For more details about Weave 0.8, please check out the details over at the Weave blog!

See other Halloween designs here.

Thanks to Lenaw82, MaDonna, and Robbins Design for their awesome contributions to the gallery.

What Else?

Last week, the Personas community reached an important milestone by welcoming its 30,000th persona design. Also, within the next few weeks, we’ll be officially launching a Holiday category, which you can start using today.

– Suneel Gupta on behalf of the Personas Development Team

For more information see http://design-challenge.mozilla.org/jetpack-for-learning.

Your favorite web browser is Firefox, you played with projects hosted by Mozilla Labs, probably you even hacked on them already? Now is the time to join the Mozilla Labs team to catalyze and support the work of a worldwide community working on innovations for the future of the Web.

We are currently looking for all-stars in the following roles:

Labs User Experience Designer

We’re looking for an exceptional User Experience Designer to join our rapid prototyping and incubation team, as part of an organization that’s committed to enabling new and innovative web experiences for hundreds of millions of people around the world. This position requires a designer who will thrive in fast paced environments where things are in a constant state of flux, and who will be good at prioritizing user experience issues in order to hit weekly product delivery targets.

Learn more and apply here.

Product Marketing Manager – Labs

You will be a key contributor to Mozilla’s outbound product marketing efforts for its innovation programs in general, and projects like the Concept Series, Ubiquity, Weave and Jetpack specifically. If you’re passionate about the Web, and are willing to roll-up your sleeves, then this position is for you.

Learn more and apply here.

For more information, see the release announcement blog post.

Win cool prizes and get your art in front of millions of people.

Students are invited to enter their persona designs into the Personas Student Art Competition by Sunday, October 18th at midnight, PDT. We’re looking to support talented student artists by sharing their art with millions of Personas users around the globe.

Winners will be decided by community vote and celebrity judges like Anna Sui with cool prizes from Wacom Intuos and CandyBar for the top designs. Entering is free and easy so enter today.

For more information, see the release announcement blog post.

For more details about Weave 0.7, please check out the details over at the Weave blog!

We’ve now completed our inaugural Test Pilot study, with more than 5,000 opt-in participants from around the world providing invaluable data into how they use tabs in their daily Web browsing, and today we’re making this data available under an open license for analysis by the wider research community.

With this first study our primary objective has been to provide a trial run of an end-to-end process while still maintaining user privacy. We believe that we’ve been able to gather enough information to answer the questions posed by the Tab Open/Close study while ensuring that we’re true to the privacy policy and guiding principles. All submitted test data is stored in anonymous form, none of it is directly associated with any potentially personally identifiable information, and no directly personally identifiable information was collected or stored.

Data from this study is being made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License, with the additional requirement that you acknowledge that Mozilla cannot vouch for the quality or timeliness of any third-party analysis or work derived from the Mozilla Test Pilot Data.

We’re still working on the best way in which to license data from the Test Pilot program. Please do join us in the discussion group, especially if you are a researcher and help us better understand requirements for publication.

We encourage people to make creative use of this data, to conduct analysis and to perform research on these downloadable datasets. When you publish work derived from our test data, we ask that you cite Mozilla Test Pilot as the source. While it’s not required that you contribute back your analysis, we truly hope that you will join us in the spirit of shared exploration and research. Please do share your work back with us through the discussion group.

Tab Open/Close Study Test Data (9/3/2009-9/24/2009)

Get Involved

We invite you to participate in shaping the future of the Test Pilot program:

1. Install and play with the Test Pilot add-on .
2. Report a bug.
3. Suggest ways to better structure the program or improve the user experience of participating in tests.
4. Add your ideas for usability tests to the test proposals page on the Labs wiki.

Your favorite web browser is Firefox, you played with projects hosted by Mozilla Labs, probably you even hacked on them already? Now is the time to join the Mozilla Labs team to catalyze and support the work of a worldwide community working on innovations for the future of the Web.

We are currently looking for all-stars in the following roles:

Product Marketing Manager – Labs

You will be a key contributor to Mozilla’s outbound product marketing efforts for its innovation programs in general, and projects like the Concept Series, Ubiquity, Weave and Jetpack specifically. If you’re passionate about the Web, and are willing to roll-up your sleeves, then this position is for you.

Learn more and apply here.

For our Jetpack project:

Product Manager – Jetpack

Are you a talented Product Manager who wants to guide future development of Mozilla Labs’ Jetpack project? Read more about the position and apply here.

Labs Engineer – Jetpack

Are you an exceptional Software Engineer who wants to help design and develop the underlying technology framework for Mozilla Labs’ experiments, with an initial focus on the Jetpack project? Learn more about this role and apply here.

And for our Developer Tools/Bespin:

Labs Engineer – Developer Tools (Bespin)

We are looking for a forward thinking Software Engineer with a focus on User Interface creation to join the Developer Tools Lab and initially focus on the Bespin project. The Developer Tools Lab is a group within Mozilla’s Labs organization that is focused on making it fun and easy to create amazing applications on the Open Web platform. Bespin is a newly formed experiment in delivering a revolutionary code editing experience entirely in the browser using Open Web technologies, like HTML 5’s canvas element, local storage, web workers, and so forth.

Read the full job spec and apply here.