What do you want the web to be?

By Mike Morgan

We asked hackers in Portland what they wanted the web to be. They had some great answers.

Seeing folks in Portland getting excited about the web, about Firefox and Mozilla, about all the possibilities open to us because of technology — it reminded me of what a special chance we have here to make a difference.

The future of the web won’t be decided by corporations, governments or shareholders. It will be chosen by people like you and me — passionate individuals with great ideas, who won’t take no for an answer — who won’t settle.

Innovation can come from anywhere — folks that attended our event had tons of great ideas about everything — they stamped it out and put it on the wall for everyone to see. All we had to do was ask them a simple question: what do you want the web to be?

Thanks to:

The awesome folks at Open Source Bridge
Rainer Cvillink, Video Producer at Mozilla
Our party co-host, Emma

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About Mike Morgan

Mike Morgan is the Director of Web Development for the Mozilla Corporation. Mike joined the Mozilla community as a volunteer in 2003 and has worked on Mozilla's mirror management software, update system and addons.mozilla.org. These days he spends most of his time on strategy, recruiting and helping his team embrace their inner nerd.

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10 Responses to “What do you want the web to be?”

I less than three you guys!
groovecoder on July 8th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Viable in my enterprise…
Danny Moules on July 9th, 2011 at 2:17 am
Motherfreaking open for all, that’s what I want the web to be.

P.S.: This also means there’s no viable to way operating systems like ChromeOS can work for the mainstream market. Some things will always need to be un-open.
Tiago on July 9th, 2011 at 5:10 am
A lovely video about a memorable evening. Thank you for sharing it.
Sumana Harihareswara on July 9th, 2011 at 7:09 am
I want to see that ‘Web will be open source’. It will be developed by all. Because all the people are the author of this.

We will do for web and information will be for all.

Let’s rockzzz..
G. M. Shaharia Azam on July 10th, 2011 at 1:34 am
The event — and the ideas — were epic. Makes me proud to see how much people care about the Open Web.
Fred Wenzel on July 10th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
What is the music in that video? I like it.
B on July 11th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Free. Open. Without Censorship or private domain.

It should be a field that no country owns nor can dictate, and where everyone is equal to post what they want.

This should also include being anonymous, since putting your face to your words can be a tough choice when faced against governments and powerful corporations.

The Protect IP act is something Mozilla should explicitly fight against, and provide a way for other internet users to jump on the bandwagon as well.
DF on July 11th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Wonderful video!

What do you want the web to be? free, open, decentralized, accessible and hackability.
Santiago Hollmann on July 11th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
… and thanks for a great party! The was a wonderful contribution to OS Bridge from Mozilla and Emma.
Steve Holden on July 11th, 2011 at 8:19 pm

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