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Ben Goodger | Ben Goodger | ||
Ben Goodger | Ben Goodger leads the development of Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser. Early and significant contributions to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation span the scheduling of milestones to hands-on creativity in the technical evolution of specific products and capabilities. Ben's key areas of responsibility include the Extension system, Software Update, Preference Migration for IE, Opera, SeaMonkey, Netscape 4.0, Windows shell integration, the new Download system, the new Options UI (the new permission manager UI for XPInstall and blocking pop-ups) and the Windows Install Wizard. Ben was the original author of Mozilla Suite code for the buggy bookmarks manager UI, save-page-with-images and the original Classic theme that later gave rise to much of the icon set Qute and later Winstripe. | ||
Ben tracks bugs, schedules milestones, maintains home pages and acts as a liaison between Mozilla and other groups. He led initial marketing efforts that have culminated in more than 50 million Firefox downloads as of May 2005. Ben contributes to the Mozilla project as an employee of Google Inc. | Ben tracks bugs, schedules milestones, maintains home pages and acts as a liaison between Mozilla and other groups. He led initial marketing efforts that have culminated in more than 50 million Firefox downloads as of May 2005. Ben contributes to the Mozilla project as an employee of Google Inc. | ||
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Brendan Eich | Brendan Eich | ||
Brendan Eich | Brendan Eich is Chief Architect of the Mozilla project. Brendan is widely recognized for his key role in the Internet revolution as the lead technologist for Mozilla. Among his numerous contributions to web innovations, Brendan invented JavaScript (ECMAScript) in 1995, the most widely used programming language on the Internet. | ||
With Brendan's leadership, Mozilla launched the innovative Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client now used by millions of people world wide. Brendan continues to lead the Mozilla and the Internet industry driving further innovations in web technology such as E4X. | |||
Brendan works at the Mozilla Foundation and is also on its Board of Directors. | Brendan works at the Mozilla Foundation and is also on its Board of Directors. | ||
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Axel Hecht | Axel Hecht | ||
A member of Mozilla Europe’s board of directors, Axel Hecht received his Diploma in Physics from the University of Stuttgart and his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Kiel. He is now with the department of Applied Mathematics, Humboldt University, Berlin. | A member of Mozilla Europe’s board of directors, Axel Hecht received his Diploma in Physics from the University of Stuttgart and his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Kiel. He is now with the department of Applied Mathematics, Humboldt University, Berlin. | ||
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Mike Shaver | Mike Shaver | ||
Mike Shaver is a founding member of mozilla.org, with an open source development career spanning more than a decade. In the Mozilla world, he meddles in most everything, from licensing and organizational issues to platform architecture and software development. | Mike Shaver is a founding member of mozilla.org, with an open source development career spanning more than a decade. In the Mozilla world, he meddles in most everything, from licensing and organizational issues to platform architecture and software development. | ||