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Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich is chief architect of the Mozilla project and widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet revolution. In 1995, Brendan invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internet's most widely used programming language. He co-founded the mozilla.org project in 1998.

With Brendan's leadership, Mozilla launched the award winning Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail client now used by more than 60 million people worldwide. Brendan still actively drives innovations in web technology, including E4X (ECMAScript for XML).

He works at the Mozilla Foundation and is a member of the foundation's board of directors.

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Mike Shaver

Mike Shaver is a founding member of mozilla.org and lead technologist who has earned free reign to meddle in almost anything he likes from licensing and organizational issues to platform architecture and software development. His greatest contribution to the Mozilla project to date is (??)

Mike contributes to the Mozilla project as an employee of Oracle. As a member of Oracle's Open Client group, he works on improvements to Mozilla technology and applications (what's the benefit to end user?).


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Ben Goodger

Ben Goodger is a lead developer for Mozilla’s Firefox web browser. He does everything from scheduling milestones to tinkering directly with products and capabilities. Ben is passionate about details and making things easier for users. 

Ben led the launch of the Firefox web browser, which has resulted in more than 53 million Firefox downloads since November 2004. Ben has been crucial to the creation of the Extension System and has made significant contributions to the Software Update System, Windows Shell integration, the Download user interface, the Options user interface and many other features. 

Ben contributes to the Mozilla project as an employee of Google Inc.

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Brian Ryner

Brian Ryner helped develop the Gecko layout engine for Mozilla's Firefox and contributed to the XForms extension.

Among Brian’s other ongoing contributions to Mozilla code: improved performance of page layout and rendering, application-level features such as the Linux installer, GNOME integration and password manager, and development of the fast-back feature. 

Brian is employed by Google Inc. but continues his work on the Mozilla project.

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Axel Hecht

A member of Mozilla Europe’s board of directors, Axel Hecht started contributing to Mozilla in 1999, working on XSLT. He has been the module owner of RDF since 2004, steering the development of this backend component towards standards compliance, performance and applicability to web applications. His focus is in developing Mozilla as a platform for web applications as well as lightweight, cross-platform and localizable applications on the client. Axel also started the European annual developer meetings in 2000 and has been a central figure in the European developer community ever since. Recently, he participated in bringing localizations of Firefox into Concurrent Versions System (correct?), integrating platform and application development communities with the localization communities around the world. (what is meant by localization?)

Axel received a degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart and a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Kiel. He is now with the Department of Applied Mathematics at Humboldt University in Berlin.


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Robert O'Callahan

Robert O'Callahan got involved in Mozilla in 1999 when he should have been working on his doctoral thesis. He worked as a volunteer for several years, fixing bugs and implementing features in the layout and rendering core of Gecko, which have helped to make Mozilla's Firefox web browser faster and fully functional. Smooth scrolling, justified text, and multi-column layout are some of his contributions. Currently he spends most of his time on Mozilla's new graphics infrastructure. Robert works for Mozilla full-time as an employee of Novell in New Zealand.