Amy Lee “Part of working open is to put everything together in such a way that you can communicate ideas to the public, to other scientists, and in an open access journal.”
Harry Smith “I feel comfortable giving feedback, whether it's negative or positive. Mozilla has feels like a safe space for me to do that.”
Priyanka Nag “I've met some awesome people in my journey who have helped and motivated me. I want to give the same experience to others — to make sure that when they share their story, it's a very happy journey and a very happy story.”
Liv Detlif “Stories are extremely important and useful. You can read books on a theoretical level, but it can be difficult for people to translate and relate to — the stories will hopefully make those theories more applicable.”
Randy MacDonald “Part of working openly was capturing ideas and putting them out there for feedback from a broader community — even from people that aren’t working or going to be working on your project.”
Gina Tesoriero “It's challenging to find a balance — to structure and support the kids that need it, but also give them the freedom to fail and bring their own interests into things.”
Niberca (Gigi) Polo “In my work in academia, our meetings with Hive networks has helped me expand my research on e-learning, emerging virtual spaces, and digital equity and inclusive practices.”
Chris (Spike) Foote “I believe that we should be working to lower the barriers — to give more people the power to use and create the web.”
Anelda Van der Walt “The open internet is the thing that makes my job possible — that makes it possible for my company to exist.”
Fatma Guerfali “I'm a biologist doing bioinformatics work — without this kind of openness in science, I wouldn’t be able to do what I do.”
Eva Constantaras “As awareness increases, so does media literacy, information literacy, data literacy, and the ability to understand and evaluate giant streams of information.”
Christine Zhang “Mozilla has encouraged me to think about things in a different way — to think about how groups can match up, even if they haven't in the past or don't usually.”
Brian Bot “The Working Open Workshop forced me to pay attention to adjacent disciplines and how they deal with the same problems we see in biomedical research.”
Rob Schaefer “It’s important to be OK with mistakes or negative results — to be OK with trying something different or new — to know that your successes are measured incrementally.”
Anna Krystalli “The greatest moral questions of our times are played out on the web and in the fight to keep it open.”
Christie Bahlai “During my fellowship I developed an open science and reproducible research course — my students' work was then highlighted in Science Magazine.”
Joe McNamee “Our Open Web Fellow is helping us bring practical understanding to the political debate.”
David Humphrey “I teach how to participate in collaborative projects. I set up a bike lane, so we’re on the same road as Mozilla, but we’re off to the side.”
Willow Brugh "We might be able to build a different future, rather than the one we’re sleepwalking into."
Stuart Lynn “Help people cross boundaries: That’s what Mozilla does best. They help people hear each other’s voices.”