About this episode
This episode discusses the Thunderbird mail client with guest Heather Ellsworth, covering its history, future roadmap, and monetisation strategies.
This episode features Thunderbird, one of the (if not the most) popular mail clients in the FLOSS ecosystem. Heather Ellsworth, a buddying physicist turned DevRel (better late than never) from the project spills the beans on the history of the project not only in a Mozilla context, explains that TB's hiatus is just another urban myth and what's ahead for the project. In terms of future roadmap, monetisation and world domination. If that sounds familiar, it should! As the Inlaws have been pondering these last few topics for more than six years now. Although in contrast to Thunderbird with limited success (until now, if you want to know more on these topics and more, don't miss the next episode!). Links Higgs Boson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson Altas @ CERN: https://atlas.cern Thunderbird: https://github.com/mozilla/releases-comm-central Waldorf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-pope-uk Statler (or the other way around): https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinwimpress Thunderbird's history (starting at the very beginning): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application_Suite Seamonkey: https://www.seamonkey-project.org Rust in Production Thunderbird episode…
People in this episode
Guest: Heather Ellsworth
Topics covered
- Thunderbird
- mail clients
- FLOSS ecosystem
- Mozilla
- future roadmap
- monetisation
- open source
Keywords
- Thunderbird
- mail client
- FLOSS
- Mozilla
- DevRel
- open source
- future roadmap
- monetisation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Mozilla, Thunderbird, CERN, Seamonkey, Rust in Production, Atlas
Places: UK
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