Majken: I absolutely agree that voting in the store is a new and good thing, but only one small piece of what makes opportunities. You didn’t mention our recent efforts to support people who want to speak up publicly about why they are involved in Mozilla. I wonder if this is because many people don’t want to speak comfortably, or if this has not been clear?

mitchell

This is an good goal - i also think that Mozilla is important. It is really important that the web will be not only functional, but open, too.

But there is quite a lot of criticism against Firefox on the technical level. The critics’ strongest point seem to be that Opera’s standards support and JavaScript performance are superior to those of Mozilla. I will still stick to Firefox, because Opera is not Free Software, but those technical are nevertheless valid.

They seem to be addressed in Brendan’s proposals for the Mozilla 2 architecture. Do you consider its implementation as a goal for 2008?

Solidify the “foundation”, highlight the successes, and use that as a launching point. Web sites and applications that have been successful (and even those that haven’t been) owe a lot to Firefox and that should be noted too.

That’s what I’d go with anyway.

“Why Mozilla matters” is a story that’s played out. Mozilla/Firefox is ubiquitous.

So far there have been some efforts to give people more chances to feel involved, like the vote for which product to add to the Mozilla store. They’re still too few and far between, though, compared to what opportunities Mozilla could offer, and as Mozilla gets more successful and relies more on paid help it’s unfortunately getting harder for community members to contribute as there are people on staff that just handle it.

Those are, IMHO at least, two of the most relevant issue for 2008…

Please Mitchell, could you add a few words about these topics?

Many thanks!