AIR MOZILLA LIVE – January 09, 2007.
Host Asa Dotzler
Guests:
Michell Baker, Mozilla Chairman
John Lilly, Mozilla CEO
Cast & Crew
Produced by Marcia Knous
Camera by Clint Talbert
Production Assistance by Carsten Book and Alix Franquet
TOPIC: Mozilla Corporation Role Changes
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Welcome to another installment of Air Mozilla Live. I’m your host, Asa Dotzler.
We’ve got a very interesting show for planned you today. We’ll be joined by Mitchell Baker and John Lilly to discuss the recent role changes at Mozilla.
We’ll be taking your questions via IRC, IM, and email so if you haven’t already, you can join us on the server irc.mozilla.org in the channel #airmozilla or reach us on any of the IM networks at username airmozilla.
First, the news.
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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Firefox 3 Beta 2
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Firefox 3 Beta 2 was released on Dec 18th, and is available for download.
Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center at wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3 as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.
Mozilla Labs launches Weave
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Weave is a new Mozilla Labs project where Mozilla formally explore how Web browsers like Firefox can do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information. For more information, visit the Mozilla Labs blog at labs.mozilla.com
Live Chat Support
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On Dec 28th, Mozilla officially opened Live Chat support to users of Firefox. Users who can’t find answers to their support questions in the knowledge base or the forum can now get real time help troubleshooting their issues with more skilled Firefox users.
If you’re interested in learning more, or even better, in helping out, visit the support site at support.mozilla.com
Spread Firefox v2
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A brand new version of Spread Firefox (SFX) has been launched. Spread Firefox is the home of the Mozilla Marketing efforts. There you can find official Mozilla marketing projects as well as scores of volunteer efforts. Spread Firefox exists to unite the community into one cohesive marketing force that even competitors with unlimited resources can’t compete with. For more information, and to get involved, visit the all new Spread Firefox site at spreadfirefox.com
Planet Mozilla
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And as has become customary, we wrap up today’s news segment with notices of additions and changes to our community voice, planet.mozilla.org
Smokey Ardisson – Smokey is a Camino contributor. Specifically, he leads the QA team, co-leads the website and documentation team, and contributes build-related patches.
Zbigniew Braniecki, AKA Gandalf – Gandalf is a member of the Board of Directors in Mozilla Europe and is going to work on various aspects of the Mozilla community with Paul Kim and Tristan Nitot starting in mid January.
Brad Lassey – Brad joined Mozilla in October after focusing on mobile browsing for France Telecom for 4 years. He’ll be working in the Mobile team and blogging about Mozilla’s mobile activities.
Seth Spitzer – Seth is a long-time Mozilla contributor who is currently a member of the Firefox team at Mozilla. He’ll shortly be moving to an email startup with Scott MacGregor and David Bienvenu.
Marco Zehe – Marco Zehe has only been in the Mozilla Community for a few months but has already made a huge impact improving accessibility.
Jeff Griffiths – Jeff has been working for ActiveState for over 4 years, primarily involved with user and community support, web development and evangelism around extending and customizing Komodo.
Ben Hearsum – Ben got involved with Mozilla through the Seneca program, and he now works on QA and Build tools.
Christian Sejersen – Christian Sejersen joined Mozilla a month ago to head up the mobile engineering group.
Edward Lee – Edward (Mardak on IRC) is a Summer 2007 Mozilla/ActionMonkey intern now starting the Ph.D. program at UIUC, yet somehow manages to find time to work on the Download Manager.
We’ve also added the Camino Blog and for those that track blogs individually, it should also be noted Doug Turner moved his blog.
All of these changes are tracked, with links, at the Planet Changes blog. blog.mozilla.com/planet
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And that’s the news. We’ll be back after the break with our special guests, Mitchell Baker and John Lilly.
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Mitchell Baker and John Lilly
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