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.
Brian R. Bondy (feed) – Blogging a lot about silent updates and Windows 8 and Mozilla.
David Rajchenbach Teller (feed) – “I have recently joined Mozilla, where I act as one of the Tech Leads of the Performance Team. Every day, we make Firefox, Thunderbird and the Mozilla platform faster, leaner, and more generally, better, for desktop and mobile devices alike! Previously, I have held many impressive titles at MLstate, where I designed and led the implementation of the open-source Opa platform. For fun and profit, I produce code and science. I design programming language-level mechanisms, in particular for concurrency, distribution and security.”
Matt Brandt (feed) – Matt Brandt is a member of the WebQA team and works mostly with the Socorro and Input communities. His interests and passion on the open web is facilitating conversations advocating for quality. He is at home doing exploratory testing but loves writing extensible automation solutions.
Ben Simon (feed) – Ben is leading the Join Mozilla project for the Foundation. Previously, Ben was the director of new media campaigns for the Democratic National Committee and Organizing for America. He will be blogging primarily about Join campaigns.
Jim Chen (feed) – “I was a mobile intern in 2010, when I worked on IME support in Fennec, and again in 2011, when I worked on development tools for Fennec. Right now I’m studying Electrical Engineering at University of Cincinnati (final year! hopefully…), but I plan to keep contributing to Fennec development, while exploring new projects such as B2G.”
Erick León Bolinaga (feed) – University student from Cuba, Cuban Mozilla Community founder and leader. 4+ years spreading Firefox and Mozilla Mission. Web developer of Community site and services. Recent MozRep.
We on the Planet team have spent quite some time figuring out what direction we want to take Planet to make sure it’s the best resource we can give to the community. We’ve taken polls, discussed amongst ourselves and observed quite a bit. We’re now going to take some actions we feel will serve the community best.
In addition to the existing criteria of having “some demonstrated involvement with the Mozilla project or community” we’re going to limit inclusion to Planet Mozilla to individuals both going forward and retroactively. To expand on that the following criteria will be our guide:
We aren’t in the business of censoring content. We just want people, discussion, insight and value to be the focus, not team/product speak and announcements. There is a place for those other things, but planet isn’t it. We’ll be looking very closely at creating a planet for teams/groups/announcements and would love feedback on the idea.
This puts us in line with planet aggregators for other projects/communities.
We’ll be making this change in the upcoming weeks. We just wanted to do this in a transparent and clear manner. There will be some grey area here and the planet team will address those cases individually as warranted.
The Planet team is always open to feedback. We’re dedicated to facilitating discussion and sharing in the community. We’re just starting to discuss other things we can do to help Planet Mozilla scale to the larger community and encourage more great discussion.
- raccettura (on behalf of Planet team)
Mozilla en version française (feed) – Blog of the localization team in French.
Brian Warner (feed) – Brian Warner is an engineer in Mozilla Labs and has worked mostly on the Add-On SDK (aka Jetpack) since early 2010. He also hacks on cryptographic protocols, capability-based security design, and the http://tahoe-lafs.org distributed secure filesystem. He lives in San Francisco.
David Clarke (feed) – “Quality Automation Services is the team. I was on the founding team of gizmo5, with various roles across software development, qa, billing, voip tech. I was the platform QA manager at LiveOps, where we built all kinds of new fangled methods of testing voip. When I’m not hacking on code bases and trying to make them more resilient. I spend time reading, training in martial arts (black belt in shotokan karate, several years in muay thai, a bit of western boxing to boot), running, spending time with family / friends. What excites me about QA ? Making something repeatable, reliable, and scalable.”
William Lachance (feed) – William Lachance is a member of the Automation & Tools team. He has previously worked on a wide variety of software projects, from WordPerfect file format converters to trip planners for public transit. He is presently helping to bring down Firefox build/test times as part of the GoFaster project.
Nathan Froyd (feed) – Nathan enjoys improving ill-performing code and automatic rewriting of ugly code. Automatic rewriting of ugly code to improve its performance…well, that’s about as good as it gets, isn’t it? Before joining Mozilla, Nathan worked on the GNU toolchain at CodeSourcery, primarily on GCC, QEMU, and GDB.
