Hello everyone, I'm here to tell you all the truth about Maria.
So why, first of all, why can I talk about Maria today?
So I've been at Maria for 11 years and 10 days, 11 days, maybe today.
So I have been through a many different things.
I started as what we call a nicey, so in the individual contributor.
Now I'm managing an organization about 50 people, some of the managers who I work with are in the room.
And I'm a nerd and a geek at least, and I'm writing patches in Firefox.
So I know how to develop in Firefox.
I'm not putting myself in the way of actual good developers, but I'm still writing patches from time to time.
I'm also a spokesperson for the company, so that means that they can do a live interview on TV radio, mostly in French.
You can get from my accent that I'm from France.
So all the questions that you might ask me, I already had them from the list in the past.
I'm also a long time marker, so I know open source pretty well, so I've been contributing to debut on for like 20 years.
I'm also contributing to LVM and Clang, and some rest project.
If you were there yesterday, I made a talking for them.
So why is this talk?
So when I left my previous company, I was looking for a new job.
I was like, I want to do open source full-time.
And I looked at the number of companies who are offering use of kind of option.
And the modzi is amongst the only few on the planet we are.
The Galia, Colabora, Canonical, some teams in Google, Apple, and Facebook if you're lucky.
But modzi is really, really unique in that space.
And I loved falling, and I loved reading at ICONUs and read it.
And on some various websites, so if you're French and you like falling, you know, LinuxFR.
And you can read all the weird things that people are writing about us as a company and as a project and so on.
So I always love spending time with things or things.
So first, who sings in the room, you understand modia?
All right, it's the only few ends.
I see end for Mimploye, and I'm not even sure that didn't know everything about the company.
All the structure.
But first, I'm going to ask you a question.
So what do you think modia is for open source?
Hey, so a few ends in the room.
We are not doing free software at Media.
We are really on the point source company.
Even if most of our code, the vast majority of our code is on the OSI approved license.
In the room, we have one of the author of the MPL, the modia public license.
It is what we use for Firefox and most of our code.
But we are a very pragmatic company.
So for example, we use Slack, we use Google Docs.
But we are still contributing to a lot of tools and leveraging a lot of tools which
are open source like elements and discourse.
And we are paying those companies.
So we are also funding a lot of researchers who are publishing
the resultizer in science or in code.
We do that for security.
We do that for research in LLM.
One of my colleagues is doing going to do a talk right after.
But the subject, we have the Bonti program, when I was researching for
the slide, I realized that Media is the one on Net's Cave back in the day.
The one who invented the Bonti program and we are still continuing 20 or 25 years after
one of the managers that program is in the room.
Also, if you have questions about it.
And we also develop a lot of projects that are used for Firefox.
And we just announced recently a program called Orcar Ready to fund previous
session.
So when you look at the survey and type fund or some sponsoring,
they give you money to do a project.
And with that initiative, they are already project.
We give money to people who continue to be for.
So for example, we speak of the GIS.
We gave a few thousand euros to volunteer who have been contributing to that project for years.
So what I also love about reading a read it and I can use.
I did a quick search, Modia should.
And you see a lot of opinion everywhere.
So the slide.
The slide.
It doesn't.
It should have something here.
Anyway, you see a lot of people.
Everybody has an opinion about Bonti.
Yeah, what you should do.
And it's quite funny to read all of their opinion.
Sometimes it's like funny.
So everything that it isn't black is either a world that starts by FU and ends by
CK.
Or this one starts with us talking about one part of my body.
So it's an image that I received a few years ago.
It's not very uncommon to receive insult on your personal email.
So you have my personal email.
So if you don't like that talk, you can send me similar insult.
I don't mind.
But it's surprising.
And I'm not the only one.
I'm sure that plenty of my colleagues and contributors.
We see those kind of crazy melons of past.
In that case, it's because we were pushing to many updates of fireworks at some point.
And someone was not happy.
We have also a good community.
So we are plenty of tools.
If you want to be involved in the Modia project.
