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New Mozilla Foundation Shirt

The Mozilla Foundation now has a spiffy new T-shirt, thanks to a small army of Mozilla folk (John, David, Tara, Catherine and Harvey) headed up by David Boswell. Even better than having a new shirt is the fact that the base shirt is 100% organic cotton.
As with the other goodies in the MoFo store, proceeds [...]

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Getting Things Done vs. Simplicity

For a good (or perhaps bad) part of July and August, I was caught up in various ideas about how to better manage the complexity in my life. I re-read Getting Things Done, cursed at the wonderful (and unstable) GTDInbox, tried the 1.0 release of Chandler, twiddled the dials on a handful of different task [...]

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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 24

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for June 16th to 22nd, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
My week has been focused on organizing and preparing for FOSSCoach
I've been doing light-weight work on:

following up on eLiberatica
preparing for Open Everything
nudging the Mozilla-related educational efforts along
a study [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 25

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for June 23rd to 29th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

FOSSCoach: Grinding on the wiki; contacting potential coaches, sponsors and participants; planning.
OSCON: Getting ready for what is likely to be my busiest OSCON thus far. Working on sessions, planning meetings, sorting [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 21

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for May 26th to June 1st, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

Traveled to Bucharest. Attended eLiberatica, where I gave a keynote, moderated a panel, met a few of the Mozilla.ro people, etc. I'll write a full report on the event.
Lightweight Work: [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 20

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for May 19th to 25th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

Preparing for eLiberatica - finishing keynote, planning for panel, helping with last-minuet logistics, etc.
Lightweight Work: Planning for FOSSCoach, Muenchner Kreis Open Innovation event followup, connecting the Seneca College folks to potential [...]

Geopolitics + Firefox Pledges = An Interesting View of the World

David Eaves just posted an interesting overlay of the Firefox 3 download pledge map and Thomas P. M. Barnett's The Pentagon's New Map. The post is well worth the (fast) read - http://eaves.ca/2008/06/16/firefox-3-pledge-map-vs-barnetts-the-pentagons-new-map/

Tags: David Eaves, Firefox, geopolitics, guiness, Mozilla, Mozilla Foundation, Thomas P. M. Barnett, world record

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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 19

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for May 11th to 17th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

FOSSCoach, FOSSCoach, FOSSCoach, FOSSCoach, …
Events - Writing eLiberatica keynote, coordinating Mozilla presence at various events, cleaning up transcription of Open Innovation talk, light work on Toronto DevDay
Co-working with David Ascher, including [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 18

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for May 4th to 10th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

Strong focus on FOSSCoach - planning schedule, coordinating participants, gathering support, developing Wiki, etc.
Event work - writing eLiberatica 2008 keynote, light planning for Open Nordic, Open Source Meets Business Congress, Open [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 17

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for April 27th to May 3rd, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

Returned to Canada from Germany
Lots of event-related work - FOSSCoach dev., following up with contacts from the Open Innovation event, Go Open, eLiberatica planning and community relations, declining attendance of [...]

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