The Mozilla Project: A Great Place for Education and Research

Chris HofmannBrazil June 2009chofmann@mozilla.org

Mozilla Has Reach and Impact

• 100 Million Active Daily Users

• 300 Total World Wide Users

• About 22% Browser Marketshare

• Good experiments research that get included in Firefox will reach users and have impact on improving the web.

• Not only Many Users,

• Many Participants and Contributors

• Mozilla is a different kind of organization

• Our main goal is to influence choice, openness and innovation on the web

• Driven by creating trust, engagement, and participation driven by passion

Keep asking the tough questions

Is the web and the browser fast enough? Is it secure and safe enough? Is it “interoperable / compatible” enough? Does it reach enough people, on enough

devices, and in enough languages? Is it easy enough to use? Is it useful?

Lets find answers to these questions and more.

Places to Get Involved

Marketing Experiments and Campaigns

Software Quality

• software testing - bugzilla theoretical metrics, code coverage, hands on bug days

• crash analysis

• security research

• static and code analysis

Browser Innovation and Experimentation

• addon development, developer.mozilla.org addons.mozilla.org

• design experimentation - labs.mozilla.org projects

Software Engineering and Core Hacking - bugzilla, wiki.mozilla.org

Curriculum Development for all these areas

Programs - Labs• labs.mozilla.org - design challenges

http://labs.mozilla.org

• Easy To Get Involved with Design Challenges

• Come up with an interesting idea

• Create a simple mockup

• Create a video that explains your idea

• Upload to Flickr, Vimeo or YouTube

• Tag it “mozconcept”

• E-mail conceptseries@mozilla.com with links to your mockup and video.

• Awards for Innovation, Execution, Interaction, Producible, + People’s Choice Award

Programs + SoCGoogle Summer of Code

• http://socghop.appspot.com/program/home/google/gsoc2009

Programs - Internships

Mozilla Internships

• Follow Along with interesting activity

• Jump In and adding value where you see an opportunity

• Building Your Reputation in the community with contribution

• Apply for Internship

• http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/careers.html

Some Interns Became Famous ;-)

ProgramsMozilla Education – Building Links Between Mozilla

Education Organizations Around the Worldhttp://education.mozilla.org/Education/

Seneca College as the Model

Mozilla Education

• Follow along on Blogs, Meetings, Newsgroups, and IRC

• http://education.mozilla.org/planet/

• http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.education/topics

• Weekly status meetings • http://education.mozilla.org/Education/StatusMeetings

• #education on the Mozilla IRC network

Ask “humph” on IRC or david.humphrey@senecac.on.ca for help

Mozilla Education

• Get the latest on interesting student projects at:

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/#Student_Projects

• Available student projects – 67 in the queue

• Assigned student projects – 6 Currently Assigned

• Resolved student projects – 7 Projects Completed