In the past few weeks I’ve been involved in a lot of conversations about strengthening the Mozilla Foundation and a lot of conversations about the 2010 goals. I don’t think we’ve got the connection between the two quite right.
We’ve been thinking about the Foundation’s role in too small a way. We’ve been thinking along the [...]
Recently I spent the afternoon at a Benetech brainstorming session. Benetech is a non-profit organization, one of the very early pioneers in using technology for social benefit and in using market mechanisms rather than classic fundraising techniques. Benetech’s founder Jim Fructerman is a very smart guy who has been figuring out how to combine public [...]
Friday night I worked as a drone building a temporary competitive gymnastic facility on a local high school basketball court. My son participates in local gymnastics, and so the parents at the gym have an allocation of work hours to be completed. These hours are mostly spent setting up, cleaning up and staffing gymnastics meets, [...]
Today we are posting our audited financial statements and tax form for 2007. We have also posted an FAQ. As in past years, I’ll use this event as an opportunity to review both our financial status and our overall effectiveness in moving the mission forward.
Financial
The financial highlights are:
2007 was another healthy year for Mozilla both [...]
I see from Guillermo that the discussion of 2010 goals among the Spanish speaking Latin American community kicks off this week. And I know Marcio is back from vacation and getting ready to start discussions in Brasil. I’m very eager to see this develop, and start to build communities of people accustomed to — and [...]
I have to confess that today working is sort of a background task; concentrating on anything other than the election is very hard. Not many people in the office yet today; I suspect that voting lines are causing this.
Last Monday I voted by mail, for the first time ever. I thought I would be traveling on election day so I voted by Absentee Ballot. I’ve voted this way before, but always before I’ve physically delivered the Absentee Ballot to a voting official by dropping it off at the voting office. This is the [...]
On Tuesday, October 28 at 1 p.m. Pacific Time I’ll be holding a session to talk about the privacy and data section of the Mozilla 2010 goals. This will broadcast on Air Mozilla. We’ll also use the IRC channel (#2010goals) for people who want to ask questions via IRC. As usual, Asa will be the [...]
Mark Surman recently joined the Mozilla Foundation as our new Executive Director. Mark and I are spending a lot of time together, and one topic is the 2010 goals. I crafted these goals to be focused on our products and technology. Now that Mark has been immersed in Mozilla for a few weeks (coming up [...]
We started a conversation a while back about two year product and technology goals. I’d like to return to that discussion. It’s clear that a blog post and comments is a hard way to discuss a complex and nuance topics like this. Here are some techniques we’ll try to get broad [...]