[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we call evangelization, give talks, explain the phiilosophy behind Mozilla Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and why it's important as a browser and not just a tool. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first, I didn't like the word "evangelism". I didn't usually say Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I "evangelized" Mozilla. I had the same problem others had. For me the word is too closely related Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to religion for me to use it as my own, but after a while Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it became the word that was closest to easily explaining what I was doing when Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gave talks, especially when speaking about the philosophy of Mozilla. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not a developer and so, in general, the talks I give are Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what Mozilla is as an institution, what the Open Web is, what free software is Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Guillermo Movia. I'm part of the Mozilla Community in Argentina Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I work on the localization of products, web pages, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what the implications are of all that, what it is we do and why I believe it's important ... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and why I like doing it. Eventually, I wound up accepting that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a good way to describe it all, that it was okay to use the word "evangelism." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was during a talk ... no, I think it was it mostly during the first few times Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Chris Hoffmann. We talked about what the underlying objectives were Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what the concepts were that they had formed about Mozilla emerging as a project Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how it would be self-sustaining. Later, when I understood, when I became aware Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the breadth and the importance that the Web could have as a means of communication Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which could provide greater opportunity for creativity to each individual and not just to the mass media Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that, yes, it's pride, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a sense, like having your stomach tied up in knots, but then all of a sudden Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see it is important, it's really ..., I'm not simply translating. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mainly I think it's not so much the Web itself as I see it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather that each individual, each human being, starts to relate to others Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through what can be created on the Web.\NFor me the web it's like Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,returning to a place in which relationships were important, giving up somewhat Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the importance of the monetary in life, a return to respecting Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certain values which have nothing to do the financial economy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More respect, more interaction, a collaboration. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I don't see it as something technological, but the web in fifty Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To have more fun. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, yes, I think that the analogy between the monopoly of banks, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is, the economic monopoly of the banks, the whole banking system, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the monopoly of the Web in the hands of a few is completely valid. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where there is a monopoly or, in this case, an oligopoly in which very few Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people have much more power than others, we're going to have difficulties, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... those of us who are outside those oligopolies. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, I believe it's a good analogy because it's part of the same process, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's part of the same process which attempts make a monopoly of the Web, in the hands of a few. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the banks were more decentrailized or if we could break from that system a bit Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe it would be very interesting, in principle, small communities Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many small "movements" begun, which continue. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are interesting. Especially those that attempted to escape a bit from Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hierarchical structure of society, those that attempted to achieve a greater "horizontal" form of collaboration. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were groups that functioned via simple commerce or based on the barter of Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,products, factories revived by the workers themselves. They are all movements Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which have ... which sustain themselves because they are much more horizontal in nature Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and which have succeeded in spite of being at a disadvantage in an economic system, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enduring due to the horizontal nature of their work. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that the Web is important and is helping a great deal, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the thing that helps is horizontal collaboration. The fact that many organizations are Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,successful, like Mozilla, like other free software projects. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is important because it demonstrates the possibility of a successful, horizontal form of work, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a hierarchical structure is not needed in order to succeed. That is, it's possible for a project to be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Organizations whose objectives are horizontal, with a search for values Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not for profit. That is, it's not solely a question of economics. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were not fighting for this, the Web would become the same as the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other large mechanisms of mass communication. That is, dominated by a few, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as was the initial "information highway" project of Bill Gates, networks ... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the AOL network, the Microsoft network, the network of ... whomever, Apple now, the Facebook network.... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, I believe that if Mozilla didn't exist, we wouldn't see ... the Web wouldn't be much different from Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the other forms of communication are, it would be more about dissemination than Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would be about each person being able to create, to participate in that creation. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met with people at Mozilla, with Mitchell Baker or Chris Blizzard at that time, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they have an economic power. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From that we can achieve a situation where people can create and can take part in their culture. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years, giving each individual more power to interact with others Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and improve their lives and be happier, which in reality is what we all want. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are going to have to defeat them. At some point we are going to end up losing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working together as one. In the last crisis in Argentina, in 2001, there were Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, and this, this is why I believe it's related to the Web. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a successful project without having an economic objective. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, not just Mozilla, but Mozilla and other organizations Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that prevent or try to prevent what we see in other Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the other sectors of society. If Mozilla or other organizations Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a strange sensation because it's similar to ... anxiousness Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the evangelization, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also the philosophy behind it.