There's a talk at Stanford this Friday that I think might be interesting
to the OpenSolaris community. Here's the abstract:
Two years ago, the Mozilla Foundation resembled most other
open-source organizations: it was slow, technology-oriented, and
allergic to consumers. Today, the Mozilla Corporation develops,
distributes and promotes the first open-source product ever to
penetrate the mainstream: Firefox was downloaded over 100 million
times in less than one year. We will look at how Mozilla transformed
its development practices, economic modelsbasically its entire
cultureto change from a technology-focused to a people-focused
organization in such a short time.
For those who aren't near Stanford, I think it will be available over
the web, but I don't know if you have to be enrolled for the seminar to
see it. Anyway, there's a URL in the attachment, if you're interested.
mike
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Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar
Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN, 12:30-2:00pm PDT (UTC 19:30)
Video: http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/students/courseList.asp CS547
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Friday, November 18, 2005
Blake Ross and Asa Dotzler, Mozilla
http://www.blakeross.com/
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/
TITLE: Creating simple software in a geek-driven culture
ABSTRACT :
Two years ago, the Mozilla Foundation resembled most other open-source
organizations: it was slow, technology-oriented, and allergic to consumers.
Today, the Mozilla Corporation develops, distributes and promotes the first
open-source product ever to penetrate the mainstream: Firefox was
downloaded over 100 million times in less than one year. We will look at
how Mozilla transformed its development practices, economic
modelsbasically its entire cultureto change from a technology-focused to
a people-focused organization in such a short time.
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Blake Ross cofounded Firefox during high school and started the
SpreadFirefox.com marketing initiative shortly thereafter to promote
Firefox to the mainstream. He was featured on the cover of Wired magazine
in early 2005 and has spoken about computing simplicity in dozens of venues
worldwide. Blake is currently on leave from Stanford, where he is an
undergraduate.
Asa Dotzler is the community coordinator for several Mozilla projects. He
is the founder and coordinator of Mozillas Quality Assurance (QA) and
Testing Program, which has grown from just a few contributors when Asa
joined the project to tens of thousands of volunteers today. As the Quality
Assurance lead, Asa works with Mozillas volunteer QA and testing community
to ensure excellence and to certify applications for release. Asa is also
co-founder and community coordinator for the Spread Firefox project.
Asa has been an active member of the Mozilla community since 1999. After
volunteering for more than a year, Asa joined the Mozilla organization and
has played a key role in delivering products including the release of
Mozilla 1.0 and the release of the award-winning Mozilla Firefox Web
browser and Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client now used by more than 60
million people combined worldwide.
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NEXT WEEK: Thanksgiving, no class
TWO WEEKS: December 2, 2005 - Jim Hollan, UC San Diego
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