Arky (feed) – Arky is supporting the l10n communities in Asia starting new localizations and working with existing localizations to streamline processes and procedures.
Malini Das feed was updated.
Mozilla User Research (feed) – The Mozilla User Research blog is where we’ll share our latest research questions and problems. We’ll also report the findings from our qualitative and quantitative research studies. We hope you’ll respond with ideas and questions of your own.
Malini Das (feed) – Malini Das is a member of the Automation & Tools team. She works on improving the test harnesses and whatever else catches her eye.
Lior Kaplan (feed) – Lior Kaplan is Open Source and Free Software activist involved in Open/Libre Office, Debian and Mozilla, and on board of the Hamakor free software organization in Israel.
The Mozilla Thunderbird Blog (feed) – News and notes blog for Mozilla Thunderbird.
Justin Wood feed moved.
Gregory Koberger (feed) – Gregory Koberger is a webdev on the AMO team. He spends most of his time talking about programming, user experience or coffee. His non-Mozilla-related musings can be found at http://gkoberger.net.
Nigel Babu (feed) – Nigel is a contributor to Mozilla webdev. He actively helps in the development of input and socorro.
David Mason (feed) – David Mason is the product manager for the Jetpack team. He has a long history with open source including a stint at Red Hat, working on the GNOME Desktop, thinking about and implementing open source for government and politics, and creating open source tools for healthcare workers in Africa. He currently lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.
Shane Tomlinson (feed) – Shane work in Labs as a developer and writes a blog at www.shanetomlinson.com about Javascript, and what is going on here.
Byron Jones (feed) – Long time bugzilla developer and reviewer, now part of the team looking after bugzilla.mozilla.org.
Lucas Rocha (feed) – Lucas Rocha has recently joined the Mobile team at Mozilla to work on the user interface of the mobile browser. He’s a long-time GNOME contributor and have formerly worked at litl and Nokia.
Donovan Preston (feed) – Writes: “At Mozilla I’m working on dom.js, a project to implement the browser’s DOM apis in pure JavaScript. dom.js will be useful for anyone using JavaScript outside of a browser, such as developers implementing server side applications using Node.js, and the project is also helping to uncover bugs in the various HTML specifications which were not obvious before. My main background has been in the Python community for the last 10 years, where I worked on a number of Open Source projects such as Eventlet, Nevow, and Twisted.” [Editors Note: Awesome bug]
Jeff Griffiths (feed) – Jeff Griffiths is a Vancouver based web developer and open web advocate; he’ll be working on the Developer Engagement team helping to promote the new Addons SDK to web developers and the existing Addons developer community. [Editors Note: Jeff had an old Active State blog, this is a new role/blog move].
Gregor Wagner (feed) Gregor is a PhD student at the University of California in Irvine in the group of Prof. Michael Franz and a part-time contributor for Firefox. Gregor is working on memory related issues like overall memory footprint and garbage collection for JavaScript.
Carmen Collins (feed) – Carmen Collins is the Content Editor for the User Engagement Group at Mozilla. Not only is she a content creator and curator for over 15 years, she is also a social media maven. Follow her musings on her Mozilla blog, Content Contemplations.
Sean McArthur (feed) – Sean is a developer on Add-on Builder, and enjoys MooTools, Android, Python, and Star Wars.
Lloyd Hilaiel (feed) – Lloyd works in labs, and write about software.
Gent Thaçi (feed) Gent is from Prishtina, Kosovo. Gent is part of Mozilla Kosovo Community in the Balkans and also a part of the ReMo program as an official Mozilla Rep. Gent’s focus area currently is Marketing where he tries to promote Mozilla and it’s products through social media, international and local events etc. He also help organize events in Kosovo.
Joey Armstrong (feed) – Joey joined RelEng in mid-May, and will be working from New York. He is currently working with sandbox makefiles to improve build performance and re-factor and simplify content.
Gian-Carlo Pascutto (feed) – Gian-Carlo is an embedded developer working for Mozilla on Firefox Mobile and will be blogging about my experiences there, as well as anything that is of interest to the Mozilla community.
Alex Vincent feed moved.
Robert O’Callahan feed moved.
