Mozilla is a distributed place. About a third of its workforce are remote employees or remoties. So we speak to each other a lot on video chats. A lot.

Some paid contributors still have hobbies aside from working on the Mozilla project. For example, there’s the enterprise architect who is a music aficionado. There’s a number of people building Satellite Ground Stations. And I am sure we have many, many more pockets of awesomeness around.

And of course there are people who record their own music. So if you own a professional microphone, why not use it to treat your colleagues to a perfectly echo-canceled, smooth and noiseless version of your voice? Yay!

This is the point where I am continuously reminded of the song We Are The World from the 80ies. For example, check out Michael Jackson’s (2:41 min) or Bruce Springsteen’s (5:35 min) performances. This makes my day. Every single time.

 

PS: This article was published as part of the Participation Systems Turing Day. It aims to help people on our team who were born well past the 80ies to understand why I am frequently smiling in our video chats.

PPS: Oh yes, I confused “Heal the World” with “We Are The World” in the session proposal. Sorry for this glitch.

PPPS: Thank you to you-know-who-you-are for the inspiration.

https://wiltw.io/2016/11/25/fun-your-daily-we-are-the-world-reminder/