Talk "Mozilla Foundation: Towards the Web as a Platform"

Thursday April 25 at 12:30

El Thursday April 25 at 12:30 The talk "Mozilla Foundation: Towards the Web as a Platform" by Guillermo Lopez. Guillermo began collaborating with Mozilla at the age of 17, when he was in his 2nd year of high school, helping with product translations, until he became an active member of the largest Mozilla community in the world, Mozilla Hispano, where he is the project coordinator. FirefoxOS, after having gone through most of the projects, such as assistance, technical administration and news. Currently, he works at Telefónica I+D, in the FirefoxOS project, where he performs backend tasks and the development of the push notification platform that will take FirefoxOS and that it will be usable by any browser on the web today.

Mozilla has accomplished incredible things in the world of the internet since its inception some 15 years ago. At first, a group of crazy people decided that the best thing to do was to release the source code of Netscape, in an incomprehensible move when the .coms were in their strongest and most affluent zone, and when Netscape was a product that gave profits and practically the only one in the company.

However, Microsoft put all the meat on the grill with Internet Explorer, which caused the web to stagnate, because once they had achieved the largest market share (over 90%), they were in a very stable position, no need to change anything, because IE was the de facto browser on all Windows.

Thus, Mozilla created a better browser, adding new features that made users change, web developers took it into account, and it was able to arrive, with less than 100 employees, but a community of thousands of people, up to 30 % of the internet market, which translates into about 600 million users. Mozilla then freed the internet from the shackles of Internet Explorer.

Now, we have the fight of mobile devices, where there is hardly any freedom, there is no operating system that is 100% free, so Mozilla has decided to use what it knows best, the web, to create a totally free and open OS for that everyone can use it. Based on web technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, the potential is very high. It's also quite an engineering challenge, but if we do it once with Internet Explorer, we're confident this will be our second release for users.