The History and Status of Mozilla Korean Community

The history and activities of Mozilla Korean Communuty Seokchan Yun Mozilla Korean Community http://www.mozilla.or.kr

尹錫璨 Seokchan (Channy) Yun • Daum.net (2nd Korean Internet Portal, 2004~) I have been at R&D Institute since 2004 Supporting Daum Open APIs and 3rd Party Developers (dna.daum.net) Working at Jeju Island Office (150 / 900 employee) 2

• Channy’s Blog (2003~) Subject: Firefox, Web 2.0, Web Standards, Open APIs Subscribers: over 6,000 people • Mozilla Korean Communuty (2002~) 3

1. The History of MoKoCo

1998. Mozilla Source Code • I was interested in Mozilla source code. • But, I was busy for long milestone period. 5

about:credits - L10n and CJK printing code - Now, CD Networks CTO - Dev of platform core and i18n code - Now, Google HQ 6

2000~ CHOI’s l10n Kit “Choi’s i10n work for Mozilla 0.9.2.” 7

2002~ mozilla.pe.kr My first work – Mozilla 1.0 Korean Localization for me “I made mine and used too.” 8

2004~ mozilla.or.kr From personal site to community “Gradual increasing of Firebird (Firefox) users” 9

• Very hard time Released Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox and Thunderbird in every 3 months at the same time. L10n work ▶Build ▶ Upload to official FTP Some volunteers for QA of each O/S (Linux, Mac) • Developing Community (2003~2004) Opening Mozilla Forum Opening MozillaZine Korean Web Standards Evangelism (Starting point of Korean Web Standards activit) 10

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 11

MozParty 2 (Firefox 1.0 Release) Dec. 4th, 2004 12

• Increasing Volunteers Korean extension site (http://update.mozilla.or.kr) Thunderbird Peer (金貞均, oops) Translation QA (朴燦奎, sushizang) Help translation (朴寅煥, inhwan) • Increasing community members 2003- 120 people, 2004- 760, 2005- 810 2006- 1,020 13

2005~ mozilla.org Design 14

Firefox Party (Firefox 2.0 Release) Dec 2th, 2006 15

2007~ mozilla.com Design 16

Firefox Annual Party Dec 17th , 2007 17

2. Who are Korean Users?

Daum.net / UV 11 millions per day 19

Tistory.com / UV 2 millions per day 20

Allblog.net / UV 100,000 per day 21

Daum DNA / UV 6,000 per day 22

Characteristics • Trends of user increasing “Viral marketing” amang famous bloggers since 2004 “Developer tools” among web engineers “Expert users” in general • A number of estimates users 100,000~150,000 (0.5% of Korean Internet users) 40~50% of expert bloggers 23

Gap • Cultural gap Between expert bloggers(0.2~0.3 millions) and portal bloggers (3 millions) Firefox users = Geek culture • Usage gap Resistance of install of new program (Most people think IE = Internet) IE-dependant web sites required Active X plugin. 24

3. Why is Small?

Factors • Outer Factors Leering IE-dependant after Browser War Not to change to standards methodology because of IE’s backward compatibility Absence of reeducation and self-development of web developers • Inner Factors Rapid broadband penetration – Web has changed entertainment or service oriented. Requirement of rich functions with plug-in technology Take a serious view of efficiency rather than accessibility 26

IE dependant sites 27

Problem1. Non standards • Critical point W3C DOM vs. MS DOM document.all -> document.getElementByID Microsoft Jscript Character code : EUC-KR vs. UTF-8 • Plug-in point Misusages of Flash technology Windows Media Player plug-in Non standards <object> - not to access video contents 28

Problem 2. ActiveX • The stern realities Over 30 Active X Plugins installed in general PCs Hybrid development : Web page + Plug-in Top market of VeriSign Code Signing Certificate • Factors Fast building of National PKI system : IE Active X Plug-in Easy download of Active X : High broadband network. Application based web : Enterprise Intranet Entertainment based web : Online game, Chatting • Providers of ActiveX plug-in NPKI: Internet banking, cyber trading, insurance, credit card processing, and E-gov. Entertainment: Game, chatting and messaging, DRM 30

4. Web Standards Activities

1. Standards Forum (2004~) 32

2. Standards Guide (2004~) 33

3. Naver Bug Day (2006) 34

Outer activities • Active Web Standards Communities Web Standards Korea – http://webstandards.or.kr CSS Design Korea – http://forum.standardmag.org KWAG – http://kwag.net (Accessiblity) • OpenWeb.or.kr Legal action against Active X technology in public area and fair trading issues in other browsers. Suggestions of alternative technology instead of Active X • Many books over 10 including translation. 35

5. The status of Community and Future

Mozilla Local Ecosystem 10 – Products & QA Managers 105 – Contributors in each areas 3,800 – Forum members ~100,000 – Firefox users

Community Lead • Product Management Browser/mail/toolkit owner: 2 persons Translation QA, each O/S QA : 5 persons MozillaZine translation and Forum : 3 persons • Contributors Addons translations – kmozup 12 persons MDC translations - mdckorea 67 persons • Forum users http://forums.mozilla.or.kr Total 3,810 persons 38

Mozilla Korean Community http://www.mozilla.or.kr 39

Mozilla Add-ons http://addons.mozilla.org/ko 40

Mozilla Developer Center http://developer.mozilla.org/ko 41

Mozilla Support http://support.mozilla.com/ko/kb 42

Local Community • 모질라 한국 공식 홈페이지 http://www.mozilla.or.kr (공식 배포) http://groups.google.com/group/mozillakorea (포럼) • 모질라 사용자 커뮤니티 http://forums.mozilla.or.kr (포럼) • 모질라 부가 기능 (Mozilla Addons) http://addons.mozilla.org/ko/firefox/ (공식 배포) http://update.mozilla.or.kr/ (자체 운영) • 모질라 개발자 센터 (Mozilla Developer Center) http://developer.mozilla.org/ko/ http://groups.google.com/group/mdckorea (포럼) 43

Firefox 3 Marketing • Firefox 3 Party (June) • Customization Builds – Naver, Daum (July) • Free Firefox Guide (August) • University Campus Campaign (September) 44

From Mitchell Baker’s Presentation in OSCON 2007 45

From Mitchell Baker’s Presentation in OSCON 2007 46

Thanks for Attention : Q&A Seokchan (Channy) Yun • channy@mozilla.or.kr • http://channy.creation.net

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