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Lab with Leo Laporte: Demoing Firefox 3 and an (Emulated) Trip Down Memory Lane

Some ways back in the haze that was 2007, I was a guest on a few episodes of the Lab with Leo Laporte show. When I was visiting, I did two brief segments – one on Hiveminder and another on Free Software/Open Source.
I'll be going back next week to record another few segments. This time, [...]

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Sandro Groganz starts new Open Source marketing consultancy

After handling the marketing for Open Source vendors eZ Systems AS and Mindquarry, my friend Sandro Groganz taking the leap into entrepreneurship and is starting his own Open Source marketing consultancy. Sandro's a smart guy with experience working with several different Open Source communities, including PHP - I'd recommend him to anyone looking to get [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-21

This week, I:

Wrapped up the open 2007 grant proposals. Some will have to be pushed into 2008. Frank will report on what was approved this year.
Worked on abstracts for German event Leadership by (Open) innovation: Threat or challenge to the Telecommunications, IT and Media industries and American event F2C: Freedom to Connect.
Started revamping The Age [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-11-30

This week I worked on community relations, events and grants - notably:

Discussed Foundation participation in a German event called Leadership by (Open) innovation: Threat or challenge to the Telecommunications, IT and Media industries with organizer Stefan Doeblin. Will post more details when there is a public site.

Shepherded a series of as yet private grant applications. [...]

A Conversation (or the Notable Absence Thereof) with David Suzuki

Earlier tonight I went to see a set of onstage, live-to-tape interviews between Shelagh Rogers (host of CBC Radio's Sounds Like Canada), sustainability expert John Robinson (who is working on the fascinating Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability)  and leading environmentalist David Suzuki.The interviews were interesting - both John and David have compelling messages that [...]

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Conference Report: OpenMind & MindTrek 2007

OpenMind 2007 and MindTrek 2007 were excellent mid-sized (400+ participants) tech events that brought together a great mix of people - academics, working developers, activists, senior IT management, public servants, industry veterans, innovators and even pirates [0].
Some presentations were lackluster, but the informal discussions were awesome. There [...]

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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-21

For the week ending Friday, September 21st, most of my time went into:

Wiki gardening on the private Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation wikis
Event planning and followup
Cleaning up minor dangling tasks (like handing some XUL community stuff over to David and (unsuccessfully) chasing after Seth about FOSS.in)

Next Week

Working on plans for Mozilla Foundation outreach the upcoming [...]

OpenMind 2007: OpenMoko - The Truly Open Mobile Phone Platform

I skipped out on the previous session so that I could get my electric plug adapter from my room (and to get a break from typing.) I've come back during the afternoon break and am waiting for the OpenMoko session to start. The room is pretty full - I'm guessing that I'm not the [...]

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OpenMind 2007: Monty's Session on Building MySQL Community

I've come in late for Monty's session - everything seems to be running a bit early - how odd.
Monty's is covering mistakes in building communities - he's talking about Dream Box and how they have let their community fragment so deeply. Then he talks about how MySQL has provided a strong central point for the [...]

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OpenMind 2007: Standardization, Industry-Community Cooperations and Mobile Linux

After Carlos, Nils Faerber from LiPS (a Linux telephony consortium that includes telephony operators, hardware vendors and software vendors) takes the stage.
Nils looks much more like we image an Open Source developer to look - more like a character from User Friendly than a character from Dilbert.
He gives a high-level overview of the current state [...]

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