Mozilla community contributor, fuzzyfox, has created a very nice screencast that explains the Quick Filter Toolbar in Thunderbird 3. Check it out!
Got your own screencast that explains Thunderbird? Or do you have favourite one that explains Thunderbird? Then let me know in the comments and I’ll post about the best ones here.
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Tagged with fuzzy fox, quck filter, screencast, thunderbird 3.
By roland
– August 10, 2010
Even though SuMoMo doesn’t yet have a real localization dashboard (we’re working on it in bug 549407) and hasn’t been announced in the localization news groups, many folks have contributed to SuMoMo (check out the full list of SuMoMo contributors as of July 20th, 2010).
This is just a quick blog post to say thanks! And an official post on the l10n news groups is coming soon. Thanks to all localizers for their patience with the delay.
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Tagged with l10n, SUMO, sumomo, thanks.
By roland
– July 27, 2010
Due to Mozilla Summit Schedule changes SuMoMo meeting to 17:45 (from 17:15) and Support and QA meeting canceled. Meet in the lobby, look for Roland (Canadian of Filipino heritage) in an Orange hoody. Full SuMoMo meeting details on the wiki.
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Tagged with moz10, qa, SUMO, sumomo, support, thunderbird.
By roland
– July 7, 2010
A large number of Mozilla Staff including myself and a large number of Mozilla community contributors will be in Whistler this week from Tuesday afternoon or so to Saturday (I arrive early Tuesday afternoon and then have to leave early Thursday night). We’re going to take advantage of this to have further meetings that I alluded to in my previous post about MozillaZine.
The two meetings are:
- SuMoMo Non English Meeting - Proposed Time and Place: When: Wed July 7th, 17:15, meet in the lobby
- QA & Support working hand in hand - Proposed Time and Place: When: Wed July 7th, 17:45, meet in the lobby
The times and place of the meetings are TENTATIVE. Stay tuned to the Summit informal meeting wiki page for last minute details or email me roland AT mozillamessaging.com or rolandtanglao on irc in #moz10.
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Tagged with moz10, qa, sumomo, support.
By roland
– July 5, 2010

Time flies when you are having fun! The Thunderbird Knowledge Base at support.mozillamessaging.com codenamed “SuMoMo” launched back in early January but I keep forgetting to blog about it. We have some great English and Spanish content (thanks to Guillermo López Leal, and Pedro Garcia Rodriguez!) with more to come soon (French and German are next probably). Of course you can help out in your language as I blogged about before. Writing knowledge base articles is easy; it’s fun and it’s an easy way to establish yourself in the Thunderbird community.
Finally “SuMoMo” has many meanings in various languages one of which in Japanese is plum hence the fun picture from flickr user uguisu. And of course if you have any questions about SuMoMo, please leave a comment here or email me, roland AT mozillamessaging.com
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Tagged with kb, knowledge base, SUMO, sumomo.
By roland
– May 18, 2010

The Thunderbird 3.0 release is just around the proverbial corner. And we’d like to release the SUMO knowledge base for Mozilla Messaging, support.mozillamessaging.com, code-named “SuMoMo” (initially only Thunderbird of course since Raindrop is still in its early days) at about the same time as Thunderbird 3.0.
SuMoMo is currently in beta preview mode on our staging server and currently has the Firefox look and feel but we are in the process of theming it to look like the rest of the Mozilla Messaging web presence. Theming should complete in a few days.
The last thing to do before release is to add knowledge aka “content”, in English (of course you can contribute English plus other languages but for the first release we’d like to do English as the first priority). This is one of the easiest ways to contribute for people who are not software developers (other than helping out Ludo and the QA team).
No software development experience required! We just need people who are using Thunderbird and can write regardless of whether they are developers or not. SuMoMo is for users not developers. Developers have lots of other places for their documentation e.g. Mozilla Development Center, etc
Interested? Want to help?
Here’s how (don’t worry if you don’t know how to use Bugzilla email roland AT mozillamessaging.com or if you are IRC savvy ping me Monday-Friday 10-5p.m. Pacific on irc.mozilla.org, #maildev, my userid is rolandtanglao and I’ll get you up and running in no time):
- Download Thunderbird 3 (SuMoMo will only document Thunderbird 3 and higher) Release Candidate 1 or newer official pre-release build. As Thunderbird 3 is still in release candidate status at the moment, please do a backup and then try it out on a test email account.
- Join Bugzilla if you haven’t already
- Join SuMoMo if you haven’t already
- Pick a Bugzilla Bug from our list of Initial Thunderbird 3 content and assign it yourself so the community knows you are working on it
- Edit and create your article (full instructions are on our SuMoMo howto)
- Update the bug to let the community know you have finished
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Tagged with kb, knowledge base, SUMO, sumomo, thunderbird, thunderbird 3.0.
By roland
– November 30, 2009