Firefox Summit Reflections
Late in July we got together close to 400 extremely active Mozilla contributors for a face to face gathering known as the Firefox Plus Summit. This gathering was partly acknowledgment and celebration of our work so far, and mostly preparation for the future. The Summit has caused me to reflect on the future of Mozilla. In short, that future is bright.
The overriding reason for this is the strength and vibrancy of the Mozilla community. We’re growing, we’re effective and we’re expanding the types of activities that live within Mozilla. The Summit made this very clear.
There are other reasons as well. Mozilla combines the abstract goals of Internet openness, participation and decentralized decision-making with the concrete task of building great products. This combination is working. It attracts people to Mozilla, and it gives us a way of building products that reflects the Internet itself. The values of the project bring meaning and guide the way we do things. The software allows us to make those values tangible, and put their manifestations in the hands of millions of people.
Another important element is the financial resources Mozilla enjoys. We’ve just renewed our agreement with Google for an additional three years. This agreement now ends in November of 2011 rather than November of 2008, so we have stability in income. We’re also learning more all the time about how to use Mozilla’s financial resources to help contributors through infrastructure, new programs, and new types of support from employees.
Finally, the quality of our technology, products and innovation also holds great promise. In the few weeks since the Summit we’ve already seen a new approach to vastly improving JavaScript performance, the launch of “Snowl,” the introduction of the browser concept series, developer releases for Thunderbird, and video moving into the browser via Firefox 3.1. There’s much more coming.
We have large challenges ahead of us, there’s no question of that. There are many ways in which Internet life could become closed, manipulated and decidedly unpleasant. And Mozilla itself is not perfect. Many improvements are possible in how we work and what we accomplish. To be effective we’ll need to do our best, and then do even better.
Our challenges are real, our opportunities are real, and our strength is real.
Put those together, and the future is bright.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:17 am
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August 28th, 2008 at 9:31 am
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August 28th, 2008 at 10:14 am
[...] Google Mozilla Inc. that is the inventor of the widely acclaimed web browser, FireFox has announced that it has extended its search deal with the search engine giant, Google for another three years. [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 11:51 am
[...] now ends in November of 2011 rather than November of 2008, so we have stability in income,” Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker said in a blog post [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 11:53 am
[...] at the Firefox Plus Summit, the contract has been renewed for another three [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
[...] now ends in November of 2011 rather than November of 2008, so we have stability in income,” Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker said in a blog post [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
[...] Baker, Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation or Chief Lizard Wrangler depending on what you prefer, said in a blog post that Google has extended its financial pact with Mozilla through 2011. She wrote: We’ve just [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
[...] search deal with Google (GOOG) for three more years, through Nov. 2011, chair Mitchell Baker writes. What’s that mean? The Web browser dot-org will continue to make a lot of money — we [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
[...] search deal with Google (GOOG) for three more years, through Nov. 2011, chair Mitchell Baker writes. What’s that mean? The Web browser dot-org will continue to make a lot of money — we [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
[...] now ends in November of 2011 rather than November of 2008, so we have stability in income,” Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker said in a blog post Wednesday. (Updated: there was a misleading timestamp on the post; a Mozilla [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
[...] now ends in November of 2011 rather than November of 2008, so we have stability in income,” Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker said in a blog post [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
[...] now ends in November of 2011 rather than November of 2008, so we have stability in income,” stated Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation. “We’re also learning more all the time about how to [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
[...] homepage and default in the search bar. Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker writes about the deal on her blog: “We’ve just renewed our agreement with Google for an additional three years. This agreement now [...]
August 29th, 2008 at 6:40 am
[...] resources and to cater the needs of Internet niche. The further extension in the three years deal has added stability in their income and it shows that they are genuinely working to maintain [...]
August 29th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
[...] Baker berichtet in ihrem Blog Lizard Wrangler, dass die Mozilla Foundation und Google ihre Zusammenarbeit bis 2011 verlängert [...]
August 29th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
[...] üç yıl daha Google arama motorunun reklamını yapacak. Yani, mozilla firefox penceresi açıldığında Google arama sayfası ve adres çubuğunun [...]
August 29th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
[...] Mitchell’s Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox Summit Reflections (tags: mozilla) [...]
