Mitchell Baker
Mitchell Baker
Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is the Executive Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
base user
We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.
add appealing last polish product ready ship
When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.
mozilla project year
We're just over a year old but the Mozilla project has been around for a long time.
dancers paid painters pursued whether writers
There are dancers and painters and writers who pursued that whether or not they are paid for it. There are a lot of technologists who are the same.
currently foundation mozilla
With this reorganization, the Mozilla Foundation will look much more like the Apache Foundation than it currently does.
certainly effective model people structured
It is an effective model - more effective and certainly more disciplined and structured than many people realize.
exists history kinds mozilla product turns
Over the history of the Mozilla project, it turns out that the product browsers exists on many different kinds of machines.
hard
We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.
deal people
The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.
beyond goes memory putting
Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.
life personal separate
I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.
smarter sometime technology
Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.
accepting fewer greater requires saving shared whatever
Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.
enterprise foot mozilla partly silicon social technology valley
Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.