Goals & Strategies
for an Open Web

Théo Chevalier – L3 MIAGE – 2014-03-13, Toulouse

We are best known for…

Firefox for Android

What we will talk about

  • What Mozilla is
  • What Mozilla does
  • What Mozilla wants for the future

A community

What I do for Mozilla

  • French Localization: products, websites
  • Code, bug reporting & QA for l10n
  • Events: demos, talks
  • Community: Help newcomers

Mozilla in numbers

  • Users: half a Billion users
  • Languages: 80+
  • Community: 1,000’s core contributors globally (2014: ×10)
  • Staff: ~1,000 employees worldwide

Two things to keep in mind


  1. We’re a not-for-profit organization
  2. What we do, we do it for the Web

World Wide Web turned 25


  • Yesterday: 25th anniversary of the WWW
The principles of universality of access irrespective of hardware or software platform, network infrastructure, language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental impairment are core values

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the WWW

UNLEASH THE FUTURE

Firefox OS

A complete mobile operating system
entirely built with Web technologies

Sneak peek – Firefox OS 1.x

Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET

Sneak peek – Firefox OS 1.x

Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET

Sneak peek – Firefox OS 1.x

Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET

WAT.
Yet another mobile OS?

Today:
proprietary platforms


We don’t want
the third place


We want the Web to be
the platform on mobile


“We want the Web to redo on mobile what it did on Desktop 15 years ago”
Tristan Nitot, Mozilla Principal Evangelist

Minimal manifest file


{
    "name": "My App",
    "description": "My elevator pitch goes here",
    "launch_path": "/index.html",
    "icons": {
        "128": "/img/icon-128.png"
    },
    "developer": {
        "name": "Your name or organization",
        "url": "http://your-homepage-here.org"
    },
    "default_locale": "en"
}

Easy to hack

http://paulrouget.com/e/riverscreen/

Firefox OS for developers


  • Interoperability \o/ (write once, run everywhere)
  • You already know how to code
  • No need to ask permission to anyone
  • Marketplace is not the only source for Apps
  • Multiple payment monetization options

Firefox OS for
carriers & manufacturers


  • Easy to customize for specific markets
  • Contributions to the OS itself

Firefox OS for users


  • Affordable smartphone for everyone
  • Access the “real Web”
  • Choice
  • Privacy

Firefox OS target markets


  • People who don’t have a smartphone yet
  • Developing markets (low competition)

The $25 smartphone


Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET

Next launches in 2014


  • Asia
  • Africa

Most Trusted
Internet Company
for Privacy

By the Ponemon Institute

Lightbeam

Lightbeam highlights interactions between sites intentionally visited and third parties

THANKS!

Questions?