Quite a while ago now I generated a map showing where all the Mozilla employees are in the world. A few of the new folks on my team reminded me of it and when I showed it to them they wanted to know when I was going to get around to updating it. Challenge accepted! Back then the Mozilla phone book was available as a static html page so scraping it for the locations was easy. Now the phonebook is a prettier webapp so the same technique doesn’t quite work. Instead I ended up writing a simple add-on to pull the main phonebook tree then do requests for the json data for each employee, dumping them to a file on disk. Then some manipulation of the original scripts led to great success. Click through for a full zoomable map.
One of the criticisms I heard the last time I did this was that it didn’t contain any information about the rest of the community. I’ll say basically the same thing that I said then. Get me the data and I’ll gladly put it on a map for all to see, but right now I don’t know where to find that information. I think this is something that Mozillians could do but I’m not sure what the chances are of getting everyone in the directory to add that info to their profile. I think this information is still useful even without the community as it demonstrates how global we are (and in some cases aren’t!) as a company.
Greenland is sadly underrepresented.
Sweet! It still amazes me how scattered we are. Does green represent all employees in a given office?
In theory yes but I didn’t go back and check where new offices were except for SF yet
Went back and updated all the offices now, also fixed the link so it actually goes to the full map now. The offices are a bit hard to see, it might be good to emphasize those somehow.
Hey, this is awesome! One thing though, it shows someone in Cape Town, South Africa, whom I would love to get in contact with but, I joined Mozilla full time around a year ago and I am located in Pretoria, South Africa 😉 Would be awesome to update the map to show us both. Thanks for doing this, it is so awesome!
Ooops, my bad, seems I am there. Who is the person in Cape Town? I would love to connect.
If you search the phone book for “Cape Town” all your questions will be answered!
Mozilla Taiwan web site:http://mozilla.com.tw/
ReMo has https://reps.mozilla.org/people/ with the reps around the world.
/me is missing … I live in Corby.
Incidentally, I don’t see a place in the phonebook for this. Which field are you getting the locations from?
It comes from the office city and country fields
Dude! You cut me off!
Or not, silly mobile browser