Archive for January, 2009

For those who are interested in Mozilla govenance, I’ve proposed an Activities Module for ownership of key Mozilla policies. The proposal is in the mozilla.governance newsgroup, which can also be accessed via Google Groups.

Here’s what I believe to be the final, consolidated set of 2010 goals. Let me know if you think there is some big issue I missed.

1. Make openness, participation and distributed decision-making more common experiences in Internet life

• More and stronger Mozilla communities practicing these values
• Mozilla experiences increasingly applicable to topics such as the open web, hybrid social enterprises, organizational sustainability, shared decision-making, individual control, and portability in Internet life
• Innovations emerge from varied sources
• Projects and products based on these values — at Mozilla and elsewhere — become increasingly vibrant
• Leadership through excellence, technical and otherwise
• Creation of open content becomes easier
• The web becomes the primary development environment for applications

2. Make the explosion in data safer, more useful and more managable for individuals

• Products offer people realistic options for understanding, managing, combining, sharing and moving data created by or about them
• People expect the ability to understand,access, manage, combine, share, and move their data

3. Integrate mobile into one unified, open, innovative web

• Make the web experience on mobile devices exciting and enjoyable
• Products:
  - demonstrate the power of the web as the development platform
  - accelerate innovation from multiple sources
  - delight users, attract developers
• New web standards are for all devices, not segregated into mobile-specific or “web” standards.

4. Reinforce Firefox’s role as a driver of innovation, choice and great user experience