Go Open 2008: People
As usual for a conference, I spent almost all of the time I was at Go Open 2008 talking with people (and occasionally talking at people.)
The following is a list of people I talked with (or listened to) along with the interesting or exciting things that they shared with me or that they're working on:
The [...]
SCALE 6x: Wrapup - People
While I met a lot of great people at SCALE (Michael, Moose, Sharon and a host more) I had generally interesting non-private discussions with (or observations about) the following:
Allison Randal - OSCON co-chair and Parrot architect - gave a great presentation on Parrot and an excellent low-stress guide to effective speaking. We also spent some [...]
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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Planning my SCALE 6x Attendance
In about a week, I'll be heading down to Los Angeles to participate in SCALE 6x, the sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo. In addition to visiting the event, I'll be giving my Age of Literate Machines presentation, updated for 2008 and supported by more research. I'll be joining another Mozillion - Chris Blizzard, who [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-11-02
Most of this week focused on events and task triage. I was holed up in a small, comfortable hotel in Slovenia with good Net access. This, combined with a chest cold, kept me nicely focused on doing lots of small tasks.
Events
Missed our bi-weekly MoCo/MoFo events triage call - the call was a bit late and, [...]
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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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Supporting Development of Norway's Electronic Frontier
Some months ago, around the time of the 2007 eZ Conference, I started working with Tor-Arne Bellika (from Innovation Performance AS) and Aleksander Farstad (from eZ Systems AS) on a series of projects centered around helping to develop Norway's electronic frontier.
The projects are diverse and broad in scope. They range from developing a Free Software [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-14
Sunahara-sensei from Mozilla 24, originally uploaded by fumi.
For the week ending Friday, September 14th, I:
Continued to neglect my reports on various conferences
Talked to Malcolm Matson from OPLAN Foundation about possible ways to cooperate
Traveled to and from San Francisco and got to stay with my totally awesome friends at Meerkat Manor
Presented The Age of Literate Machines [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-07
A simple week to report on. For the week ending Friday, September 7th, I:
Neglected my reports on various conferences
Prepared for presenting The Age of Literate Machines at San Francisco State University's Software Freedom Day and at Mozilla24. For Mozilla24, I follow Larry Lessig in the speaker's roster. I'm not nervous. Really.
Reviewed some of Doc's followup [...]
Of Warfare Metaphors and Tribes on the Electronic Frontier
In recent post Earning one's way out of the trenches Matt Asay posits:
It has become an unspoken for me, and should be a common rule throughout the open source business landscape, that no one should become a commander without first having slogged through the trenches as a private. … I don't think it's wise to [...]