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Meet Webmaker: Mozilla Launches Summer Code Web Love-in

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May 24, 2012

Mozilla has long been a defender of a free and open web, and now the company has launched Mozilla Webmaker, which is aimed at taking ordinary web users and giving them development chops that can help them create new types of online “experiences.” Mozilla claims that its goal is to “move millions of people from using the web to actively making the web.” The effort also includes a “Summer Code” initiative which sounds like it has some rough similarity to Google’s Summer of Code. Here are more details.

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