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(Business Wire) 17 February 2004
The Mozilla Foundation and European Mozilla contributors today announced the launch of the website and the www.mozilla-europe.org Mozilla Europe non-profit organization for the promotion, development and implementation of Mozilla products in Europe to help. These products include the award-winning Mozilla 1.6 web browser.
Mozilla Europe initiative was to use Peter Van der Beken and Tristan Nitot, Mozilla contributors in Europe to Europe as the source of the authors and users of the products formed.
www.mozilla-europe.org website simultaneously in four languages (English, French, German and Spanish) were signed and highlights the added value that Mozilla Europe brings to the Mozilla project through the use of Mozilla Europe and its volunteers skills in isolation. Other translations will follow soon, starting with Dutch, Italian and Slovak.
“We see enormous potential for the Mozilla products in Europe. The European market is looking for reliable, secure, cross-platform Web browser and e-mail client and Mozilla is well positioned to deliver these needs,” says Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe. “The products are great, users love them. But we know that giving away the best products is not enough and we feel that companies and public institutions alike need local representation to discuss product evolution and ask for services before deploying Mozilla products on a large scale. We are here to help them. ”
is “We are pleased to see local, trusted, long-time Mozilla contributors create to promote the first international organization Mozilla Affiliate Mozilla development and deployment in Europe to help it enormous untapped:
Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation, added, interest. Mozilla products in Europe by end users, public institutions and the private sector and a community of volunteers, which is eager to move the project to the next level. Mozilla Europe team brings an impressive array of skills to these two objectives Mozilla reached the promotion and adoption of building an even more active community of Mozilla developers in Europe. ”
Tristan Nitot Mozilla Europe brings its experience of marketing, Technical Training, Technology Evangelism and Business Development in the IT industry, including 7 years at Netscape, AOL.
Peter Van der Beken, co-founder and CTO, Mozilla Europe brings his 5 years experience of working on the Mozilla project recently as XSLT module owner, DOM module co-owner and super-reviewer. Represented in the past, Mr. Van der Beken used to AOL / Netscape in the W3C XSLT Working Group.
Mozilla Europe Board of Directors also includes 4 other people
Pascal Chevrel, French citizens known for supporting French and Spanish Mozilla users with technical problems
Axel Hecht, played a German citizen and Mozilla;
Olivier Meunier, French citizens and Open Source Software DotClear contributors;
Jan Varga contributed Slovak citizen and Mozilla.
About Mozilla Europe
in January 2004 Founded by long-time Mozilla contributors from several European countries, Mozilla Europe is to promote, develop and contribute to the Mozilla open source software project. Mozilla Europe is France in Paris.
BasicABOUT The Mozilla Foundation
in July 2003 with start-up support from America Online Netscape division set up the Mozilla Foundation, organizational, legal and financial support exists for the Mozilla open source software to provide project. The Foundation is based in Mountain View, California and is the heir to the great legacy and tradition of the Internet’s first widely used browser, Netscape. Mozilla and the Mozilla logo are registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation.
Press contact:
In Europe:
Tristan Nitot, +33 6 11 47 05 72
E-mail: press@mozilla-europe.org
In the U.S.:
Bart Decrem, (650) 387-0625
Catherine Corre, (650) 814-1356
E-mail: press@mozilla.org
The latest Mozilla news and commentary, as well as support and discussion, please visit MozillaZine to find http://www.mozillazine.org/, the largest independent Mozilla news and support site.
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