Volunteer Spotlight Member
on Tue, 11/07/2006 - 11:50Volunteer SpotlightSpreadFirefox Volunteer Spotlight for the month of November is Dylan
a.k.a. ALIENDUDE5300. Dylan is a 14 year old 8th grader living in the
United States. His interests include computers, the Internet, image
manipulation, and of course Firefox.
He’s been a great supporter to all
of his fellow SFx members, their
ideas, and projects,
and it’s hard to
find a post on Spread Firefox where he hasn’t left a
positive or helpful
comment.
We did an online interview with Dylan and here’s how it
went.
SFx Team
How did you become involved with Spread
Firefox?
Dylan
I originally downloaded the Mozilla "Firebird" browser when
it was at
version 0.8, and used it as my primary internet browser.
Eventually
Firebird became Firefox, and a bit after it became 1.5, I
discovered
Spread Firefox and decided to check it out. I then became a
member of
the Spread Firefox, and I have been a member for about 37
weeks.
SFx Team
Why do you support and promote
Firefox?
Dylan
Mozilla Firefox is an free open-source web browser with
many people
donating their time and effort to create. I think that if people
spend
that much time on something then people should be aware of it. Me
creating "Why to Use Firefox" is just one way to help this project. If
people don't support and promote Firefox then the developers wouldn't
have any reason to continue building onto Firefox and it would
eventually cease to exist.
SFx Team
Do you use any other browser?
If yes, for what purpose?
Dylan
I often load my webpage in Internet
Explorer and Opera to compare how it
looks to how it looks in Firefox, as my
site's main audience is not
current Firefox users but non-Firefox users. If
I simply created my site
to look good in Firefox, it would not help promote
Firefox, but bad coding.
SFx Team
What is it that you want to do when
you graduate?
Dylan
I am highly considering a job in the technology
industry. I may be a
graphics designer or a website designer.
