"The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility
and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and
equitable technical future for us all.
On 09.11.2024 um 09:13 Uhr Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
"The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility
and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and
equitable technical future for us all.
Maybe they should drop all the agile stuff.
Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
by Zack Whittaker, November 5, 2024
- https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/
"The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser
maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the
organization says it faces a "relentless onslaught of change."
When reached by TechCrunch, Mozilla Foundation's communications
chief Brandon Borrman confirmed the layoffs in an email.
"The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility
and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and
equitable technical future for us all. That unfortunately means
ending some of the work we have historically pursued and
eliminating associated roles to bring more focus going forward,"
read the statement shared with TechCrunch.
According to its annual tax filings, the Mozilla Foundation
reported having 60 employees during the 2022 tax year. The number
of employees at the time of the layoffs was closer to 120 people,
according to a person with knowledge. When asked by TechCrunch,
Mozilla's spokesperson did not dispute the figure.
This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting
dozens of employees who work on the side of the organization that
builds the popular Firefox browser.
Mozilla is made up of several organizations, one of which is the
Mozilla Corporation, which develops Firefox and other technologies,
and another is its nonprofit and tax-exempt Foundation, which
oversees Mozilla's corporate governance structure and sets the
browser maker's policies." ...
Seen at OSnews: https://www.osnews.com/story/141100/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-of-its-employees-ends-advocacy-for-open-web-privacy-and-more/
"This means Mozilla will no longer be advocating for an open web,
privacy, and related ideals, which fits right in with the
organisation's steady decline into an ad-driven effort that also
happens to be making a web browser used by, I'm sorry to say,
effectively nobody. I just don't know how many more signs people
need to see before realising that the future of Firefox is very
much at stake, and that we're probably only a few years away from
losing the only non-big tech browser out there. This should be a
much bigger concern than it seems to be to especially the Linux and
BSD world, who rely heavily on Firefox, without a valid alternative
to shift to once the browser's no longer compatible with the
various open source requirements enforced by Linux distributions
and the BSDs." ...
On 09.11.2024 um 09:13 Uhr Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
"The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility
and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and
equitable technical future for us all.
Maybe they should drop all the agile stuff.
Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:
On 09.11.2024 um 09:13 Uhr Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
"The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility
and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and
equitable technical future for us all.
Maybe they should drop all the agile stuff.
Lol---you are a non-believer! What's wrong with the agile stuff?
On 09.11.2024 um 09:50 Uhr Wolfgang Agnes wrote:
Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:
On 09.11.2024 um 09:13 Uhr Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
"The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility
and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and
equitable technical future for us all.
Maybe they should drop all the agile stuff.
Lol---you are a non-believer! What's wrong with the agile stuff?
It is mostly management BS and buzzwords, I haven't seen a real outcome
of such ideas yet.
Same here. I view the situation as a major sign of failure. It seems
the whole world is on the same boat, though. I don't know of any
company that has not bought into all this nonsense---they may exist (and
I hope they do), but surely I don't know the routine of every company
out there. ``Software engineering'' in the universities are also going
in the same direction. In fact, one thing I observe in the universities
is that the academics in ``software engineering'' are actually the manager-types who are not (at the same time) programmers, which is a
terrible sign. I hope I'm not offending anyone, but it's really how I
think.
We also live a certain overconfidence in science. There are very few scientists doing relevant work, but there's a widespread belief that
science (and technology) will always solve everything---it's always just
a matter of time; someone will figure it out. Ask people and you will see---almost nobody understands anything about quantum computing or artificial intelligence, but nearly everyone thinks that it's a matter
of a short time and all the quantum computing will be here for the next revolution. And I need say nothing about artificial intelligence
because everyone is well-aware about the all the hype.
On the other hand, though, I totally understand the fears: academics are fearful of not having anything to say and managers either invent
something whatever or they have a nervous breakdown out of fear of
losing their jobs. And some really do. They have a deep sense of incapacity: it seems they never find a way to put their lives to good
use. It's a very sorry situation.
On 09.11.2024 um 09:50 Uhr Wolfgang Agnes wrote:
Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:
On 09.11.2024 um 09:13 Uhr Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
"The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility
and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and
equitable technical future for us all.
Maybe they should drop all the agile stuff.
Lol---you are a non-believer! What's wrong with the agile stuff?
It is mostly management BS and buzzwords, I haven't seen a real outcome
of such ideas yet.
Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to> wrote:
Same here. I view the situation as a major sign of failure. It seems
the whole world is on the same boat, though. I don't know of any
company that has not bought into all this nonsense---they may exist (and
I hope they do), but surely I don't know the routine of every company
out there. ``Software engineering'' in the universities are also going
in the same direction. In fact, one thing I observe in the universities
is that the academics in ``software engineering'' are actually the
manager-types who are not (at the same time) programmers, which is a
terrible sign. I hope I'm not offending anyone, but it's really how I
think.
Academics (as in the people called 'Professor') are actually doing day to
day management of X number of students/postdocs/etc, as well as writing grants, writing papers, teaching, admin, etc. Which doesn't leave a lot of time for programming. It's the students/postdocs/etc who are actually doing the programming, so the professor is at best at one remove. They may have been programmers in the recent/distant past, but eventually all that extra stuff crowds out the programming.
We also live a certain overconfidence in science. There are very few
scientists doing relevant work, but there's a widespread belief that
science (and technology) will always solve everything---it's always just
a matter of time; someone will figure it out. Ask people and you will
see---almost nobody understands anything about quantum computing or
artificial intelligence, but nearly everyone thinks that it's a matter
of a short time and all the quantum computing will be here for the next
revolution. And I need say nothing about artificial intelligence
because everyone is well-aware about the all the hype.
I think that's 'tech', not 'science'. 'Science' is the study of the world - I don't think we're overconfident about gravity, but techbros may be overconfident about quantum computing. They certainly are about AI.
On the other hand, though, I totally understand the fears: academics are
fearful of not having anything to say and managers either invent
something whatever or they have a nervous breakdown out of fear of
losing their jobs. And some really do. They have a deep sense of
incapacity: it seems they never find a way to put their lives to good
use. It's a very sorry situation.
I think it's the problem a lot of organisations have that once you get
into the higher tiers you get further away from actually doing stuff, and perhaps lose touch with how it is done.
[T]he impact of this new approach on my own style has been profound,
and my excitement has continued unabated for more than two years. I
enjoy the new methodology so much that it is hard for me to refrain
from going back to every program that I've ever written and recasting
it in `literate' form. I find myself unable to resist working on
programming tasks that I would ordinarily have assigned to student
research assistants; and why? Because it seems to me that at last I'm
able to write programs as they should be written. My programs are not
only explained better than ever before; they also are better programs,
because the new methodology encourages me to do a better job.
--- Donald Knuth, ``Literate programming.''
The Computer Journal 27.2, 1984: páginas 97--111.
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