CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
(Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 11:30am-12:30pm PT
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Gates B3
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Open to the public
Mozilla Foundation||Mozilla Foundation
Creating Simple Software in a Geek-driven Culture
November 18, 2005
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 models—basically its entire culture—to change
from a technology-focused to a people-focused organization in such a short
time.
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<p><a href="http://www.blakeross.com/"><b>Blake Ross</b></a> cofounded Firefox
during high school and started the <a href="http://SpreadFirefox.com">SpreadFirefox.com</a>
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. </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/"><b>Asa Dotzler</b></a> is the
community coordinator for several Mozilla projects. He is the founder and
coordinator of Mozilla’s 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 Mozilla’s 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.</p>
<p>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. <br>
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