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5 Ways to get to the Next Million Mozillians

Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation has been ruminating on:
“how Mozilla can actively encourage large numbers of people to participate on making the web more open and awesome.”
For a long time I’ve been a supporter of the idea that supporters of an Open Web are part of a social movement and that mobilizing [...]

Mozilla knows it is part of a social movement

So I while back I wrote that the open web is a social movement. The post generated a fair number of pingbacks and emails as well as a few comments. Some people wondered – is the open web a social movement? Is Mozilla part of a social movement? I sense… there may still be doubters.
Today, [...]

¶ Posted 11 August 2008 | David Eaves § commentary § free culture § open source ‡ Comments (14) ° Also tagged: commentary, firefox, free culture, mozilla, open source, social movements

The challenge of mozilla’s magnetism

Mozilla is unique. The project gets more media, more publicity and more buzz than virtually any other open source project. It is, in much of the public’s mind, the poster child for open source and the open internet. More critically, this isn’t some interesting observation, why this is the case, and what it means, is [...]

¶ Posted 14 July 2008 | David Eaves § open source § technology ‡ Comments (13) ° Also tagged: activism, firefox, future of the internet, mozilla, open source, social movements, technology

Remixing the Mozilla Manifesto

A growing number of us are carrying on an open conversation about the Mozilla Foundation, it’s future, and it’s role in supporting the open-web (or perhaps, more accurately, an open internet). To push the conversation forward in a concrete manner, I thought I’d share a few thoughts on the Mozilla Manifesto.
Firstly and most importantly, the [...]

¶ Posted 30 June 2008 | David Eaves § open source ‡ Comments (11) ° Also tagged: mozilla, mozilla manifesto, open source

Hackers are Social Activists mashup – Eric Raymond vs. Bill Moyes

If the Open Web is a social movement then are Hackers Social Activists?
From the reaction of a number of people to that post the answer at first seems unclear. Some of those who responded shared their discomfort with the idea of being labeled a social activist. Notions of people chaining themselves to something, yelling into [...]