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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php|works: The eZ plan
I will be attending php|architect's php/db|works conference in Toronto from September 13 to 15.
While I am there, my eZ systems plans and priorities are:
Give a good talk
Find leads for our partners (esp. those in Canada, Mexico and the United States of America)
Avoid getting any sicker - I have this irritating chest infection that traveling doesn't [...]
$5,701,201 worth of eZ publish code?
I just ran David Wheeler's SLOCCount tool on a copy of eZ publish 3.7.3.
SLOCCount is:
a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) in a large number of languages of a potentially large set of programs.
–from http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/
The tool generated a bunch of interesting stats, including an estimated cost to [...]
About Zak Greant: Bio and Background
Hi! My name is Zak Greant and I've tired of writing things in the third person (at least for today.)
I own a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates – we help technology organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. We're a tiny shop, but we've got great clients (like eZ Systems AS and the [...]
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PHP Vikinger
eZ publish lives and dies by PHP. When all is right in the PHP world, it makes our lives a lot easier at eZ systems.
Given that PHP doesn't cost a thing and we only employee a few PHP hackers, we wanted to show our gratitude to the PHP community for its awesome work over the [...]
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eZ systems North America Wants You!
As mentioned in a previous post, eZ systems is opening a Vancouver office.
One of our key challenges will be finding the right people to help us build our local team.
Currently, we are looking for people to fill roles roughly like the following:
Regional Sales Director (Job description TBD)
Managing Editor (Job description TBD) Update: Position filled
Senior Office [...]
Machine-readable licensing blocks
One of our recent activities at eZ has been to rework our licensing. While most of the changes have been related to improving the agreements involved (simplifying, internationalizing, improving the legal robustness, etc.) we plan to make some changes to how we attach licensing information to our source code.
The basic plan is to drop in [...]
Refactoring a few roles at eZ systems
There is some interesting organizational refactoring happening at eZ these days.
First, my friend Sandro Groganz (nee Zic), is moving to a new role within eZ as our Chief Knowledge Officer. Now, I know that this sounds like an oxymoron, but trust me, it is a good thing. Think of Sandro's role as being that of [...]
Speaking at the 2006 eZ publish Conference
I will have a session on Free Software and Open Source licensing at the 2006 eZ publish Conference. Details of the session are a bit sketchy, but should improve shortly.
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