So we have this course.
We have connect.
So we are working with them to make it better.
And bugs here.
So if you have any issues with one of our product or if you have ideas of improvement,
you can either send them on bugs here or connect.
So who understand how Media operates in the room?
A few people.
One more time, my colleague.
So Media, the beginning was the cod name of Netscape.
When the decided that Netscape was doing to die.
If my colleague continued to ship internet explorers,
they decided to abandon source the cod.
And here is where we are 25 years after.
So we have a nonprofit, which is called Media Foundation.
And we have a few subsidiaries.
So Media Corporation, my employer, who is doing most of the development of the product currently.
And we have also the people in Thunderbird who created a different structure,
basically, and Media AI and Media venture.
And we are driven by a mission.
So everything that we do, we try to follow those 10 principles.
I have two, five or eight, out of two first.
And it is one of the reasons why I am staying at Media.
And what I am fascinated by is that we have a mission statement.
And we are trying to respect it.
So that the internet is a global public resource that must be made open and accessible.
And we can see that it is never easy.
And some political changes in some countries are making that work other and even more relevant.
So do you know how we make money?
Yeah.
A few people understand how we make money atmosphere.
It is one of the most common questions that we have.
I am sure that people who are the Media boost today are that question like 20 times already each.
So when you search in Firefox and you use one of the search engines,
quote, Ecosia, Google and so on, we get some share of that money that they are making.
And we are also starting to introduce some ads also inside our product,
because that's sponsored tile and we are also ads on MDN.
Nobody likes ad, but it is a way to farm most of the website.
And we are no different.
It is one of the best way to farm the web.
It is a way that we almost every website now is making money.
But we are also doing some subscription models like VPN, really, and forget for the much farmers.
However, the folks from Thunderbird are decided to go with a different kind of funding.
So they are relying on the nation.
They are thinking about what's next, but it works well for them.
They have been able to hire a lot of people to work on Thunderbird 6 to that.
So what about Firefox?
So I'm biased. I've been working on Firefox for like 11 years, so I'm going to talk about what I know best.
So as you can see someone with Firefox, what do we do?
I disagree with that statement.
We are almost all the time as fast as Chrome on desktop,
when we look at the speedometer benchmark.
We are doing amazing work in time of web compact.
It's 99% the same as Chrome.
If you look at the dashboard, it's a dashboard that we collaborate with.
Our competitor to make it better.
We have a lot of functional privacy protection to protect our users.
And one of the key features that we have on Android is that we have web extension.
Everybody understand what it means, web extension on the phone.
If you have been using the phone, you see this full of apps on website.
And the web extension on Firefox for Android is amazing.
We have a lot of contributor and a lot of commits.
I'm not going to go into the details.
We did some kind of presentation.
She also go if you want the details.
So you also that meme.
Firefox is one of the most complex piece of software that we create on the planet.
I said earlier that I'm contributing to Linux distribution and compiler and rest.
And those three things are easy compared to a browser in my opinion.
If you think about it, a web browser is like an operating system where you do everything.
So you have also to remember that we run untrusted code every day.
And we keep the user safe so we run JavaScript, HTML, CSS, web assembly.
And you have to do that very fast, very quick.
And without any security issue, I need to be able to manage the crappy website that people have been writing for 20 years.
We are also the only major engine left.
I'm saying major because we know I'm aware of server and ladybird.
But I'm waiting for them to have a lot of users that they can turn in that game with Firefox.
We have a lot of million of users.
And when you think about it, our competitors, they are part of the 10 of the S&P 500 in the US.
We have also some things that we don't communicate a lot.
But we have a huge impact on the web standard.
So we work a lot with our competitor to improve the state of the web.
And one of the things that we cannot communicate on is when we block some initiative from our competitors,
because it can be used for finger printing or the kind of things.
Firefox. Everybody is saying that Firefox is dying, but it's not true.
We have been growing on Linux desktop on Android and iOS, we get more and more users every day.
I love watching especially.
