Today Mozpad kickoff meeting took place.
It’s something we all should care about and it’s a direct result of reaction chain ignited by Chris Messina. (cheers, dude!)
Putting my Flocker hat on – I’m extremely happy we finally have a chance to see some Mozilla effort outside of Firefox. Putting my Mozilla hat on – I’m extremely happy to see diversification and focus on platform itself (hey! Remember the roots? Mozilla was once only focusing on platform – the browser was supposed to be Netscape by the time) and we have a chance to create a real dev community around it!
Putting my sociologist hat on – man. That’s amazing, wonderful. The community taking future in own hands. Constructive criticism. From the bottom. Pure and clean power of open source. Power of community. Power of freedom.
Firefox has been ignited exactly the same way some years ago. Today we shape the future of Gecko and I believe that it’s exactly what we need to do, it’s in the very best interest of both Mozilla and third party developers like Songbird, Flock, MozDev group, Seamonkey, AllPeers, Croczilla, Distruptive Innovations and others… If you ever had a concern if Mozilla world structure is flexible enough – show me any other project capable of doing such things as easy as we do. Firefox, Seamonkey and now Mozpad.
And from 6:39 PM CET I’m in that group. Cross your fingers, or put them on the keyboard and help us! 🙂
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Hey Gandalf! This is totally exciting — it’s great to see the community really respond and take ownership of this thing. Can’t wait to see what comes next!