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Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by doublerabbit »

jernejzen wrote: post #139
Arathorn wrote: post #76

Element (the company from the Matrix.org core team) is super interested in providing refuge to Mozilla folks - we share the same goals of building the open web, albeit with a focus on open communication. (We'd put ourselves on the mozillalifeboat.com page, but I somehow doubt our Mozilla alumni uses FB... :D) Particular areas that may be of interest include developer documentation (making https://matrix.org/docs/spec…

Man, I’d really love to see Matrix to become a standard. I’d love to use it as a major goto chat/communication tool but i get frustrated with UX. Pls pls, don’t screw it.

I've been trying to get people to join "element" but it just makes the whole chat sound awkward "Hey, want to join me on element? compared to "hey, want to join me on riot". Element just doesn't have the same ring and sounds less exciting and dull.

It's not even listed in search engines, especially DDG, so I then have to give them the URL which adds to the awkwardness. It was a bad move in my opinion. Sure sure, the old name had an conversational stance but it at least it had a flow. riot.im still sounds much better then element.io

Anyway, with that aside. Thank you guys for creating something that works. It needs some polishing but I had my first voice call and to my surprised it just worked for both of us.

I still get a few confused moments with the UX from my mother like where's the enter button, and why do I need to enter so many passwords but other than that it is a charm.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by Dylan16807 »

riffic wrote: post #13

fyi for the people involved in this: use of a mozilla trademark in a domain name is subject to the mozilla (tm) trademark policy: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ I hope your project doesn't run afoul of this :)

Define "subject to".

The policy explains when they give permission, but nothing it says has any effect on which situations need permission.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by kilbuz »

causality0 wrote: post #167
lacker wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Fix The Internet incubator doesn't look like very much money is involved. A $2500 stipend for participants, a top prize of $25,000, not that much money. Whereas layoffs of 250 people will save maybe $50 - $100 million a year. Of course, perhaps they will also cut future funding to this incubator, and it's just a different timing that they announce it.

They're paying their devs 200-400 grand a year? Jesus.

Salary, bonus, healthcare, dental, 401K, office space, taxes, equipment, ... employees are not cheap. That figure would be competitive in the Bay Area for quality dev work.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by agrippanux »

gkoberger wrote: post #77

Hey all, I built this last night as a resource for connecting Mozilla Alumni during this rough time. Mozilla laid off some truly amazing people this past year.... many of whom I worked with 10 years ago when I was there. As for why there's a red panda in the boat... despite the logo distinctly picturing a fox on fire, a "firefox" is actually the name for a red panda!

I really like the boat/panda; how did you create that SVG? Source code says it was generated by Sketchapp, which I am not too familiar with.

Overall great job, its super slick.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by Bnshsysjab »

chrisseaton wrote: post #161
scarface74 wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking at the Twitter responses, I don’t know why people assume that every single Mozilla employee would put “being part of the open web and contributing to open source” above people’s crazy obsession with having a job and being able to afford food and shelter.

Right - most people just want to feed their kids first and worry about other things later. I think the idea that most Mozilla employees were working there for morals rather than being able to buy their children shoes is doubtful.

If I were to work there it wouldn’t be so much to be an open source contributor but to be at the core of modern web.

I don’t have kids so I don’t know what that part is like, though.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by riffic »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #172
riffic wrote: post #13

fyi for the people involved in this: use of a mozilla trademark in a domain name is subject to the mozilla (tm) trademark policy: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ I hope your project doesn't run afoul of this :)

Define "subject to". The policy explains when they give permission, but nothing it says has any effect on which situations need permission.

I'm not a lawyer, so I can't, won't, and don't need to answer that. However, people have had their pet projects shut down for way less obvious things than this.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by gkoberger »

agrippanux wrote: post #175
gkoberger wrote: post #77

Hey all, I built this last night as a resource for connecting Mozilla Alumni during this rough time. Mozilla laid off some truly amazing people this past year.... many of whom I worked with 10 years ago when I was there. As for why there's a red panda in the boat... despite the logo distinctly picturing a fox on fire, a "firefox" is actually the name for a red panda!

I really like the boat/panda; how did you create that SVG? Source code says it was generated by Sketchapp, which I am not too familiar with. Overall great job, its super slick.

Hey! The initial SVG was made in Sketch (looks like this: https://p195.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/OAuqBqvx/boat.s...), and I animated it with CSS.

Normally, I'd use a combo of Sketch (for making the assets) and GSAP (for animating)!

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by zekrioca »

gkoberger wrote: post #31
hijp wrote: post #17

Does anyone know how the 3d effect in the header was achieved?

It's surprisingly simple! I designed an SVG quick in Sketch, and did it in a way where I can shift things left to right. Then a few CSS animations just move things left to right. When rotated, it looks like it's rocking! Here's the initial SVG: https://p195.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/OAuqBqvx/boat.s... Everything else was just CSS

> where I can shift things left to right.

What does it mean that the image can be shifted from left to right? Just out of curiosity, because I thought at some examples such as a circle, but maybe not some complex shape?

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by [deleted] »

kilbuz wrote: post #174
causality0 wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're paying their devs 200-400 grand a year? Jesus.

Salary, bonus, healthcare, dental, 401K, office space, taxes, equipment, ... employees are not cheap. That figure would be competitive in the Bay Area for quality dev work.

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