Our newest building project is underway in Berlin at the newly envisioned tech hub, The Factory.

Mozilla will soon be neighbors with the likes of SoundCloud and Berlin startups 6Wunderkinder, Four Sektor, Toast, Urge iO, Views, and Silicon Allee. The Berlin office will be an anchor member of this up-and-coming technology destination.

The Factory will be a large tech community resource in Berlin leading to collaboration and greater network ties between communities. The space will operate like a campus, complete with restaurant, basketball courts and shared spaces in the hopes of fostering frequent interactions and building relationships within the technical community of Berlin.

Well aligned with Mozilla’s mission and history, The Factory will be an exciting home for Mozillians in Germany, and we are looking forward to building out this space in 2013.

Stay tuned for future updates about the newest Mozilla Space at Mozilla Berlin.

Meet Shannon Clayton, Mozilla London’s new Office Services Coordinator.

Shannon is quickly organizing the London office with team lunches, space guidelines and a friendly welcome at our front reception. Shannon’s presence could not come at a better time, as more and more events and community members flock to the beautiful London site.

Shannon joins Mozilla with 5 years of Catering and Hospitality experience. She is a trained chef (watch out for cupcakes, London!) and is working on her BA in Honours Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Shannon is politically-minded and is excited to share in Mozilla’s drive for the open web.

We’re very glad to have Shannon join our team and the Mozilla community.  Please stop by to say hello to her the next time you’re in London.

After several months of searching, we’ve found the next location for the growing Paris office.

Located near the current office Poissonnière at 16, boulevard Montmartre, near the Grands Boulevards; the Mercy-Argenteau building is at the center of the art, culture, business and technology sectors of Paris.

Montmartre has been one of the most important Parisian neighborhoods since the eighteenth century. At the center of Paris life, the Grands Boulevards is one of the city’s most interesting areas attracting Parisians and tourists alike. Montmartre is a lively and unique neighborhood with a wide range of restaurants, stores, boutiques, museums and theaters. Served by Metro lines 8 and 9 and an extensive bus network, the Mozilla Paris office is easily accessible for the 50-70 planned workstations, as well as for community members and guests.

The Mercy-Argenteau building (named for the Comte de Mercy-Argenteau) was built in 1778 and is a beautiful example of 18^th century architecture. Complete with frieze, intricate molding and gilding, Parisian Mozillians will continue to change the future of the web while residing in the luxury of the past.

The Paris office currently has 16 employees working in two nearby office spaces.

Stay tuned for updates!

As you read in the June issue of the Desktop Newsletter, Service Now, a new service request tool will be launching at the end of July.

Service Now is a cool, simple-to-use tool that will allow you to easily submit Desktop and WPR requests. Need new business cards? Need Post-it notes? With your personalized dashboard you can easily submit these requests and quickly check in on their delivery status. Work requests have never been easier or more fun!

Brown Bag information and training sessions are being held on Monday July 23 at 12PM PT and Wednesday July 25 at 2PM PT. Please join us!

Welcome to Vancouver.

At long last the Vancouver renovation is complete. What was once a maze of strangely shaped offices and dark hallways is now a warm and inviting space much better suited to Mozilla’s friendly open culture.

The design placed meeting rooms on the interior of the floor, rather than the exterior- providing access to large swaths of natural light.  The Vancouver architects listened to what Mozilla was really all about in order to achieve architecturally what Mozilla stands for as a company and a people. Their efforts strove to create an office space that would make the invisible visible.

To accomplish this, the interior space is defined by the “hol[e]y wall”; a continuous hole-punched object that allows you to see through to what lies beneath. To further accentuate this concept, the holey wall is fixed with LED strip lighting that provides an ever present glow- reminding us of all that happens beneath the surface. Meeting rooms have glass doors that allow you to see  inside, and the entryway invites you to sit in collaboration at a long co-working table.

The Vancouver office has a community event area that can host up to 40 people as well as a beautiful kitchen with new Astra espresso machine, organic snacks and drink selections and comfy sofas to relax by the windows. The Vancouver area is home to over 20 employees, and with 42 workstations, this office is ready to grow.

We’re happy to see the details come together on this space- and are sure that Vancouver will become a destination and hub for new talent, like many of the other Mozilla Spaces.

Stay up to date on what is going on in Vancouver by following us on Twitter @MozillaYVR and see more photos of our space in our Flickr Group.

Kevin Costner was right.

If you build it they will come.

And come they did. San Francisco has quickly become our fastest growing office. With over 100 employees and a wait list of many more- the third floor renovation could not come at a better time!

Outfitted in much the same style as the trendy 7th floor, the third will boast many similar amenities: snacks, kitchen and meeting rooms. While the 7th floor is best loved for its view of the Bay Bridge- the third floor is ready to take on a unique character of its own as people move in starting on June 8.

At 75% capacity on the third floor and 100% capacity on the 7th floor, Mozillians may wonder where we’ll take you next?