March 24th, 2008 ( Updated: March 24th, 2008 )

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 9

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 2nd to March 8th, 2008.

See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.

This Week

Attended the Open Source Initiative's face-to-face board meeting on March 2nd and 3rd as a board observer. Additionally, I worked with some of the board members on March 1st on a variety of OSI issues. The meeting minutes for both formal days of meetings are posted on the OSI website - see March 2, 2008 meeting minutes and March 3, 2008 meeting minutes. Most notably, I will be helping the OSI revamp how they deal with public issues.
Worked on my presentations for the upcoming Go Open conference and the Leadership by Open Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference.
Worked with the OSCON and OSCAMP teams on planning a revitalized OSCAMP.
Prepared for the PHP Québec Conference
Misc. Minor work following up with potential grant applicants; read interesting article on the on the psychology of giving in the New York Times (via David Boswell); reviewed potential grant opportunities for the Mozilla Foundation (via David Boswell); worked with David Ascher at the Mozilla Messaging office on Friday - we'll keep doing this (usually on Mondays) when we are both in town; light work preparing for and coordinating the eLiberatica and Open Web Vancouver conferences;

Next Week

Attend the PHP Québec Conference and present the Age of Literate Machines as a keynote.
Catch up on conference follow-up tasks. e.g. grant proposals, foundation opportunities, requests for information, etc.

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Like many great parts of our culture, it is in the public domain.

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