Pete Collins - Founder and CTO

Pete got involved with the Mozilla project in April 1999 as a contributor to the Editor module. He was also the first external developer to start documenting XUL. His initial efforts were a remote, web enabled script editor and a community driven rewrite of the existing Mozilla UI -- a project later named Aphrodite.

In January 2000, he joined with David Boswell and the Alphanumerica (later Collabnet) team. Together they evangelized Mozilla as a viable Application Platform through the many projects they created and Mozilla developer meetings they organized.

He moved on to become a software engineer employed by WorldGate, working on customizing Mozilla for their TV Internet Client Software. He is the co-founder of mozdev.org a site dedicated to Mozilla based projects. He is a regular Mozilla comitter and owner of various Mozdev projects including jslib and xptk, the cornerstones to the MozdevGroup product range.

Pete is one of the co-authors the O'Reilly title 'Creating Applications with Mozilla'

Founders Resume

David Boswell - Marketing Lead and Project Manager

David has been involved in the Mozilla community for over 5 years. He started the Mozilla development effort at Alphanumerica and set up the first two Mozilla Developer Meetings.

At Alphanumerica David worked with Pete Collins on a number of Mozilla applications including Aphrodite, Total Recall and Chameleon. Pete and David co-founded mozdev.org, a site offering free hosting for Mozilla applications. There are currently over 120 development projects hosted on the site.

David has written a number of articles about Mozilla and co-authored the O'Reilly title 'Creating Applications with Mozilla'.

Brian King - Senior Lead Developer

Brian has been hacking on Mozilla and related projects since early 1999. It began with a European funded project called Fabula to create software for children with the aim of teaching minority languages like Basque, Catalan, Frisian, Irish, Welsh. This was built using Mozilla. Interest bloomed and he started contributing to the Mozilla Editor, and exploring the rest of the vast body of code. He moved on to work at ActiveState where he was heavily involved in the Komodo project, a scripting language IDE that uses the Mozilla application framework.

Previously, Brian spent his time as a C++ applications developer, interspersed with some Perl development and XML consultancy. His technical interests include observing and participating in the re-shaping of the web environment brought about by XML. Other languages he codes in are PHP, Python, and JavaScript.

Like David, Brian has also written a number of articles about Mozilla and co-authored the O'Reilly title 'Creating Applications with Mozilla'.

Andy Edmonds - Senior Developer/Usability Engineer

Andy began development with Mozilla in 2001 while working for a Fortune 50 corporation.  In an effort to contribute back to the project, he founded the Optimoz project offering gestural navigation and shortly thereafter a port of the Google Toolbar to Mozilla.

Straddling the line between programmer and usability engineer, Andy studied cognitive psychology and computer science at Carnegie Mellon and did graduate work at Georgia Tech and Clemson University.  He founded Uzilla, LLC, a software provider for user centered design tools and remains Chief Scientist there.

Andy's been doing commercial internet and software work since 1995 and is a web development and usability instructor and speaker.  Visit his CV for a list of publications, work experience, certifications, and speaking engagements.

Neil Deakin - Engineer

Neil worked at an ISP for five years performing customizations of Netscape browsers and related tools for customers to help them get set up online. Once Netscape open-sourced their browser in the form of Mozilla, this led him to follow Mozilla development closely.

Neil started with Mozilla-related work in September of 1999 by writing the XUL tutorial found on XULPlanet.com, which was described by one developer as 'the most lucid tutorial on the Internet'. Over the last few years, he has continued to add additional XUL documentation and utilities. More recently, he has dived into Mozilla's native C++ code by working on Topicalla (topicalla.mozdev.org), a semantic information tool based on the Mozilla platform.

Neil has a wide range of experience building web applications in C++, Java, Perl and PHP. He also has an interest in user interface design.

Jim Massey - Engineer

Jim became interested in developing mozilla applications the day mozilla went open-source. His mozilla work has focused on developing tools for information terminals/kiosks user interface implementation - the Kiosk Browser and assorted mozilla based tools. Additional kiosk development and deployment tools he has developed include the Kiosk Edition mozilla 1.4, Twm-Kiosk window manager, Gdm-Kiosk display manager and Systemperl thin client process manager. Most of these can be found at kiosk.mozdev.org

"I became interested in programming in the mid 1960's when I saw a piece about the development of a new programming language usable by non mathematicians - BASIC". He has developed programs for resource planning, industrial process control, inventory control and purchasing, postal mailing list correction and verification, a variety of web based cgi applications, information terminal development and deployment.

Programming languages he has used include Perl, C, C++, Tcl/Tk, Javascript, Java, Visual Basic, Basic and Turbo Pascal

Jim's background includes: Journyman Sewing machine mechanic, factory manager and general manager, owner of an industrial sewing equipment service company, owner of a manufacturing company and of course program development and design.