TEDx NITK: Making an impact through Mozilla Community

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The Internet has become part of our modern life. Communication and sharing is getting more interactive than ever! Through internet, we are discovering things that overwhelm us. Internet has brought us the high engagement, interactivity and originality of the content. The Web we love includes two big things: 1. The open source stack that has built both the front and backend infrastructure, giving rise to the Internet that we know & love today. 2. The web is built on the idea that useful things are findable, and that we can share the things that are important to us. The web is something that evolves as we contribute to it, and that is what makes it special. One of the things that I loved at my college was, participating and volunteering for events. Students, both seniors and juniors from various branches came together to work as a team, We brainstormed on the ideas - which guests to invite, what should be the theme, handling the logistics and all. We shared the tasks based on ones interest, It was our responsibility in shaping the event and to give the best experience for the participants. We did our best to make the event a success. While collaborating and working together, we learned something from each other. It was an experience to me. It was this kind of participation and learning upon small experiences made me what i am today and that is the kind of experience that i have at Mozilla, participating, learning and making a difference at the same time.. Mozilla is a group of people who passionately believe in the web. Before I talk about Mozilla community and how they are building the web they want, I have to take you back to the year 2003:

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the web was becoming less transparent, less open

mozilla foundation is born

guard the open nature of the internet

2003

the Internet is a critical public resource that must remain open and accessible to all

Free & Open Source software developed and promoted through transparent, community processes

a global community of hundreds of thousands of people with shared values

a global community of hundreds of thousands of people with shared values

together werebuilt the platformrebuilt the browserimproved the web

bringing the change

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mozilla

netscape

Community is the backbone of Mozilla project

developing, testing, localizing software and by

marketing

developing

developing testing

developing testing localizing

developing testing localizing marketing

developing testing localizing marketing

more than 70% of the people who use Mozilla & its products heard about it through word of mouth, friends & acquaintances!

developing testing localizing marketing

developing testing localizing marketing

developing testing localizing marketing

500 + localizers

Telugu

Tamil

Kannada

Assamese

Gujarati

Hindi

English

Malayalam

BengaliMarathi

Spanish

ChineseChinese

Punjabi

Maithili

Oriya

500 + localizersArabic

Dutch

French

German

Greek

Japanese

Polish

Persian

Korean

Italian

Latvian

Macedonian

Irish

Indonesian

Hebrew

Norwegian

Spanish

ThaiTurkish

Sinhala

Vietnamese

Welsh

Ukrainian

Russian

Slovak

RomanianLithuanian

Frisian

Finnish

Esperanto

Croatian

Czech

BulgarianBreton

Telugu

Tamil

Kannada

Assamese

Gujarati

Hindi

English

Malayalam

BengaliMarathi

Spanish

ChineseChinese

Punjabi

Maithili

Oriya

500 + localizersArabic

Dutch

French

German

Greek

Japanese

Polish

Persian

Korean

Italian

Latvian

Macedonian

Irish

Indonesian

Hebrew

Norwegian

Spanish

ThaiTurkish

Sinhala

Vietnamese

Welsh

Ukrainian

Russian

Slovak

RomanianLithuanian

Frisian

Finnish

Esperanto

Croatian

Czech

BulgarianBreton

500 + localizers

500 + localizers

1,000 +coders

500 + localizers

1,000 +coders

4,00,000bugzilla accounts

500 + localizers

1,000 +coders

4,00,000bugzilla accounts

8,00,000beta testers

500 + localizers

1,000 +coders

4,00,000bugzilla accounts

8,00,000beta testers

400 Million users

people build the web they want

Internets most innovative projects

events!foss conferences campus events technology user groups barcamps, wordcamps

party!

open communication

mailing list'sircpublic community engagement call

openness and participation= models that work

taking it offline

taking it offline

a faster, better & safer way to browse the web

Its the responsibility & the freedom that i get as part of the community, let me do things that are larger than myself

"..Students of Mozilla become mentors, each mentoring a few students of their own; it snowballs. Before you know it, you’ve grown to a community of millions...”

“It is these small incremental changes that foster growth and change the world."

Internet by the people Internet for the people