How Mozilla Works

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Mozilla is…

a global community of people who believe that openness, innovation, and opportunity are key to the continued health of the Internet.
Mozilla

Mozilla is not just Firefox

Mozilla Products And more at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products ....

Smart people are everywhere

  • 13 global offices and people working in more than 30 countries
  • Thousands of contributors (paid staff and volunteers)
  • Office space, Home Space, Coworking Space

Remotie - a person who works in a different geographic location than his/her manager.

Happy people are more productive

  • Flexible working hours
  • Contribute your time to what you really care about
  • Your work is visible, everything is open sourced
  • Travelling is fun
  • Work from anywhere, nobody cares

Communication channels

  • Video meetings (Air Mozilla, Team wide, Company wide)
  • Work weeks, events, festivals, meetups and etc...
  • Weekly 1:1s
  • IRC - async and public
  • Email - async and public (mailing lists mostly)
  • Bugzilla (needinfo, review, feedback) - async and public

What about processes?

  • Module - is the discrete unit of code or activity
  • Module owners and Peers
  • Code review (peer review, super review, security review)
  • Bugzilla, GitHub, IRC discussions
  • Commit Access Levels

How to be a Mozillian

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Thanks

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