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Suggestions for a Stronger Mozilla Community
Personal Thoughts and Ideas for Possible Improvements
Robert Kaiser - KaiRo
This is Personal
Disclaimer:
- This talk consists mostly of personal opinions, suggestions and
ideas.
- Those are not coordinated or endorsed by Mozilla Foundation, any of its
subsidiaries, or their staff.
- Discussions and comments are encouraged, but keep it civil
and follow the
Mozilla
Community Participation Guidelines.
Mozilla Community
- centered around the
Mozilla Manifesto
and the Open Web
- including the official organizations and supportive of them
- larger than official projects and products
- powered and driven by volunteers
Then and Now
- one of the earliest large FLOSS projects
- strong, growing group, many spawned side projects
- with time, many competing projects
- tightening up Firefox development
- many technology experiments over time, most stopped again
- now, good groups in some areas (SUMO, MDN, L10n, ...)
- feels very splittered, unconnected
- hard to motivate people to enage
What Now?
- Again, personal suggestions and ideas following
- Not endorsed by anyone else
- Food for thought, not fully planned out
- Civil discussions welcome, respect CPG
- So, let's get to it...
Independence
- Don't depend or rely on Mozilla support or official programs
- Engage in activites you find interesting
- Still support Manifesto and Open Web
- No contradiction to official activities
- Engage others around you
Mixed Reality - WebXR
- Stay on the ball on WebXR projects
- Firefox Reality headsets
- Multi-device web experiences
- Hubs and other Metaverse meetings
- XR beyond hype cycle, establishing as major tech
Support Spin-Offs
- WebThings, Coqui, KaiOS, etc. are still around
- Recognize as still part of the community
- Stay connected, work with them
- Keep Mozilla and FLOSS spirit alive
Investigate New Technologies
- Be eyes and ears of the movement
- Learn interesting new tech before the hype
- Community can act faster than product organization
- Look beyond the hype at the actual tech
- Don't pre-judge from conservative POV
Foster Decentralization
- Move beyond centralized silos
- Lobby for interoperability and Open Standards
- Push Matrix and similar systems where possible
- Avoid centralized services, demand alternatives
Community Blockchains and "Web3"
- Look beyond hype, openly approach and learn
- Many honest and open-minded players in that space
- Ethereum community
shares a lot of values with Mozilla
- E.g. Public-key-based login for websites
- Big ecosystem, financial but also non-financial use cases
- Side note:
"Carbon/Energy problem"
gone soon
Communication Channel(s)
- Many splittered project-specific channels
- Need a common beacon and connector
- Weekly condensed news from all over the community?
- Maybe in a podcast form?
- Happy to be involved, there, let's connect!
Outreach
- Go to events and talk about it!
- Everything around Open Web and Manifesto
- Offline or online
- Tie it back to the Mozilla core
- Stand proud with Mozilla and community
- Spread the word!