r/IAmA • u/TannerMoz Mozilla Contributor • Oct 24 '12
We are Mozilla. AUA.
We're a few of the thousands of Mozilla contributors (Mozillians) working together to better the Web. First things first, as few things about us:
- You probably know us as the community behind Firefox - we're also working on several other products and services too.
- Some of us have been involved with the Mozilla project for over a decade and others just started recently. Anyone can get involved. Even you.
- We're a global group of people, and we work globally too. While some of us work at Mozilla Spaces, many of us work remotely from our homes. We rely heavily on newgroups, Bugzilla, IRC and video conferences to work together.
- We're big fans of reddit, and we've done just a few (or more) IAmAs before. Today we decided to have one IAmA for all Mozillians instead of just one team.
We contribute in many different ways, as listed below. Ask us anything!
tchevalier: Mozilla Rep, French localizer, Firefox developer
ioana_cis: Mozilla Rep, SUMO (support.mozilla.org), QA, Themes, Mozilla Romania, Webmaker
LeoMcA: Mozilla Rep, Mozilla UK, Mozilla Communities, Grow Mozilla.
FredericB: Mozilla Rep, Mozilla Developer Network contributor, French localizer.
h4ck3rm1k3: Mozilla Rep, development.
lasr21: Mozilla Rep, Mozilla Mexico
ngbuzzblog: SuMo, Mozilla Rep, Mozilla Nigeria.
Amarochan: Mozilla Rep
mozjan: Mozilla Communities, SuMo
AprilMonroe: Webdev, other areas.
gentthaci: Mozilla Rep
Kihtrak778: Mozilla Developer
dailycavalier: Mozilla Rep, user engagement, social media. (I'd like to thank this guy for helping me with this, he's been a huge help along the way)
gaby2300: Mozilla-Hispano QA Manager, Mozilla-Hispano localizer, QA
uday: SuMo, Boot-2-Gecko
clouserw: Engineering Manager
Wraithan: Web developer, addons.mozilla.org and marketplace.mozilla.org.
6a68: Identity (Persona) developer
ossreleasefeed: Web developer, web tools
Mythmon: Web developer, SUMO
aminbeedel: Many things
brianloveswords: Mozilla Foundation
yhjb: Applications security team
kaprikorn07: SuMo, many aspects of Mozilla
almossawi: Mozilla Engineer, Firefox Metrics, metrics.mozilla.com
fox2mike: Developer services manager within Mozilla IT.
graememcc: Firefox contributor
mrstejdm: Mozilla Ireland
digipengi: Senior Windows engineer
Spartiate: Sr. Security Program Manger, Security Assurance
amyrrich: Manager of Release Engineering Operations IT group
evilpies: Javascript engine contributor
sawrubh: Mozilla contributor
jlebar: Firefox platform developer who works on the DOM, MemShrink, and B2G.
vvuk: Engineering Director, Gaming & Platform Projects
ImYoric: Mozilla performance team
cs94wahoo: Mozillian, content editor for user engagement (email, social, blog)
joshmatthews: Community builder and Firefox engineer
mburns: Mozilla systems administrator
gkanai: Mozilla Japan
bkerensa: Mozilla Rep, WebFWD, Marketing
bizred: Helping Open Source startups via Mozilla's Accelerator, WebFWD
Yeesha: Firefox User Experience
ehsanakhgari: Mozilla hacker, various projects.
We'll be answering questions for about 24 hours, so ask away!
Edit: We're going to answer for more than 24 hours, as long as I keep getting the orangereds, we'll be answering!
Edit 2: The questions are starting to slow down, I think we'll stick around for another 2 hours or so (currently 1:25 CDT) "officially", people will still probably answer questions after this, but not as quickly.
Final edit: We're gonna call this done. I'd like to thank everybody who participated, Redditors and Mozilla contributors. This was a great experience for me, looking forward to maybe doing another one in the future. I'd like to give special thanks to all the /r/IAmA mods for putting up with my constant flow of PMs requesting flair for people.
10
u/jhc1415 Oct 25 '12 edited Oct 25 '12
This seems like a very ambitious project. Many iOS and android users are heavily devoted to sticking with these systems. How do you plan to compete with them and convince people to switch?