WEBVTT 00:00:01.508 --> 00:00:03.041 What is mozilla? 00:00:03.821 --> 00:00:04.823 let me try to answer this 00:00:05.969 --> 00:00:09.469 Mozilla is... a question of people? 00:00:09.469 --> 00:00:12.082 Mozilla is a global project 00:00:12.113 --> 00:00:13.515 and it's a non-profit organization 00:00:13.577 --> 00:00:15.984 It is just an incredible movement of 00:00:15.984 --> 00:00:19.320 really really passionate people 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:21.957 I think it attracts people who are interested in helping others 00:00:21.957 --> 00:00:23.791 and who want to work with a group and do something important 00:00:23.791 --> 00:00:25.893 ehehe crazy people! 00:00:25.893 --> 00:00:29.597 Mozilla is of course best known for 00:00:29.597 --> 00:00:32.833 our product Firefox 00:00:32.833 --> 00:00:36.171 The Firefox project was born in a time when 00:00:36.171 --> 00:00:38.840 the web became stagnant and 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:40.574 the only browser out there was Internet Explorer 00:00:40.574 --> 00:00:43.911 It's one thing to talk about competition sort of like an idealized economic good 00:00:43.911 --> 00:00:49.518 it's another thing to say, you know, your browser made my life so much better, 00:00:49.518 --> 00:00:51.685 my computer was so slow, I was getting popups and I couldn't use it, 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:53.755 I thought the internet was terrible and now it's all better, 00:00:53.755 --> 00:00:56.324 this is what happened back in 2004 when we launched Firefox. 00:00:58.093 --> 00:01:04.165 There's a lot of innovation we drove in the browser, which you find today across all browsers. 00:01:04.165 --> 00:01:08.970 a lot of the good things we've built have come from people who don't happen to work on the project full time 00:01:08.970 --> 00:01:12.072 And that's a really important thing. 00:01:12.072 --> 00:01:14.509 Innovation doesn't happen unless people are tinkering 00:01:14.509 --> 00:01:16.610 and tinkering does not happen unless they have access to the code. 00:01:16.610 --> 00:01:22.217 You end up with a much richer ecosystem, when you have more people trying out their ideas 00:01:22.217 --> 00:01:24.085 and seeing what works 00:01:24.085 --> 00:01:26.321 sometimes that translates back at us and we say: 00:01:26.321 --> 00:01:27.622 well that's a good idea 00:01:27.622 --> 00:01:28.489 we would like to use it 00:01:28.489 --> 00:01:29.958 we're gonna ship it to everybody 00:01:29.958 --> 00:01:31.426 Mozilla is a very important experiment 00:01:31.426 --> 00:01:32.894 because we operate like a for-profit company 00:01:32.894 --> 00:01:36.665 we have a high quality product, we have customers and, instead of shareholders, who want 00:01:36.665 --> 00:01:41.969 profits we have a mission to keep the web open, to provide choice. 00:01:41.969 --> 00:01:48.542 That's why we are non-profit. It's so, we can make our product decisions based on user experience and 00:01:48.542 --> 00:01:52.913 empowering people and building a product that cares that you're a citizen and a human being, 00:01:52.913 --> 00:01:56.550 and not based on that you own a wallet. 00:01:56.550 --> 00:01:57.613 Mozilla is a global project 00:01:58.106 --> 00:01:59.783 There are many ways you can get involved 00:01:59.968 --> 00:02:01.553 You can contribute code 00:02:02.845 --> 00:02:05.114 You can translate and localize content 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:08.230 You can innovate in the browser and beyond 00:02:08.307 --> 00:02:09.653 You can donate and support our cause 00:02:09.884 --> 00:02:11.787 We are for an independent and open Internet. 00:02:11.787 --> 00:02:16.180 If Mozilla or other organizations where not fighting for this 00:02:16.272 --> 00:02:20.234 the Web would become the same as the other large mechanisms of mass communication 00:02:20.234 --> 00:02:23.912 That is, dominated by a few 00:02:23.912 --> 00:02:28.071 The definition of open source implies 00:02:28.102 --> 00:02:32.330 working together without discrimination 00:02:32.330 --> 00:02:34.788 The Web isn't just something that you consume, 00:02:34.788 --> 00:02:36.209 it's something that you can actually affect yourself. 00:02:36.932 --> 00:02:39.528 you know we had this idea about how the world should work and 00:02:39.528 --> 00:02:43.998 we tend to embody that into something individual people can touch and be part of 00:02:43.998 --> 00:02:45.832 And that's different. 00:02:45.832 --> 00:02:48.383 We're not just a different kind of browser. 00:02:48.383 --> 00:02:51.100 We're building a better web 00:02:51.100 --> 00:02:53.060 Anyone can help 00:02:53.075 --> 00:02:56.328 Learn how: