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State of Mozilla: Introduction from Mitchell Baker, Chair

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Mozilla's mission is to ensure that the Internet remains open

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interoperable and respects user sovereignty.

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We do this by building software that puts people in control of their digital lives, like Firefox.

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We do this by empowering a global community of people who volunteer to champion these efforts.

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Internet life is changing.

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We're connecting through more devices. We're living in apps as well as browsers.

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We're interacting with friends and followers and acquaintances.

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We can experience the web through a highly personal, highly customized lens.

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The challenges ahead of us are very real.

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Mobile platforms are more closed and more centralized than we've seen in decades.

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As individuals we're losing the ability to act on the web

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without permission from large, centralized gatekeepers.

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We're all being tracked, logged, cataloged,

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monetized and turned into products to be sold.

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We're seeing the univeral platform of the web fragmenting back into multiple different worlds.

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As the Internet experience is changing, Mozilla too is changing.

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The products and tools that we use to advance our mission are expanding and evolving.

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A browser is necessary but not sufficient.

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Equally important is expanding the number of people

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who understand our values and identify as Mozillians.

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Mozilla has both the challenge and the opportunity

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to expand our reach dramatically.

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We have the ability to bring our values to life in new ways

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Embracing these opportunities means embracing change,

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embracing hope and embracing determination.

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This is how we will continue to give people ultimate authority over their digital lives.