Posts by Tom Ellins

Did somebody say PAAAAAAAARTY!!!? Uh, yeah, about that: there isn’t actually a party (but you can pull some party poppers if you must!). So, what’s all this “We’re back!” lark? Well, some of you may have noticed that over the last week or two we’ve been “Down for Maintenance”. And what were you doing? What […] Continue reading

Today we started planning the next official Mozilla UK meetup. We now have a tentative date set for the end of November and a rough invite list. The aim of this meet is to bring together the UK community to set goals for the future. All major contributors from the UK will be invited + […] Continue reading

Mozilla Europe has just approved our budget request for a new private server. This will see us moving off shared hosting and onto a much better dual core vps. This will enable us to do more with the server such as installing our own Bugzilla installation. Please bear with us during any downtime during the […] Continue reading

Mozilla UK officially open for community contributions Since we started the Mozilla UK project in December 2009, we have created a community portal with the aim to enable contributors to gain information about Mozilla in the United Kingdom, about the various community projects and about ways to participate in those projects. Now it’s time for […] Continue reading

A few days ago now Mozilla UK hit the 10,000 unique visitors barrier. While this is almost nothing in the overall scale of traffic on Mozilla sites we see this as a very important milestone for the UK community. Over the past 3 months we have slowly developed the site into a helpful and enjoyable […] Continue reading

We have great pleasure in announcing the beta launch of the Mozilla UK Community Portal. Mozilla-uk.org is a portal for users of Mozilla products from the United Kingdom and the English locale. It is designed so one can find information about the various Mozilla projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird etc.) as well as information on how […] Continue reading

2010 should bring many things to look forward to both in my personal life and within Mozilla. In September I will take a diploma in IT, Systems support to forward my knowledge, hopefully followed by a internship with Mozilla QA in a few years. Another thing I look forward to in 2010 is the launch […] Continue reading

So whats my role within the Mozilla community? I seem to be the “does a bit of everything guy” Im the guy people come to when they have problems with almost anything. My daily activities include: Monitoring Livechat shifts, Answering questions in the support forum, Writing Litmus testcases for SUMO, AMO, SFX and Mozilla.org Writing […] Continue reading

What is SUMO 1.5.1 all about? SUMO 1.5.1 integrates Openfire and Tikiwiki log in’s into 1 easy to use login for both services. I feel this is a great step forward as this has been a barrier for new contributors to both Livechat and SUMO as a whole. Cheers to SUMO 1.5.1 Continue reading