What Does the Net Mean to You?
Mozilla, the global community behind the Firefox web browser, has an idea that we need your help with. We want you to help make openness, participation and distributed decision-making common experiences in Internet life.
To do this, millions of people around the world must understand, embrace and share these values. You, me, our families, our neighbor [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2009 Week 1
This is Zak Greant’s weekly report on his activities for the Mozilla Foundation from December 29th, 2008 to January 4th, 2009.
Overview
Another week of the Christmas and New Year holidays with many of my Mozilla colleagues unavailable. As with the previous week, I focused on 2009 program development and engagement.
The program development work was in the [...]
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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 [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 16
Zak Greant’s Mozilla Foundation report for April 20th to April 26th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Travelled to Munich and Nuremberg
Attended the Muenchner Kreis Open Innovation Event in Munich.
Polished and gave presentation. Presentation was well-received (though I was disappointed, as is often the case.) Posted slides [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 12
Zak Greant’s Mozilla Foundation report for March 23rd to March 29th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Many small tasks. Worked on my Go Open 2008 keynote (slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/zakgreant/go-open-08-floss-what-and-why). Minor administrative work. Got ready for travelling to Go Open 2008 in Oslo. Chased after various [...]
Go Open 2008: People
As usual for a conference, I spent almost all of the time I was at Go Open 2008 talking with people (and occasionally talking at people.)
The following is a list of people I talked with (or listened to) along with the interesting or exciting things that they shared with me or that they’re working on:
The [...]
Coaching the Next Generation of FOSS Developers
Each year it seems that there are more and more grumblings about how commercial Open Source conferences are moving further and further away from Free Software and Open Source communities. Incongruously, some of the loudest (or at least most noticed) complaining comes from some of the most consistent participants on the conference circuit. I myself [...]
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Recommendations for OpenLogic’s Open Source Census
Last week, I was excited by, and then disappointed with, OpenLogic’s Open Source Census project – while the project has promise, OpenLogic planned to license the complete data set only to project sponsors (and I didn’t feel that they were being very forthright about the matter.)
Stormy Peters, OpenLogic’s community manager caught up with me to [...]
Open Source Census Results Not Open Source?
Earlier today I wrote about the Open Source Census project, wondering what license the data collected would be distributed under.
After reading the sponsorship page for the project, I believe that OpenLogic intends to restrict distribution of the data gathered, as indicated by the following quote from the page:
Platinum sponsorship is designed for companies that want [...]
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FrOSCon 2008 Call for Papers Now Open
David Roetzel from the FrOSCon organization team just wrote to let me know that the FrOSCon 2008 call for papers has just opened.
FrOSCon is a great, community-focused and community-run free software and open source conference. Each year it brings together hundreds of some of the most engaged FOSS project members from across Europe and beyond.
The [...]
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