TALK: MITCHELL BAKER, chief lizard wrangler and chairwoman, Mozilla Foundation, creators of Firefox. In 2005, she was named to Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world and one of BusinessWeek’s 25 most influential people on the web.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
5-6 pm
Stabile Student Center (lobby floor)
Columbia Journalism School, 116th Street & Broadway
NO RSVP NEEDED.
Here’s your chance to meet a major technology leader; hear about some initiatives at Mozilla and the world of open-source projects; and discuss any other aspect of technology that interest you. She’s based California, so this is a rare opportunity to interact with Baker.
BIO: Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is the Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairperson and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.
Trained as a lawyer, Baker coordinates business and policy issues and sits on both the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors and the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors. In 2005, Time magazine included her in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world and she has been affectionately given the title of “Chief Lizard Wrangler” at the Mozilla Corporation.
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