Archive for June, 2008

June 17, 2008

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Late last week a colleague expressed dismay that we didn’t have either a recorded version or a text version of the brief comments I made from Seoul via Air Mozilla on the release day of Firefox 3.  So I took my notes and put them together into something that is close — certainly in spirit [...]

Mozilla Foundation Activities

Friday, June 27th, 2008

There’s a bit of a discussion underway about what the Mozilla Foundation might do to become an even more effective organization in achieving its mission. Mark Surman and Dave Eaves had some thoughts about this mission in possibly the broadest possible formulation — a social movement for the Open Web (or Open Internet). David Ascher [...]

Mozilla Foundation Discussion

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Mark Surman has an interesting post today thinking about ways in which the Mozilla Foundation might provide more leadership for the open web, or open Internet in general.    The question of how best to broaden the Foundation’s activities is near to my own heart;  it’s exciting to see people starting a positive conversation about this [...]

Firefox 3 — Tip of the Iceberg

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Today Mozilla releases Firefox 3 — fast, smart, safe, fun. Full of new things. Firefox 3 once again demonstrates how a great product makes Internet life better.
Firefox 3 is also the tip of a much bigger iceberg. For one thing, Firefox is the tip of the web itself. Firefox is exciting because the Web is [...]

Launch Day in Seoul

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Tomorrow I’ll be mixing OECD events with the Firefox 3 launch day and Mozilla community events. I’ll get up very early to participate in an Air Mozilla event coinciding (almost) with the official Firefox release. Then I’ll go to a local TV station to talk about Mozilla. The only downside is I’ll have to miss [...]

Mozilla and the OECD in Seoul

Monday, June 16th, 2008

As Gen mentioned, I’m in Seoul for a couple of events. One is the Ministerial level Meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the Future of the Internet Economy. I’m speaking at one of the five roundtables, this one on Creativity. There is an opportunity for online participation organized as well. If [...]

Firefox 3 — Coming Very Soon

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Firefox 3: June 17. Our target release date is less than one week away.
The web experience gets dramatically better for millions and millions and millions and millions of people with Firefox 3. If you know anyone who’s not using Firefox already, now is the time. Help them head over to Download Day, set a world [...]

Incubator Repositories Proposal

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Stuart recently described the need to allow improved collaboration with groups of people in specific circumstances: changes to Mozilla code that are larger (and possibly more experimental) than individual patches and where the new contributors don’t yet have commit access to the source tree and where existing Mozilla contributors want that collaboration to [...]

Ellen Siminoff Joins MoCo Board

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I’m very pleased to announce that Ellen Siminoff is joining the Mozilla Corporation board of directors. She joins John Lilly, Reid Hoffman and me on this board. Ellen brings a deep understanding of the consumer Internet, experience at growing and operating organizations of around our size, an entrepreneurial spirit, experience with Board-level responsibilities and a [...]

Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

The Mozilla Corporation is welcoming a new board member. I’ll introduce her in a moment. First I’ll describe the role of a board member, and what we looked for.
Role
The board of directors is generally responsible for the conduct and the management of affairs of a company. More specifically, they have fiduciary and ethical responsibility and [...]