Planet Mozilla Blog

Planet Addition: Dave Eaves

raccettura — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:17:54 +0000

Dave Eaves (feed) - Dave Eaves is a an expert in negotiation and public policy who often works with community groups, non-profits and government agencies consulting on negotiation strategy and public policy issues. He’s given presentations about how these things pertain to Mozilla, and writes frequently on the topic of Mozilla and open source projects on his blog at eaves.ca.

Planet Addition: Class of 6/23/2008

raccettura — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:32:14 +0000

Jeff Walden (feed) - Jeff has hacked on Mozilla in an eclectic mix of areas: Firefox help documentation, E4X (native support for XML) in JavaScript, test harness development, Mozilla’s web server strategy, and leak-busting, to name but a few. You will quickly come to know and love him as the person who 1) requests that automated testcases accompany patches, 2) denies review when such testcases aren’t provided, 3) raises Cain over leaks, and 4) militantly advocates for everyone else to do all the above too.

Felipe Gomes (feed) - Gave two talks on add-ons development and some processing.js demos.

Arun K. Ranganathan (feed) - Joined the Mozilla Corporation on April 16 2008 as a full time employee. Previous employment stints which are relevant to Mozilla include time spent at Netscape Communications doing work on Mozilla (between 2001 and 2003) and contract work for Netscape between 1998 and 2001, where I was a consultant on Netscape ONE technologies.

Moved:
Dietrich Ayala (feed) moved his blog.

Planet Addition: Planet Mozilla Interns

Reed — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:43:45 +0000

Planet Mozilla Interns (feed) - Planet Mozilla Interns is a sister copy of planet dedicated to all Mozilla Interns. Instead of adding each intern separately on the main planet (planet.mozilla.org), we decided to add the entire feed of the intern planet. Interns do a lot of very creative things at Mozilla (see Mitchell Baker’s blog post about the intern program at the Mozilla Corporation for some examples), so we welcome their future contributions to Planet Mozilla. :]

If you are a Mozilla Intern (for the Mozilla Corporation, Mozilla Messaging, Mozilla Europe, etc.) and would like to get your feed added to the intern planet, please contact reed on irc.mozilla.org.

Planet Addition: timeless

raccettura — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:03:02 +0000

timeless (feed) - I’m timeless, if you’ve visited a Mozilla property in past 8 years, you’ve probably encountered me (I like playing the devil’s advocate, I hope it was enriching, but if it was frustrating, I’m sorry). I have my hands in virtually all of Mozilla’s 0-1.8 code and tools from core (xpcom, js, xpconnect) to UI (xul, js), to (perl) Bugzilla, MXR, Bonsai, and Tinderbox.

Editors Note: In true timeless style, his blog is named “404 File Not Found”, the feed is there and is valid. We fell for it too.

Planet Addition: Class of 6/1/2008

raccettura — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:33:15 +0000

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.”

Planet Addition: Jenny Boriss

raccettura — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:20:18 +0000

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.

Planet Addition: Mary Colvig

raccettura — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:48:57 +0000

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.

Planet Addition: Class of 5/19/2008

raccettura — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:56:11 +0000

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

Planet Addition: Class of 5/11/2008

raccettura — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:05:35 +0000

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!

Planet Addition: The Firefox

raccettura — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:55:25 +0000

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.