Planet Mozilla Blog

Andrew Overholt (feed) – Andrew Overholt manages the WebAPI team at Mozilla. In a previous life he worked on Eclipse and other open source Java technology at Red Hat. He lives in Toronto.

Avi Halachmi (feed) – “I recently joined the Performance team. Among my interests are various aspects of user experience such as privacy, UI, usability, performance, scrolling, smoothness, and more. I also contribute to few OSS projects (PCSX2, Quassel IRC, and few others in the past). I’ve been maintaining the SmoothWheel Firefox addon since 2003. Before joining Mozilla, I worked for IBM, SanDisk, and several start-up companies. Oh, and I ride bikes ;)”

Honza Bambas (feed) – Network team member, Necko, DOM and Core every-day contributor since around 2008, specializing in networking and performance.

Irving Reid (feed) – “I am a Mozilla employee working on the Firefox performance team, aka “Snappy”, and on Thunderbird. I’ll mostly be writing about my Firefox performance work.”

Justin Crawford (feed) – Justin Crawford is a Web Product Engineer who works on Mozilla’s community-facing web properties. He lives with his family in Boulder where he previously founded and led a consultancy designing and building products for early-stage startups. In his tinkering time he likes to launch self-serving niche publications on the web, write short stories, fix bikes, and make random things in the workshop.

Seif Lotfy (feed) – “I am working on tools to automate contributors recognition and some other fun stuff which can be read on my blog.”

Projects

Craftyy Communique (feed) – Craftyy keeps games replayable by making them remixable. Games that truly belong to the players.

Identity at Mozilla (feed) – The purpose of this blog is to share updates, vision, and technical details related to the Identity team. This team’s flagship project is the Persona service and the BrowserID authentication protocol.

Tanvi Vyas (feed) – Tanvi joined Mozilla last year as Security Engineer. Her goal is to build features that make the browser more secure while still providing a good user experience. She also works closely with the Developer Tools team, trying to integrate security into our tools and help developers identity security issues in their web applications before hackers do.

Wes Kocher (feed) – Wes is the release engineer and bugmaster for Mozilla’s Jetpack team.

Aaron Klotz (feed) – Aaron Klotz is a recent addition to the Performance Team at Mozilla. He has written code for a wide range of computing devices, from mobile to enterprise. Off hours he can often be found skiing down expert slopes that are far above his skill level.

Graeme McCutcheon (feed) – Graeme is a longtime contributor to Firefox, living in Glasgow, Scotland. He wanders randomly around the codebase, fixing any bugs that happen to catch his eye.

Eric Wong (feed) – Eric Wong (:ekw) started volunteering and contributing code to Mozilla in early 2012, with a half dozen patches to date. A software engineering dayjob and toddler-aged twin boys wreaking joy and havoc at home only afford him time and energy to snipe at low-hanging fruit for now. But he plans to keep learning more and hopes to start working on non-trivial bugs as he gets more familiar with Mozilla projects.

Selena Deckelmann (feed) – Selena Deckelmann is a data architect working with the WebTools team on Socorro, the open source tool behind http://crash-stats.mozilla.com. She’s a major contributor to PostgreSQL, founder of PyLadiesPDX and chicken keeper in Portland, OR.

Clarista (feed) – Clarista is the author of Bonjour Mozilla. She leads the communication group of the French-speaking community. She is also member of WoMoz.

Kumar McMillan (feed) – Kumar codes Python / JavaScript for the Firefox Marketplace and other open web apps. He also hacks on various open source libraries for developers which you can find at github.com/kumar303. In a parallel universe you can find him DJing music from all genres and styles on CHIRPradio.org and in the Twitterverse you can find him at @kumar303.

Mike Shal (feed) – Mike Shal joined the RelEng team in November 2012. He is the author of the tup build system, and is working to bring faster and more reliable builds to Mozilla’s developers.

Liz Henry (feed) – I’ve started working at Mozilla as the Bugmaster, to ride the beast that is bugzilla.mozilla.org. I’m on the Automation Tools team. You can find me (as lizzard) on #introduction, #qa, #developers, and …. #bugmasters!

Anton Kovalyov (feed) – Anton Kovalyov, a member of the Firefox Developer Tools team. Usually blog about programming languages, web and work stuff (which is now Firefox related).