August 30th, 2008 at 7:26 am
no time to read….but am concerned about connection with linux compromise and what’s his face that took over….
highlighting your name brought up the upgrade on screen. have NOT…..also, did not receive upgrade notification until what…friday? thanks a lot for that…..
made problems….but none that weren’t already there. i don’t care if he is “humorous” and really delightful to know….i want to know how many upgrades to 3 will have continuing compromises….
page of charity site has graphics display asian and african motif. have concerns re that on bring it on with brinker. contrary to my statements on said blog, would prefer not to see any such actions take place. it is beautiful country
understand need for access….but sort of like the one quote….that talks about those being too afraid and making too many allowances, not deserving of freedom….that is popular with the people….and the people count
will nicht be uploading 3, unless hear back with pertinent
will also not be doing update if possible on 2, and so the world waits….
*smiles for a better future, and hope for a more relevant past*
eebrinker
ps: google writes clean code. ;p
August 30th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
[...] has re-upped its search deal with Google until 2011, which promises a massive revenue stream to continue flooding into the rapidly surging open-source [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 1:40 am
[...] of the new deal came in a blog posting by Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation. She [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 8:19 am
[...] Baker, présidente de la Mozilla Foundation, a indiqué sur son blog que Google a signé pour trois nouvelles années son accord commercial avec le projet Mozilla. Le [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 9:14 am
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September 1st, 2008 at 10:37 am
[...] Novembro de 2011 que anteriormente estava válido até Novembro deste ano, disse Mitchell Baker num post do seu blog. A Mozilla gera um boa receita com este acordo com a Google que para o ano de 2006, cerca de 57 [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 10:45 am
[...] für den Firefox-Browser. Das bestätigte Mitchell Baker von der Mozilla Foundation in ihrem Blog. Neben den Suchergebnissen sehen die Firefox-Nutzer auf der Google-Webseite auch [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 11:06 am
[...] Novembro de 2011 que anteriormente estava válido até Novembro deste ano, disse Mitchell Baker num post do seu blog. A Mozilla gera um boa receita com este acordo com a Google que para o ano de 2006, cerca de 57 [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 1:00 pm
[...] reasons. It would become a direct competitor to Mozilla’s Firefox, which whom they just renewed their deal for 3 more years instead of the previous 2 year deals. Chris put it in a way I agree with 100%, that Google would [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
[...] just recently extended their license agreement with Mozilla (makers of Firefox) through 2011. Google is a major source of funding for Firefox, a browser [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
[...] after Google agreed to continue funding the overwhelming majority of Mozilla’s operating budget for another three years, they decided [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 7:34 pm
[...] simple." Google recently extended its financial deal with Mozilla until 2011, according to a blog post from Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation. Tuesday’s beta release will be available for [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
[...] recently extended its financial deal with Mozilla until 2011, according to a blog post from Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:09 am
[...] recently extended its financial deal with Mozilla until 2011, according to a blog post from Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:12 am
[...] recently extended its financial deal with Mozilla until 2011, according to a blog post from Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:21 am
[...] The way it was ‘leaked’ (does anyone really believe that anything is “accidently” leaked from Google – I think not!) was really cool too, with a comic book about the browser and it’s features (full Google link here). So, why another browser? What about Firefox/Mozilla? My first thought was finally!, but then I thought about it for a while – and the question remains – do I need another browser? On my personal notebook I already have Mozilla’s FireFox as my primary browser for most everything, and the Mozilla PRISM project for my dedicated webapps such as gMail/gCal and a couple of server control panels (also called SSB – single site browsers). Other than the crazy problem of FireFox using 500MB of RAM every couple of days, I’m quite happy with my setup, and only occasionally switch to one of the other browsers I have installed for compatibility testing (Opera, beta IE8, FF2 portable on a USB stick, etc…). There’s also the relevant note that Google & Mozilla has a contract that doesn’t expire for a few years yet – so it looks like they may not even be going for a huge market share (thought they’re likely to get it) as far as wanting to be the dominant choice for users across the world. In fact, the agreement between Google & Mozilla was just extended for another 3 years (until 2011) a few days ago – and Google doesn’t do anything by accident or chance, so you better believed that played into their decision of when to launch the beta/preview of their Chrome Browser. One FireFoxer blogged about the Firefox Summit retreat/gathering that took place last week: We’ve just renewed our agreement with Google for an additional three years. This agreement now ends in November of 2011 rather than November of 2008, so we have stability in income. http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/08/26/firefox-summit-reflections/ [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:01 am
