Hi everyone, We have been talking with Mozilla about how our two communities can tap into each other, and I think there are some exciting ideas in the works. I've seen some calls for a more open source approach to the work we do, so here's your chance.
Many great ideas are on the table, but one opportunity available now is working with them to build out what they're calling "The Chocolate Factory", an area for sharing and tapping into innovation. For starters on that, I'd like you to take a look at the following call for participation from Pascal Finette of Mozilla Labs: Hi Everybody, Since a little while we are working on a super-exciting project -- and now we would love to get your feedback and (if you want) your help: The basic idea is to replace the current Concept Series forum with a tool which allows users to post ideas/mockups/prototypes; discuss, rate & collaborate on them and move them forward through the process. Further the tool aggregates content from the wider web to allow users to host their concepts on their own blogs and sites such as flickr. You'll find our current thinking about this tool on the Mozilla wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Site_2.0/Concept_Series_Tool_-_Specs2.0 How can you help? First off all - we would love to get your feedback on this. Does this make sense to you? Is the tool - as described - something you would like to use? What could we do better? Any specific ideas? We would love to hear them! Secondly - we're going to start developing this soon. And we would love your help. Currently we plan to build this as a combination of a lightweight RESTful API and a Javascript client (similar to the architecture of Bespin). Atul and I will start hacking on this - and we welcome everyone who would like to hack with us on this. And we need more than just hackers - we need to build wireframes, design the interface, create a great user experience. In short: Everything from start to finish. If you're interested - ping me via email (pfinette [at] mozilla [dot] com), twitter (@pascalfinette) or IRC (pascalf on irc.mozilla.org / #labs). -Pascal ------------------------------ We'll keep you posted as things progress with the other ideas we have brewing (and naturally contact any of the Board members with ideas you may have). Let us know what you think! Janna President, IxDA ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
