creating a free and open source mobile computing platform for all, by tristan nitot at evento linux...

Tristan Nitot - @nitot#EventoLinux, Lisbon, 2013

Creating a Free and Open-Source mobile computing platform for all

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a global community of people who believe that

openness, innovation, and opportunity are key to the continued

health of the Internet.

Mozilla is

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We’re known for the Firefox Web browser

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• The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.

• Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on the Internet.

• The effectiveness of the Internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralized participation worldwide.

• Free and open source software promotes the development of the Internet as a public resource.

Mozilla Manifesto (excerpts)

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Two things to keep in mind:

1 - We’re a not-for-profit

organization

2 - What we do, we do it for the Web

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The future is mobile

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Google Apple ???

MarketPlace Google Play AppStore

Operating System

Android iOS

Hardware Motorola & co

iPhone

Market position

#1 #2 #3

Who’s going to be #3?Blackberry? Microsoft? Tizen? Ubuntu?

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Does the (partial) Open-Source nature of the software give freedom

to users?

No.

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Mozilla’s vision: «The Web is the

(mobile) Platform»

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Firefox for Android

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Hardware access

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Firefox OSA complete, standalone operating system for the open Web, built entirely using HTML5 & standard

Web APIs

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Firefox Marketplace

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Firefox OS: How an Open Web Phone connects HTML5 to hardware

Hardware

Drivers

Linux Kernel

Gecko(Mozilla’s Web Rendering Engine)

HTML5,

JavaScript & CSS

Certified

apps

Privileged

apps

Hosted

apps{System

MarketplaceWeb

Security

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Chipset : Qualcomm

6 Hardware manufacturers: ZTE, TCL (Alcatel OneTouch), LG, Huawei, Sony, Foxconn

18 Carriers : America Movil, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Hutchison Three Group, KDDI, KT, Megafon, QTel, SingTel, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor, Telstra, TMN, & VimpelCom

Worldwide partnerships

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• 2 billion people will get on-line in the next 5 years

• They’re mostly feature-phone users for now

• Firefox OS runs on inexpensive hardware

• Will expand to more high-end hardware in the future

For which customers?

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Contribute to Mozilla:

• http://www.mozilla.org/contribute

Get hired by Mozilla:

• http://careers.mozilla.org/

Build Mobile Web Apps:

• https://marketplace.firefox.com/

3 things you can do now:

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Questions & Answers

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