The document discusses Mozilla and its role in protecting and promoting an open internet. It provides background on Mozilla's history starting from the Netscape browser wars in the late 1990s. It describes Mozilla as a software engineering organization, global non-profit, network of contributors, and global social change movement aimed at protecting the open internet. The document calls on readers to join Mozilla in its mission.

1. kaitlin thaney
@kaythaney ; @mozilla
compute midwest / 2 nov 2016
fueling the
open movement

2. my path towards “open”

3. what is Mozilla?
... a software engineering org?
... a global non-profit?
... a network of contributors?
... a global social change movement?
... protectors of the open internet?

4. ... it’s complicated.

5. (0)

8. the “browser wars”
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/stomps.html

9. Mozilla history
- (Jan) 1998 : Netscape starts open
source Mozilla project
- (Nov) 1998 : Netscape bought by AOL
- 2003 : Mozilla Foundation created (3
employees)
- 2004 : Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released
- 2005 : Mozilla Corporation is created

11. (1)

12. bringing together the people who
are willing to stand up for - and
build - the open internet together.

13. putting open into practice
(+ paying it forward)
https://commonspace.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/web-literacy-and-leadership/

14. learning
science
advocacy
internet of things
women & web literacy
contributors
a global network of leaders

15. http://bit.ly/working_open

16. commitment to open
diversity of our networks
building with, not for
why Mozilla?

17. 53+ hours, 36 cities, 700+ contributions

18. Mozilla Fellows

20. (3)

23. whose responsibility is it to
protect the open internet?

24. what is Mozilla?
... a software engineering org?
... a global non-profit?
... a network of contributors?
... a global social change movement?
... protectors of the open internet?

25. ...all of the above.

26. join us.
kaitlin@mozillafoundation.org
mozilla.org