“Powered by Mozilla” Update

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Last fall, I did a short blog post about how we created a “Powered by Mozilla” logo for use by organizations whose products are based on Mozilla technology, and was pleasantly surprised at the level of interest that it received. The only problem was that my original post left pretty much all of the key details, like what it actually means to be “powered by”, unresolved.

We haven’t forgotten about this, though, and lately Harvey Anderson, Paul Kim, Tiffney Mortensen and I have been working on an initial framework of how the “powered by” program might work. Tiffney has a much more thorough explanation of our thoughts so far over at her blog, but the general idea is to set some basic criteria for whether or not a product is truly powered by Mozilla, and then let the community enforce (for lack of a better word) these standards. We very much want this to be a community project, and broad participation is essential to making it work.

Our thoughts so far are definitely just a first step, and we’re counting on community participation to refine and improve them. For lots more info on all this, plus some suggestions on how you can get involved, be sure to check out Tiffney’s post on the subject.

Filed under: Branding, Mozilla, PlanetMozilla — John at 12:29 pm on Thursday, April 17, 2008

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Comment by Daniel Glazman

April 18, 2008 @ 12:36 am

I still think the “Powered by…” needs to mention Firefox.

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