Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 13

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 30th to April 5th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

Prepared for next week's Go Open 2008 conference in Oslo: earnestly worked on keynote (slides here), prepared for press interviews, organized meeting in the area, etc.
Light work on eLiberatica planning [...]

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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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 2007-10-05

For the week ending Friday, October 5th, I attended OpenMind 2007 (and its sister conference MindTrek). Both events were excellent. While I live-blogged much of the first day of OpenMind sessions (visit the Openmind category for this blog to read the posts), I found that I got the most from the event by discussing with [...]

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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-28

For the week ending Friday, September 28th, I:

Worked out a plan for attending OpenMind 2007
Had a good chat with David Ascher about MailCo
Traveled to Finland for OpenMind

Next Week

Attend OpenMind - present The Age of Literate Machines as a keynote and network.

Tags: Age of Literate Machines, David Ascher, David Boswell, Finland, Frank Hecker, Gerv, Gervase Markham, [...]

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 [...]

I Love Finland

… and why, you may ask, do I love Finland so much?
Walking from the OpenMind conference sessions out into the hotel and then on into the lobby, I find that they are playing Manowar over the hotel sound system.
Earlier this morning, they were playing christmas music.

Tags: conference, Finland, OpenMind, Uncategorized

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OpenMind 2007: Opening Plenary

It's 9:15 Finnish time. A bell is politely ringing the attendees into the main room. Attendees come in all shapes and sizes - business people wearing suits, programmers with wild hair and long goatees wearing suits, casually-dressed clean cut young people who are hard to identify as belonging to any discipline.
Petri Räsänen, the executive director [...]

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