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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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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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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-10-26
Traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia to attend LinuX dan 10:
Presented the Age of Literate Machines as a keynote
Chatted with attendees
Interviewed with local journalist Damjan Franz Lu from NeDeljski (which I think is the major Slovenian daily)
Traveled to Zagreb, Croatia to attend LinuX dan 5.
Pondered the naming convention for the events
Presented the Age of Literate Machines as [...]
Keynoting linuxdan.si: Great Food, Mild Discomfit & a Castle
LinuX dan Slovenia was held in Ljubljana castle (which, as one might guess, overlooks Ljubljana from a hill called Castle Hill.)
Conference organizers: Want to improve the next conference that you host? Hold it in a castle - everything is more interesting in a large stone building that has arrow slits. Also, when if the wireless [...]
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Conference Report: OpenMind & MindTrek 2007
OpenMind 2007 and MindTrek 2007 were excellent mid-sized (400+ participants) tech events that brought together a great mix of people - academics, working developers, activists, senior IT management, public servants, industry veterans, innovators and even pirates [0].
Some presentations were lackluster, but the informal discussions were awesome. There [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-10-05
For the week ending Friday, October 5th, I attended OpenMind 2007 (and its sister conference MindTrek). Both events were excellent. While I live-blogged much of the first day of OpenMind sessions (visit the Openmind category for this blog to read the posts), I found that I got the most from the event by discussing with [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-28
For the week ending Friday, September 28th, I:
Worked out a plan for attending OpenMind 2007
Had a good chat with David Ascher about MailCo
Traveled to Finland for OpenMind
Next Week
Attend OpenMind - present The Age of Literate Machines as a keynote and network.
Tags: Age of Literate Machines, David Ascher, David Boswell, Finland, Frank Hecker, Gerv, Gervase Markham, [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-21
For the week ending Friday, September 21st, most of my time went into:
Wiki gardening on the private Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation wikis
Event planning and followup
Cleaning up minor dangling tasks (like handing some XUL community stuff over to David and (unsuccessfully) chasing after Seth about FOSS.in)
Next Week
Working on plans for Mozilla Foundation outreach the upcoming [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-14
Sunahara-sensei from Mozilla 24, originally uploaded by fumi.
For the week ending Friday, September 14th, I:
Continued to neglect my reports on various conferences
Talked to Malcolm Matson from OPLAN Foundation about possible ways to cooperate
Traveled to and from San Francisco and got to stay with my totally awesome friends at Meerkat Manor
Presented The Age of Literate Machines [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-07
A simple week to report on. For the week ending Friday, September 7th, I:
Neglected my reports on various conferences
Prepared for presenting The Age of Literate Machines at San Francisco State University's Software Freedom Day and at Mozilla24. For Mozilla24, I follow Larry Lessig in the speaker's roster. I'm not nervous. Really.
Reviewed some of Doc's followup [...]