Mozilla Foundation Report for January 2008

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the month of January 2008. In the future, I'll return to posting weekly reports. For more information on the other foundation-related activities, see the status reports published by David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham.
This month has had an unusually strong focus on [...]

20000 km, $7000, 7 days and 4 tons of CO2

… or, "Making Event Attendance Count"
Late last year, I gave a keynote at paired Finnish conferences MindTrek and OpenMind. While the events were well worth attending, afterwards I spent a few bleak hours thinking about the actual costs of my attendance. If I had left Canada just for these events (which, thankfully, I [...]

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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 [...]

eZ systems coming to (North) America

When I started at eZ systems, one of my early conversations with the headquarters team was about how to serve the markets in North American. I advised that we follow the well-beaten path to Silicon Valley; send over a few solid team members from our HQ in Skien, integrate them into a strong team [...]

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Attending the GPLv3 Launch at MIT

Bright and early Sunday morning, I will be flying off to Boston to attend the GPL version 3 launch at MIT.
I am betting on heated discussions and a wild mix of Free Software fanatics, FSF staff from around the world, the Free Culture crowd (EFF, the super awesome Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons staff, …), corporate [...]