We understood that I'm a gig and Linux users.
Every time I look at the Linux dashboard and it's going up.
So I like it.
And we have a very different perception and usage depending on the country.
So in France and Germany in particular, everybody knows about the Firefox logo.
And we still have a lot of users.
Ten of millions of users to countries.
And one of the things that you have to keep in mind is that you don't control the word map when you are a web browser.
You have almost 100 people that are just going to be there to implement what is happening in the standard body.
So it's a network.
And then you have all the ecosystem that it is moving.
So new version of Windows, Mac, Linux.
You have the changes in libraries or GTK2 to GTK3 and then GTK4.
You have the hardware which is evolving.
So when you have a company with an app or a logo,
shipping moving from Intel to ARM, you have to follow that.
And then you have all the attacker who are trying to liken to your software.
And so you have to adjust and you have to put some more security.
So it's super expensive and complex to maintain a browser.
But we took bunch of Firefox.
Keep in mind that we did a lot of things in the web and we contributed a lot.
So let's increase by the assembly.
You have the list.
I will share this later.
But we have been contributing a lot to the ecosystem.
Yesterday I did some product placement for the fire first profile.
And simply, which are also coming from Maria, which are amazing tools.
We are also doing a translation with AI very differently.
So when you do translation in Firefox, we are not sending the content of the pages
to the web site to another website.
We are doing it locally.
We do not know the model and we do everything locally to preserve your privacy.
And that's but the list.
If you stay in that room, you are going to hear about where the extension
and elements are brought by type.
For the matter of time, to keep time for question, I will move quickly.
So telemetry.
A lot of people complain about telemetry in the open source world.
But it's a big deal and it's key for us to do a great work.
If we don't have telemetry, we don't know what to use.
And therefore we don't know what we should work on.
So if we notice that the feature is very well used.
We are going to invest more.
If nobody uses a feature, what's a point, maybe we should remove it.
And without telemetry, you are flying blind basically.
And the opportunity, we have a lot of passionate users.
It took me only five seconds to find those articles or those comments.
We have a lot of passionate users who have been supporting us for a long time.
And we realize there are other work that it is to develop a browser.
We do also a lot of other cool stuff at Medziah.
So send a bird.
I have been a send a bird user since that's case.
Basically, so I love it.
At the end, it's probably the best platform if you do web development.
We do a lot of other projects like VPN, monitor plus and relay.
We are pushing into responsible advertising, which is quite hard to do.
And we have a lot of AI project.
I'm a huge supporter of AI.
I think it's making us much faster and much better and simplifying our lives.
I know that this opinion is not always shared.
And you will have some of my colleagues.
They're new.
It's a great work that we have been doing in the space.
And times up.
Perfect.
Unfortunately, time is not completely up.
We have five minutes for questions.
So if you want to ask whatever questions you have in your head,
just raise your hand.
I'll give you the mic.
Again, I'm going to repeat things for people that were
late in the room.
Exit is downstairs.
And we have stickers and everything out there.
I'll bring the mic.
Okay.
Hi.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for the nice presentation.
I just have one question about one of your products.
I've heard that Mozilla is exploring services as a source of income.
Can you speak louder?
Oh, okay.
I saw that Mozilla is exploring services as a ways of income.
And I saw VPN, right?
So it's like a competitor to serve shark and these kinds of VPNs.
It's a VPN client like most of the ones that you will find on the market.
It's fully open.
So you can access to the source code of the client.
But does it have a subscription?
Yeah, you have a subscription.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Nice.
Thanks.
More questions?
You briefly mentioned it, but how is Mozilla doing really?
Is it dying?
Yeah.
You mentioned it, but I've been worried about Mozilla and for your folks for four years now.
You're still around, apparently.
But yeah.
It's a fact question.
To be honest, I have been getting that question for 11 years since I joined.
Yeah, we are doing well.
We are one of the things is that you can look at our finance.
We are very transparent.
So you can see all the details about how we spend our money and so on.
