How Mozilla makes money and spends it
Four graphs show that almost all of Mozilla’s revenue comes from Google et al., and the majority of its expenses go to software development.
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Mozilla’s uncertain future
Some thoughts on Mozilla for people who don’t know Mozilla.
Changing my (blog) name, plus Plus
For those following this blog, note that I’ve changed the canonical site name from blog.hecker.org to frankhecker.com. Any links and feed URLs referencing th...
Leaving Mozilla
Just a quick note to let all of you know that I’ll soon be leaving the Mozilla Foundation to take a new position as a sales engineer in the Federal sales gro...
Mozilla Education: Looking back and ahead
I’m currently working on putting together a draft plan for Mozilla Education activities in 2010. I’m a bit blocked on coming up with a coherent plan, so I th...
One final day for Jetpack for Learning submissions
We received a lot of submissions for the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge just prior to last night’s deadline. In order to accomodate last-minute entrie...
Jetpack for Learning deadline extended
Do you have a great idea for a Jetpack or Firefox extension to help support learning online? Would you like a chance to attend an intensive Jetpack design ca...
Explore the skies in the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge
It’s now less than three weeks until the November 27 submissions deadline for the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge. To get folks excited about the chall...
Announcing the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge
We invite you to help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore new possibilities for using Firefox add-ons to support learning online, ...
Growing open web hackers from childhood
Atul Varma of Mozilla Labs has a great post up, “Kids and the Open Web” where he advocates having the Mozilla Drumbeat initiative explicitly include some mes...
New Mozilla accessibility projects
In the few remaining minutes before Firefox 3.5 storms its way around the world, I wanted to highlight two Firefox-related accessibility projects that are ju...
Learn about Mozilla this summer in Madrid
My apologies for not passing this on earlier: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, is organizing a three-month course on Mozilla technologies in coo...
Mozilla Education call: proposed Processing project
For today’s instance of our weekly Mozilla Education call at 11 am EDT / 8 am PDT / 1500 UTC we’ll be talking about a proposed multi-disciplinary multi-schoo...
The SoftHum workshop on teaching open source
I was at Drexel University in Philadelphia last Thursday and Friday participating in the SoftHum Workshop on Involving Students in Humanitarian Free and Open...
Interested in Mozilla and the future of democracy?
Mary Colvig mentioned this on the Monday Mozilla call, and I wanted to follow up with more information. Briefly, the Mozilla Foundation is one of the sponsor...
Hybrid organizations and maximizing public benefit
Mark Surman has published another blog post about why hybrid organizations matter. I agree with pretty much all of what Mark wrote, and don’t have much to ad...
Mozilla Education call: Expanding education.mozilla.org
For this week’s instance of our weekly Mozilla Education call we’ll be talking about our efforts to expand and revision the education.mozilla.org (EDMO) web ...
Hybrid organizations as market disruptors
Mark Surman just posted on the topic of hybrid organizations, which he defines as organizations characterized by a mix of social mission, disruptive market s...
Proposed Mozilla accessibility strategy
I’ve written and published a new proposed high-level strategy for Mozilla-related accessibility efforts. Note that this is not a detailed roadmap for future ...
Mozilla Education call: Online presentation systems
For this week’s instance of our weekly Mozilla Education call I’ll be talking about various systems for doing online presentations and related activities (e....
Mozilla Education call: Pascal Finette and Dimdim
For this week’s instance of our weekly Mozilla Education call we have a presentation from Pascal Finette on the online course being done for the Mozilla Labs...
Upcoming Mozilla Education calls
For those of you participating (or interested in participating) in our weekly Mozilla Education teleconference calls, here’s what to expect the next few weeks:
Mozilla Education internship
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student who loves Mozilla and wants to help us teach the world about it? I’m happy to announce that we’re now accepting ...
education.mozilla.org is now live
Well, sort of… One of our proposed Mozilla education activities for 2009 is creating a central web site for Mozilla educational resources and related content...
New Mozilla Education weekly call
As is evident from Mark Surman’s recent Why Mozilla Education? post and all the stuff we’ve been adding to the Mozilla Education planning page, we’re getting...
Seven things
I’m not that fond of the Internet equivalent of chain letters, but I’ll make an exception this time because two people (Mark and Marco) tagged me on this.
Mozilla-funded NVDA project gets support from Microsoft
Some of you may recall that about a year ago the Mozilla Foundation provided a grant to NV Access, an Australia-based nonprofit organization dedicated to dev...
Machine-verified formal mathematical proofs
A departure from my usual topics, in remembrance of my college math classes (and with a nod to Mozilla folks working on related areas like automated testing ...
Mozilla and certification authorities
Johnathan Nightingale recently addressed a very common question, namely why Firefox doesn’t automatically accept self-signed SSL certificates as being valid....
Please welcome Mark Surman to Mozilla
As announced by Mitchell Baker earlier and followed up by Mark Surman, Mark will be coming on board in a month or so as the Executive Director of the Mozilla...
Mozilla and the future of education, part 2
[This is part 2 of a two-part post. Part 1 discusses the future of education and the possibility of customized online educational offerings as a disruptive i...
