Fox For All

Hi....
"Fox For All" is the plan that Uttam and I have submitted as our entry to Mozilla's "Impact Mozilla" contest. We went on to win the contest and now its time to act!!! Since the entire plan is a community based one we desperately need your comments. Please tell us what's good and more importantly what's bad about this plan. Tell us all the changes that we might make.

So, I begin with a summary of our proposal. You can get the detailed plan here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d896ncn_0cxd4sxg6

The problem statement was to improve the user retention rate of Firefox. For this, we thought of a website that will act as a platform for the entire process right from the 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...