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<\/a><\/p>\nWe began our Mozilla Spaces strategy in Jan, 2011 at a time when our only true “Mozilla Space” was downtown Mountain View, California which seemed inconsistent with our worldwide community, user base, and overall growth strategy.\u00a0 In late 2010 and early 2011, we weren’t effectively promoting worldwide community collaboration, productivity, and events.\u00a0 We knew we could do better.\u00a0 We started.<\/p>\n
We brought in a world class team of experts and opened San Francisco and Toronto in the summer of 2011 and upgraded New Zealand (Auckland) in Q3 2011.<\/p>\n By early 2012, we were hitting our stride and opened our doors in 4 new spaces including London<\/span><\/a> <\/span>and Taiwan in Q1, Vancouver<\/span><\/a> <\/span>and SF 3rd Floor<\/span><\/a> <\/span>in Q2, and added temporary workspaces for Portland<\/span><\/a>, Paris<\/span><\/a><\/span>, and Berlin<\/span><\/a><\/span> as we continued to plan those futures.\u00a0 Speaking of planning, each new space is planned with extensive analysis using key requirements for current and future talent, community strength, leadership, projected growth needs, and of course overall financial guidelines.<\/p>\n As we closed out 2012, we were operating 8 true Mozilla spaces on 4 different continents.\u00a0 Looking forward into 2013, we are excitedly planning for grand openings in<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Moving and shaking in the Bay Area in 2012 and 2013 What started as a modest 7th floor San Francisco Moz Space (+ a cool deck) quickly transitioned to the need for more space.\u00a0 We added the 3rd Floor in 2012 and signed a coveted and competitive bidding for Floors 1 and 2 (the ex-Gordon Biersch restaurant space).<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in Mountain View, we decided to consolidate our 4th floor back to floors 2 and 3 as we contemplated the final year of our current 5 yr lease.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The ensuing moving and shaking was a bit disruptive but in true California style we shook it off, stayed strong, and carried on.<\/p>\n We are currently actively planning version 2.0 of Mountain View with a launch date of Q1 2014.\u00a0 We’ll be very excited to share these plans with everyone very shortly.<\/p>\n Organizing Mozilla Events:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n In 2012, your beloved WPR dept. coordinated hundreds of events including…<\/p>\n And We Implemented New Support Programs<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks to everyone for your input, support and patience as we learned and grew together in 2012. We look forward to working with you and continuing to build strong Mozilla Spaces Foundations in the 2013!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plan it.\u00a0 Execute it.\u00a0 Manage it. \u00a0 WPR continued our Mozilla Spaces quest in 2012.\u00a0\u00a0 We opened new doors, signed new office space leases, organized events, and implemented new programs in our efforts to always stay one step ahead of our worldwide activities. We began our Mozilla Spaces strategy in Jan, 2011 at a time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14283,13982,13980],"tags":[863,14287,873,32867,32866,13978,688,14286,584,13976,14288,14295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Toronto\"](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/places\/files\/2012\/01\/Toronto-300x225.jpg\")
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