A Pirate Captain visiting the Pacific Northwest
About three weeks from now, Rickard Falkvinge (founder of the Pirate Party) will be kicking off the Vancouver Open Web Conference. He’ll be presenting a keynote on how, in just three years, a party with an odd name organized around a narrow electronic frontier platform has become the fourth largest political party in Sweden. It’s [...]
eLiberatica 2009
As I write this, my friend (and eLiberatica chair) Lucian is packing up to fly to Bucharest for this year’s instance of the eLiberatica Electronic Frontier/Free Software/Open Source conference. Sadly, I won’t be participating this year – a commitment to less travel and a new venture make doubly sure that I’m staying home.
Despite the downturn, [...]
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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Non-Profit2Non-Profit Resources
During the Change the Web chat today, I mentioned that others were working on helping non-profits network with other non-profits. The two groups that I’m aware of are:
FLOSS Foundations (http://flossfoundations.org) – an informal peer support group for people who administer Electronic Frontier, Free Software and Open Source projects and non-profits.
Idealist (http://www.idealist.org) – a site focused [...]
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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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First Net Effect Videos Coming In
The first few Net Effects videos are starting to trickle into the Net Effects group on Flickr:
Translated from the Romanian, “The internet allows me to stay in touch with my friends from 10 years ago, to realize that we are the same losers and that I still love them just as much.”
UX professional and blogger [...]
Free Culture vs. Fear Culture vs. Fee Culture
Last week, my good colleague Gerv gently took me to task about requiring that videos submitted to the Mozilla Net Effects video program be licensed under the Creative Common NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (instead of an actual Free Culture licensed like Creative Common ShareAlike license or Creative Common Attribution license) . I thought about this for a [...]
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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.
Introducing Open Webnesday
Every few months over the last four years that we’ve been in Vancouver, I’ve kept having random discussions with friends about coordinating some kind of regular free software/open source/electronic frontier/open Net professional development meeting. While it made for relaxed after-dinner chatting and the occasional off-topic boardroom jam, the idea never really got legs – after [...]
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 [...]