Taking a cue from the thousands and thousands of people who made the effort to make Mozilla better by scouring through literally hundreds of thousands of Bugzilla bug reports looking for the good, the bad, and the ugly, we've kicked off another action week to sign up a team of volunteers to scour through the press and play a key roll in identifying and responding to the scores of Firefox related press stories that happen every week.
We are looking for individuals who enjoy digging through various news outlets, flagging relevant articles, and working with a large team of volunteers to respond.
Some articles out there have factual inaccuracies that need to be corrected. Others articles, on spyware for example, should mention Firefox but don't. And some really well written articles that help deliver the Firefox message should be receiving positive feedback and aren't.
The big guys have huge budgets for just these tasks. They have staff that delivers their message to all of the tech press, that jump right on negative or inaccurate stories, that lobby writers to spin articles in their favor. They have reporters on hand that act as little more than stenographers, delivering articles that basically amounts to free and scripted advertising. We don't have the budget to hire a building full of PR folks to take our message to the press, but we do have a community that can outperform even the largest media relations department.
If you're interested in being a part of this Firefox fact checking and media relations team, head over to For the Record and sign up. We've got lots to do so we'll be wrapping up the subscription piece in just a few days, and moving quickly to put the new For the Record action team into action -- "working" the press like no software organization ever has.
The Firefox community won't be stopped. We're huge and growing. With your help, we will take back the web!
Posted by asa at July 16, 2004 06:33 PMI want a netscape browser based on FF.
Posted by: Mister T on July 17, 2004 10:57 AM