A Message from Mitchell Baker

Mitchell Baker, the chairperson of Mozilla Foundation,  recently sent an email regarding the state of Mozilla:

Dear Mozillans

Recently we posted our annual “State of Mozilla” (http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/annualreport/2009/) which describes what we have been working on and plans for the immediate future.  I feel personally responsible for making sure the plans for our immediate future laid out in the State of Mozilla reflect and inspire the Mozilla community.  I am asking that you help me make sure of this.

I hope you will take 15 minutes and help me understand how well the State of Mozilla reflects your view of Mozilla, your hopes for the future and anything else you’d like me to know.    Each one of you receiving this letter is a leader of Mozilla and an important force in moving the  Mozilla mission forward. I want to be sure that I understand your hopes for Mozilla and how you feel about the direction outlined in last week’s State of Mozilla report.

We’ve put together a short survey:  https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/422662/2bf0ee796d4b.  Please take 5 or 10 minutes and read the State of Mozilla — hopefully the whole thing!  Then take 5 or 10 minutes and respond.  The survey has a place to write your thoughts as well as respond to specific questions to make things easy.  If you prefer to send your thoughts separate from a survey then feel free to send me mail.   But please don’t let the idea that you’ll get to writing something someday prevent you from completing the survey now.  And if for some reason the survey is difficult for you, it would be great if you could simply jump to the second to last question (if there anything else you’d like to say) and let us know about the difficulty.

The survey does not ask for your name.  The survey does have an optional place for you to put any information you want us to know — your locale, your main roles within Mozilla, your name, or anything else you’d like us to know as we look at the responses.  This message and the survey will go to the  mailing lists for a set of our communities in Asia, South America, Europe, plus some identified groups such as student reps, marketing and the 2010 Summitters.

Please help us make Mozilla the best we can be!

Thank you,  Mitchell

I encourage folks to answer the survey to share their thoughts on the direction of Mozilla.