Mozilla Service Week Is Almost Here!

It's just 14 days until Mozilla Service Week; time to finish your requests for help or sign up to volunteer.

We discussed Mozilla Service Week here a few weeks ago, but it's worth another mention. Between September 14 and 21, tech experts all around the world will donate their time to organizations and individuals who need help accessing and using the Internet. It makes sense for Mozilla to take the initiative to put together a project like this; after all, it's largely volunteer efforts that have put together Mozilla products, translated them into dozens of languages, and built plugins to extend functionality in every conceivable direction. Imagine the impact that those developers, designers, and translators could achieve by focusing all of that attention on their own communities for one week. Mozilla has put Mozilla Service Week together in partnership with a lot of great organizations including Idealist, Social Actions, and TechSoup Global.

Volunteers have pledged over 6000 hours of work since the service week was announced, but of course, there's still room for much more. Check out the Stories section to see the broad range of projects being planned. Finally, don't forget to sign up as a volunteer or as an organization in need of help.

Update: Need help, but not sure where to start? Jayne Cravens offers this helpful list of short-term assignments for tech volunteers.

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