Planet Mozilla Blog

As mentioned previously, we’ve created a new Planet Mozilla Projects which will be home to all project blogs. A RSS feed can be found here.

We have yet to start removing the project blogs from Planet Mozilla to allow for a short transition phase. Soon blogs that are on Planet Mozilla Projects will no longer be syndicated on Planet Mozilla.

We’ll send a few warning shots to make sure everyone is aware and has a chance to check out the new planet if they want to follow those blogs.

Now onward to the new blogs…

People

Jess Klein (feed) – Jess Klein is the Learning Design Lead for the Mozilla Foundation. She is a New York based designer specializing in learning systems. She also likes teaching, creating kits, building installations, drawing, tinkering with electronics and making games.

Ben Adida (feed) – Ben Adida joined Mozilla in March 2011 and is now Tech Lead for the Identity Team. He cares deeply about building software that enables users to control their data and online lives. On his blog, he discusses specific issues of web security, cryptography, and web architecture, especially as they apply to user sovereignty / autonomy.

Hal Wine (feed) – Hal Wine is a new member of the release engineering team, and is excited to be working with the release challenges at the scale of Mozilla. As an Oakland resident and San Francisco native, he’s almost as excited to be working from the San Francisco office!

Nikola Matosovic (feed) – I’m official Mozilla Representative who has wish to participate in Planet Mozilla with blogposts I write about ReMo, our local community, and other things about Mozilla

Ricky Rosario (feed) – Ricky Rosario joined Mozilla in May 2010 and is a web developer for support.mozilla.org (SUMO). He lives in sunny South Florida. On his blog, he writes about the open web, python, django, addons, SUMO development status and other webdev related topics.

Sheeri Cabral (feed) – Sheeri Cabral joined Mozilla as a Senior DB Admin/Architect for Mozilla in November 2011.

Jet Villegas (feed) – Jet Villegas is a Senior Engineering Manager at Mozilla Corporation where he leads the Layout & Rendering Team on the Firefox browser platform.

Project

One Mozilla (feed) – onemozilla.org (sic) is the tumblr log run by the team surrounding the “One Mozilla” project, which aims at aggregating everything that happens around consolidating the various Mozilla web properties into “one” mozilla.org.

Mozilla Festival (feed – “The blog contains updates about the Mozilla Festival, an important event showcasing latest open web tech & community in London in Nov. It’ll showcase sessions and outcomes of the festival, and keep the broader community updated about planning.”

Mozilla Popcorn (feed) – Popcorn makes video work like the web. We create tools and programs to help developers and authors create interactive pages that supplement video and audio with rich web content, allowing your creations to live and grow online

Hive Learning Network NYC (feed) – Hive Learning Network NYC is a Mozilla learning lab (MoFo)

Case Conductor (feed) – Cameron is project manager for the Case Conductor project. An open-source test case management system being written to replace Litmus at Mozilla.

Gary Kovacs (feed) – Gary Kovacs is the CEO of Mozilla Corporation with the responsibility for leading the overall direction of the organization and the Firefox Web browser.

Jessilyn Davis (feed) – Jess Davis joined the User Engagement team in September of 2011 and is ready to start blogging about her adventures in email marketing for “Firefox & You” – Mozilla’s monthly email newsletter to Firefox users.

Robert O’Callahan feed moved.

Matt Brandt’s feed moved.

Deb Richardson’s feed moved.

We’re also working on moving projects over to the new project planet. Expect an announcement on this shortly.

Carla Casilli (feed) – Carla joined the Open Badges team in September 2011 as the Project & Operations Manager for Open Badges. She is committed to examining, encouraging, developing, and improving alternative educational assessment efforts that feed the Open Badge ecosystem. Carla uses her blog to facilitate strategic and exploratory conversations about Mozilla’s Open Badges initiative.

Alan Kligman (feed) – Personal blog about science, hacking, and bringing game development technology to the open web with the Mozilla Foundation and Paladin.

