Tantek

Tantek Çelik

Tantek Çelik is a Mozilla employee developing and coordinating work on web standards and the IndieWeb.

More here:

• about Tantek at Mozilla
• https://tantek.com/ - personal IndieWeb site
  • Contact Card
• @t on Twitter & Slack (Mozilla, MozFest, IndieWebCamp, XOXO, W3CCommunity)
• tantek on W3C IRC, Instagram
• Bio + Headshot: https://tantek.com/w/TantekBio

As Mozilla's Web Standards Lead, Tantek helps advance the open web platform by coordinating web standards work at Mozilla, working on specifications, participating in Working Groups & on the W3C Advisory Committee, open web related events, and lastly, spearheading the IndieWeb with his own website at tantek.com.

projects

Working on at Mozilla:

• Tantek-Mozilla-projects

Summary:

• Improving W3C policies/process (via the W3C Process Community Group) for more openness, transparency, and choice of standards development
• Prioritizing Web Standards for Firefox (e.g. CSS, DOM)
• Editing a few specs (CSS Scrollbars, CSS 2.2)
• Community standards to support the Open Web (e.g. IndieWeb Community)
• Defending where the open web or standards are threatened
  • either directly, by:
    • proprietary (or oligopolic) efforts,
  • or indirectly, by:
    • badly designed standards, e.g.
      • standards biased toward large companies
      • standards biased against individual users, authors, designers, and developers.
    • Silos (e.g. popular "social media")

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contribute

• Want to work for Mozilla? https://mozilla.org/jobs
• Contribute to Mozilla: https://mozilla.org/contribute
  • By contributing you can meet people and find out more about working with Mozilla

Here's three things you can do to get started:

1. get on IRC with Colloquy - see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Irc#Colloquy for details
2. create an account on https://wiki.mozilla.org/
   • Go to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:RequestAccount and fill it out accordingly, you may need to wait for approval
3. edit your user page
   • e.g. this is Tantek's: https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Tantek
   • Once your account is approved, login, and click the red link of your username next to the 👤 icon in top right of the page
   • That will show you either an option to Create your user page or directly place you in a textarea to do so! Put your fullname (how you would like to be referred to) and maybe a little about yourself.
4. create an account on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

contributing faq

• Q: Why can't I edit the Main_Page?
  • A: The Main_Page is only editable by a subset of users. Tantek doesn't have permission to edit it!

• Q: My User page says: "There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs." - How do I create/edit it?
  • A: First make sure you have confirmed your email address. Check your email for a confirmation message from MozillaWiki and then click the link in it. You should see a message like "your email address is now confirmed."
  • A2: Or you can't because you're a new user (this is to reduce the creation of spam pages). Get someone you know at Mozilla to create your page for you as a stub, e.g. with {{stub}}.
  • A3: Or the MozillaWiki has cached your User page (perhaps from before you confirmed you email). Try loading your user page with a "?" after the URL and see if you get an "Edit" link in the header.

reference

• Previously: Mozilla contractor 2010-146..2011-275
• RFC4367: ASCII art diagram of user client DNS server interaction

See Also

• User:Tantek