Archive for November 2007
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 [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-11-02
Most of this week focused on events and task triage. I was holed up in a small, comfortable hotel in Slovenia with good Net access. This, combined with a chest cold, kept me nicely focused on doing lots of small tasks.
Events
Missed our bi-weekly MoCo/MoFo events triage call - the call was a bit late and, [...]
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Dear Lazyweb: Esperanto and Gmail
A friend of a friend has done the work needed to localize Gmail in Esperanto. The FOAF has pitched it to Google (no strings attached), but they didn't seem very interested - at least, the Googlist he talked to didn't seem so interested. I tried to help by putting the FOAF in touch with one [...]
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Hiveminder For Consultants
I was chatting with a friend a few days ago about task management. He has a small consulting shop and uses a simple and effective method for keeping on top of his activities and billable hourse: lists of tasks get written into a small notebook. As they get done, he crosses them out and marks [...]