Summit2008/Notes/Sticky Notes

Sticky Notes from Summit

This is a partial transcription of the notes people left about Mozilla at the Summit. Unfortunately the whiteboards were thrown out before we could copy all the notes, so this transcript has relied on photos people took of the whiteboards. If you have photos that capture some text or remember some notes that aren't currently here, please feel free to update this page.

Mozilla Tree

• Legal Orgs
• Innovation (Labs...)
•  ???
• Revenue ???
• User empowerment ???
• Not polluted by shareholder model, not profit driven
•  ???
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• Volunteer community projects
• Employees
• Openness ???
• Privacy ???
•  ???
• Outreach etc.
• Distributors
•  ???
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• New branch? For organizations w/Mozilla technologies? Or does this fit somewhere else?
• & beer
• Scratch our itch
• Consumer products
• Education?
• Open SAAS / Open data / Privacy
• Healthy ecosystem + broader community
• Human interaction w/ the Internet
•  ???
• Research: ???
• Public Benefit
• Open source license
• Where/how do values of Mozilla Manifesto show here?
•  ???
• Shared public asset
• Ecosystem / Platform / Third-Party ???
• Inclusiveness ???
• Peer review / Meritocracy
• Distributed, earned authority
• Privacy?

Mobile

• Lightweight download on ???
• Effective product
• Messaging & Calendar on mobile?
• Innovate!
• iPhone?
• Sync is king
• One unified web
• Performance & easy customization & easy tiering (high end -> low end) & Well defined device APIs
• Mobile Thunder(bird)
• Tomorrow's mobile devices are as powerful as today's laptops/desktops
• Mobile is the target platform of the future?
• Don't forget to localize any new products for mobile
• Fennec on Android
• Extend extensions to mobile
• Revamp gest practices & author guidelines
•  ???
• Fennec on Symbian
• Geo-location to enhance mobile rather than sep. apps
•  ???
• Fennec for kids?
• Works with slooow... connection
• Switch from 'device/platform' thinking to 'usage/context' thinking
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• Browsing w/o a stylus or keyboard
• <video>
• Don't change the name, Fennec is good!
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Mozilla + Open Internet

• Thought leadership
• Power 4 the people
• Make "community practices" explicit, e.g. how do our communities grow, how do distribute authority, how do new people get involved?
• Do the same for content development (composer) than you did for mail and web
• Make it *easy* to use Mozilla tech on all ??? embedding shouldn't end with XULRunner and Prism
•  ???
• Is there something we can do to prevent more "great firewalls" to pop up elsewhere in the world?
• Engagement in policy issues? DRM, Net neutrality
• Is there something we can do to prevent ??? poverty in the world?
•  ??? that could be made more explicit so that we can grow our communities better, that we can collaborate with other communities better and make ??? It's about community practices being made more explicit. ???
• We need free and open source AJAX development tools so that the Open Web can compete with Flash and Silverlight more efficiently.
• Support for Slak users
• Vital projects & products
• The browser is the "Interner" (users don't see anything else) ??? / So true. We get some q's from users who don't understand how the web works.
•  ???
• We should figure out hot to talk publicly about our values in addition to our projects. AKA - advocate for our beliefs.
•  ???
• Enterprise evangelism / or promise *not* to offer this support so that others have the confidence to build a business on it
• Well executed open competitor to Flex/Silverlight
•  ???
• We need free authoring tools for the Open Web. Firebug is great but not enough.
• Publish our thoughts about the Open Web
•  ???
• Re-invest in content composition tools
• Open ??? for *all* browsers
•  ???
•  ??? Internet is merging with the telephone and on-demand TV. Packages -> with TV you can pay $10/mo for some channels, $20/mo for more channels ??? It is possible that in the future the Internet will be sold as a pacakge. eg, $10/mo for basic, $20 includes webmail + youtube, $30 includes blogger sites + others. This would cripple the Internet. How would this effect Firefox? Has anyone considered this scenario? Is there a way we could fight such a ???
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• Develop web composer again? Easy access to creating own content.
• Just consuming is dead
• Mozilla has to participate in ??? conferences talking about the open development process and the Open Web.
• "Trail Guides" ???
•  ???
• Interact with projects having the same philosophy, e.g. CAcert, OpenStreetMap
• Communities continue to expand
• Innovations emerge from Mozilla
• Industry leadership

Data + Information

• Education / Public awareness
• User-friendly visualization of data coming in and going out of the browser
• Ownership of personal data
•  ???
•  ???
• Public usage data
• Access to the same information that is for sale -- but free!
• Do we know (or think we know) the level of understanding & sophistication the average ???
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• Education / public awareness -- the other aspect of this that I think is relevant with respect to reaching new ??? is the success ??? has in collaboration on education/school/???
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• "Digital sovereignty"
• The data message is hard to convey. Let's fix this!
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•  ???
• Mozilla + Data / 1 what data we have / 2 why we have it / 3 what control the user has
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Firefox Mindshare Momentum Continues

•  ???
•  ???
• Marketshare
• Mindshare
• Help them devel/transition to an app that supports other browsers
• Actively reach out to people who hate us -- listen to their beef(s) and fix them
• Let's ??? web globally. Why Mozilla helps only ???
• We respect our users sovereignty ???
• UI innovation -- different UI modes
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Other Ideas

• Ecosystem tech problems
• Language is a barrier to participate in QA/Bugzilla / need to address ??? / impact to International reach
•  ???
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• Foster community innovation and develop ideas into products
•  ???
• Web developer tools
• Borrow ideas from the research community. Plenty of great relevant research going on.
•  ???
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• Web dev tools! Help people dev W3C pages easy.
• Global reach & relevance
•  ???
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• Global participation
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• "Official" free branding
• Non-tech people can't work on tar files on Linux / Make it easy for them installing ???
• Support for developers! / Teach people to help ???
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• Find a way to include everyone who comes to the community and wants to contribute
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