Presentation by Jason Orendorff of Mozilla at Memphis Social Media Breakfast, 3 Dec 2008.

1. Mozilla and Social Media
Jason Orendorff
Mozilla Corporation

2. What is Mozilla?

8. Built on Mozilla Platform

9. 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

10. Who creates Firefox?

11. Me
1

12. Me
1
Mozilla Corporation
Development Team
75

13. Me
1
Mozilla Corporation
Development Team
75
Daily
Contributors
100s

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

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

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

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

18. Even Aliens Prefer Firefox...

19. 37% of the code contributed
to Firefox since November ’06
has come from the community

20. How does this work?

21. Chaos

22. Chaos
Anyone can propose a change

23. Chaos
Anyone can propose a change

24. Chaos
Anyone can comment on a proposal for a change

25. Chaos
Anyone can submit a change to the code

26. Order
Not everyone can approve a change

27. Order
Strong leadership structure

28. Order
Multiple Code Reviews

29. Order
Multiple Code Reviews
Submit
Patch
(anyone)

30. Order
Multiple Code Reviews
Submit
Module Owner
Patch
Code Review
(anyone)

31. Order
Multiple Code Reviews
Submit
Module Owner Super
Patch
Code Review Review
(anyone)

32. Order
Multiple Code Reviews
Submit
Module Owner Super
Patch
Code Review Review
(anyone)
Trunk
Check-in

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

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

35. Order
Visibility into every change

36. Order
Visibility into every change

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

42. link to this page

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

45. Engineering advice
• Track work online
• Collaborate on documents
• Blog

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

47. Thank you very much!
jorendorff@mozilla.com
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