The Mozilla Foundation

21st February 2004

Roadmap

• What?
• Who?
• The Past
• The Present
• The Future

The One-Picture Summary

                                   

What is the Mozilla Foundation?

• A lifeboat :-)
• Non-profit corporation set up to ensure the long term vitality of Mozilla technology
• Dedicated to the development of innovative open-source, standards-based, internet client software
• Staffed by key long-time contributors
• Built on pre-existing, informal structure
• Does consulting to raise funds

What does it provide?

As before:

• Technical Leadership
• Project Leadership
• Infrastructure: CVS, Bugzilla, Bonsai, Tinderbox, build machines, WWW, FTP
• Centre for community involvement

But also:

• Employment: Hires key people to ensure development and leadership continue
• Asset Ownership: Mozilla trademarks, MPL licence, equipment
• Centre for institutional involvement

Who's involved? (1)

Board of Directors:

• Mitch Kapor (OSAF, Lotus Notes)
• Brendan Eich (mozilla.org Chief Architect, JavaScript)
• Mitchell Baker (mozilla.org Chief Lizard Wrangler, MPL author)
• Chris Blizzard (Red Hat)
• Brian Behlendorf (Apache, collab.net)

The law requires non-profits to have a board of directors.

Who's involved? (2)

Employees:

• Brendan Eich - Chief Architect
• Chris Hofmann - Engineering Manager
• Leaf Nunes - Builds
• Asa Dotzler - QA
• Myk Melez - Tools and IS
• Ben Goodger - Firefox
• Scott McGregor - Thunderbird
• David Baron - Gecko
• David Bienvenu - Mail Backend
• Johnny Stenback - DOM

• 60% of Mitchell Baker - Chief Lizard Wrangler
• 50% of Bart Decrem - PR, Legal, Commercial

Who's involved? (3)

Other Staff:

• Chris Blizzard (Red Hat)
• Scott Collins (Ann Arbor Digital Arts)
• Dawn Endico
• David Hyatt (Apple)
• Gervase Markham (Data Connection)
• Seth Spitzer (AOL)

Technical Advisory Group

There is/will be a quarterly Roadmap Process for evaluating, prioritizing, planning, and staffing new initiatives.

The Foundation has set up a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to provide input into the Roadmap. (Don't ask :-)

• Small group of Industry Advisors (less than 10)
• Focused on key strategic and technical initiatives of the Mozilla project
• Regular, ongoing involvement with project leadership
• Membership by invitation, or representing funding organisation
• Will provide key funding source for the project

Decisions are still ultimately made by staff and drivers.

What's happened so far?

• Found office space
• Transitioned mozilla.org servers and services to managed hosting
• Got FTP mirroring from various universities
• Obtained Talkback licence (thanks to Full Circle)
• New website design
• Released Mozilla 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7a
• Resolved trademark issues over "Firefox" name
• Released Firefox 0.8 and Thunderbird 0.5 to rave reviews

Current Projects

• Widening uptake of Mozilla technology
• Better experience for end user - CDs (2500 since 1.6), telephone support
• Visual design team
• Working with partners to increase commercial support and deployment
• IBM, Sun, Oracle, HP, Linux distributors, device makers, plug-in vendors
• Institutional deployments - enterprises, government and universities
• International focus - Mozilla Europe
• Localized versions (on CD and downloadable)
• Fund raising!

The Future

• Official non-profit status (tax-exempt application filed)
• Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 1.0 (this summer)
• Large market share

• ...and after that, the world!

The End