July 1 at 5:48 pm
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Mark Surman, Chris Messina, Dan Brickley and 2 other people liked this
To the extent that the question is about what Mozilla can do to contribute more than it already does to the general social trend toward openness, I'd suggest that the best way to expand the reach of this style of decentralized social, industrial and technical organization is to do so in a decentralized manner. There are lots of groups of people, formal and informal, that are part of this mix. Everyone from Creative Commons, EFF, CDT, Berkman, to IETF, W3C, SFLC, FSF (these are just the ones that I've been involved with), to the huge range of open source software communities. That only scratches the surface. The common values across these organizations is clear (as are some of their differences) but they do tend to work in pretty different contexts. I particularly appreciate the fact that Mozilla seems to have a knack for 'doing' instead of just talking so wonder what concrete things could be done to build links across these organizations, beyond just talking about what we have in common. - Danny Weitzner
Danny, I agree about the decentralized nature. The idea of being "concrete" in doing things to build links makes good sense. I don't have an idea of what these things would be yet, but your statement seems just right. - Mitchell Baker