Christopher Blizzard

Ari Jaaksi talks about Linux on Phones and what’s going on at Nokia.

He mentions that he’s working with us at Mozilla – very true. And good fodder for another post on another day.

He also touches on an important topic for me, which is the difference between between being “open” and being “good.” Being open is easy. Being good is not. I’ll write more about that at a later date as well.

Atul Varma talks about how Weave works and some of the wider goals for the project.

Weave is a very interesting part of the Mozilla project. The underlying mechanisms are very simple (just a webdav store and a private and public key system, basically.) But the fact that we’ll be able to use it to share data between users on their terms and extension authors should be able to take advantage of the storage that’s there – well – it could be huge. Lots of great potential here.

He also touches on an important part of weave. That we want user data to be private and we want users to control what they are exposing to the world. Mozilla’s servers can’t read the data that you post and neither can anyone else. That’s an important piece of what Weave represents.

Google drops the Google from Gears and will be adding Firefox 3 support.

It’s clear that Google is trying to build a larger community around the Gears plugin and is willing to give up branding in order to try and make that a reality. Also good that they are porting to Firefox 3 given that a huge chunk of the world is about to update to it.

Jorge Castro talks about his views on Mozilla’s commitment and investment in Linux.

Jorge is a pretty fantastic guy and I’m happy that he’s willing to jump out there and say something about the hard work that our community put in for this release of Firefox on Linux support. Great native integration, memory and performance improvements, a great experience for users, etc. Good to see him focus on the big picture which is how much better Firefox 3 will be vs. Firefox 2.

Anyway, that’s it for Friday. Thanks for tuning in!