Ross Bruniges (feed) – Ross Bruniges is the Mozilla Foundations web developer and lives in London, England. Having worked in the web industry for over 7 years has worked on projects for banks, radio stations, universities and is now looking to bring all these experiences to Mozilla and continue making lovely websites.

Michelle Levesque (feed) – Michelle Levesque is working with the Mozilla Foundation to create a web literate planet. She plans to teach the world how to become producers (and not just consumers) on the web, so that they can share ideas and express themselves to the rest of the world.

Mike Ratcliffe (feed) – Mike joined the Firefox Developer Tools team in April 2011 after being a long term contributor to Firebug and Firebug Lite. His mission is to help make Firefox the best web development platform on the planet and hence make the web better. Is it me or does Firefox get awesomer and awesomer every day?

Michelle Thorne (feed) – Michelle Thorne is the Global Event Strategist for the Mozilla Foundation. She leads the Mozilla Festival and helps develop event kits to make it easy to organize and host Mozilla-related activities in your own city.

Laura Hilliger (feed) – Laura Hilliger is a multimedia designer and developer, a technical liaison, a project manager, an Open Web hacktivist who is happiest in collaborative environments and aspires to eliminate the digital divide and keep the Web open. She’s an artist, educator, writer and technologist. I’m into Open Web, freedom, education and a million other things.

Martin Best (feed) – Martin has recently joined the Mozilla mission to keep the web open. He will be posting about the work he is doing with the engineering group to look into how they are operating. He will do this by surfacing information on trends, issue, and best practices relating to development activity. He will also be focusing on how Firefox, and HTML5 as a standard, can better support video game development. His past achievements include an Emmy winning ARG, helping setup one of the world’s largest social games in Canada, a bestselling casual game, and a browser based 3D MMORPG developed from the ground up.

Niko Matsakis (feed) – Niko Matsakis is a research engineer at Mozilla Research, where he works on the Rust programming language and the Servo project.

Bobby Richter (feed) – Bobby Richter’s blog about adventures inside the Mozilla Foundation making Popcorn, Paladin, and inventing the future of the web.

Hub Figuiere (feed) – Hub just joined the accessibility team at Mozilla. He is based in Canada and has been contributing to FLOSS for over a decade. His personal focus is Gnome, Linux and Photography.

Jeff Hammel (feed) – Jeff is part of the Tools and Automation team and works on several automated test frameworks.

David Flanagan (feed) – David is a JavaScript programmer and O’Reilly author. He works with the Mozilla Research team and is currently working to implement the browser DOM in JavaScript.

Christian Heilmann (feed) – Chris Heilmann is the principal evangelist for Mozilla and has been blogging on web technologies for the last 6 years. Before Mozilla he was part of the Yahoo Developer Network and before that he spent several years developing large web sites and apps. Originally Chris was a radio journalist and newscaster. Chris lives in England but travels most of the time. His blog mostly contains his presentations, code examples about upcoming technologies and tips and tricks on web development of all kinds.

Rubén Martín (feed) – Rubén (aka Nukeador) has been collaborating with Mozilla community since 2004, mainly in websites’ localization and QA, user support, community marketing and organization, events in Spain and IT tasks at Mozilla Hispano community.

Rami Khader (feed) – Currently Rami is a ReMo council member and a member in the Arabic Mozilla Community, more information

Paul Booker (feed) – Paul will be posting a number of things that are related to the the openweb / federatedsocialweb i.e introducing OStatus, posting about privacy, a monthly letter of interesting reading items.

This round of additions was delayed by a holiday weekend in the US.

Michael Bebenita (feed) – Michael joined the Mozilla Research team in October 2011. Before joining Mozilla, Michael was a graduate student at University of California, Irvine in the Secure Systems and Languages Lab where he did research on Java virtual machines and trace-based compilation.

Dan Sinker (feed) – Project lead for the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership.

