Planet Mozilla Blog

Meeting Notes from the Mozilla community (feed) - The agenda and minutes of Mozilla team and project meetings from wiki.mozilla.org. If you run a meeting and would like it added to this feed, please file a bug and cc Benjamin Smedberg [:bs] You could even post a patch: the script configuration is kept in a mercurial repository.

Jan Odvarko (feed) - “My name is Jan Odvarko and I have joined Mozilla in November 2007. Currently I am member of Firebug team and full time contributor to this extraordinary extension (getfirebug.com). Most of my posts is/will be probably focused on extending Firebug and Firefox extension development in general. These I would like to put in the Planet Mozilla category. Prior to Mozilla I was co-founder and Chief Software Architect of AllPeers.”

Jenny Boriss (feed) - Jenny Boriss a new Firefox user experience employee. She will be blogging about Firefox user experience, user interface & design work, the future of the internet, and other HCI topics.

Mary Colvig (feed) - Mary Colvig joined Mozilla in June 2006, but has worked with the organization for over three years. She runs the Mozilla events program as part of the marketing team. She’ll be blogging about community activities around the globe, Mozilla presence at various events and every day life at Mozilla.

Kev Needham (feed) - Kevin works with organizations of all shapes and sizes who want to
develop customized versions of Firefox for distribution regionally or globally. He’ll be blogging about partnering with Mozilla, the policies behind the customization of Firefox (and why we have them), and what the process for creating a customized distribution is.

Les Orchard (feed) - a tech author of 2 1/2 books and a blogger writing about various web-based serial enthusiasms at decafbad.com. I’ve just joined the web development team at the Mozilla Corporation, where I’ll contribute to the creation, improvement, and maintenance of the web sites supporting and
distributing Mozilla processes and products. I hope to do some cool things for Mozilla, fix some nasty bugs, and write about the experience semi-regularly on my blog.

Moved
Anthony Hughes moved his blog:
old blog feed - http://ashughes.wordpress.com/feed
new blog feed - http://ashughes.com/?q=rss.xml

Aza Raskin (feed) - “My dream is to create a world where nobody says, “I’m bad at computers.” That’s the computer’s fault, not theirs. My major projects have been songza.com (music search engine), humanized.com (linguistic command line and lots of blogging on user experience), and bloxes.com (human-sized cardboard legos). I’ll be blogging on experience, design, programming, and shiny things.”

Tara Shahian (feed) - Joined Mozilla in January of 2008 and has been working with the product marketing team on a variety of projects surrounding the release of Firefox 3, and beyond. Prior to Mozilla she worked in a forensic and litigation consulting firm for 2 years after receiving her BA in Business Economics from UCLA. She also has a creative background and freelance in graphic design.

Edit [5/11/08 7:44 PST]: Got a little addition happy. Removed Tara pending section rss (bug 433002).

Edit [5/11/08 7:44 PST]: Tara’s in!

The Firefox (feed) - Firefox is nimble, able to swat pop-ups, fend off viruses, and protect from spammers and scammers. Along with knowing over 40 different languages, Firefox is an amazing speller, quick searcher, and pretty much knows how to help you keep your online persona flourishing. If you run into the Firefox, be sure to stay close, as it has been known to open many tabs.

Harvey Anderson (feed) - Harvey, aka, hja, is General Counsel for Mozilla. He
joined in February, and is based in Mountain View. His blog addresses various
legal and business matters.

Atul Varma (feed) - Co-founder of a small Chicago company called Humanized. He recently moved to the Labs division of the Mozilla Corporation.

Giorgio Maone (feed) - Author of NoScript.

Jeremy Orem (feed) - Jeremy works on the Mozilla Corporation IT team. He will mostly be blogging about Scalability, Linux, and Web Development.

Andrew Sutherland (feed) - Andrew is a new Mozilla Messaging engineer with an interest in information visualization. His blogging will involve Thunderbird and/or visualization and/or python.

Joshua Cranmer (feed) - Joshua is a developer focusing on mailnews, including especially news code. He is currently in the process of rewriting the news code, the address book code, and libmime, in addition to removing mork from mailnews code. His blog will mostly focus on his work and ideas related to his coding.

Alix Franquet (feed) - Alix is a Product Marketing Manager. She will be blogging about Mozilla product marketing, community marketing abroad, spreadfirefox.com, and other marketing-related topics.