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 [...]
Entries tagged as “social movements”
5 Ways to get to the Next Million Mozillians
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Open Web is a social movement
Social movements are collective actions in which the populace is alerted, educated, and mobilized, over years and decades, to challenge the powerholders and the whole society to redress social problems or grievances and restore critical social values. – Bill Moyes in the Movement Action Plan The mission of the Mozilla Foundation is to create and [...]
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