<story><title>Code Firefox</title><url>http://codefirefox.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fhd2</author><text>I love contributing to Mozilla. I contributed to a bunch of projects in the past years, including Chromium (a very friendly bunch BTW), but Mozilla makes me feel like I&amp;#x27;m a real part of this, not just some guy sending a patch.&lt;p&gt;- Literally everything they do is in the open, volunteers can participate a lot if they want to, even start new projects. (~50% of their employees remote, I guess that helps a lot here.)&lt;p&gt;- They&amp;#x27;re mentoring people new to a project really well - I love this even though I prefer to just dive into the code myself.&lt;p&gt;- They call you a &amp;quot;Mozillian&amp;quot;, send you foundation&amp;#x2F;company&amp;#x2F;product updates, invite you to Mozilla  Summit (I was there this year, and it was amazing) etc.&lt;p&gt;- Mozilla is not profit oriented, they just care about their mission: Moving the web forward and keeping it open. Makes me feel like part of a good cause, as opposed to unpaid labour.&lt;p&gt;All in all, they really got this figured out. I can recommend them to anyone who wants to contribute to something big&amp;#x2F;important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>znowi</author><text>&amp;gt; Mozilla is not profit oriented, they just care about their mission: Moving the web forward and keeping it open.&lt;p&gt;This was my experience with them ever since Firefox 1.0 came out in 2004 to liberate us from Internet Explorer. They really care about open Internet, user rights and privacy. And they stayed true to those ideals all these years. Something you can&amp;#x27;t say about many big name companies on the net today. In fact, I consider them a fair replacement for the early Google that we&amp;#x27;ve lost to the forces of evil :)</text></comment>
<story><title>Code Firefox</title><url>http://codefirefox.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fhd2</author><text>I love contributing to Mozilla. I contributed to a bunch of projects in the past years, including Chromium (a very friendly bunch BTW), but Mozilla makes me feel like I&amp;#x27;m a real part of this, not just some guy sending a patch.&lt;p&gt;- Literally everything they do is in the open, volunteers can participate a lot if they want to, even start new projects. (~50% of their employees remote, I guess that helps a lot here.)&lt;p&gt;- They&amp;#x27;re mentoring people new to a project really well - I love this even though I prefer to just dive into the code myself.&lt;p&gt;- They call you a &amp;quot;Mozillian&amp;quot;, send you foundation&amp;#x2F;company&amp;#x2F;product updates, invite you to Mozilla  Summit (I was there this year, and it was amazing) etc.&lt;p&gt;- Mozilla is not profit oriented, they just care about their mission: Moving the web forward and keeping it open. Makes me feel like part of a good cause, as opposed to unpaid labour.&lt;p&gt;All in all, they really got this figured out. I can recommend them to anyone who wants to contribute to something big&amp;#x2F;important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agentultra</author><text>I cannot recommend the mentoring aspect enough. I contributed my first patch earlier this year and having contact with someone on the project to review my code and give me suggestions was a huge help to getting my patch accepted. It also helped me understand the code base better than if I had to make and test my own assumptions wrt design decisions and the like.&lt;p&gt;I highly recommend contributing to Firefox as well. It&amp;#x27;s a very cool system.</text></comment>