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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Damn, I definitely won't stop donating, if they're this short on money, but that was basically my understanding of what they do, primarily advocacy.

Is MDN and the webstandards work also part of the Foundation? It certainly feels like it'd be more non-profit-y work. I guess, they do hold ownership of the Corporation, so they could also just tell the Corporation to deliver that.

But yeah, I'd like some increased messaging of what other work they do, or how much advocacy they can continue to do. Obviously, that's not an insane number of employees left either way...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I believe MDN and standards partcipation is part of the Corporation. The latter definitely, because implementation experience matters for that. The former also has its own monetisation, and has a lot of content contributed by the Open Web Docs foundation.