We are growing on some platform.
It's harder to compete on Windows and Mac because, you know, our competitors, they
control the full stack and they have a slight tendency to promote their product instead of
the competitors.
But I know we are doing well.
The reason please are to change on Fenderbird funding.
Why not operating something similar?
Can you speak louder?
I'm starting to be also.
There is a new way to fund Fenderbird.
Why not embracing the same thing for Mozilla?
If we want to unite, for example, the money will be aggregated and then reshared.
And we cannot decide what our money is going to fund.
Why can't we decide it's like Fenderbird?
So if I understood correctly your question, you are thinking if I are focusing on the donation base.
Right?
Well, I think it's great like Fenderbird is doing.
Why not doing the same?
Because when I saw what the money is going to be spent off, it's going to be spent
for all the advertising or other products such as AI and stuff.
Why can't I decide to contribute to the browser itself and just for this?
So we are not in donation.
We don't get an as money and we have a unique business model with a self-like.
If you look at first them who is attending, there is no such company that is making that money with free
and open source software.
So we decide to spend our money on marketing because we think it makes sense for the product to be known.
And we see the value.
So when we spend money on marketing, I know that for us as a geek, as a geek community, it's not, it's feels weird.
But we really see an update when we spend some money in some places for a campaign.
So marketing for the kind of software when you have a lot of competition is really necessary.
And then you can be involved in the community.
There are things that are going to be hard to influence on, but you can be involved when you can have your word to say
if you want to ship some feature in Firefox or if you want to be involved.
Did I answer to the question? You don't feel convinced.
We can discuss after a while that it's a long subject.
Hello.
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
I've been using Firefox for years already.
I like Firefox. One browser allows me to not see a single ad, which for me's great.
And I don't want to get conspiratorial, but I've read this online.
And I'm just curious of how it affects the foundation, right?
Because you guys receive a lot of donations that you imagine there.
And there's like, you know, poster on that say, like, most of the funding for most of your consumer companies like Google,
or the 90% of the funding concern Google.
So I'm wondering, like, what is the actual real number and be, like, does it create a conflict of interest in the development of most of your browser?
It's a good question. It's a question that I get for a new regional list.
It's a bit less than 90. I think it's closer to 80.
As far as I know, I'm not part of the negotiating team between Google and Modia,
but in the technical discussion and the roadmap, I've never seen any influence from our partners like Google or Quentin.
So, and I think also the collaboration I like to highlight is that our competition with our competitors is usually very healthy.
We work together. We have mainly these with our competitors. We're sometimes we answer,
we feel some very, we sense them some security issues.
We, we simply told Microsoft that they are the zero day in the occurred base.
So we collaborate a lot on the technical level.
And some of my colleagues make this a great, but I never seen any influence from them on our roadmap and decision.
Yeah.
But there's a good question.
Can you share numbers?
What kind of numbers?
How much money you spend on marketing, for instance?
If you know from top of the rules, I know you don't know.
But I'm asking you.
You have that in the very thought from the foundation.
Yeah. Thank you.
You can ask questions because we're running out of time.
Thank you.
What is the biggest threat you see for a particular?
Easy question from a friend.
Yes.
What is the biggest threat for fire folks?
At least is the fact that our competitors, they control the platform.
So you are aware that if you use an iOS device, it's harder for us to push our technology on iOS
because of the constraints that we get on the platform.
So it's how do you promote your project when your competitor are shipping by default.
There's software.
And it has been a struggle.
Well, not a struggle.
But our focus for years.
Thank you very much.
And the things around Stephen is a very good speaker.
We'll have fun.
No pressure.
Again, if you want to leave the room, please do so downstairs.
There's like stickers you can take all over the tables that we have.
And our next speaker is Stephen Hood.
I'm not lying.
I'm not saying that to you.
It's a gentleman.
I'm not saying that to you.
You don't shamanah team.
Guys come on station.
They can't go out.
Oh, sir.
I don't care if you don't find a match.
I do.