka

Per Miquel López Crespí, escriptor

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Fa pocs dies escrivíem sobre la llibertat del llenguatge i sobre la relació entre llengua i manera d’entendre el món (Em  puja la mosca al nas...).  Avui, us proposem una reflexió sobre la comparació entre algunes expressions catalanes i el seu e

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Pel setembre de l’any 2009 vaig anar a Praga per a provar de copsar d’on podia sorgir el món terrífic de l'autor txec de formació cultural jueva i alemanya. Vaig caminar pels indrets on ell va viure, el negoci familiar delcarrer de Celetna, prop de la Casa de la Ciutat, i la famosa plaça Staromêstske námestí, just al costat del monument de Hus. La visita al que resta del barri jueu també és un itinerari aconsellable. (Miquel López Crespí)

Franz Kafka

Praga, setembre 2009. Miquel López Crespí a Praga, a la recerca de Franz Kafka

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In the editor (Mozilla Composer, Nvu, KompoZer), there is a dialog for image insertion. That dialog shows a preview of the currently selected image. That preview relies on the following code:

1. load the image inside an <html:img> element
2. wait until it's loaded
3. get its natural width and height
4. resize the image to make it fit nicely in its container box, whatever the width and height of the image

With the help of CSS 3 Backgrounds, this code is gone and all we have now is:

1. load the image as the background image of <xul:box> element

with the following CSS styles on that box:

background-size: contain;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;

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Quan t'equivoques en escriure una url apareix una pàgina en blanc dient que s'ha produït un error. Tant en empreses com en partits polítics és important estar preparat perquè aquesta pàgina d'error doni informació a l'usuari sobre com prosseguir la seva navegació. Un exemple, la web del PSOE: "El recurs que s'intenta obtenir no es troba accessible en aquest moment, disculpin les molèsties.

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A totes o a la majoria de les residències d’avis tenen una secció, departament, o unitat, on hi acullen els que es troben en una situació més difícil des d’un punt de vista mental. J. s’hi està al seu centre del poble costaner. En són 18, les persones. Disset dones i un home -diuen que els homes s'apaguen abans. De dia, segons situacions, hi romanen segregats de la resta d’àvies i avis, i al llarg de diferents moments, i a la nit, hi tornen a la seva cambra per descansar o dormir (...)

El 20 d’agost de 1940, Ramon Mercader (Barcelona, 1914-La Habana, 1978), àlies Frank Jacson, àlies Jacques Mornand, feria mortalment a Lev Davidovich Trotsky al seu refugi mexicà de Coyoacán. Era, segons Víctor Serge, la mitjanit del segle; un any després de la victòria feixista a la Guerra i Revolució espanyola; quan Hitler i les seves tropes avançaven imparables als camps de batalla; mentre Stalin afermava el seu domini despòtic a l’URSS i en el moviment comunista internacional (...)

I’ve been involved in the judging pipeline for three competitions now. Today, I judged for an inspiring competition called Node Knockout, held by Joyent and Fortnight Labs.

The first two competitions I participated in didn’t scale. I wasn’t even a judge for the first one—we had a tiny handful of celebrity judges who couldn’t possibly review all of the submissions, so me and some colleagues furiously attempted to cull the list down for them. It wasn’t fun, and there wasn’t any way for the public to participate in the judging process. It also wasn’t really transparent—I was part of the process, yet everything I did was hidden from the public, including any valuable feedback I may have been able to give the entrants.

In the second competition, I was a judge for one of the rounds, but there were so many entrants that I simply didn’t have time to carefully examine each one. It was exhausting, and I didn’t even feel like I was able to give each entry the time it deserved.

In stark contrast, judging for Node Knockout was an amazing experience on three levels.

Knockout judging was participatory. Instead of a tiny handful of judges, Joyent and Fortnight Labs actually enlisted a small army of industry experts, including three of my coworkers. The public could participate, too: ultimately about half of an entrant’s “rating” was determined by them and the other half was determined by the judges. In some sense, the judges were just a pool of “trusted voters” whose votes were weighted more heavily than everyone else’s.

Knockout judging scaled. Since there were around a hundred entries total, the contest runners only required each judge to evaluate 6 or 7 assigned entries, allowing them to carefully examine each one and provide useful feedback. This allowed me to spend lots of time on each one and come out of the evaluation process feeling excited about the competition instead of exhausted.

Knockout judging was transparent. Furthermore, everyone’s comments and ratings were completely public, effectively constituting a body of valuable feedback the entrants could use if they wanted to continue working on their project. Every entrant’s team had a page on the Knockout site that listed all the comments and ratings submitted so far; it read a lot like the comments on a blog post.

In short, Knockout wasn’t just a competition about the Web; it was a competition held in the spirit of the Web, too. Thanks to Joyent and Fortnight Labs for holding such a fun event!

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The Latest Study

While previous Test Pilot studies (e.g. the Firefox Main Window, Menu Item Usage, and Tab Switch studies) have largely focused on user experience and usage data, the Test Pilot extension is flexible enough to capture a wide range of other data related to the Firefox browser. The ‘About:Firefox’ Study is a 1-day study implemented to record configuration and performance information for our product and engineering teams.

The study will take a snapshot of memory use statistics, plug-in information, graphics card configuration, and modified preferences (information that can be viewed in ‘about:support’ and ‘about:memory’). As always, we are careful to avoid collecting any sensitive or personally identifiable information. The ‘About:Firefox’ Study will only capture information on a pre-defined set of preferences; we’ve made sure to blacklist any preferences that might contain sensitive data, such as homepage settings.

By submitting this data, you will help our product and engineering teams prioritize development efforts and create a more efficient browser!

Test Champion: Christopher Jung, Data Analyst, Mozilla Metrics.
Test Duration: 1 day.
Test Version: Firefox 3.6.x and Firefox 4 Beta

Privacy

Security and privacy are priorities for Mozilla, especially when dealing with user data. Test Pilot privacy settings give users control over their data – these privacy settings include:

• Participants’ data will be transmitted to Mozilla only when they take all of the following actions:
  * Join the Firefox 4 Beta program by downloading the beta with the Feedback Add-On.
  * Submit data when the test is finished. Participants will be able to review all data before choosing whether or not to submit it.

• Test data will be stored anonymously and in aggregate. None of it will be publicly associated with any personally identifiable information.
• Participants can quit a Test Pilot study before they submit any test data.
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• If you are testing Firefox 4 Beta, the Feedback Add-On will notify you before the study starts, at which point you can view a detailed study description and choose to opt-out of the study if you wish. For more information on how Test Pilot in Firefox 4 beta works, please see the “How it Will Work” section here .
• If you are not running Firefox 4 Beta, what are you waiting for? We invite you to get on the latest beta to participate in this study. Help test the future of Firefox by downloading the latest Firefox 4 Beta!
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