For Love, Not Money (or Leaving the Mozilla Paycheck)
Over the last three-and-a-half years, I’ve had a dream consulting gig as a Mozilla Foundation staff member.
Mozilla marked a major change for me. While I’ve worked on various electronic frontier, free software and open source projects over the last decade, working with Mozilla was the first time that I was able to focus solely on [...]
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How Can Mozilla Empower Nonprofits & Movements?
Suneel Gupta and myself will be the featured guests for the next Change the Web conversation series, Tuesday, March 3 at 11AM Pacific Time.
The topic for discussion is, “How Can Mozilla Empower Nonprofits & Movements?”
To participate via chat, visit http://my.socialactions.com/events/how-can-mozilla-empower and RSVP.
Thanks to Joe Solomon for coordinating!
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Mozilla Foundation Report for Week 7 of 2009
I was only minimally effective in my Mozilla activities for this week, as much of my attention was consumed by personal matters. I continued work on the Mozilla Net Effects Video program, stayed on top of my correspondence and drafted upcoming blog posts. However, I won’t be billing Mozilla for this week.
Mozilla Foundation Report for Week 6 of 2009
I fit 23 hours of Mozilla work into a somewhat painful week of where breaking the OSI site for a few minutes during FOSDEM was the least of my worries. Most of my Mozilla work focused on the Net Effects video program. I wrote and posted a public description for the program along with a [...]
Testing the Mozilla Net Effects Program
Last week, I wrote about an experimental video program that I am coordinating for Mozilla.
I’ve now posted a more complete overview of the program, along with a draft guide for the program testers and an early FAQ on the program.
Helping us in our early stages are the following good and brave souls:
Alina Mierlus, Free Software/Open [...]
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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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A Long, Strange Road Trip
« Post 3 | This is the 4th post in my MoFo Futures 2009 blog series
“When I was a child, my mother lectured me on the evils of ‘gossip.’ She held a feather pillow and said, ‘If I tear this open, the feathers will fly to the four winds, and I could never get them [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2009 Week 4
This is Zak Greant’s weekly report on his activities for the Mozilla Foundation from January 19th to 25th, 2009.
Wading through heaps of Mozilla email and feeds last week paid off this week. Instead of worrying about what I hadn’t read or wondering where I was duplicating other’s work, I was able to focus on program [...]
Getting a Job with Your Open Source Experience
Gerv, Frank, Mark and I have been discussing ideas around how people can turn open source experience into an asset for their resume. We’ve got some of our own ideas, but we want yours as well. Please blog, comment, email or ‘dent any one of us, or catch up with Gerv and Mark at FOSDEM.
My [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2009 Week 3
This is Zak Greant’s weekly report on his activities for the Mozilla Foundation from January 12th to 18th, 2009.
The prior week’s working vacation took its toll on this week: while I was well-rested and relaxed, small bits of Mexico were still fighting with me and my Mozilla-related messages had built up to frightening proportions. I [...]