14037 - Update Who We Are Page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: Miscellaneous, task, P3)

Description

[Mitchell Baker]

Reflect reality.  Update general description of mozilla.org.  Update list of
people.

Comment 1

[mozilla.old.2]

I'd like to know, if mozilla.org is a legal entity and how members are
determined.

If being an employee of Netscape is no requirement, the page should reflect
that, too.

Comment 2

[Mitchell Baker]

Attachment: revised page

Comment 3

[Mitchell Baker]

As of 10/28, page needs:
1.  Update of Dawn's description
2.  Apostrophes changed to proper format for Unix

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Very good. The new page is much more "open".

But I still don't know, how members are elected.

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I just read the old page again and I like the new one even more :-).

The involvement of Netscape could maybe go into a FAQ (I guess, Pat Gunn will
like to include it in his FAQ) or to NS servers?

Comment 6

[Mitchell Baker]

Don't quite understand this last comment.  Do you mean that more info re netscape
involvement should be included?  We've been trying to reflect the fact that
Netscape is one contributor of many, so I'm not sure we ought to focus much on
Netscape.

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Mitchell,

I completely agree with you. That's one of the reasons, why I like the new
page.


But I think, many people will be interested in the Netscape-Mozilla relation.
Since www.mozilla.org is in theory not the right place to explain that, such
questions could go into a FAQ.


Please tell me, if I'm still to unclear.

Comment 8

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

To make it clear: I don't want to change the page.

(Well, there's one thing: I would substitute "and a successful open-source
product" with "products" (note: plural)).

Comment 9

[Mitchell Baker]

Understand about the Netscape relationship; people are often confused.  You're
probably right that this should be addressed somewhere, though I too am not quite
sure where.

Comment 10

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Mitchell,
if you want the term "Netscape" to go away from www.mozilla.org (for which you
would have my full support), you might want to take a look at "Our Mission"
<URL:http://www.mozilla.org/mission.html>. (Just a hint.)

Comment 11

[Dawn Endico]

I cleaned this up, alphabetized people and checked it in. I removed the
"mozilla.community" header because that would have made two headers in a
row. ("who we are" followed by "mozilla.community")

Comment 12

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Netscape-Mozilla-Relationship:
We could create a page like either "Get It" or "Who uses Mozilla" (similar to
<URL:http://www.openbsd.org/users.html>), which lists products (both commercial
and open source), which use Mozilla code and are representional (good use of
code etc.).
But maybe it's too early for that at the moment.

Comment 13

[Mitchell Baker]

I've thought about having a list of people using the code.  Agree we might be a
little early.  We're learning that for big companies there's a difference between
developers working with the code, and making formal announcements from the
corporate PR level.

So waiting a while might make this easier.

Comment 14

[timeless]

for some open source conference mitchell did make a list of who is using
mozilla's code...

Comment 15

[Daniel Wang]

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