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Powered by Mozilla FAQ

deb — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:14:16 +0000

David Boswell has been working on creating some guidelines to determine how the “Powered by Mozilla” logo can be used as part of projects and products. He has just posted a Powered by Mozilla FAQ that answers the questions he’s seen asked during the ongoing conversation about the logo. “Some more information (guidelines about the logo and an application to request using the logo) still need to be posted and those pieces will be coming soon. For now though, I’m posting the FAQ to let people give us some more feedback before the other pieces are finished up.” More information about the FAQ and the Powered by Mozilla project is available through David’s weblog post.

New Mozilla Foundation shirt now available

deb — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:15:36 +0000

David Boswell writes, “I’d like to let people know that there is a new Mozilla shirt available in the Mozilla store. This new design is heavily influenced by the old school Hack shirts.” As with all Mozilla Store purchases, proceeds directly benefit the Mozilla Foundation. You can check out (and order!) the t-shirts at the Mozilla Store.

Developing guidelines for the “Powered by Mozilla” logo

deb — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:15:57 +0000

David Boswell, of the Mozilla Foundation, has been working on creating some guidelines to determine how the “Powered by Mozilla” logo can be used as part of projects and products. “Guidelines need to be specific since we don’t want someone to be able to check out just one file from our repositories and then claim that their application is Powered by Mozilla. The problem is that there doesn’t seem to be an existing list of reusable technologies that the Mozilla community creates.” This being the case, David has taken the time to put together draft lists of these technologies and criteria, but is unsure whether the lists are complete or entirely makes sense. He has posted the lists on his weblog, and if you have feedback or suggestions about these, he asks that you leave a comment on the blog post or edit the wiki page.

John Lilly: Thoughts on Chrome and More

deb — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:25:58 +0000

John Lilly, Mozilla’s CEO, writes, “Interesting developments in the browser world lately. Between the new beta of IE8 and Google releasing the beta of their new browser (called “Chrome”), not to mention interesting work by the Mozilla team here as well, there’s as much happening as I can ever remember. Let’s start from there: more smart people thinking about ways to make the Web good for normal human beings is good, absolutely. Competition often results in innovation of one sort of another — in the browser you can see that this is true in spades this year, with huge JavaScript performance increases, security process advances, and user interface breakthroughs. I’d expect that to continue now that Google has thrown their hat in the ring.” Lilly goes on to discuss how the release of Google’s “Chrome” project affects Mozilla, and what it means for Mozilla’s relationship with Google. Read the full post at Lilly’s blog.

Mark Surman: New Mozilla Foundation Executive Director

deb — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:50:09 +0000

After a long and extensive search, the Mozilla Foundation Executive Director position has finally been filled. Mitchell Baker writes, “I’m thrilled to announce that Mark Surman is joining the Mozilla Foundation as our new Executive Director. Mark joins us after a long period of getting to know — and being known by — Mozilla contributors. This includes many, many hours of discussions with Mozilla contributors, Mozilla Foundation Board members and search committee members, an Air Mozilla broadcast, extensive discussions with current Mozilla Foundation personnel, and more hours getting to know Mozilla at the Firefox Plus Summit. It’s a rare candidate who can transit such a prolonged and open process. Many thanks to everyone who participated.” Mitchell’s post goes on to thank Frank Hecker, who has been the Mozilla Foundation Executive Director since 2006 and who will remain with the Foundation to continue working on projects towards expanding the open web.

Mark has also posted about his move, writing, “I am totally psyched about this. Mozilla is a new kind of foundation, one with with participation, transparency and innovation at its very roots. It’s not just about giving out grants or making bold statements (although these are useful things to do), but also about getting large numbers of people involved in making things. In particular, things that make the Internet more open. For someone obsessed with reinventing how foundations work, there could be no more exciting job than this.”

Mark will be officially starting his work with the Mozilla Foundation on September 22nd, 2008.

Air Mozilla: Meet Mark Surman

deb — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:18:53 +0000

Asa Dotzler will be hosting another exciting edition of Air Mozilla Live on Wednesday July 23rd at 11:00am Pacific time. The guests this week will be Mitchell Baker and Mark Surman. The Air Mozilla broadcast is your opportunity to meet Mark and ask questions about the Mozilla Foundation and the Executive Director role he is currently slated to fill. If you can’t make it to the live broadcast, you can still send your questions in ahead of time by email. More details are available at Asa’s weblog.

Mark Surman and the Mozilla Foundation

deb — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:09:11 +0000

Mitchell Baker writes, “I’m thrilled to report that we’ve identified the person we believe should lead the Mozilla Foundation into a new stage of activity. That person is Mark Surman, the role is Mozilla Foundation Executive Director. The Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors and Mark would like the Mozilla community and Mark to meet before we make a final decision. We’re inviting interested parties to talk with Mark about the Mozilla Foundation and the Executive Director role, to develop a feel for how well Mark and the Mozilla project fit together.” More information is available at Mitchell’s weblog.