Mozilla and Social Media Jason Orendorff Mozilla Corporation

What is Mozilla?

Built on Mozilla Platform

Firefox Numbers 200+ million users worldwide 2,500+ community-contributed extensions 62 languages (and growing) 20% worldwide market share 1,600+ contributors to code base thousands of volunteers & evangelists just over 150 employees

200+ million users worldwide

2,500+ community-contributed extensions

62 languages (and growing)

20% worldwide market share

1,600+ contributors to code base

thousands of volunteers & evangelists

just over 150 employees

Who creates Firefox?

1 Me

1 75 Me Mozilla Corporation Development Team

1 75 100s Me Mozilla Corporation Development Team Daily Contributors

75 100s 1000s Me Mozilla Corporation Development Team Daily Contributors Contributors

1000s 10,000s Mozilla Corporation Development Team Daily Contributors Contributors Nightly testers

10,000s 500,000 Daily Contributors Contributors Nightly testers Beta testers

500k Daily users (approx 70M) Nightly testers Beta testers Contributors

Even Aliens Prefer Firefox...

37% of the code contributed to Firefox since November ’06 has come from the community

How does this work?

Chaos

Chaos Anyone can propose a change

Chaos Anyone can propose a change

Anyone can comment on a proposal for a change Chaos

Anyone can submit a change to the code Chaos

Order Not everyone can approve a change

Order Strong leadership structure

Module Owner Code Review Submit Patch (anyone) Super Review Release Branch Check-in Release Team Review Trunk Check-in Order Multiple Code Reviews

Order Visibility into every change

Firefox & social media Spell checking Session restore “Awesomebar” addons.mozilla.org

Spell checking

Session restore

“Awesomebar”

addons.mozilla.org

link to this page

Advice Get some experience Use good tools Find good writers Listen and facilitate

Get some experience

Use good tools

Find good writers

Listen and facilitate

Engineering advice Track work online Collaborate on documents Blog

Track work online

Collaborate on documents

Blog

Ways to Get Involved Use Firefox Spread the word spreadfirefox.com Give us feedback Write an add-on developer.mozilla.org Become a contributor

Use Firefox

Spread the word spreadfirefox.com

Give us feedback

Write an add-on developer.mozilla.org

Become a contributor

[email_address] Thank you very much! Ideas were shamelessly stolen from at least the following people: The Firefox Community Chris Beard Mike Beltzner Dave Camp Paul Colton Mike Connor Asa Dotzler David Eaves Brendan Eich Alex Faaborg Mark Finkle Jay Goldman Ben Goodger John Lilly Larry Lessig Deb Richardson Mike Shaver Mike Schroepfer (especially) Martin Weinberger