Archive for 2007
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-28
This week, I:
Drafted a rough plan for new Mozilla Foundation programs in 2008 that will work to support the Mozilla Manifesto.
Worked on Mozilla Foundation participation in various events (F2C: Freedom to Connect, SCALE 6x, PHP Québec Conference 2008 and an as-yet unnamed tour of Norwegian institutions of higher education)
Polished up the last bit of 2007 [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-21
This week, I:
Wrapped up the open 2007 grant proposals. Some will have to be pushed into 2008. Frank will report on what was approved this year.
Worked on abstracts for German event Leadership by (Open) innovation: Threat or challenge to the Telecommunications, IT and Media industries and American event F2C: Freedom to Connect.
Started revamping The Age [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-14
A light week for Mozilla-related activity. I continued to shepherd a few different grants and helped coordinate Mozilla presence at events. Next week, I'll be focused on wrapping up outstanding activities from 2007.
Tags: Events, MoFo, Mozilla, Mozilla Foundation, Reports
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-07
This week, I focused on shepherding new grants and on following up existing grants. There isn't much to report publicly yet, however I note that Patrick Michaud - recent recipient of a joint Perl Foundation/Mozilla Foundation grant for Perl 6 - is making steady and visible Perl 6 progress.Also, David Boswell, Frank Hecker and I [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-11-30
This week I worked on community relations, events and grants - notably:
Discussed Foundation participation in a German event called Leadership by (Open) innovation: Threat or challenge to the Telecommunications, IT and Media industries with organizer Stefan Doeblin. Will post more details when there is a public site.
Shepherded a series of as yet private grant applications. [...]
A Conversation (or the Notable Absence Thereof) with David Suzuki
Earlier tonight I went to see a set of onstage, live-to-tape interviews between Shelagh Rogers (host of CBC Radio's Sounds Like Canada), sustainability expert John Robinson (who is working on the fascinating Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability) and leading environmentalist David Suzuki.The interviews were interesting - both John and David have compelling messages that [...]
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Life on the Lagging Edge: Greasemonkey Rocks!
I've been doing some interesting work (though, perhaps only to me) on the OSI mailing lists over the last week (which I'll be writing about later). A lot of it has involved far too much manual processing of data from mailing list archives. In particular, I've found that I'm doing the following over and over [...]
First Partial Remix of the Age of Literate Machines
Paul Scott from the AVOIR project has remixed some of the content and slides from the Age of Literate Machines presentation into one of his own presentations. If you are curious, Age of Literate Machines presentation into one of his own presentations. If you are curious, check out the slides.
Tags: Age of Literate Machines, CMS, [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-11-09
This week focused on events and event planning.
Caught up with Mary Colvig (after missing our bi-weekly events call) to discuss upcoming events and our events strategy for 2008. We focused on the events listed in last week's report.
Worked on expanding the Age of Literate Machines to provide additional focus on the importance of the network [...]
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Links for "Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing" attendees
I gave an ad hoc presentation on the last day of the International PHP Conference. During the presentation, I mentioned a few resources, which I have listed below:
The Free Software Foundation Website
The Free Software Definition
List of Approved Free Software Licenses
The Open Source Initiative Website
The Open Source Definition
List of Approved Open Source Licenses
The Software Freedom Law [...]