Community-Driven Innovation

Mozilla Labs Pascal Finette

Motivation
Grow & develop a community of builders

10x our innovation output

Gain skills in important new areas (mobile, social, )

What A program to bring teams with concrete bold ideas for the Open Web into our MozSpaces and help them build their products.

How
A four week long accelerator program with a rolling submission process for Hackers, Builders & Entrepreneurs in our Mozilla Spaces who work alongside us, get help & mentorship with the goal to build a MVP *
* Minimum Viable Product

Process

Your Project Submissions Jams Challenges Hack Days

Project Awesome? Try again

ACCELERATE
Minimum Viable Product Nay. Yay! Support Build, Build, Build!

Why
Focus to Build
Space, time, infrastructure, tools, food, shelter everything to get to a minimum viable product

Learn & Grow

Receive mentorship and advice from some of the brightest people around

Mozilla

Work alongside the Mozilla crew in one of the MozSpaces &get direct access to Mozilla

Requirements
Open Source
The source code is tri-licensed under the MPL, GPL and LPGL licenses

Open Standards

Use of existing open standards where they exist and pushing for standards where they are missing

Of The Web

Decentralized, interoperable, privacy & people centric, secure,

Areas
Identity
Put me into control of how I am represented on the Web

Contextual Integrity

I live my life in different contexts, preserve this on the Web

Social

Connect me easily with people, communities, and content

Read-Write Ability
Make and keep the Web hackable

User Mediated Data

Core

My data is mine, data exchanges are brokered under my terms

Ensure that the foundational technologies of the Web are competitive & foster innovation

Personalization

Make the Web work for me