March 31, 2008
March 31 1998 for those of you that remember back that far is the date that the Mozilla Project launched officially. As Mitchell points out:
Today is a special day.
March 31, 1998 is the date that Mozilla was officially
launched. It’s the date the first Mozilla code became
publicly available under the terms of an official open source license
and a governing body for the project — the Mozilla Organization
— began its public work. It’s always been known
in Mozilla parlance as “3/31.” We’ll be
celebrating Mozilla’s 10 year anniversary throughout 2008
. Today I want to look at our first ten years, and a bit at
the next ten years.
Ten years ago a radical idea took shape. The idea was that an
open source community could create choice and innovation in key
Internet technologies where large, commercial vendors could
not. This idea took shape as the Mozilla project.
Oh an they mentioned him too.10 years ago, Mozilla.org kicked off, the MPL was incepted (currently at version 1.1), and the code base was opened up.
As an ex-Netscape (Mozilla Application Suite) user, I can honestly say that the past 10 years have definitely kicked ass. Happy 10th Birthday Mozilla, heres to another 10!
Mitchell’s Blog » Blog Archive » Mozilla Turns 10 Today
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Posted by Howard
February 22, 2008
Seeing as this has received quite a lot of press attention, I thought I might add my own take.
Mozilla’s MailCo offshoot was officially launched by David Ascher on the 19th of February and will focus on among other things; E-mail, IRC, chat, SMS, calendaring, RSS and all other aspects of Internet communications including but not limited to VoIP (as the name would imply). David Ascher will report only to the Mozilla Messaging Boards of Directors which include David Ascher CEO, Chris Beard and Martin Mickos current head of MySQL AB.
It will certainly be interesting to see what the outcome of this offshoot will be. Mozilla did a similar thing back in 2005 when they created the Mozilla Corporation to be dedicated to all things Firefox (as well as support the Mozilla Project in general with financing).
Currently, - Mozilla Messaging, Inc. to give it it’s proper name - is working away on Thunderbird 3.0 which will see calendaring functionality introduced into it. It will also integration of the Lightening project with the collaboration of the Mozilla Calendar team.
All other questions are addresses in their FAQ here and the official URL is:
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Posted by Howard
January 31, 2008
Yep that’s what I thought when I first saw that - 600,000,000
add-on (unique) downloads. That’s just for add-on’s and that’s UNIQUE downloads e.g. its an actual download of an extension/theme
NOT an update. As posted on the Mozilla Blog of Metrics:
Earlier this week, AMO served its 600 millionth add-on download.That’s original downloads, not including updates. We currently have over 4000 add-ons hosted on the site and between 800,000 and 1million downloads every day. The site has around 4.5 million page views per day, not including services hosted on AMO such as update checks and blocklisting.
AMO now receives around 100 million add-on update pings every day,which means that of those 600 million downloads, about 100 million add-ons are still installed.
The breakdown looks something like this with the
Firefox 2.0 branch getting 93% of the traffic while
Thunderbird and the legacy
Firefox 1.X branch get 4% and 2% respectively.
[Image credit: Justin Scott]
600,000,000 Add-on Downloads < Blog of Metrics
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Posted by Howard
January 29, 2008
The roadmap to Thunderbird 3 will look to include calendaring functions putting it on a par with Microsoft’s Outlook as well as migrating the entire MailNews framework (Netscape Communicator anyone?) which went onto become Mozilla Thunderbird from the old RDF/Mork framework to the new SQLite based MozStorage which also makes an appearance in Firefox 3.0.
Also included in Thunderbird 3.0 will be STEEL which is like Firefox’s FUEL extension library.
via MozillaLinks
Thunderbird 3 plans include calendaring and more : Mozilla Links
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Posted by Howard
January 29, 2008
Spicebird - the Mozilla Thundebrird based PIM with E-mail, Calendaring and Instant Messaging as standard has been released. The application is based on the Mozilla Sunbird, Thunderbird and XMPP4Moz projects.
The project is currently available as a beta download with more items on the development roadmap:
Spicebird 0.7
- Code cleanup and remove temporary code
- Basic email tabs
- Calendar theme cleanup
- Fix card view
- Restore and test lost features (import/export dialogs, calender prefs, etc.)
- Blogs as Email (Thunderbird addon/Spicebird built-in)
Spicebird
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Posted by Howard
January 29, 2008
Just came across this site which does the wonderful job of spreading OSS solutions -check it out!
SpreadOpenSource
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Posted by Howard
November 15, 2007
The Mozilla Foundation has released the latest to it’s Thunderbird updates (version 2.0.0.9 from 2.0.0.6 to keep it inline with Firefox)
The update addresses a few security issues, one being a crash with memory corruption.
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories
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Posted by Howard
October 8, 2007
Thunderbird lead developers Scott McGregor and David Bienvenu have announced via their personal blogs (and by extension through PMO) their intentions to leave the Mozilla Project - specifically, Thunderbird.
This comes as quite a shock as both of them were Mozilla’s full-time paid developers on the project. They both announced that October 12th (Friday) will be their last day as Mozilla Corporation employees.
Its both sad and unfortunate that both will be leaving the Mozilla Project, however, both have been working on the Project (through Netscape) and have expressed a desire to do something different.
The good news is that they will both stay involved as both module owners and volunteers and therefore still be involved with the Mozilla Project as volunteers rather than full-time paid employees.
It will be interesting to see how Thunderbird shifts away from being a mail-centric client to being a “communications-centric client” encompassing all communication protocols, not just E-mail and RSS but others like chat/IRC as well.
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Posted by Howard
October 8, 2007
Mozilla CEO/Chief Lizard Wrangler Mitchell Baker announced the development road that Thunderbird had taken and the direction to which it looks to take e.g. more focused on communication protocols as a whole rather than being an E-mail focused client.
mitchell’s blog: Thunderbird Process of Change Part 1
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