Everyone has his own definition, and the Mozilla Foundation wants to find out yours.
What, exactly, is the Open Web?
Whether it means an Internet where all content is free or an online existence where all software is a simple no-charge download away, the Mozilla Foundation is trying to figure out just what the Open Web means to people.
To Mozilla, it means:
- Making software that allows everyone to access the Internet.
- Empowering people to do new and unanticipated things on the web.
- Fostering a healthy ecosystem for open source and free culture communities.
- Creating learning opportunities for people around the world.
- Protecting individual’s security and privacy when they are online.
As part of its Open Web project, though, the foundation is asking we, the people, what it means. Users are encouraged to share their definition in a variety of ways. They can post it on Mozilla’s Open Web cause page. They can post it on pretty much any social network of their choice, so long as it’s tagged #mozopen, as Mozilla will be collating the responses using FriendFeed. The feed eventually will be posted to the Open Web page, as well.I just shared my definition of what an Open Web means to me. Why don’t you share yours? https://mozilla.org/open #mozopen” And you get a whole 500 characters to state your definition – in these 140-character days, that’s practically a novel.2010 T-shirt. It may be a T-shirt design competition, but its goals are no less lofty than the foundation’s:
People can create art or share photos and offer to allow Mozilla to contact them for a more in-depth discussion.
Already a few dozen people have tweeted, “
And if you wanna get really creative, Mozilla’s looking for someone to design the official
The goal of this challenge is to design a shirt that captures the unique essence of Mozilla and the principles it stands for. The winning design will be printed as the Mozilla Foundation’s official 2010 t-shirt and will be made available as an exclusive item for contributors. The winner will also be featured on various Mozilla websites, including the Creative Collective homepage and the Mozilla Blog.
I’ll be checking back in on the Open Web project in the coming weeks to see how people are defining it. I won’t be designing a T-shirt. Trust me, it wouldn’t be pretty.
