Hello,
One of the main topics that is being repeated between some contributors
is that we have to keep our influence on the web, on the market and on
the net and we all share some concerns about how.
This year the priority is the Kilimanjaro event: Desktop, Mobile,
Identity, Webapps/Marketplace, B2G and Dev Tools, and we all know that
we should focus on that, but at the same time we see that we arriving
late to some of them and we are losing our influence as time goes by. In
the past we were the ones bringing choice, now we are (for most people)
just another browser on the market.
I don't want to be just pessimistic here, so for that reason I think we
have to learn how to communicate these goals to all the community and
get the resources focused on one thing at a time, be all on the same
page, but also expand how scope, visibility and resources to new areas
tied to our values.
Browser wars are mostly over and we are facing new challenges, this is
not about beating IE monopoly anymore, is more complex, it's about
privacy, about user control, about digital rights, about avoiding having
a net controlled by a few companies and governments interests.
So for that reason I want to open discussion here and see how everybody
is working on expanding mozilla's scope, and particularly how to
communicate it to contributors, since most of them have being working
historically just on "Get Firefox, use Firefox" and expanding the scope
is something new for them/us.
Regards.
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Rubén Martín [Nukeador]
Mozilla Reps Council Member
http://www.mozilla-hispano.org
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