Comments on: Powered by Mozilla? http://blog.robotfromthefuture.com/powered-by-mozilla Robot space invaders are coming for your brains! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:50:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jigar Shah http://blog.robotfromthefuture.com/powered-by-mozilla#comment-134 Jigar Shah Thu, 01 May 2008 19:00:43 +0000 http://blog.robotfromthefuture.com/powered-by-mozilla#comment-134 I think question you raised is true. What happens to quality and reliability ? If Tomorrow someone comes up with an credit card app based on Xulrunner and tht guy has not fully integrted code for security fix or he is actually stealing data and installing malware through plugi or extension it will definitely damages mozilla's goal of open and safer web. I think as mike says is right . Application should follow some basic and most important guideline to be allowed to have "Powered by mozilla" logo. The rights should remain with communiy I think question you raised is true. What happens to quality and reliability ? If Tomorrow someone comes up with an credit card app based on Xulrunner and tht guy has not fully integrted code for security fix or he is actually stealing data and installing malware through plugi or extension it will definitely damages mozilla’s goal of open and safer web. I think as mike says is right . Application should follow some basic and most important guideline to be allowed to have “Powered by mozilla” logo. The rights should remain with communiy

]]> By: Bill Roper http://blog.robotfromthefuture.com/powered-by-mozilla#comment-76 Bill Roper Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:56:55 +0000 http://blog.robotfromthefuture.com/powered-by-mozilla#comment-76 The concept of involving your community in the policing the standards of what "Powered by Mozilla" means is a solid one. Communities are, by nature, self-policing. The online power of this can already been seen on such sites as EBay, FaceBook, MySpace, and many more. By granting your community the tools, power, and responsibility of maintaining their own part of the digital world, it empowers them and also provides an incentive to take greater pride in their work and the work of others. In my 14 years of experience in the games industry, I have found that making your community work for you is an amazingly powerful and effective thing. Our players are the first line of defense for our product, let us know when we're doing things right (and wrong), and are driven by their passion for what we create to be the best it can. With an open-source project such as Mozilla, this is increase by the fact that your community is more than users - they are creators. They will strive that much harder to have the "Powered by Mozilla" branding mean something if their projects can earn the seal. It very much follows some of the concepts we see in Guild memberships in Role-Playing Games. You want someone in your guild who is a great player, is well-known in the community, and represents your organization well. If the community has a vested interest not only in using the Mozilla code base, but also being responsible for ensuring the quality required to bear the label "Powered by Mozilla" you will have a dedicated group of users making the overall experience more positive. The concept of involving your community in the policing the standards of what “Powered by Mozilla” means is a solid one. Communities are, by nature, self-policing. The online power of this can already been seen on such sites as EBay, FaceBook, MySpace, and many more. By granting your community the tools, power, and responsibility of maintaining their own part of the digital world, it empowers them and also provides an incentive to take greater pride in their work and the work of others.

In my 14 years of experience in the games industry, I have found that making your community work for you is an amazingly powerful and effective thing. Our players are the first line of defense for our product, let us know when we’re doing things right (and wrong), and are driven by their passion for what we create to be the best it can. With an open-source project such as Mozilla, this is increase by the fact that your community is more than users - they are creators. They will strive that much harder to have the “Powered by Mozilla” branding mean something if their projects can earn the seal.

It very much follows some of the concepts we see in Guild memberships in Role-Playing Games. You want someone in your guild who is a great player, is well-known in the community, and represents your organization well. If the community has a vested interest not only in using the Mozilla code base, but also being responsible for ensuring the quality required to bear the label “Powered by Mozilla” you will have a dedicated group of users making the overall experience more positive.

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