Mozilla Drumbeat is the Mozilla Foundations new venture. An effort to reach out beyond those who have helped make the Firefox web browser to a broader community – those that care about keeping the internet open but who want to contribute in other ways. Drumbeat will have three components: 1) Projects – many of which [...]
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Mozilla Drumbeat: Help keep the web open
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]


