Mozilla And Software FreedomDwaraka NathArun PrakashHarvish Sekar

17th September 2011, SFDChennai.

About Mozilla

•Mozilla is a global community of volunteers, contributors and like – minded people who work towards the same goal Openness, Innovation and Opportunity of the Web and associated Software

•Formed on 23rd February of 1998 by Netscape Communications as Mozilla Organization

•Mozilla Foundation launched on July 15, 2003.

What We Do

•We are a non – profit organization who see success with People than with Share and Stake holders.

•We try to achieve our goal by building and promoting software like Firefox and movements like Drumbeat

•We want to see the Power and potential of Internet and want to see it thrive for everyone, everywhere.

Mozilla’s Projects

• Mozilla’s Projects have been one of the most successful open—source movements in the recent years.

• Some of them are Firefox Internet Browser for Desktop and Mobile Platforms, Thunderbird Email Client, Seamonkey (formerly known as the Mozilla application suite), Lightning and Sunbird—Calendaring applications and Camino.

• We also promote WebFWD and Rainbow as a part of the Mozilla Labs Initiative. Not to mention the CouchDB, ZK, Gecko and the XUL Runner.

The Firefox

• World’s most advanced and secure Internet Browser.

• Accounts for more than a quarter of world’s browser market share[1]

• Some of the cool features in Firefox include Tabbed Browsing, Tabbed Browsing, Countless extensions and addons, Built—in RSS, Firefox Sync, Panorama and the awesome bar

• Above all, its free !

[1] – Source : Wikipedia -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers as on 16th September 2011

Firefox – Tech Specs

• Crash protection support across multiple OS for Silverlight, Flash, QuickTime plugins

• Full WebGL, WebM and HTML5 support (for controls and the new parser) and partial support for CSS Transitions.

• Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X.and Direct2D backend support in Windows.

• More responsive page using Lazy Frame Constitution.

• Significant API improvements for JS-ctypes, Websockets and history

Thunderbird

• Free, Easy—to—setup and cross platform Email and News Client from Mozilla.

• First stable release : 7th December 2004. (Current stable release 6.0.2)

• Features: Extensions, Junk Filtering, Themes, Localization, Security and Wide Protocol support, auto-configuration settings for Email Setup, lightweight email reader.

• Extensively localized into 52 languages worldwide.

Thunderbird– Tech Specs

• Email Protocols supported: IMAP, POP3.

• Addresses: LDAP.

• File-format supported –Mbox – Unix Mail box, Mork and SQLite – Internal Database

• Security – supports SSL/TLS connections to SMTP/IMAP Servers. Supports Digital Encryption of Email with native S/MIME support.

• Trivia : French Military uses Thunderbird and contributes to its security features

Seamonkey

• All in one Internet Suite consisting of Browser, Mail groups, Feed Reader, an IRC Client (ChatZilla) and Web Development tools

• Uses the same code as used on other Mozilla projects like, Firefox and Thunderbird.

• Seamonkey also consists of a WYSIWYG HTML Editor that is hassle—free and simple to use.

Sunbird and Lightning

• Sunbird – Standalone Calendar Suite

• Lightning – Integrates into Mozilla Thunderbird

• Sunbird developed as a part of Mozilla Calendar Project along with SUN Microsystems and volunteer support

• Runs on Mozilla’s XUL User Interface

• On Integration with Thunderbird, provides sync with Web Calendars like Google Calendar.

Mozilla Drumbeat

• With Drumbeat, we go a step further in our mission to improve the Web.

• In Drumbeat, anyone could connect with other like—minded person to bring out their project for the greater good of the Web and the people in general.

• Some of the on—going projects include,

• WebMadeMovies – Bringing together Hackers and Filmmakers to innovate the gen-next video technology

• The School of Webcraft – Peer based Web developer training.

To find more about Drumbeat and its projects, visit - https://www.drumbeat.org/en-US/about/

WebFWD

• WebFWDWeb Forward.

• Fast track application development support and training to people with Creative Ideas that tries to bring up the Web Standards.

• Selected Candidates might join a 4—week Bootcamp (or) 6—month Internship programme.

• Support from Key Mozilla Head and Mentors.

• Opportunity to work at Mozilla HQ and access to resources.

Boot to Gecko

• Mozilla believes that the web can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development.

• To ensure that Open Web Technologies sustain as the better basis for future applications, Boot To Gecko(B2G) was proposed.

• This is an early-stage, exploratory project with the goal of building a complete, standalone OS for the open web. It is not a product offering, but if successful, could form the basis for one.

Contribute !

• Building a better Internet is an ambitious goal, but we believe that it is possible when people who share our passion get involved

• Coders, artists, writers, testers, surfers, students, grandparents—anyone who cares about the web can help make it even better.

• Find out more at : http://www.mozilla.org/contribute

Thank You !