Advancing the Mozilla Manifesto

Most regular readers of this blog are familiar with the Mozilla Manifesto and with the work that the Mozilla Corporation undertakes to advance the manifesto. It is good work. Actually, it is great work from a great community of people. However, the corporation focuses most on Firefox and the related software and communities. The manifesto [...]

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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-06-01

Frank and I traveled to Cambridge, MA, USA to attend the Berkman Center's Internet & Society 2007 event. We attended to both to learn what academics were doing in areas that interest us (such as transparency, public service, etc.) and to share concerns that we have and lessons that we have learned from our activities.
While [...]

Flying to Boston for IS2K7

I'm in the Vancouver airport right now on way to Cambridge, MA for the Berkman Center's Internet & Society 2007 conference. This is my first time attending the event and I'll be going as a Mozilla Foundationist.
I'm quite excited to have been invited. Visiting Harvard and the Berkman Center will be interesting and the conference [...]

Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-05-18

Most of this week was taken up with preparing for and attending the eLiberatica conference. In fact, as I write this very brief report, I am in the town of Rasnov in Romania. I'll be here for another day before I return home.
The event went extremely well - people were eager to discuss and share [...]

Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-05-11

Another week of work on the Internet as a Public Good event. Despite missing a few planners this week, we had an excellent planning session. On the down side, production of the IPG website continues to drag on - more on this later in the report. Frank, Gerv and I did a bug triage of [...]

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Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-05-04

Helped produce the Internet as a Public Good event. We've sent out a set of invites and are still looking for people who come from different cultures to help round out the view at the symposium. As a group, were moving pretty darn slow on the site. I'll try some prodding next week. Did a [...]

Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-04-27

Summary
Progress on the Internet as Public Good Symposium (but not as much as we would probably like - the organization team is very busy, which makes coordinating our activities difficult.) Finally started working my way through the stale governance bugs again. This time around, I am getting some response from people.

Activities

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Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-04-20

Summary
A good week - we made progress on the Internet as Public Good Symposium, which is the major task on my Mozilla plate right now. However, an unexpected event at another client meant that my Friday was a bit messed up. Will work on reviewing bugs and other missed responsibilities over the weekend.

Activities

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Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-04-13

This Week

Worked with Berkman and Harvard Business School teams to help plan the Internet as Public Good Symposium. We are currently focused on creating a list of invitees, sorting out logistics and developing an agenda. We'll be posting more information to a dedicated IPG website this week or next.

Next Week

More work on the IPG Symposium
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