Mozilla Foundation Brown Bag

October 29, 2008Mountain View, CA

Mozilla Foundation

Team

MoFo Board

Mitchell Baker Brendan EichMitch Kapor

Brian Behlendorf Joi Ito Bob Lisbonne

Pictures from Flickr by Joi, etech, Robert Scoble

Mark Surman, Executive Director

Role: Listening. Strategizing. Connecting dots. Helping others get things done.

Passion: Community-driven events.

Frank Hecker; Director Grants & Programs

Role: managing grants program, helping create and implement policies

Passion: disruptive innovation on the cheap

David Boswell, Programs Coordinator

Role: Fundraising, communications, community support

Passion: Finding out what the community is doing

Zak Greant, Electronic Frontierist

Role: Research, Outreach, Evangelism

Passion: The future of the internet and wired society

1.Gerv Markham, Grease Gun

2.Role: Community fixer, Bugzilla, Licensing

3.Fetish: Usable security

Past

MoFo

?

Current Activities

Supporting Mozilla project

1. Trademarks, copyright and other legal

2. Promote project, values and ecosystem

3. Wheel-greasing

4. CA approval

Current Activities

Grants supporting Mozilla mission

1. Mozilla community projects

2. Web accessibility

3. Teaching Mozilla and Open Source

4. Open source and free culture initiatives

Future

Vision and Roadmap

2010 Goals

1.New: More people understand and embrace the principles that underpin

Mozilla.

2010 Goals

1.New: More people understand and embrace the principles that underpin

Mozilla.

1.Also: Community, Thought Leadership and Innovation goals.

Likely 2009 Activities

1. Establish 'Mozilla values' brand

2. Revitalize mozilla.org site

3. Promote Internet literacy

4. Accelerate powered by Mozilla

5. Support more events (eg. Mozcamp+)

6. Expand open source education

And .... ?

Likely 2009 Activities

1.1. Clear vision and roadmap

2.2. Strong team and organization

3.3. Broader community and geo reach

Vision & Roadmap Process0. Inputs 1. Strawman 2. Research 3. Draft

VisionDocument

ProgramRoadmap

Community Feedback and Experiments

Gather input

from 2010 goals,

Whistler, blogs,

seredipity.

To Nov 08

Outline high level

vision,main

themes and program

opportunities.

Dec 08

Detailed research and analysis on

major program

ideas. Costs and viability.

Jan-Feb 09

Completedraft of

vision doc and roadmap

for community feedback.

Mar-Apr 09

4. Output

Purpose:Clarify MoFo role in Mozilla. Define

concrete programs and team structure.

Questions?