Archive for March, 2008
Firefox 3 T-shirt Design Contest: Winners!
The Firefox 3 T-shirt design contest has wrapped up and we’re excited to announce the winners! Congratulations Tracie Andrews from the UK, for having created this winning design which will be featured in the Mozilla Store as the official Firefox 3 T-shirt:
The runners up were Kevin Weagle, Ali Riyaz, Mathew Anderson, and Brett Rex Cannell.
We received close to 2,000 submissions representing many hours of hard work from a global design community that came together on the Flickr contest group. Selecting the top 5 was a very challenging task as there were many great designs to choose from. We’re proud of the talent that has come through in support of Firefox and are looking into ways to “open source” these designs so that they are publicly available for print. Thanks again to everyone for your support and creative contributions throughout this process. Please join me in congratulating all the winners!
Ten Years Ago Today: Netscape Releases Communicator Source Code
Today marks ten years since Netscape Communications Corporation released the Netscape Communicator 5.0 source code. The source code was managed by Netscape-backed mozilla.org until 2003, and is now managed by Mozilla Foundation.
VentureBeat has published a Q&A with Mozilla CEO John Lilly, and Wired News has published a photo tour of the Mozilla Headquarters in Mountain View, California to mark the occasion.
10 Years of Mozilla!
No Monday blues around here today — it’s Mozilla’s 10 year anniversary! On March 31, 1998 Mozilla was officially launched and the Mozilla source code became publicly available for the first time. Mitchell Baker has a write up of what Mozilla and its community have accomplished in these past 10 years and what’s in store for the next 10. Here are a few highlights:
- Converted a closed, proprietary development process into a vibrant, transparent, open source project
- Grown into a massive global community, quite possibly the largest open source project in the world
- Developed a set of long-term, vibrant projects — Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Camino, Bugzilla, Calendar — most, and possibly all of which have millions of users
- Become the software provider of choice for over 170 million people
- Proved that open source development can produce great end user products
- Brought the Internet to millions of people in their language
- Moved the overall state of browser software forward dramatically
- Become a technology platform others use to create products built on Mozilla technologies, and in some cases competitive with Mozilla products
Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4 Released
Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4 has been released for testing. The fourth beta of the next major Firefox version offers over 900 bug fixes over Beta 3, including improvements in download manager, full page zoom, better integration with Vista, Mac OS X and Linux, and significant improvements in speed and memory usage.
Firefox 3 Beta 4 can be downloaded from the Firefox beta page. The Firefox 3 Beta 4 Release Notes have more details, including information about what's new in Firefox 3 and what's been improved in this specific milestone. The Mozilla Developer News weblog's announcement of Firefox 3 Beta 4 includes links of interest to developers.
A fifth beta milestone has been added to Firefox 3 Schedule based on the number of blockers remaining. Code Freeze for beta 5 will be on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008.
Google Summer of Code 2008
Gervase Markham wrote in to inform us that Mozilla intends to participate in Google Summer of Code 2008 as a mentoring organization. Gerv's weblog post calls on interested people to submit proposals at the Brainstorming page at mozilla wiki.