Alexandre Poirot (feed) – Alexandre Poirot is a Paris based developer in Jetpack team; he is currently focusing on localization support, but he is commonly involved in all Addon SDK developments, and especially memory issues and content scripts sandboxes.

Amir Aharoni (feed) – Amir Aharoni is a linguist and a software developer. He can speak four languages and can read a few others. Amir has been developing software professionally since 1998. His main interest is software localization – he is involved in localization of Firefox and its extensions into Hebrew, as well as in other aspects of software localization and language support, such as is writing automatic tests for bidirectional text support in HTML5 with the Israeli office of W3C. Amir works for the Wikimedia Foundation’s localization group to improve MediaWiki’s support for foreign languages.

John Hammink (feed, feed) – John Hammink joined Mobile QA team as automation lead and prototype developer.

Alex Clark (feed) – Alex is a volunteer working on creating virtual machines for kitsune and zamboni to bootstrap a development environment. You can track Alex’s progress here. Alex also blogged recently about Mozilla & PyPI here.

Vladan Djeric (feed) – Vladan is a new member of the Performance Team working on improving Firefox performance in desktop and mobile environments. Vladan also has an interest in computer security and researched ways to improve browser and operating system security as a graduate student at the University of Toronto. Before joining Mozilla, Vladan worked on a variety of projects including embedded software, networking, FPGAs, and others.

Gregory Jost (feed) – Greg joined Mozilla Engagement team in early 2011 as product marketing manager for Europe and Partnerships. Greg’s primary focus is ensuring our presence in Europe is relevant and fits the needs of our local markets. Part of his role also involves leading the Mozilla Marketing Reps program (a subset of Mozilla Reps). Prior to joining Mozilla, Greg worked at Last.fm and an ecommerce startup where I held various marketing roles.

Tom Schuster (feed) – Tom is a German High-School student working on the JavaScript Engine for about one year. Tom is also interested in a lot of other Mozilla projects, such as MDN or Mozillians.

Alexander Surkov (feed) – Alexander Surkov is Mozilla accessibility developer. He works at Mozilla since 2007 guided by idea to make the web accessible for everyone.

Lawrence Mandel (feed) – Lawrence Mandel is a Firefox program manager involved in cross cutting engineering efforts like silent update, Electrolysis, and Telemetry. He recently joined Mozilla after working for IBM for close to a decade. While at IBM he was very involved in open source efforts founding both the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project and the Apache Woden project. Lawrence is also author of the book Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java Web Applications.

Andrew Halberstadt (feed) – Andrew is part of the Tools and Automation team and works on several automated test frameworks. Much of his work is centered around Mozmill, Responsiveness test automation, Firebug test automation and working on various python tools.

Joe Walker (feed) – Joe works on Developer Tools i.e creating tomorrow’s Firebug, which includes working on things like the Style Inspector, the Graphical Command Line and the Web Doctor.

Eitan Isaacson (feed) – Eitan Isaacson is a political activist, Open Source software engineer and accessibility advocate. He is currently working on accessibility solutions for Firefox Mobile.

Joe Stagner (feed) – Joe has been designing and developing web applications since 1993, built companies during the Dot-Com boom and spent the following 10 years working in Microsoft’s Web Developer Tools and Platforms group. In 2011 Joe followed his passion for Open Source to Mozilla where he is a Senior Program Manager in Mozilla’s Developer Engagement organization.

Alex Keybl (feed) – Alex recently joined Mozilla, and will be helping with release management of Firefox out of the Mountain View office. In college, Alex was active in the One Laptop per Child community. He’s since worked at Apple as a build engineer, and later program managed features/builds related to mainline development of Mac OS X. Alex has lived in NY, VA, NC, and now resides in Santa Cruz. His feed reader mainly consists of news/politics, music, Duke basketball, and anything future-tech. Give him a shout @alexkeybl.

Naoki Hirata (feed) – Naoki Hirata is a member of the Browser Tech team. His interests and passion on the open web is advocating exploratory testing and trying to reduce crashing and hanging in applications.