Mozilla Foundation
For Love, Not Money (or Leaving the Mozilla Paycheck)
Over the last three-and-a-half years, I’ve had a dream consulting gig as a Mozilla Foundation staff member.
Mozilla marked a major change for me. While I’ve worked on various electronic frontier, free software and open source projects over the last decade, working with Mozilla was the first time that I was able to focus solely on [...]
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Non-Profit2Non-Profit Resources
During the Change the Web chat today, I mentioned that others were working on helping non-profits network with other non-profits. The two groups that I’m aware of are:
FLOSS Foundations (http://flossfoundations.org) – an informal peer support group for people who administer Electronic Frontier, Free Software and Open Source projects and non-profits.
Idealist (http://www.idealist.org) – a site focused [...]
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How Can Mozilla Empower Nonprofits & Movements?
Suneel Gupta and myself will be the featured guests for the next Change the Web conversation series, Tuesday, March 3 at 11AM Pacific Time.
The topic for discussion is, “How Can Mozilla Empower Nonprofits & Movements?”
To participate via chat, visit http://my.socialactions.com/events/how-can-mozilla-empower and RSVP.
Thanks to Joe Solomon for coordinating!
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First Net Effect Videos Coming In
The first few Net Effects videos are starting to trickle into the Net Effects group on Flickr:
Translated from the Romanian, “The internet allows me to stay in touch with my friends from 10 years ago, to realize that we are the same losers and that I still love them just as much.”
UX professional and blogger [...]
Free Culture vs. Fear Culture vs. Fee Culture
Last week, my good colleague Gerv gently took me to task about requiring that videos submitted to the Mozilla Net Effects video program be licensed under the Creative Common NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (instead of an actual Free Culture licensed like Creative Common ShareAlike license or Creative Common Attribution license) . I thought about this for a [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for Week 6 of 2009
I fit 23 hours of Mozilla work into a somewhat painful week of where breaking the OSI site for a few minutes during FOSDEM was the least of my worries. Most of my Mozilla work focused on the Net Effects video program. I wrote and posted a public description for the program along with a [...]
Testing the Mozilla Net Effects Program
Last week, I wrote about an experimental video program that I am coordinating for Mozilla.
I’ve now posted a more complete overview of the program, along with a draft guide for the program testers and an early FAQ on the program.
Helping us in our early stages are the following good and brave souls:
Alina Mierlus, Free Software/Open [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2009 Week 5
The end of January was another busy week with a lot of long (but good) days.
I spent most of my time developing an experimental program to build a popular movement around the Mozilla values, recording test videos to support the program, testing program ideas on friends, colleagues and peers, and recruiting early participants in the [...]
Using Twitter Without Going Insane
Sometime in 2008, I overdosed on Twitter.
I’d started using the service during its first early swell of popularity in the electronic frontier world and made the mistake of indiscriminately following way too many people. Every few minutes, a productivity pummeling batch of inane babble, awesome links, witty repartee and auto-generated cruft would crowd into my [...]
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What Does the Net Mean to You?
Mozilla, the global community behind the Firefox web browser, has an idea that we need your help with. We want you to help make openness, participation and distributed decision-making common experiences in Internet life.
To do this, millions of people around the world must understand, embrace and share these values. You, me, our families, our neighbor [...]
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