"mozilla messaging and thunderbird - why and how" by david ascher @ eliberatica 2008
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This is a presentation held at eLiberatica 2008.http://www.eliberatica.ro/2008/One of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica brings community leaders from around the world to discuss about the hottest topics in FLOSS movement, demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions.The eLiberatica organizational committee together with our speakers and guests, have graciously allowed media representatives and all attendees to photograph, videotape and otherwise record their sessions, on the condition that the photos, videos and recordings are licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License.TRANSCRIPT
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Email is essential. Let’s make it great.
An Introduction to Mozilla Messaging
David [email protected]
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Why am I here?
• To introduce Mozilla
• To discuss the current email & messaging challenges
• To share the Thunderbird vision
• To listen and learn
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Core Belief
The Mozilla project is a global community of people who believe that openness, innovation, and opportunity are key to the continued health of the Internet.
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Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla MessagingMozilla Corporation
A short history
Mozilla Foundation2000
2005
2008
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Focus and Scope
❖ Web standards❖ Web Privacy❖ Weave❖ Prism❖ Mobile web
❖ Email & Calendaring standards
❖ Email privacy❖ Mobile messaging❖ Calendaring❖ IM, etc.
Mozilla Corp (MoCo) Mozilla Messaging (MoMo)
Mozilla Foundation (MoFo)❖ Everything else
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Expectation Reset
• Mozilla is a public benefit organization
• Driven by non-financial outcomes
• Use the tools of business and markets to further our agenda
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Pownce JaikuPulse
What’s the problem with “email”?
Instant Messaging
MySpace
Web Forums
News
LinkedIn Xing
FriendFeed
Work Email
Home Email
SMSVoIP Voicemail
RSS/Atom
Atom Pub
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Pownce JaikuPulse
What’s the problem with “email”?
Instant Messaging
MySpace
Web Forums
News
LinkedIn Xing
FriendFeed
Work Email
Home Email
SMSVoIP Voicemail
RSS/Atom
Atom Pub
THIS DOES NOT FIT OUR
BRAINS!
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How did we get here?
• Email design predates current internet architecture
• Email was “solved”, consolidated, dead.
• The Web is changing everything
❖ Economies of clouds & services
❖ Monetization strategies
❖ Social graphs and Identity crisis
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Still
• Messaging is still key to the user experience of the internet
• It needs to be:
❖ Open, competitive, interoperable, secure
❖ More effective
❖ Less stressful
❖ Fun again!
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So?
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1. The Internet is an integral part of modern life ― a key component in education, communication, collaboration, business, entertainment and society as a whole
2. The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.
3. The Internet should enrich the lives of individual human beings.
The Mozilla Manifesto
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How can Mozilla help?
• We make superior products
• We make them free
• We encourage global participation at every stage, in every area.
• We enable ecosystems of
❖ innovation
❖ business
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We could let “the market” decide
• History lessons:
❖ Dark years of the web
❖ Telecom
❖ Copyright
• If Firefox is any model, this could be fun!
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Thunderbird Today
• Desktop email/news/RSS client
• Open source project
• Windows/Linux/Mac
• 37 languages, 5-10M users
• Built on the same platform as Firefox
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Who loves Thunderbird?
• Mozilla fans
• IT orgs with open source strategies
• Especially outside North America
• Vendors in need of market disruption
• Innovators with an idea, no platform
• You?
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What should Thunderbird do?
• Think broader than email
• Prioritize the human
• Leverage the web
• Leverage an innovation-friendly platform
• Embrace diversity
...
???
♥!
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Next Stop: Thunderbird 3
Planned features
❖ Integrated calendaring
❖ Better search
❖ Faster Workflow
❖ Auto-Configuration
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After that?
• More interactions with cloud services
• Always improve user experience
• Mobile, Web plans
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How will we do this?
• Innovation recipe:
❖ Build agile platform
❖ Promote experimentation
❖ Identify winners
• Leverage scale of communities
❖ developers, QA, localizers
❖ partners
❖ users
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Interested?
• Our ability to succeed will depend on your willingness to help
• Why join the Mozilla community?
❖ Open source folks
❖ Bold businesses
❖ Civic leaders
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4. Individuals’ security on the Internet is fundamental and cannot be treated as optional.
5. Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on the Internet.
The Mozilla Manifesto
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6. The effectiveness of the Internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralized participation worldwide.
7. Free and open source software promotes the development of the Internet as a public resource.
8. Transparent community-based processes promote participation, accountability, and trust.
The Mozilla Manifesto
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9. Commercial involvement in the development of the Internet brings many benefits; a balance between commercial goals and public benefit is critical.
10. Magnifying the public benefit aspects of the Internet is an important goal, worthy of time, attention and commitment.
The Mozilla Manifesto
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Synopsis
The Manifesto = beliefs.
The strategy: building the best product possible and gain influence via our users
The tactics include:
• focusing on users, letting the business model follow
• building vibrant communities through transparency
• partnerships
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How to participate
• Report bugs, help clean up bugs
• Code
• Extensions
• Advocacy
• Education
• Marketing
• Partnering
• Talking!