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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 [...]
FOSSNUT: The Free and Open Source Software Norwegian University Tour
LinPro AS (a Norwegian Linux and FLOSS services firm) has organized a speaking tour of Norwegian universities. The tour will visit three Norwegian schools and will focus on introducing students and faculty to Free Software and Open Source. Speakers include FreeBSD & Varnish hacker Dag-Erling Smørgrav, eZ Systems AS CEO Aleksander Farstad and yours truly. The schools we plan to visit [...]
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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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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 [...]
Life on the Lagging Edge: Greasemonkey Rocks!
I've been doing some interesting work (though, perhaps only to me) on the OSI mailing lists over the last week (which I'll be writing about later). A lot of it has involved far too much manual processing of data from mailing list archives. In particular, I've found that I'm doing the following over and over [...]
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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A French (Culinary) Invasion of the Deep South
Last night, Mandy and I celebrated eleven awesome years of being together.
I cooked us a dinner that combined two cuisines that are very important to me, but that I almost never cook any more - French (or, at least, the codified version that I was taught in cooking school) and home-style cooking from Texas, Oklahoma, [...]
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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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