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Operational Update

June 2011 Board of Directors Conference Call

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

MoJo

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• Highlight: first innovation challenge complete. Over

300 entries plus lots of community and press buzz.

• Over 15 local MoJo events events around the world.

Coverage in CBC, CJR, Slashdot, Hacker News, Wired, Guardian.

• Progress: very positive partner relationships in

place, good pool of applicants to place as fellows.

• Next: solidify team and re-factor challenge process.
• Also: explore tie in to media web apps work.

Announce something at Festival in November?

Operational Update

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Web Made Movies

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• Highlight: established partnership Participant Media,

they will deploy Popcorn.js on Skoll Forum videos.

• Progress: released 3 new Popcorn versions this year,

adding YouTube, Vimeo, Soundcloud plugins + more.

• Also: 3 hackfests for filmmakers, more coming.
• Next challenge: how do we drive adoption and

support filmmakers who want to use Popcorn?

Operational Update

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

School of Webcraft

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• Highlight: new web site / study groups launched.

Removes two major adoption barriers.

• Progress: April courses start, some courses move to

study groups. Result: lower Q2 participation levels.

• Next challenge: hire product manager focused on

participation and scale. This is biggest gap right now.

• Funding note: Mozilla / P2PU submitted joint

proposal to Dept of Labour for web dev courses.

Operational Update

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Universal Subtitles

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• Highlight: UniSubs added to Khan Academy

(2100+ videos). Represents major new partnership.

• Progress: variable language timing and new

infrastructure added. Sales pipeline started.

• Next challenges: a) increasing the number of

translation volunteers and b) international markets.

• Metrics: 174,000 visits to site in May.

Operational Update

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Batucada

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• Highlight: Transforming Batucada into Mozilla-wide

innovation site for Drumbeat, Research and Labs.

• Rebranding “Drumbeat.org” to “Mozilla” — clearer innovation brand.
• Will break Batucada up into a set of reusable django apps, rather than a

single umbrella project. Hopefully will increase community interest.

• Progress: While still modest, community starting

to form around the Batucada software.

• Patches landed from 9 different volunteer contributors.
• P2PU has adopted Batacuda platform, others evaluating it.

Operational Update

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Mozilla Festival: London

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• Highlight: Mozilla Media, Freedom and the Web

Festival confirmed for London, Nov 4 - 6, 2011.

• Event will take place at Ravensbourne, a recently opened media and

design university in North Greenwich (beside the O2 arena).

• Progress: early commitments from MoJo partners

and others to play central roll in Festival.

• Next challenges: while ahead of last year, we

still have a short time to organize the event.

• Save the date coming in next 7 days. Should have track / hackfest lead orgs

in place by end of June. See: wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Festival2011

Operational Update

Mozilla Foundation

Operational Update

June 2011 Board of Directors Conference Call