Mozilla And Software Freedom

You,We and Mozilla

Balaji Ravichandran, Member of FSF- TamilNadu

Date : 20th July 2014,

Venue : University College of Engineering.

Villupuram.

Imagine what if the Internet was PROPRIETARY? Will you be happy?? Can you even dream of a day WITHOUT INTERNET??Would you be buying a software,an extension? A game? An OS? A player? THINK!!

Just Imagine....

Who is the victim?

We have proprietary web

applications at the moment

The one suffering at the end is

Is ULTIMATELY YOU AND ME!!!!

Problems

Centralization of the control over technology(The Web)

Dictatorship

Monopoly

Loss of creativity(losing the ability to explore things)

About Mozilla

Mozilla is a global community of volunteers, contributors and like minded people who work towards the same goal Openness, Innovation and Opportunity of the Web and associated Software

Formed on 23rd February of 1998 by Netscape Communications as Mozilla Organization

Mozilla Foundation launched on July 15, 2003.

Firefox

Worlds most advanced and secure Internet Browser.

Accounts for more than a quarter of worlds browser market share

Some of the cool features in Firefox include Tabbed Browsing,Countless extensions and addons, Builtin RSS, Firefox Sync, Panorama and the awesome bar

Firefox available in 79 languages worldwide

Above all, its free !

Why Firefox ?

Speed

Safety

Easy to use

Customization

Free as in Freedom

What we have done...

Firefox browser for desktop

Firefox browser for Android Firefox os Thunderbird Persona Bugzilla... and much more And finally,a browser to browser interaction in Firefox 33 (a touch of awesomeness :-) )

Some Useful Add-ons

Adblock Plus

Lightbeam

HTTPS Everywhere

Locale

Tor Addon

DuckDuckGo Addon

Firefox OS Simulator

Contribute !

Building a better Internet is an ambitious goal, but we believe that it is possible when people who share our passion get involved

Coders, artists, writers, testers, surfers, students, grandparentsanyone who cares about the web can help make it even better.

Find out more at : http://www.mozilla.org/contribute

Ways to Contribute...

Helping Users

Coding

Spread the World

Localisation

Contribution to Firefox OS

Documentation and more....

Yes...And what to do now...?

Start using Firefox,if you're late.. :-)

Explore about Firefox and other Mozilla products and ideas such as Webmaker.

Become a Firefox Student Ambassador

Create a Firefox Club at your Campus.

Then,the rest will be done upon interest... ;-)

Some important alphas

www.mozilla.org/firefox

Www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute

wiki.mozilla.org

mozillians.org

Webmaker.org

#firefox , #firefoxstudents

Tweet @firefox ..... :-)

Let's make the Web better
Thank You !