Fredy Rouge (feed) – “I love OpenSoruce and Internet models because they are changing the human history, Mozilla, is in the intersection, is a good place to work out the change.
Some of my initiatives / work: * Creation the Mozilla Québec community and its website * Mozilla Coffee & Beer (mozpub mozcafe), * Migration of Mozilla Colombia’s website to MCS. * Lecture of the “Mozilla Manifesto” in the Congress of the Republic of Colombia under the development and discussion of the local SOPA. * I am user and promoter (individually and in events) of the “Mozilla products and community” since the netscape times. * Creation of Mozilla’s Persona Themes.”

François Marier feed moved.

Projects

Mozilla UX (feed) – Designing great products that make sense & bring joy.

Mozilla Research (feed) – This is the blog for the Mozilla Research core team and community, where we talk about projects, initiatives, collaborations, and experiments in the open web platform.

Mozilla Websites (feed) – The voice of the Mozilla Web Productions team that includes recent enhancements, user experience improvements, and metrics of our primary engagement websites.

Ian Melven (feed) – Ian Melven is a security engineer working for Mozilla, currently focused on exploring and developing security features for Firefox. He is passionate about protecting Firefox users and their privacy while they enjoy the web.

Erik Vold (feed) – Erik is a developer working on the Add-on SDK.

Ian Bicking (feed) – Ian Bicking is an employee of Mozilla and a member of the Labs/Innovation group. Before Mozilla he has been involved with a wide variety of Python open source projects, especially in web development; at Mozilla he is working to transfer that experience to a different language (Javascript) and environment (the client).

Ron Piovesan (feed) – Ron Piovesan leads business development for Mozilla’s App Marketplace and is responsible for signing distribution deals with major content and games providers.

Leo McArdle (feed) – Blogging about mozilla events, mozilla projects I’m working on and anything else related to Mozilla.

Chris Manchester (feed) – “I’ve been contributing to Mozilla A-team project on and off since January of this year. I’m currently a CS student at the University of Pennsylvania. My field-specific interests include automated testing, programming languages, and theorem proving environments.”

Sriram Ramasubramanian (feed) Sriram has been tweaking UI in Firefox for Android. Occasionally when he gets a “Ah! that works!” moment while hacking Android, he blogs about it.

Bill Walker (feed) – As an engineer working in both startup and enterprise environments, I have a passion for well-designed, well-tested code. As an engineering leader, I make a daily effort to unblock my developers, inspire better coding practice, and keep my team focused on what the customer values most. By encouraging peer-to-peer communication, I foster a community of software practice that can lead to radical gains in productivity and quality.

David Walsh (feed) – David Walsh is a web development enthusiast whose experience ranges from development with the MooTools JavaScript Framework, to hacking the Dojo Toolkit, to experimenting with just about everything on his blog. He spends his days improving the Mozilla Developer Network and Mozilla Marketplace websites at Mozilla.

Nikhil Marathe (feed) – New hire on the Platform team, working on upcoming JavaScript and HTML APIs, and trying to get used to grown-up life.

Pascal Finette feed moved.

Swarnava Sengupta feed moved.

Projects

about:pixels (feed) – Hi. We’re Mozilla’s creative team. We’re here to tell the Mozilla Firefox story through visual design, copywriting and general awesomeness.

People

Siddhartha Dugar (feed) – Siddhartha Dugar is a proud Mozillian and an addon developer. He likes to play with CSS and JS, and is an active member of MozillaZine, Userstyles.org and the Army-of-Awesome.

Matthew Larrain (feed) – Dealing with Microsoft Windows @ Mozilla – Automation, Group Policy and more.

Les Orchard feed moved here.

Projects

Mozilla Gfx Team (feed) – The primary purpose of this blog is to help communication across and around the Mozilla Gfx team. In particular, we want to help non-employee contributors be better connected and better informed of any relevant developments.

People

Bhavana Bajaj (feed) – “I have joined Mozilla 08/13/2012 and will be working as a Release Manager. Will be having my hands on the Firefox/mobile releases. Also excited about the B2G project. Coming from a corporate company like Goldman Sachs , I am really excited to be at Mozilla who has a strong vision for openness and innovation.I plan to blog about my experience here and anything exciting I come across day-day.”

Chris Peterson (feed) – Software developer on Mozilla’s Firefox for Android team.

