Planet Mozilla Blog

Dwayne Bailey (feed) – Dwayne works with Translate.org.za localising Firefox into the 11 official languages of South Africa. They also develop tools such as Pootle, Virtaal and the Translate Toolkit that are used by Mozilla localisers to make localising Mozilla products easier (and more fun).

Chris Jones (feed) – is a MoCo platform engineer, recently of Berkeley, California. He works on parallel text processing for the content team and moonlights on static analysis and code rewriting.

Aravind Gottipati (feed) – Aravind is a systems administrator working in the Mozilla IT group. Among other things, Aravind enjoys tranquil walks on the beach, gazing into the moon on starry nights and baking! His posts will reflect his passions and will give us a window into his tormented soul!

Austin King (feed) – Austin King is on the Mozilla Webdev team and is based in Seattle, WA. He works on the Crash Reporter and Prior Art projects.

John Daggett (feed) – John Daggett works on text and graphics, based at Mozilla Japan in Tokyo. He is currently working on the implementation of downloadable fonts in Firefox.

Francesco Lodolo (feed) – Is part of the official Italian localization project. Francesco is the localizer of Firefox (soon also Fennec), and also manages the Italian localization of AMO, MozillaEurope.org and Mozilla.com web sites.

Murali Nandigama (feed) – Murali Nandigama is a consultant working for Mozilla and performs risk
analytics, code coverage, project metrics, security bugs and regressions analysis. Murali has implemented the first full code coverage analysis on the Firefox 3.x that included analysis of C/C++ code as well as JavaScript code. Murali is also a member of the Mozilla Security group that has access to security bugs. Murali’s blogs contain information on best practices about code coverage analysis, code reviews based on security bugs analysis and regression bugs analysis and other software engineering practices.

Nicole Loux (feed) – Nicole Loux works on the US PR team, based in Mountain View. “I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the ins and outs of PR, Mozilla’s speaking and award programs, and life in general.”

Pascal Finette (feed) – Thoughts and comments on the Mozilla Labs Concept Series and Open Innovation at large by someone who can’t code (well enough) but knows his Keynes and Friedman. :)

Drew Willcoxon (feed) – Drew works on Firefox and Places at Mozilla.

The Mozilla Foundation (feed) – This blog will features news, stories and information related to the Mozilla Foundation’s activities and programs. Each of the Foundation staff will post regularly to share what they are doing.

Delphine (feed) – Delphine is a new addition to the Paris staff working on community involvement in Europe and reporting to me, so this has my approval. She is an ex-Mozilla intern, previously worked on web localization and helped organize the Paris Mozilla Add-Ons Workshop (MAOW) as well as the European Mozilla Camp in Barcelona with William Quiviger and Paul Rouget. She will help the European team in our day to day activities and relationships with our communities and other open source projects.

Wim Benes (feed) – Wim Benes is a localizer, active since 2005. Next to localizing Firefox, Thunderbird, Calendar and Mobile into the Frisian (fy-NL) language, there are also 2 dictionaries in the add-ons section and he is supporting the local community as much as possible. Blogging will be about visited events and other things that come around.

David Dahl (feed) – David Dahl recently joined Mozilla to work on the Firefox Team. Previously at Industrial Light and Magic, David re-wrote an internal knowledge base that documents the Lucasfilm companies’ visual effects, gaming and TV production pipelines. A Mozilla/Firefox user since Mozilla 0.8, David has written extensions used in online research and collaboration, and is the founder of rCache.com.

Gary Kwong (feed) – Gary Kwong is the author of The Rumbling Edge, having been involved in various parts of Thunderbird, Javascript security, QA triage, IME testing, and the like, he has been branching into open source education through Mozilla, and bringing fellow students into the daunting world of Mozilla development. He is now teaching the second of his Mozilla classes at the National University of Singapore while still in his second year in college, and this is his blog where he will focus on education to keep them separate from The Rumbling Edge.

Ludovic Hirlimann (feed) – Ludovic is the QA lead for Mozilla Messaging. He’ll talk about QA, Thunderbird and other relevant bits of the project.

Justin Wood (feed) – Justin will be following meme’s (yay and boo for some), writing about SeaMonkey in the news, Features of SeaMonkey, new developments, and probably other quasi-random things that affect “us” in Mozilla.

Kent James (feed) – Kent James is a mailnews backend hacker, working mostly on email filtering and spam management. He maintains a number of extensions at http://mesquilla.com with experimental features for Thunderbird that utilize recent backend code changes.

Michael Erlewine (feed) – mitcho (Michael Erlewine) is a linguist and coder in Tokyo who will be working on various language-related issues in Ubiquity and supporting its future localization.

Chris AtLee (feed) – Chris works for Mozilla in the Release Engineering group since October 2008 and has been doing software development of myriad sorts for over 10 years now. Blogging mostly releng related issues: buildbot, python, talos, and how to make all our lives better!

Sean Martell (feed) – Sean has been a long time visual design contributor working on the UI for Firefox 2 and most recently Fennec, as well as being responsible for designing Developer Kit and a number of the Labs logos. Sean is responsible for meeting the visual design requirements of the various Labs experiments (e.g. providing icons, logos, user interfaces, etc.), the design of the Labs web sites, and supporting the wider community in the development of new mockups and prototypes
through the concept series.

