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
crazy thinking numbers
What's been most helpful to me is realizing that those times when all the heads in the room turn and look at me as if I was crazy, reinforce my own leadership capability. Because I've been in a number of those settings where I've been right. And I've been right often enough that now when it happens I don't automatically think, "Oh, my, what's wrong with me?" or "Ohhh, I must not be ready for this role," or "They know so much more than I do."
mean thinking blue
Usually, you know, you're at a table and you're the only woman, you've got this idea, you finally speak up - I mean, I've been in some settings where every head turns toward me and then they all turn away as if I've never spoken. Which I think happens when whatever I said was so out of the blue, or so awkward, that they just didn't know how to respond.
thinking people community
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
thinking difficult products
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
thinking people sticks
Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.
men thinking years
I guess my other advice is that it's really good to be comfortable among groups of men! It's just a very common work setting and I don't actually think about it too much, but there must be some comfort level that I've developed over the years.
fun good help internet time useful
I mean, we're here to try and do something useful and help keep the Internet something fun and useful for us and have a good time while we're at it.
build equality progress reflects society
We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.
process slow standards
And the standards process can slow down development and implementation of new things.
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Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.
customers features interested migration products time within
Within that several-year time frame, if customers are interested in new features and maintenance, they should look at the new products and think about a migration strategy.
funds great money raise
You have to raise funds somehow. And once there's money in the picture, money is great because we all need it to live on.
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I spent five or six months as a foreign student in China many years ago and so going back in the new era was really exciting.
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The Mozilla project has always been a project trying to bring together open source developers with commercial software developers and distributors.