What is Mozilla?

Most likely you have your own definition: a software company, an open source project, the maker of Firefox, a cool thing made by lots of volunteers, a non-profit, etc. If you have spent a while around Mozilla products and specially the Mozilla project your understanding is more or less complete.

For Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors, explaining what Mozilla is and what’s not to lots of influential people around the world is an important part of her job. I’ve heard her explaining the same thing a few times in the past and it’s interesting to be able to find something new in the form: a better analogy, a more powerful phrase or word.

Her recent keynote at the French Senate, kindly recorded by Mozilla Europe’s President, Tristan Nitot on February 14, is a good example of how complex it is to define the Mozilla project, specially from a business point of view.

While the message is more or less the same, specially for those who have been following the Mozilla project for some time now, I find the language in this recording to be particularly clear, powerful, broad and compact at the same time.

If you appreciate the beauty and power of language, you will certainly enjoy this recording, specially if you already know the Mozilla project innards. Click the button below to listen Mitchell’s keynote.

Download - Mitchell Baker’s keynote at the French Senate

Thanks to her and Tristan for sharing this with us.