Fabien Cazenave (feed) – Is an XUL developer and lead dev of the KompoZer project.

Onno Ekker (feed) – Is an extension developer blogging about extensions or mozilla things, like AMO, their Statistics page and Bugs.

Christoph Dorn (feed) – Christoph Dorn is the author of FirePHP and is starting to get involved with the Firebug Working Group. Christoph will be re-writing FirePHP (a Firebug extension) from scratch over the next few months and at the same time build a system to help other firebug extension developers.

Barbara Hueppe (feed) – Wherever possible we try to give interviews, and have also been keen to share as much news with reporters as we can. Barbara is joining us to action these kinds of requests and also to help lead our efforts in Europe with regard to open source pr. She is based in Berlin, Germany. Before joining Mozilla in December 2008 Barbara worked in communications for eBay and PayPal. She will blog about her experience in spreading firefox working with community and media in Europe.

Brian Birtles (feed) – Brian has been working on SMIL Animation for SVG on and off since 2004. He’s now (Jan 09) working as a summer intern at the Auckland office to try get SMIL moving (sorry). He’s also generally interested in SVG, Internationalisation, and oriental text from having worked for Canon and in Web development in Japan.

Nick Nethercote (feed) – Nick Nethercote is new to Mozilla, although he’s been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix. He has been a core developer of Valgrind since 2002, and aims to make Valgrind even more useful for Mozilla hackers. A member of the JavaScript team, he will also be working on TraceMonkey. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, and so the scheduling of teleconference meetings just got even harder.

Daniel Holbert (feed) – Daniel Holbert is a platform engineer living in Mountain View, California. He’s worked on table & printing code, and he’s recently been focusing on Mozilla’s SVG Animation implementation.

SamePlace (feed) – Blog of SamePlace Addon

Massimiliano Mirra (feed) – Massimiliano is part of the team that develops TomTom HOME (4+ million users at the beginning of
2008), have done Mozilla-related research independently, started the XUL Italia community site, and in my own time work on MozRepl and SamePlace (winner in the Extend Firefox 2 contest).

The Songbird feed has been broken down into individual authors. You can find the full list in the bug.

QMO Events (feed) – This one’s not a person. QMO Events like QA Testdays, Tbird Testdays and Bugdays etc.

Joe Drew (feed) – Joe Drew has been involved in the Mozilla community as a tester and occasional bug reporter since the project began, but became much more involved upon being hired by the Mozilla Corporation in February of 2008. He currently works in the graphics group, and is Gecko’s imagelib maintainer. \o/

Jeff Muizelaar (feed) – works on the graphics team from the Mozilla Toronto offices, and will be blogging about Cairo perf, image scaling, and non-prescriptive etymology. Mike Beltzner has described his work as a “Must Read” and Johnathan Nightingale has called him “A paragon of the modern world; a titanic force.” (Jeff had no part in the writing of this bio.)

Aki Sasaki (feed) – Aki Sasaki is a new Mozilla employee, but was at Netscape from Feb ‘01 to July ‘03. Aki is currently on the Firefox build/release team and focusing on getting Fennec performance and unit tests automated on Nokia N8×0’s.

Nick Nguyen (feed) – Nick Nguyen is the new Add-ons Lead for Mozilla. A lifelong nerd, Nick likes giant robots, video games, and keeping the internet open and free. Before his dream job at Mozilla, his most relevant gig to date was as the product lead for browser extensions, platform, and community on del.icio.us.

Zach Lym (feed) – Zachary Lym is lead grunt of Usability research for Mozilla’s Ubiquity. He is currently working on an undergrad major of Psychology with a minor Graphic Design, and eventually a masters in Usability. He lives in Seattle, right next to the Troll.

Ben Galbraith (feed) – Ben Galbraith works on developer tools at Mozilla. He’s long been passionate about creating compelling user experiences in software, recently advocating this topic on Ajaxian.com, which he co-founded with Dion Almaer. The two long-time friends and collaborators came to Mozilla together to pursue a vision of helping improve the user experience for developers working on the open web platform.

Curtis Bartley (feed) – Curtis is a new Mozilla employee on the Firefox UI team who is also doing some work on Firebug.

Rafael Ebron (feed) – Rafael is responsible for the Thunderbird marketing strategy. Previously, he co-ordinated the world-wide launch of Firefox 1.0 and Netscape 7 as a product manager for Mozilla Corporation and Netscape Communications. He is a graduate of Boston University School of Management. His current focus is building the global marketing community through spreadthunderbird.com and keeping Thunderbird users happy.

Dion Almaer (feed) – Dion Almaer is the co-founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading source of the Ajax community. For his day job, Dion co-leads a new group at Mozilla focusing on developer tools for the Web, which is something he has been passionate about doing for years, and is excited for the opportunity! Dion has been writing rich web applications from the beginning, and has been a columnist on various topics at ONJava, TheServerSide.com, openxource.com and of course his blog at almaer.com/blog.

GetFirebug Blog (feed) – Firebug Development Blog for the popular addon.