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Based on the mission itself, there's a lot of good reasons to contribute to Mozilla.

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But in this video, I wanted to focus a bit more on taking full advantage of the contributions you've made.

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And to do this, I'm going to go over a few concrete things that you can do.

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One thing you can do in particular, is find any bug where you are mentioned in, click your name, and go to profile.

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And you have a profile here which you could include in your resume.

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Or you could include on your website to promote yourself.

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Even better than this profile page though, what's more valuable is if you go to search for bugs here.

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So you just go to Search, and then Advanced Search, and then for Status put resolved, and for Resolution put Fixed.

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And then down here, the bug assignee, just put your name [email] there.

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And then click search.

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And this shows a long list, hopefully a long list of bugs that you've actually finished.

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And including this on your resume, shows people how you interact, and it also shows people how you code.

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Because each of these bugs, will typically have a link to the changeset where your code actually landed.

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One more thing that you can do, is that you can go to hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?user= and put your username there.

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That will actually show you all your commits that you've done as well.

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So again you can use this on your resume, or on your website.

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So more things that you can do, is if you have a github profile, and if you don't you should create one.

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And github shows you all your contributions here.

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So you can actually get all of your Mozilla contributions to show up here as well.

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All you need to do is fork the github repository for mozilla-central.

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That would be mozilla/gecko-dev there's other ones for gaia for example, just browse on mozilla/ to see which ones you want to be part of.

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And once you do that, any push that you do will show up here as a changeset.

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And again including your github in your resume might help you by showing people your work ethic and how you code.

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Also if you try to get added to one of the projects at Mozilla, you'll get this organization stamp right here for Mozilla.

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And I think that will help you as well.

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Finally one more concrete thing you can do, is you can create a Mozillians profile

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And I actually have a separate video for this so I'm not going to get into it.

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But just having that profile as well, shows that you're part of the community of Mozilla.

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There's obviously a lot more reasons to contribute.

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There's the intrinsic motivation, there's working with very smart people, there's learning opportunities

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But I just wanted to go over this video to show you how you can promote your contributions.