Archive for January 2009
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2009 Week 5
The end of January was another busy week with a lot of long (but good) days.
I spent most of my time developing an experimental program to build a popular movement around the Mozilla values, recording test videos to support the program, testing program ideas on friends, colleagues and peers, and recruiting early participants in the [...]
Using Twitter Without Going Insane
Sometime in 2008, I overdosed on Twitter.
I’d started using the service during its first early swell of popularity in the electronic frontier world and made the mistake of indiscriminately following way too many people. Every few minutes, a productivity pummeling batch of inane babble, awesome links, witty repartee and auto-generated cruft would crowd into my [...]
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What Does the Net Mean to You?
Mozilla, the global community behind the Firefox web browser, has an idea that we need your help with. We want you to help make openness, participation and distributed decision-making common experiences in Internet life.
To do this, millions of people around the world must understand, embrace and share these values. You, me, our families, our neighbor [...]
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A Long, Strange Road Trip
« Post 3 | This is the 4th post in my MoFo Futures 2009 blog series
“When I was a child, my mother lectured me on the evils of ‘gossip.’ She held a feather pillow and said, ‘If I tear this open, the feathers will fly to the four winds, and I could never get them [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2009 Week 4
This is Zak Greant’s weekly report on his activities for the Mozilla Foundation from January 19th to 25th, 2009.
Wading through heaps of Mozilla email and feeds last week paid off this week. Instead of worrying about what I hadn’t read or wondering where I was duplicating other’s work, I was able to focus on program [...]
Impressions of Net Tuesday
I attended Net Tuesday (which is a regular event in Vancouver billed as “Social Media and Web Innovators come together with Social Change Makers and Nonprofits to mix, swap stories and ideas, and build new relationships”) for the first time tonight.
It was an enjoyable event. There were about seventy people gathered into the large space [...]
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Getting a Job with Your Open Source Experience
Gerv, Frank, Mark and I have been discussing ideas around how people can turn open source experience into an asset for their resume. We’ve got some of our own ideas, but we want yours as well. Please blog, comment, email or ‘dent any one of us, or catch up with Gerv and Mark at FOSDEM.
My [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2009 Week 3
This is Zak Greant’s weekly report on his activities for the Mozilla Foundation from January 12th to 18th, 2009.
The prior week’s working vacation took its toll on this week: while I was well-rested and relaxed, small bits of Mexico were still fighting with me and my Mozilla-related messages had built up to frightening proportions. I [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2009 Week 2
This is Zak Greant’s weekly report on his activities for the Mozilla Foundation from January 5th to 11th, 2009.
This entire week I was on a working vacation in beautiful Puerto Vallarta. The weather was lovely and the company was great but network access of any kind was slow and expensive (110 pesos/hr of net access; [...]
Zak Greant’s MoFo Statement of Work for 2009Q1
Overview
This is a copy of my Mozilla Foundation statement of work for the first quarter of 2009 (minus the contractual bits.) During this time, I’ll be focused on two major areas.
First, I’ll be working to help the Mozilla Foundation determine if (and how) a Mozilla social movement is an effective and appropriate way to realize [...]
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