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<h2><span class="mw-headline">Thunderbird Product Notes v0.6 </span></h2>
<p>As mentioned in previous discussions, a number of us believe that
our vision for Thunderbird is likely to evolve significantly over
the coming months as we iterate on add-ons and grow to understand
our options in the market better. As such, none of this is set in
stone. Version 0.6 is intended to be a baseline and a starting
point for discussion that tries to codify what we already believe,
and leaves offering a stronger vision to future iterations. </p>
<a name="Goals_For_This_Document" id="Goals_For_This_Document"></a>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">
Goals For This Document </span></h2>
<p>1. Make it easier for everyone in the community to see where the
Thunderbird product is going, how to align themselves with it, and
thereby encounter fewer directional surprises over time.
</p>
<p>2. Act as a reference/short-cut for decision-makers, lessening
the need to constantly reason and discuss from first principles.
</p>
<a name="Values__.28taken_from_the_Mozilla_Manifesto.29"
id="Values__.28taken_from_the_Mozilla_Manifesto.29"></a>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">Values
(taken from the Mozilla Manifesto) </span></h2>
<ul>
<li> The Internet is a global public resource that must remain
open and accessible.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Individuals must have the ability to shape their own
experiences on the Internet.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> The effectiveness of the Internet as a public resource
depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats,
content), innovation and decentralized participation worldwide.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Commercial involvement in the development of the Internet
brings many benefits; a balance between commercial goals and
public benefit is critical.
</li>
</ul>
<a name="Goal" id="Goal"></a>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">Goal
</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Maximize our impact in shaping the future of messaging on the
Internet.
</li>
</ul>
<a name="Market" id="Market"></a>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">
Market </span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Thunderbird will focus on the individual user and Small
Office / Home Office (SOHO) market segments. </li>
</ul>
<a name="Product" id="Product"></a>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">
Product </span></h2>
<ul>
<li> The Thunderbird user-experience seeks to help users
accomplish the important tasks suggested by conversations and
messages (such as scheduling a meal or updating a to-do list)
rather than simply displaying lists of these things.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Thunderbird will favor elegance over completeness.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Thunderbird will focus on conversations that occur over
mainstream and emerging communication channels. These include
email, web forums, social networks, and microblogging services.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Personal preferences and niche functionality will be
accommodated by enabling an ecosystem of optional add-ons,
rather than overloading the main UI with a large set of
preferences. </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> We intend to explore a variety of models for publicizing and
supporting add-ons depending on their purpose.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> We intend to evolve and structure Thunderbird so that both
the core project itself as well as developers working in the
ecosystem around Thunderbird can be financially self-sustaining.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Helping people own, control, and protect their own
conversations, messages, and data is a critically important
feature of Thunderbird.
</li>
</ul>
<a name="Platform" id="Platform"></a>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">Platform
</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Offering developers a platform to integrate their messages
and conversations with the user experiences and data that matter
to them (particularly, but not solely, on the web) will continue
to be critically important to Thunderbird.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Traditional Gecko add-on mechanisms (eg XPCOM-based ones)
will continue to be supported, but focus will gradually shift to
Jetpack-based mechanisms over time.
</li>
</ul>
<a name="Participation" id="Participation"></a>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">Participation
</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Mozilla strives to build and strengthen a healthy community
of participation around Thunderbird, based on mutual respect,
positive contribution, and recognition of differences in
experience and interests.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> <a
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dmose/Tb_Participation"
class="external free"
title="https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dmose/Tb_Participation"
rel="nofollow">https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dmose/Tb_Participation</a>
describes our participation model in more detail.
</li>
</ul>
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