In less than a month, Mozillians from around the world will gather in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada to discuss the future of the browser, the future of the open Web, and the future of Mozilla.

Unlike Mozilla Corporation-wide (MoCo) events commonly known as “all-hands”, the Mozilla Summit is a chance for the overall Mozilla community to gather and discuss important topics. The last time this type of event happened was in July 2008, also in Whistler.

The theme Mozilla has chosen this year is “Be More Like the Web”. While details are fairly scarce to those not attending, the summit will likely include several different tracks, some discussing the browser, some the platform, some the community, and others the activities of the Mozilla Foundation (MoFo). Some of the basics are available on the Mozilla wiki.

Some of the details on the wiki include a planned “Science Fair“-style area where attendees can demonstrate their latest ideas, prototypes, or anything else. Unfortunately, neither the wiki or the sign-up sheet shows much about who’s presenting yet or what will be presented.

The same applies to Lightning Talks, a style of presentation where the presenter is given 3-5 minutes to talk about a topic. (Sign-up sheet here.)

And, true to the closed style of this Summit, the same even applies to breakout sessions (the aforementioned “tracks”). Nothing yet available on the wiki, except a link to propose sessions. That said, MoFo has created a wiki page that outlines some of their ideas for the Summit.

Of course, not everyone is invited.

In the comments of a blog post by Gervase Markham, long time community member Robert Kaiser (one of the leaders of SeaMonkey project, commonly known as KaiRo) complains that he wasn’t invited. Despite Mozilla opening up the Summit to every MoCo employee, regardless of hire date, many long time community members like Kaiser weren’t invited and won’t be attending. Why? It’s only for the organizers of the Summit to know. Who Mozilla invites and why is kept quiet and “internal” despite Mozilla’s generally open nature. It is strange that the project coordinator of the SeaMonkey project – one of Mozilla’s last community-run, as opposed to employee-run, projects – wouldn’t be invited. Others from the SeaMonkey group, like Christian Biesinger were invited, despite his relative absence in Mozilla activities.

Regardless of who attends, the Mozilla Summit 2010 should prove to be an interesting event and one this blog will cover thoroughly.