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Standing on the Toes of Giants at Mozilla24
In 2002, a short while after I started at MySQL, I saw Lawrence Lessig present at OSCON. The presentation was extraordinarily good and Lessig is a tremendously passionate, genuine and compelling orator.
I immediately revised my presentation style. I stole what ideas and style I could. While I was mostly presenting about MySQL and PHP at [...]
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Pecked by the Vulture for Knitting In Public
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine received a light pecking from one of the vultures at The Register (or, more precisely, an appendage of The Register called RegDeveloper) and took some offense.
Frankly, as someone whose never been pecked by El Reg, I'm almost envious. I've only been trolled by anonymous cowards, while Danese [...]
Dear Technical Conference Organizer
I am a conference junkie. I love attending them, organizing them, speaking at them, planning to attend them, seeing my friends at conferences, making friends with the nice (but often stressed) people who run conferences and so on. I even like eating the (often bad) food - kvetching about it builds a sense of [...]
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Alfresco Seeking Community Relations Person
A friend of mine who also is also a friend of some of the Alfresco crew asked me to help Alfresco find a community relations person.
I've poked a few friends and sent a note off to a few lists. If you are curious, then check out the job posting on Alfresco's site.
If you are thinking [...]
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Party Planning with Bugzilla
Last month, I noticed that Syd Logan filed an interesting blocker-level bug in Bugzilla (For the less geekily inclined who read this blog, a blocker-level bug is rather important - the show does not go on unless said bug is fixed.)
The bug in question is Mozilla.org needs to throw a 10 year anniversary party for [...]
Vancouverites Organizing BarCamps in China
When we were working on organizing BarCamp Vancouver 07, I found out that Kris Krug and http://robertscales.org/ were working on organizing BarCamp Beijing and BarCamp Shanghai.
Being curious, in several ways, I wrote them asking how they got involved and why they were helping out. Scales responded:
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The Lab with Leo Laporte: Draft Pitches on Hiveminder and Open Source
A few days ago I heard back from Ryan Yewell at the Lab with Leo Laporte about my segment pitches for the show.
It turns out that they are interested in the pitches on Hiveminder and Open Source and want to know the 3 to 4 main points I'll cover in each segment and the resources [...]
Free as in Independent: Norway's Progressive Stance on Free Software and Open Source
In a few hours Heidi Grande Røys, the surprising Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Reform, will be in the city of Drammen to launch the first of what will be several national centres of expertise for Free Software and Open Source.
This first centre is meant to provide public bodies - especially Norwegian municipalities - [...]
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VASHIKOL: A Bad Acronym for (Hopefully) Good Food
At last years BarCamp Vancouver I prepared food inspired by the Sikh practice of Langar. You can read more about it in post Borrowing Great Idea from the Sikhs.
This year, I'll do the same, but I'm going to use local food that is organic. This might be a bit tougher - especially as I am [...]