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