Are You a Mozillian?

Are you a Mozillian? We are a group of passionate, committed people building a Web the world deserves. We do a lot and hold common values that drive that doing. If you share these values, you are a Mozillan too!

Welcome to Mozilla.

Mozilla is here

and each one of us is here

to build the internet the world needs.

Mozilla is unique.

We're not a typical company trying
to generate revenue for our shareholders.

We're not a government.

We are Mozilla.

We're here to build an internet
where people come first.

We are, by any business measure,
much too small,

we're a foundation,
we're a non-profit,

we have maybe at most
a thousand employees,

but we punch way above our weight
and we do it through our community.

We know why we exist,

we know that we're needed
by the web and the world.

From this we derived an amazing energy
that mobilizes people.

I think we can do anything we want.

I ask you to imagine.

Imagine the world that you
would like to see in ten years.

But give yourself permission
to imagine impossible things,

because every time we decide one of
those things is important, we do it.

We're imagining a world
where people are more web literate.

Reading, writing, and math are
core literacies that we think of today,

that people understand
the web at that level.

Imagine if we could improve
the advertising world

so that we didn't feel tracked and unsafe.

Could we get to the place where privacy
is as big as organic food?

Make the web work everywhere
and make it be possible for everybody,

creative people, hobbyists, whoever,
to mix things up and mash things up.

I think we can build a world like that.

We think Mozilla as the project can do it,

and we think we're probably
the only people in the world who can,

so we're gonna go do that.

It's time to build internet
the world needs.

It's up to us to build
the internet the world needs.

No one else will build this internet,

no one else can.

The Internet is part of
the structure of modern life,

and it's part of the structure
of modernizing one's life.

As the internet of everything
really happens,

but where do we plug into the stack?

We have to build a whole ecosystem.

We want our products
to put people in control of their lives.

We want our products to respect people,

to care about their security
and their privacy.

We build for users first.

That's a big deal, it's very important.

But we don't try to own you,

we try to make it possible for you
to bring what services you want together,

mix and match, take your data with you,
own your stuff in the cloud.

And that you could buy your things once,
you could build your identity once,

and you could carry it with you.

We know that parts of the internet

will be built by large
commercial organizations.

We need to make sure
we decentralize power,

not for its own sake,

not because you know we're out
to get Google or anything like that,

but just because open markets,
open competition helps breed innovation,

helps breed stability.

We need to disrupt silos.

People talk about silos,
you know, grain silos

these are metaphors for capturing users
at the higher levels of discourse

that are not standardized,

but you have to choose only the services
that the silo vendor provides,

you have to sign up
with their identity system,

everything you buy is tied into that.

If you change your phone,

you're stuck.

You got to rebuy everything.

That silo doesn't know you.

We want to turn
that silo model inside out.

When we build it, we build it open.

We want open because we know open works.

So users deserve an open platform,

and developers deserve an open platform.

But we also have maybe
a more ambitious goal,

which is to break the model

where the app store is the only point
of distribution for apps on a device.

It just doesn't have to be this way,
shouldn't be this way, why is it this way?

Developers are currently having to choose,

"Do I write in this native stack
or that native stack?"

Look, we understand
you want to build cool things,

you need a platform that supports that.

You know our answer to them
is the web is the platform.

The web is taking on challenges

that people used to think
were just impossible.

We need to make sure that we
never hear the phrase,

"Oh, the web can't do that."

Of course the web can do that,

there's no reason
it wouldn't be able to do that.

We're working on tooling too,

so developers can be
just as productive on the web

as on the best of the native stacks.

The web is becoming something
like an operating system in itself.

Everything we do,
all the technology we've introduced

does not only enhance
the abilities of our products.

To us standardizing,

we're actually pushing
the envelope of what's possible

across all the different products.

If we keep the web innovative,
it will prevail.

Across everything, including mobile.

The line between desktop
and mobile is gone.

It's clear that a lot of people
are gonna come into contact with the web

for the first time on a mobile device.

We're on the vanguard of bringing
inexpensive smartphones to people

who have never been online before.

Of all the world population,
more than half are not yet online.

Not only are we gonna see
a lot of technology advances,

but also new cultural elements and social
elements that are brought into the web.

A lot of these people
who are acquiring this phone

don't have credit cards
and PayPal accounts,

it's transformative.

So we have a deep responsibility there
to do that right and to do it in a way

that reflects our values
so we can help shape that environment.

Our products are the way that we ship
our ideas and values to millions of users.

Our products make our vision
of the web real.

Let's share what we know,

that was the original mandated goal
for the whole of the web.

As important as building a platform,

we need to help people understand
what the web can do for them.

If we take the simple step
of inviting people to teach locally,

we end up with huge global results.

Where we scale impacts
across borders, across cultures.

Many more contributors are making
more people say yes to this project.

Ask people to do something local,
something simple,

and when it all adds up,
it can be something big and global.

From the Philippines,
whether you're from Indonesia,

or you're from Venezuela,

or a little town called Toast
in North Carolina, right?

All of us are here for the same purpose.

The heart of Mozilla is a global community
with a shared mission.

I'm Walabia Modongo,
I'm a Mozillian.

We are an organization of passionate
people doing important work.

I am Angela King
and I'm a Mozillian.

And I really consider myself
a die-hard Mozillian.

I'm Plariebo Pojeky and I'm a Mozillian.

This is what makes Mozilla, Mozilla.

It's the people.

I am Hiro, I'm a Mozillian.

This is why I'm still a Mozillian
after all these years.

I am Preyanka and I am a Mozillian.

It's Mozillians that make Mozilla awesome,
every last one of you.

I'm Heather.

I'm Palogji.

I am Duanchipondi.

I'm Lars and I am a Mozillian.

No other platform collaborates

with such a mission-driven
and skilled community,

one that is so passionate
about the platform.

I am Yesh.

I'm Will.

I'm Grishimahalakis.

I'm Tasha Miller and I am a Mozillian.

And why are we passionate?

It's not because it's our platform,

it's because it's the web,
it's everyone's.

I am Catherine.

I am Puk Virayapukpaiboon.

I am Bieros.

I am Kate Huang.

I'm Molina.

I'm Trevor Saunders.

I'm Sakina Groth.

I am Mike.

I am Sam Dyson.

I am Brendan Eich and I am a Mozillian.