Introducing Mozilla Open Mic
Last week, Mozilla Slovenia was the first community to take over our new, open Instagram channel — mozillagram — to live-gram their localization hackathon as part of our Open Mic program and the calendar is booking up with other Mozillian communities ready to do the same.
Giving the keys to official social channels might scare some, but openness is in our DNA and we want that openness to extend to every aspect of our brand.
Mozilla Open Mic is a decentralized, open-source brand storytelling program, powered by Mozillians & open to the world. Our hypothesis is that only by embracing our brand heritage of open can we achieve our Mission of protecting the free web.
Open means designed for participation- from collaborative tools to completely open-to-the-public meetings. Transparency becomes moot when involvement is implicit.
We soft launched Moz Open Mic in April and are scaling the program through agile experiments and small tests.
There are three characteristics that we strive to be described as and that guide our strategy:
Networked & Diverse
We have a vast community of people (some 30,000) spread across the globe contributing to Mozilla’s mission. Whether they are coding pages, fixing bugs, running social communities or blogging, this network is extremely powerful when it’s connected and aligned.
Diversity is not a by-product. It is intentional. Only by seeking out and then promoting different voices can we capture authentic stories.
Glocal
To be successfully decentralized means ideas can and will be catalyzed from anywhere. And yet we know that we need common ideas for a united understanding and shared vision.
Mozilla Open Mic seeks to synthesize local interests & global agendas.
Optimistic & Human-powered
We believe that human potential is what will make our technological future bright. By focusing this program on the people we believe we can grow mind-share for the issues Mozilla cares about most.
This Medium publication, like our program, will be crowdsourced, lent out and multi-authored. It will be a home for the progress and the learnings, for the successes and the misses. But mostly it will be yours, so what do you want to share with the world?
Thank you to the people and companies who have been working with us so far to make this a reality: Mozilla Bolivia — Hugo Acosta; Mozilla Brasil — Adriano Cuppello and Cynthia Pereira; Mozilla Egypt — Bahy Mohamed; Mozilla India — Jafar Muhammed; Mozilla Indonesia — Yofie Setiawan; Mozilla Kisumu — Chandi Tome; Mozilla Mexico — Luis Sánchez, Liza Platae, Yuliana, Jusaí Prieto, & Daniella Abarrán; Mozilla Philippines — Robert [Bob] Reyes and Faye Tandong; Mozilla Netherlands — Wim Benes; Mozilla Romania — Ioana Chiorean; Mozilla Slovenija — Nino Vranešič, Mozilla Venezuela — Miguel Useche, Jeff Elders at Wikimedia, Esra'a Al Shafei, Nathaniel Manning at Ushahidi, Ki Coale and Jon Johns from O’Reilly and Jono Bacon.
To find out more and get involved email us at openmic@mozilla.com.
