Mozilla Announces Enterprise User Working Group 156
Lennie sends this quote from an announcement at the Mozilla blog:
"Recently there has been a lot of discussion about enterprises and rapid releases. Online life is evolving faster than ever and it's imperative that Mozilla deliver improvements to the Web and to Firefox more quickly to reflect this. This has created challenges for IT departments that have to deliver lots of mission-critical applications through Firefox. Mozilla is fundamentally about people and we care about our users wherever they are. To this end, we are re-establishing a Mozilla Enterprise User Working Group as a place for enterprise developers, IT staff and Firefox developers to discuss the challenges, ideas and best practices for deploying Firefox in the enterprise."
Re:"Re-establishing" (Score:5, Informative)
in total three "meetings" [mozilla.org]. and - history repeats itself - the same problems with Firefox in enterprise environments:
* Packaging (MSI)
* Settings Management (GPO)
And the blog with the meeting notes is deleted [blogspot.com]. as I expected: This was a _really_ important project for Mozilla...
Re:"Re-establishing" (Score:5, Informative)
The previous EWG was my effort and yes I believe it it failed because of a lack of interest by Mozilla.
The old information is here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Old [mozilla.org]
And yeah, it is sad that the blog came down with the meeting notes.
It looks like the wayback machine caught my back though
http://web.archive.org/web/20080608175739/http://e2pt0.blogspot.com/2007/08/firefox-ewg-meeting-2.html [archive.org]
At least for some posts.
Re:LOL (Score:4, Informative)
"I wonder if that guy is still the community coordinator for marketing..."
I'm not. I haven't been involved heavily in marketing since a year or so after I co-founded SpreadFirefox back in 2004. I'm currently the Director of the Firefox Desktop product.
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