[...] the end of August 2008, Winifred Mitchell Baker, chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and chairperson and former chief executive officer of the [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:50 am
[...] die nächsten drei Jahre gesichert, schreibt Mitchell Baker, die Vorsitzende der Stiftung, in ihrem Blog. Für die Vorinstallation seiner Suchmaschine im Suchfeld des Firefox-Browsers und als Startseite [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
[...] recently extended its financial deal with Mozilla until 2011, according to a blog post from Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:08 am
[...] ein Open-Source Projekt ist, wirkt wie ein Magnet auf Technikfreunde im Internet. Zudem kann die Verlängerung der Kooperation mit dem beliebten und erfolgreichen Open-Source-Projekt Firefox dafür sorgen, dass Google sich [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
[...] recently extended its financial deal with Mozilla until 2011, according to a blog post from Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 am
[...] Baker, presidenta de Mozilla Foundation, comenta en su blog que Mozilla acaba de renovar por segunda vez (la primera fue en 2006) el acuerdo económico que [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
[...] for Google there’s some money behind those words; in a nice bit of timing, Google last week renewed its Firefox search deal through November 2008. And Pichai made a point of emphasizing that Google [...]
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 am
[...] care urma sa expire in luna noiembrie, a fost prelungita pana in 2011, conform unui post publicat pe blogul sau de catre Mitchell Baker, presedintele [...]
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 am
[...] recently extended its financial deal with Mozilla until 2011, according to a blog post from Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla [...]
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:34 am
[...] implications for Firefox are interesting, particularly given Google’s recent commitment to extend its financial support for Firefox until at least [...]
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 am
Google verschenkt eigenen Webbrowser…
Google hat in den letzten beiden Jahren einen Webbrowser namens Chrome programmiert, der jetzt in Form einer Windows-Betaversion der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht wird.
Chrome scheint technisch ja sehr interessante Ansätze zu haben. Ich hab…
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:52 am
[...] y responsable de las aplicaciones en línea de la compañía (entre ellas Firefox) , anunciaba que acababan de renovar su acuerdo con Google por un periodo de tres años [...]
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:34 am
[...] great open source browser available, and it claims around 20% of the market share. Mozilla has also just renewed its deal with Google - so why would Google want another competitor in the mix? Joe Wilcox has a [...]
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
[...] Google Mozilla’dan önemli bir ismi kendi tarafına çekip rakip ürün geliştirmesine geliştirmiş ama öte yandan arama anlaşmasından milyonlarca dolar ödemeye devam etmek için de arama anlaşmasını 2011 kasım ayına kadar uzattı. [...]
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
[...] into the Firefox share of the market, especially considering that the ink must be barely dry on the Firefox / Google revenue sharing deal, recently extended until 2011.. perhaps it’s cheaper to develop your own web browser than continue to shell out the money [...]
September 6th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Before this, google support firefox, but now support chrome. em… her own child
September 8th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
[...] summer. First the Firefox 3 release, then the Firefox (Plus) Summit, then working on renewing our Google agreement, then a week of vacation at the end of August, and then responding to the release of [...]
September 9th, 2008 at 2:09 am
[...] Posted by marc in Browsers Mitchell Baker, présidente de la Mozilla Foundation, a indiqué sur son blog que Google a signé pour trois nouvelles années son accord commercial avec le projet Mozilla. Le [...]
September 15th, 2008 at 12:41 am
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September 19th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
[...] tres años más de soporte por Google (¿será una casualidad de que justo salte todo esto luego de dicho anuncio?), mientras que quienes si deberían empezar a preocuparse, son los de Microsoft, ya que su [...]
September 25th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
[...] recently extended its relationship with Mozilla to 2011, but as Technologizer points out, there’s now a question of how aggressive Google will be in [...]
October 29th, 2008 at 4:17 am
thanks