Now, when it’s announced, we can say it loudly – horay! 🙂
I think that this is a good idea. It allows us to split commercial goals from project management.
Now we have:
- Mozilla.org – a project, source code, hackers, community, activists, projects, ideas, bugs, etc.
- Mozilla Foundation – leading the project. Group of people working to manage the project. Non profit, has employers. All employees are working for Mozilla.org project in some way (hacking, admins, project managers, etc.)
- Mozilla Corporation – A company controlled by Mozilla Foundation dealing with commercial tasks of Mozilla mainstream products like Firefox and Thunderbird. Promotion, commercial support, money-related deals etc. Some of Mozilla Corporation employers are hacking in Mozilla.org project, others deals with mainstream products promotion, security audits, etc.
Notice: This is my personal description. It is not official in any way. To read official information head to mozilla.org, Frank’s blog,Tristan’s blog or Mitchell’s blog
From what they write it’s not a big change. Just a way to solve the issue “we spend money and we’re non-profit”. The same people will do the same job, just in a bit better way. 😉
L10N issue won’t be touched this time. We’re still where we were yesterday.
I recived a few questions about this, so, to be clear.
I described mother project – Mozilla and it’s structures. In Europe we have Mozilla Europe – Mozilla Foundation’s affiliate being a mix of MoFo and MoCo and dealing with european projects, locale teams and marketing (like MoFo) and commercial support and brand (like MoCo).
In Poland, we have MozillaPL , MoFo-like group having three members (GmbH, Nikdo and me – everyone else is NOT a member of MozillaPL team no matter what he wrote). MozillaPL takes care of MozillaPL community (Mozilla.org-like).
And we have AviaryPL (a’ka still-without-website) team (more or less MoCo-like) dealing with products. But neither MozillaPL nor AviaryPL has any money related issues. We’re non-profit (this may change for AviaryPL but not for MozillaPL in time).