February 15th, 2008

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 5

This is my Mozilla Foundation report for February 3rd to February 9th, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.

Much of this week was focused on participating in SCALE 6x, as well as traveling to and from the event, and preparing for other events.

SCALE 6x: Prepared for, attended, spoke at and (partially) reported on SCALE 6x. All of my reports are tagged with SCALE 6x (and I still need to edit or write several reports.) Briefly summarized, it was an excellent event made better by planning ahead. I managed to cut our costs and my carbon footprint significantly for the event. More on this in future reports. Unfortunately, after sleeping badly, I didn't feel at all well for my Age of Literate Machines session. On the positive side, while I felt that I had botched it, the session let to over 6 hours of interesting discussions about the session with attendees for a few days afterwards – which was extremely useful.
FOSDEM 2008 »">FOSDEM 2008: I started getting ready for my FOSDEM 2008 attendance by discussing the outline of my Electronic Ombuds talk with innocent passers by.
OSCON 2008: Worked on Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation attendance of OSCON with Mary Colvig from the corporation.

I identified a set of potential grant recipients and grant development areas at SCALE. As always, I'll be metaphorically tight-lipped about the grants unless they move ahead.

Discussed my recent manifesto-related work with various Mozilla community members and FLOSS colleagues – many thanks for the feedback all!

I'm pleased to note that my 20000 km, $7000, 7 days and 4 tons of CO2 has gotten people both thinking and acting about climate damage. Rasmus is thinking about solutions (and showed me http://live.yahoo.com/, which might be a nice way to do small meetings.) Lukas Kahwe Smith is switching to the train for some trips. Jan Lehnardt - with the hospitality of Damien - is doing an extended bout of couch-surfing to help the planet. Many thanks to each of you.

Speaking at FOSDEM 2008 (Feb. 23-24; Brussels, BE)
Speaking at FOSSNUT: The FOSS Norwegian University Tour (Feb. 25-27; Oslo, NO and Trondheim, NO)
Attending the Open Source Initiative's March board meeting as a board observer (Feb. 29-Mar 2; Chicago)

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