“The Mozilla Developer Network, which hosts free, open access to web standard documentation, tools, samples and other good stuff, is going pay-for-play with a premium subscription plan that adds new personalization features.
The Firefox maker announced today the subscription service, called MDN Plus, saying it will add three features for paid MDN users at launch: Notifications, collections, and MDN Offline….”
“For both MDN and Open Web Docs (OWD), transparency is paramount to our missions. With the upcoming launch of MDN Plus, we believe it’s a good time to talk about how our two organizations work together and if there is a financial relationship between us. Here is an overview of how our missions overlap, how they differ, and how a premium subscription service fits all this….
MDN and Open Web Docs are different organizations; while our missions and goals frequently overlap, our work is not identical. Open Web Docs is an open collective, with a mission to contribute content to open source projects that are considered important for the future of the Web. MDN is currently the most significant project that Open Web Docs contributes to….
Mozilla and Open Web Docs collaborate closely on sustaining the Web Docs part of MDN. The Web Docs part is and will remain free and accessible to all. Each organization shoulders part of the costs of this labor, from our distinct budgets and revenue sources….”
Education was already moving online, when covid19 hit; now learners, K-12 to grad school and beyond seek and find knowledge virtually and voraciously, even outside formal schooling. Meanwhile, museum educators open treasuries of educational digital cultural objects to locked-down publics. OER OpenGLAM promises to free knowledge. Openness counters copyright and paywalls, but it can re-entrench cultural appropriation and omissions. Not “neutral,” metadata reproduces particular cultural perspectives and biases. A digital crossroads arises: the colonial legacies of museum collections and academic canons get reproduced in OER–unless interrupted. What is the pedagogical and methodological potential of metadata, for tracing and transcending the plunder and empire embodied in digital cultural heritage objects’ journeys? These encounters teach critical analysis, agency, anticolonial dreaming, indigenous data sovereignty. We invite educators to think through descriptive metadata and geographic taxonomy as useful platforms for recovering, reclaiming, layering, and liberating cultural knowledges and diverse ontologies.
Education was already moving online, when covid19 hit; now learners, K-12 to grad school and beyond seek and find knowledge virtually and voraciously, even outside formal schooling. Meanwhile, museum educators open treasuries of educational digital cultural objects to locked-down publics. OER OpenGLAM promises to free knowledge. Openness counters copyright and paywalls, but it can re-entrench cultural appropriation and omissions. Not “neutral,” metadata reproduces particular cultural perspectives and biases. A digital crossroads arises: the colonial legacies of museum collections and academic canons get reproduced in OER–unless interrupted. What is the pedagogical and methodological potential of metadata, for tracing and transcending the plunder and empire embodied in digital cultural heritage objects’ journeys? These encounters teach critical analysis, agency, anticolonial dreaming, indigenous data sovereignty. We invite educators to think through descriptive metadata and geographic taxonomy as useful platforms for recovering, reclaiming, layering, and liberating cultural knowledges and diverse ontologies.
“Established in 2003, and guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, the Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all….
Mozilla Foundation is seeking a Director of Advocacy to help design and implement programs that shape and move public opinion to advance internet health. In particular, Mozilla’s advocacy program focuses on holding companies accountable for making meaningful changes within consumer technology products. To do this, our team powerfully shapes the agenda for action, designs public campaigns calling on specific product changes, generates earned media of our work to key audiences leading change in this space. The Director, along with the Director of Digital Engagement, reports to the Vice President, Advocacy and Engagement….”
“The Open COVID Pledge, a project of an international coalition of scientists, technologists, and legal experts, has been created to address this issue. The project calls on companies, universities and other organizations to make their intellectual property (IP) temporarily available free of charge for use in ending the pandemic and minimizing its impact.
Mozilla is grateful to the organizers of and contributors to the Open COVID Pledge, and is proud to support this critical effort. We are an organization dedicated to keeping the internet open and accessible to all. We support the open exchange of ideas, technologies, and resources in our day-to-day work and recognize the power of removing barriers in this time of crisis to preserve the social fabric and save lives.
We invite others to join us in supporting this important initiative to help combat the spread of COVID-19.”
“The Open COVID Pledge, a project of an international coalition of scientists, technologists, and legal experts, has been created to address this issue. The project calls on companies, universities and other organizations to make their intellectual property (IP) temporarily available free of charge for use in ending the pandemic and minimizing its impact.
Mozilla is grateful to the organizers of and contributors to the Open COVID Pledge, and is proud to support this critical effort. We are an organization dedicated to keeping the internet open and accessible to all. We support the open exchange of ideas, technologies, and resources in our day-to-day work and recognize the power of removing barriers in this time of crisis to preserve the social fabric and save lives.
We invite others to join us in supporting this important initiative to help combat the spread of COVID-19.”
“Mozilla is announcing today the creation of a COVID-19 Solutions Fund as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS). Through this fund, we will provide awards of up to $50,000 each to open source technology projects which are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in some way….”
“Mozilla is announcing today the creation of a COVID-19 Solutions Fund as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS). Through this fund, we will provide awards of up to $50,000 each to open source technology projects which are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in some way….”
At Mozilla, one of our core principles is openness. This inspires us to create open-source products and projects ourselves — but also to support like-minded thinkers outside our organization who share our mindset.
Today, we’re announcing our nine latest Open Science Mini-Grants: funding for researchers who are making science more accessible, transparent, and reproducible. We believe that when more people have access to manuscripts, data, code, and other research materials, innovation and progress become the status quo.
The nine winning projects are novel: They make gene editing technology more accessible, they teach open research best practices, they empower browser-based biomedical research, and more. Winners span five countries, but are united by the themes of biomedicine and, in many cases, artificial intelligence.
Awards range from $3,000 to $10,000 USD. These winners were among those who responded to Mozilla’s February 2019 Call for Proposals.
Meet our latest winners: …”
“Today, we’re announcing our latest Mozilla Science Mini Grant awardees: eight projects from six different countries that merge open-source values with scientific research.
Among the projects receiving funds: a community-owned publishing platform for research. A three-day hackathon for scientists in the life sciences, and open-source protocols for analyzing the yeast DNA in beer.
These grants are part of Mozilla’s larger Fellowships and Awards work. They are made possible by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust….”
“This repo is a contribution to the Mozilla Global Sprint 2018 and focused on brainstorming for the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST).”
“Tobias Wenzel (@MakerTobey) is a scientist, bioengineer and Open Hardware advocate at the University of Cambridge with roots in Germany and Chile. Tobey was selected to join our current round of Mozilla Open Leaders with two of his project, DocuBricks and the Journal of Open Hardware. Together, the two projects form Digital Infrastructure for Open Science Hardware.”
“One of our project recently accepted into Mozilla Open Leaders Mozilla Open Leadership training series. One of the initial task, is to share vision of the project.”