Early Coverage of Go Open 2008
Day two of Go Open is just about to get started. Already, there's a good amount of coverage in the Norwegian press on the event. I have made a pitiful attempt to translate the titles of the articles, mostly for the amusement of my Norwegian friends.
Alexander V. Røyne blogged, go open day 2008 1: Chris [...]
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Coaching the Next Generation of FOSS Developers
Each year it seems that there are more and more grumblings about how commercial Open Source conferences are moving further and further away from Free Software and Open Source communities. Incongruously, some of the loudest (or at least most noticed) complaining comes from some of the most consistent participants on the conference circuit. I myself [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 11
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 16th to March 22nd, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional Mozilla Foundation reports.
This Week
Focused on reports and conference follow-up. Will be making individual reports an most of these activities and events as time permits - first priority is following up with [...]
eLiberatica Abstract: Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing
Much to my friend Lucian's dismay, I have been sitting (a.k.a. not doing a damn thing) on the abstracts for my upcoming sessions at the Romanian eLiberatica conference.
The first abstract is easy — I will present a slightly modified version of my Age of Literate Machines presentation.
The second session will take a little bit more [...]
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For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference
In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the Vancouver PHP Users Association (who are a bunch of web developers, [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 10
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 9th to March 15th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Attended the PHP Québec Conference from March 12 to 14. Moderated one of the conference rooms (focused on DBMS) for 1/2 a day. Gave the Age of Literate Machines as [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 9
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 2nd to March 8th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Attended the Open Source Initiative's face-to-face board meeting on March 2nd and 3rd as a board observer. Additionally, I worked with some of the board members on March 1st on [...]
FrOSCon 2008 Call for Papers Now Open
David Roetzel from the FrOSCon organization team just wrote to let me know that the FrOSCon 2008 call for papers has just opened.
FrOSCon is a great, community-focused and community-run free software and open source conference. Each year it brings together hundreds of some of the most engaged FOSS project members from across Europe and beyond.
The [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 8
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for February 24th to March 1st, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Finished my FOSDEM 2008 trip in Belgium. It was really great to be able to spend time with my Mozilla colleagues and peers in the free software community.
Participated in FOSSNUT [...]
Speaking at OSCON 2008
I'm happy to report that I'll be presenting two sessions at OSCON 2008. The first session is called, "Greening the Conference Circuit" and the second is my (now-)usual Age of Literate Machines presentation.
This year, I'll be at OSCON on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation. In addition to attending the main conference, I'll also be attending the FLOSS Foundations meetings, the Open Source Initiative meetings and participating in a revamped version of OSCamp.