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== Chris Hofmann == | == Chris Hofmann == | ||
As director of engineering | As director of engineering and Special Projects at the Mozilla Foundation and Corporation, Chris Hofmann has spearheaded the research and development work of thousands of open source contributors around the world. | ||
A Netscape employee before joining Mozilla full-time, Chris contributed to every Netscape and Mozilla browser release since 1996. | |||
The first employee at the Mozilla Foundation in August 2003, Chris led a small but devoted team of top engineers to establish the Mozilla Foundation as an independent and self-sustaining organization. | |||
In 2004, Chris managed and executed the first worldwide release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0, which launched that November | In 2004, Chris managed and executed the first worldwide release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0, which launched that November. Firefox 1.0 helped to fulfill the Mozilla Foundation’s goal of supporting open Web standards and provide innovation and choice for Internet client software and set Firefox on a path to remarkable marketshare growth over the last several years. | ||
Chris now develops partnerships with companies that test, develop and distribute Mozilla technology in a variety of ways. He also helps to build out the Mozilla communities around the world that are involved with localization of Firefox in to over 40 languages. He engages with security researchers to help improve browser security, and works on a variety of mobile initiatives using the Mozilla technology. | |||
Favorite Firefox Extension: | Favorite Firefox Extension: | ||
“It's not the prettiest, and doesn't have the lipstick that makes it compelling to a widespread audience at this point, but the Mozilla Amazon Browser really shows the power of the Mozilla platform and the promise it has for creating powerful applications that could turn out to be a new direction for browsing software. | “It's not the prettiest, and doesn't have the lipstick that makes it compelling to a widespread audience at this point, but the Mozilla Amazon Browser really shows the power of the Mozilla platform and the promise it has for creating powerful applications that could turn out to be a new direction for browsing software.�? | ||
Favorite Mozilla Moment: | Favorite Mozilla Moment: | ||
“Popping the cork when the Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0 packages were added to the Mozilla Web site and the first downloads started to trickle in. Seeing the turn around in market share growth for Firefox has been a tremendous success story for the Foundation and the project. | “Popping the cork when the Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0 packages were added to the Mozilla Web site and the first downloads started to trickle in. Seeing the turn around in market share growth for Firefox has been a tremendous success story for the Foundation and the project.�? | ||
== Asa Dotzler == | == Asa Dotzler == | ||