Report

The Paris Brief

Spent from December 7th until 14th in Paris.
Attended the AFUP Forum PHP.
Provided opening keynote for event. (Slides here.)
Well-attended, well-run event.
500 people over two days.
Some excellent sessions – including a security session by Damien Seguy that needed to be given twice to meet demand.
Small exhibition hall with a mix of local (like Anaska) and international (like [...]

NorthWest MozDev 08 Roundup

NorthWest MozDev was informal, fun and useful. Many thanks to Brij for organizing and to the other attendees for coming out!

Time permitting, I may work up a more complete report on the event later – for now, I’ll just post a link to the rough notes from the meeting and a couple of the presentations [...]

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Go Open 2008: People

As usual for a conference, I spent almost all of the time I was at Go Open 2008 talking with people (and occasionally talking at people.)
The following is a list of people I talked with (or listened to) along with the interesting or exciting things that they shared with me or that they’re working on:

The [...]

Early Coverage of Go Open 2008

Day two of Go Open is just about to get started. Already, there’s a good amount of coverage in the Norwegian press on the event. I have made a pitiful attempt to translate the titles of the articles, mostly for the amusement of my Norwegian friends.

Alexander V. Røyne blogged, go open day 2008 1: Chris [...]

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SCALE 6x: Wrapup – Results

I had a set of goals for SCALE 6x, namely to:

Identify five potential Mozilla Foundation grant recipients.
Find three organizations willing to match some or all of our grants for a specific project or set of projects.
Find three organizations who we can help implement (or improve their implementation) of some or all of the principles of [...]

SCALE 6x: Wrapup – People

While I met a lot of great people at SCALE  (Michael, Moose, Sharon and a host more) I had generally interesting non-private discussions with (or observations about) the following:

Allison Randal – OSCON co-chair and Parrot architect – gave a great presentation on Parrot and an excellent  low-stress guide to effective speaking. We also spent some [...]

SCALE 6x: Hello, Can Anyone Hear Me?

I started liveblogging Adaora Onyia’s, “Hello, Can Anyone Hear Me?” session, but after a few moments abandoned the attempt – the presentation left me too conflicted to easily commit notes on it to text.
Adaora’s presentation described survival tactics for a workplace that I’d prefer never to enter, along with gender roles that I’d rather not [...]

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SCALE 6x: Getting Back

By Sunday morning, SCALE had wound down. Various participants were scattered around the hotel lobby – chatting about the previous days, waiting for shuttles with their bags and napping after a few to many late night discussions. Outside the hotel, a small army of police had gathered in the wake of an unfortunate window-washer falling [...]