Mozilla and the future of education, part 1
[This is part 1 of a two-part post; part 2 is here.]
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/07/18
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 18, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/07/11
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 11, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/07/04
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 4, 2008. My apologies for the delay in posting this.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/06/27
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending June 27, 2008. My apologies for the delay in posting this.
What is the Mozilla DNA?
In my last post I referred to the Mozilla DNA, a term I picked up from Mitchell and used in the course of discussing what role(s) the Mozilla Foundation migh...
Creating Mozilla Foundation 2.0
Recently Mitchell posted her thoughts on how the Mozilla Foundation might go about expanding the scope of its activities, in response to posts from various o...
Thoughts on open source and politics 2.0
Today and tomorrow I’ll be at the Personal Democracy Forum 2008 conference, of which the Mozilla Foundation is a sponsor. PdF 2008 deals with what has been v...
Firefox 3 and the power of sustaining innovation
As I implied in my previous post, I don’t want to simply repeat all the great comments about Firefox 3 that everyone else is posting; better to read them in ...
Thanks for Firefox 3
Anyone reading this blog is almost certainly aware that Firefox 3 is going to be released tomorrow, so I won’t spend any time telling you how great it is, an...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/06/13
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending June 13, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/06/06
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending June 6, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/05/30
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 30, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/05/23
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 23, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/05/16
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 16, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/05/09
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 9, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/05/02
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 2, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/04/25
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 25, 2008. (Yes, I’m somewhat behind again on status reports, but ...
Paul Graham on startups as nonprofits and vice versa
Paul Graham (of Y Combinator fame) recently posted an interesting article “Be Good” (which I found via John Gruber’s Daring Fireball site) about the connecti...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/04/18
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 18, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/04/11
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 11, 2008. (I’m now caught up on status reports.) Note that I was ...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/04/04
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 4, 2008. (I’m still trying to catch up on status reports.)
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/03/28
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 28, 2008. (I’m again trying to catch up on status reports.)
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/03/21
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 21, 2008. (I’m now caught up on status reports, thank goodness.)
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/03/14
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 14, 2008. (I’m running a bit behind on status reports; the one fo...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/03/07
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 7, 2008. (I’m running a bit behind on status reports; the one for...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/02/29
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 29, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/02/22
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 22, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/02/15
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 15, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/02/08
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 8, 2008.
Welcome to the new blog
As of today I’m officially migrating from my old personal blog at http://hecker.org/ and publicizing the new blog at [http://blog.hecker.org/](http://blog.he...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/02/01
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 1, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/01/25
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending January 25, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/01/18
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending January 18, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/01/11
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending January 11, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/01/04
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending January 4, 2008.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/12/28
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the weeks ending December 14, December 21, and December 28, 2007.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/12/07
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending December 7, 2007.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/11/30
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending November 30, 2007.
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/11/23
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending November 23, 2007. Note that this was a short week for those of us in t...
Directed giving to the Mozllla Foundation
Yesterday I posted information on the Mozilla Foundation’s grants and related expenditures in 2007 to date, and concluded by briefly mentioning our intention...
Mozilla Foundation grants and related expenditures for 2007
I previously posted some information on the Mozilla Foundation’s grants and related expenditures in 2006. Since then I’ve been expanding our internal databas...
Seneca College and open source education
I spent October 25 and 26 in Toronto attending the FSOSS 2007 conference put on by Seneca College. I didn’t attend the conference primarily to hear the conf...
Mozilla Foundation grants and related expenditures for 2006
As noted in a blog post by Mitchell Baker, yesterday we posted various 2006 financial documents for the Mozilla Foundation, including our 2006 Form 990, a 20...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/10/19
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending October 19. I spent almost all of my time working on internal projects ...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/10/12
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending October 12. Last week we had a Foundation board meeting, and we’re work...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/10/05
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending October 5. As with last week, I spent a lot of the week preparing for a...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/09/28
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending September 28. I spent a lot of the week preparing for an upcoming board...
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/09/21
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending September 21. I spent a lot of the week handling internal administrivia.
Proposed Mozilla accessibility vision and strategy
For some time now the Mozilla Foundation has been involved in supporting efforts to make Firefox and other Mozilla products more accessible to people with di...
Making choice and innovation accessible to all
I previously blogged about the Mozilla Foundation and the CSUN conference on information technology and persons with disabilities. As noted in the post the M...
CSUN 2006 conference report
Last week on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation I attended the California State University, Northridge Center on Disabilities’ 21st Annual International Techno...
Asymmetric competition
In previous posts I’ve discussed the theory of disruptive innovation (sometimes referred to as disruptive technology) created by Clayton Christensen and his ...
The Firefox value network
In previous posts I discussed the basics of Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation theory and considered whether Firefox is a disruptive innovation. In ...
Firefox and innovation
In a previous post I discussed Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation theory (as popularized in The Innovator’s Dilemma and other books) and how it appl...
JWZ considered disruptive
I’ve previously thought of Jamie Zawinski not just as an excellent hacker but also as a marketing talent, creator of the original mozilla.org “brand”. (Imagi...