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== July 8th, 2019 ==
* We are very happy to announce [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/07/05/mozillas-latest-research-grants-prioritizing-research-for-the-internet/ the results of our Mozilla Research Grants] for the first half of 2019. This was an extremely competitive process, and we selected proposals which address twelve strategic priorities for the internet and for Mozilla. This includes researching better support for integrating Tor in the browser, understanding ad preference controls, using speech on mobile phones in India, and alternatives to advertising for funding the internet. The Mozilla Research Grants program is a commitment to being a world-class example of using inclusive innovation to impact culture, and reflects Mozilla’s commitment to open innovation.
This time we had 84 responses to our 12 categories, and our awards went to 12 excellent researchers — 4 women, 8 men — at 11 institutions in three countries — the US, Ireland, and India. The tweets we put out announcing these awards were seen by over 130K people, and we had about 5k people actually click through to the grants site. Some of you might have seen Jofish's presentation in the May All Hands meeting about the impact of these research grants on Mozilla's Resilience and on the internet as a whole, with benefits ranging from simple outputs (papers, talks), to short term outcomes like strategic guidance and code contributions, through to longer term and larger scale impacts like building our own behaviors, influencing the research ecosystem as a whole, building relationships with academia and research, and demonstrating our commitment to inclusive innovation. This allows us to continue to keep the internet safe, open, and accessible to all, as it evolves.
== July 1st, 2019 ==
* '''Big Apple Video 2019''' -- Last week Mozilla and Vimeo co-hosted [https://bigapple.video/ Big Apple Video] in New York City, gathering over 100 people in person plus about 1000 remotely around the world to talk about the state of the art in video technologies. This included the ability for remote questions (including completely anonymous questions) which made engagement very high. BAV2019 featured eight highly technical talks by industry leaders from Intel, Cisco, Twitch, YouTube and more. All the presentations are [http://watch.bigapple.video/ on-line] (in high-quality video, naturally). Response and interest were strong, [https://vim.io/2KMlK1q Vimeo] and [https://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/cisco-leap-frogs-h-264-video-collaboration-with-real-time-av1-codec Cisco] announced AV1 support around the event, and there’s already talk of arranging another one in the future.
