Fox For All

As we have already talked about in our last conversation,
the entire plan was based on the firm belief that "Add-ons are not at
all being catered to the passive internet users who form a formidable
section of the worldwide internet user base. " Doing something
regarding this end, can go a long way in boosting the retention rate
of Firefox. We named our plan as "Fox for All"

We went on think of a website, something very akin to what
you have mentioned. This website will act as a platform for the entire
process of conceptualization to the coding of addons for passive (and
beginner level) users. The entire development process would be
completely distributed in nature. So everything including the coding
and further upgrading of add-ons will be done by the community as a
whole instead of a single person. We think that it will be very
difficult for an developer to make and maintain an addon that he would
never use ( He will never use it as most of these addons will have a
very trivial function as far as a geek is concerned...functions like
listing the names of popular websites etc...). So we thought that the
entire coding part should also be made a community work along with the
idea development....

We dont expect the users themselves to give us the addon
ideas...But we do expect Mozilla enthusiasts who are creatively
equipped enough to think from the beginners point of view to give us
add-on ideas. Once the idea is finalized we will forward the coding
work to a community that will predomintantly consist of college
students...These students will get an appreciation certifiate from
Mozilla, mentoning the work that they have done in return for their
contribution. This will be the primary motive for the students to work
on the addons..Once they get their certificates another student group
comes in and the work continues... This is the detailed version that
we have submitted: (Its a bit incoherent as we changed our directions
frequently while making the report)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d896ncn_0cxd4sxg6

could you please tell us your thoughts about this
plan....We have a quiet a few questions to ask you with regards to the
implementation of this plan...But before I make this mail too long i
just want to end this with one of those questions....

We have so far identified two user groups that aren't being
served enough number of add-ons (Kids group on the other hand is kind
of okay with a few addons like KidZui, Glubble etc...):

1) Internet Beginners: We thought that internet beginners (I mean
those people who donot yet appreciate the full power of the
Internet)...
We can help them by showing some of the popular web sites...
We can show them how to use Web Search effectively to get almost
anything that one wants....
We can make the boring, text based Help menu ...more graphic based
and interactive

Dont you think there is a lot of scope for addons in this regard?
We also thought that a lot more of internet users fall into this
group...thus increasing the user base of such addons

2) Cyber cafe owners: This is a user group we picked up from the
spread firefox website....
Some of the addon ideas for this group are :
http://www.spreadfirefox.­com/