Introducing Mozilla Europe

Tristan Nitot - nitot@mozilla-europe.org

Fosdem - 2004-02-21

The European situation

Great product, great future releases

The users need is huge, as competition is weak

No new releases and no real improvement scheduled before Longhorn, mid-2006

Security issues

Great user community

Great localisation teams

Word of mouth is increasing

So What's missing?

Adoption from large organisations

Lack of understanding of Open Source

Lack of expertise for high-level support and help

Lack of official, localized Website

Local contributors to be found

Lots of potential contributors

No structure to entice them to contribute

Better relationship with Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla official representation

The Mozilla Europe vision

Find users

Be visible, make noise in the press

Ease Mozilla product adoptions through services.

Find contributors

Help contributors to start

Hire key contributors

Find money to hire (like the Foundation does)

What is Mozilla Europe?

Non-profit organization

First International Affiliate of the Foundation

Mozilla contributors from all over Europe

France, Belgium, Germany, Slovakia

Close to the users and part of the community

Pascal Chevrel, (FR and ES communities)

For the launch, also help from Spanish and German communities

What about the future?

More Mozilla Europe Members

More cool T-shirts :-)

More languages for the Website

Strong contacts with IT, PL, SK and CZ communities

Promising contacts with NL and other countries

Help on localization

Find a few key customers to help deploy and create success stories

Questions?

Relationship with localization effort

Relationship with local user communities

How can you help?

Help financially: become a member !

Help with Website localization

Students: find a teacher that would sponsor you to contribute to Mozilla

Join you local community and help users

No local community? Talk to us, we'll try to help.

Tristan Nitot

2004-02-20T18:46:54