More on Mitchell Baker

Mitchell, a member of OSAF's Board of Directors, is also responsible for community topics at OSAF. In this role she helps develop mechanisms through which OSAF employees and Chandler volunteers interact, and helps promote the development of an open-source community for Chandler. She will help OSAF develop a work style that allows the entire community to participate to the maximum extent feasible. That means getting information dispersed as quickly and effectively as possible, developing good feedback channels, driving the integration of qualified contributors into the core development team, developing policies for the project when necessary, and whatever else develops. Our shorthand for this is that she will oversee OSAF's "Community and Partner Relations."

Mitchell Baker is also the President of the Mozilla Foundation, home of the Mozilla project. The Mozilla project strives to create great software and maintain choice and innovation in key Internet applications, and is one of the largest open-source software development projects in existence. Mozilla software provides browser functionality that competes with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, email, news, and chat capabilities, as well as a framework for the creation of web-enabled applications. The Mozilla project includes paid and volunteer staff members, engineers paid by various employers to work on Mozilla, a volunteer population numbering in the thousands, a range of spin-off projects, and a set of companies using Mozilla technology to build products. The Mozilla Foundation and its affiliate "mozilla.org" guide the technical direction, development, testing, quality assurance, project management, software release, and infrastructure-building activities for this diverse group.

Prior to joining the Mozilla organization in 1999, Mitchell was Associate General Counsel for Netscape Communications Corporation, where she was responsible for all legal issues related to product development and intellectual property protection. During that time she wrote the Mozilla Public License, an open source license which has been widely adopted and emulated as a "middle ground" between the "BSD" license and the GNU General Public License.

She received her J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law and her A.B. in Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mozilla Related Documents

• Mozilla Public License: http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html
• Mozilla Roles and Responsibilities: http://www.mozilla.org/about/roles.html
• The Mozilla project and mozilla.org: http://www.mozilla.org/editorials/mozilla-overview.html
• Mozilla [code] Modules and Module Ownership: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/module-ownership.html
• Code Review Requirements: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/code-review-faq.html
• Super-review: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/reviewers.html
• Getting CVS write access: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/getting-cvs-write-access.html
• Policy on handling performance regressions: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/regression-policy.html
• Tips on Contributing New Features: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/new-features.html