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Mitchell Baker Biography

Winifred Mitchell Baker is the Executive Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.

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But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort of read right past it. So. On the sex symbol piece, I don't get that piece. On the personality piece, that people are excited to meet a leader from Mozilla - maybe there's more about meeting me personally than I give credit for, but I find that people are excited about what Mozilla is, more than 'Oh my god, there's Mitchell, look, her hair,' whatever.

Hair, Mozilla, Past, Piece, Sex, Used

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.

Mozilla, Photograph, Theme, Nature, Themes

There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like.

Beautiful, Technology, Space, Like, Unless

What's been most helpful to me is realizing that those times when all the heads in the room turn and look at me as if I was crazy, reinforce my own leadership capability. Because I've been in a number of those settings where I've been right. And I've been right often enough that now when it happens I don't automatically think, "Oh, my, what's wrong with me?" or "Ohhh, I must not be ready for this role," or "They know so much more than I do. "

Capability, Crazy, Numbers, Room, Think, Thinking

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

Independent, Organization, Foundation

Usually, you know, you're at a table and you're the only woman, you've got this idea, you finally speak up - I mean, I've been in some settings where every head turns toward me and then they all turn away as if I've never spoken. Which I think happens when whatever I said was so out of the blue, or so awkward, that they just didn't know how to respond.

Mean, Thinking, Blue, Table, Said

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

Broken Heart, People, Foundation, Broken, Base, Expertise

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

Classic, Contribution, Differences, Grateful, People, Receive

I guess my other advice is that it's really good to be comfortable among groups of men! It's just a very common work setting and I don't actually think about it too much, but there must be some comfort level that I've developed over the years.

Men, Thinking, Years, Developed, Common, Comfortable

The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.

Lines, Mozilla, Projects, Complexity, Terms

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

People, Benefits, Levels, Benefit, Gut

Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation and leadership, not solely on employment or a title or a business plan. Technical colleagues will define "open" as "open standards," "interoperable" - you can find it, search it, cut and paste it, view source, mix and match - all those things that we associate with text on the Web, that you can continue to do that with audio and video and whatever's next.

Continue, Cutting, Decision, Solely, Things, Views

The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

Powerful, Most Powerful, Platforms, Platform, Seen

I'm excited about mobile; clearly that's important. Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't. We're excited at the idea that we can make the same kind of contribution in the mobile space. So that's one thing coming down the pike.

Devices, Ideas, Kind, Opposites, Pretty, Space

Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.

Jobs, Smart, Giving, Respect, Leadership, Give

I mean, who wants to live waking up. . . at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

Everyday, Live, Mean, Revenge

So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.

Commercial, Good, Internet, Progressive, Software, Views

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

Thinking, Difficult, Accustomed, Changes, Think

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

Thinking, People, Sticks, Developers, Base, Anarchistic

WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko.

Want, Mozilla, Boxes, Worldgate, Interact, Things

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