Identity

Last Updated: 31 July 2013

Get Involved

Reach out to us

• on IRC at irc.mozilla.org, #identity
• on our mailing list
• by tuning in to our short weekly meetings

Learn more about Persona

• Documentation
• UX Research and Design Docs
• Specification
• Bug tracker
• UX Touchpoints

Follow us on

• our blog
• Twitter or Identica
• our announcement list

Help us out by

• hacking on the code
• writing a plugin or a library
• spreading the word
• translating Persona in your language

This document is updated as of July 2013

Vision

Central to a people-centered ecosystem is an identity system that is under the control of the individual, and enables information sharing on the users own terms with no take-it-or-leave-it policies. To this end, Mozilla is building an identity system for the Web that has these properties.

The first service we're building, Persona, enables users to easily sign into websites using their existing email address in a secure and privacy-protecting way, with no additional passwords. For developers, it offers a very easy to implement API, and a verified email address they can use to communicate with the user.

User identities encompass much more than just an email address, of course, and so the next components of the Mozilla identity system will include payments, profile and data sharing on the users terms and more.

Identity Projects

A complete & updated Identity project list with links to appropriate wiki pages coming in July 2013

• Native FXOS & B2G - updated page coming soon
• Persona Analytics
• Profile in the Cloud (PiCL)
• Signin to the Web - updated page coming soon
• All things Identity UX related.

Identity Speaks: Upcoming Conference Schedule

Interested in Persona? Check out Dan Callahan's presentation at PyCon 2013 Beyond Passwords: Secure Authentication with Mozilla Persona

Conference	Presentation Details	Date	Location	Presenter
OWASP New Zealand Day	Securing the Web Without Site-Specific Passwords	September 12, 2013	Auckland, New Zealand	Francois Marier
JSFoo	Killing passwords with JavaScript	September 20, 2013	Bangalore, India	Francois Marier
Open Source Developers' Conference	You’re still using passwords on your site?	October 21, 2013	Auckland, New Zealand	Francois Marier

• Adding a talk? Don't forget to add it to the Mozilla Events Calendar too.
• Removing a talk? Please move it to Identity/Spread Persona.

Meet the Identity Team

Name	Title	Location
Andy Chilton	Developer	New Zealand
Austin King	Developer	Washington
Brian Warner	Developer	California
Chris Karlof	Developer	California
Crystal Beasley	Lead UX Designer	Oregon
Dan Callahan	Developer Relations and Documentation	Minnesota
Danny Coates	Developer	California
Edwin Wong	QA	California
Francois Marier	Developer	New Zealand
Gene Wood	Operations	California
Hannah Quay-de la Vallee	Intern 2013	San Francisco
James Bonacci	QA	California
Jared Hirsch	Developer	California
Jed Parsons	Developer	California
John Gruen	Design Engineer	New York
John Morrison	QA	California
Karl Thiessen	QA	California
Katie Parlante	Developer	California
Lloyd Hilaiel	Director, Engineering	Colorado
Robert Lord	Director of Product	San Francisco
Ryan Feeley	UX Designer	Toronto
Ryan Kelly	Developer	Australia
Ryan Seys	Intern 2013	San Francisco
Sam Penrose	Developer	California
Sean McArthur	Developer	California
Shane Tomlinson	Developer	United Kingdom
Tauni Oxborrow	Program Manager	California
Vlad Filippov	Intern 2013	San Francisco
Zach Carter	Developer	California