Andrea Marchesini (feed) – Andrea Marchesini has recently joined the WebAPI team. His blog is about web technologies, hacking and crazy random projects.

Hanno Schlichting (feed) – An open-source Python geek, located in Hamburg, Germany and as of 2012 part of the Services team.

David W (feed) – David is a student in the uk and has done a lot of projects for Mozilla some includes sumo, accessibility and marketing. David also arranges the sump monthly irc meetings also planning on arranging a big community call.

Projects

Mozilla India (feed) – Official Mozilla India blog site.

Projects

Mozilla L10N (feed) – Users first, no matter where they are.

The calendar blog feed moved.

People

Doug Belshaw (feed) – Doug Belshaw has recently joined the Mozilla Foundation as Badges and Skills Lead. He’ll be working mainly on web literacies and evangelising Open Badges in the UK, where he’s based.

Brandon Savage (feed) – Brandon is a software developer working on the Socorro project, which is Firefox’s crash collection and analysis system.

Patrick Cloke (feed) – I’m a peer for the chat/ module of Thunderbird and one of the lead developers of Instantbird, which is the source (and shares much) of the code with Thunderbird. My posts should be of interest to the larger Mozilla community. Mostly I blog on various aspects of the IRC protocol and Instantbird/Thunderbird’s shared implementation and other instant messaging topics.

Chris McDonald (feed) – Wraithan (aka Chris McDonald) is a web developer on the Marketplace team. In his free time he is generally found hacking on one of his numerous Python and Node side projects or playing StarCraft 2.

Jan Varga (feed) – “After AOL/Netscape, I joined Mozdev Group and I also had own business involving many mozilla based applications and extensions. I joined MoCo (DOM team) about a year ago and since then I’ve been working on stuff like HTML5 context menus, support for storing files in IndexedDB, support for writable files with locking – FileHandle and other related features. I’m now officially in the WebAPI team, working on unified quota management for IndexedDB, LocalStorage, etc. I will be blogging mostly about WebAPIs and from time to time about life in general.”

Projects

about:community (feed) – News and notes from and for the Mozilla community.

As we’ve been promoting for a while, the Planet team is in the process of separating projects/groups into it’s own Planet Mozilla Projects and leaving individuals (and The Mozilla Blog/Planet Blog) on the “main planet”. This is being done as part of bug 733655.

For the past several weeks project blogs have lived in both places as we give people time to transition. We’re going to start removing project blogs from the main planet now. If you subscribe to Planet by RSS you can simply add the project feed if you want to keep seeing what you’re seeing today.

We hope this will cut down on the volume and give some more choice in consumption on Planet Mozilla.

People

Yvan Boily (feed) – Yvan Boily is an Application Security Manager at Mozilla currently working on Mozilla Identity efforts.

Gabor Krizsanits (feed) – Gabor Krizsanits has joined the Jetpack team last Summer and trying to help out the team from the platform side with fixes and new features. He is mainly hacking around XPConnect these days and would like to share his experiences with the word.

Kim Moir (feed) – Kim joined RelEng at the end of April, and will be working from Ottawa, ON. She will be working on refining Mozilla’s build, test, and release processes. Before joining Mozilla, she was a release engineer at Eclipse where she learned that there is nothing better than working with smart people to deliver great software in open source communities.

Scott Johnson (feed) – Scott is a platform developer on the layout team at mozilla. He specializes in computational geometry, real-time rendering, and image processing. Scott has been contributing to mozilla since 2011, and sometimes blogs about layout and graphics related issues on his blog, “The Nothingness of Scott.”

Nick Hurley (feed) – A gecko (specifically necko) hacker who loves the web, my family, and brewing (and drinking!) beer.

Patrick Walton feed moved.

Projects

Mozilla Ignite (feed) – Cutting edge networks can do things today’s internet can’t, with blazing speeds up to 250 times faster. What would you do with that kind of power? How can it help change the world? This blog explores gigabit networks and keeps you up to date on the Mozilla Ignite Challenge.

Mozilla and the National Science Foundation are launching an open innovation challenge that offers support, funding and access to one of the most advanced networks on the planet.

Nick Cameron (feed) – Nick Cameron joined Mozilla in January 2012 and works on graphics and layout from Auckland, NZ. Previously, he has been working on research in type theory and language design.