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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 [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 7

This is my Mozilla Foundation report for February 17th to February 23rd, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
Projects for the Week
Events

FOSDEM 2008: Travelled to, participated in and spoke at FOSDEM. I'll write reports shortly and will tag them with FOSDEM 2008.
FOSSNUT: Getting ready to present at [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 6

This is my Mozilla Foundation report for February 10th to February 16th, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
Projects for the Week

Participated in the last day of SCALE 6x on February 10th - see posts tagged with SCALE 6x for my reports. Also did bits of SCALE [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 5

This is my Mozilla Foundation report for February 3rd to February 9th, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
Much of this week was focused on participating in SCALE 6x, as well as traveling to and from the event, and preparing for other events.
Projects for the Week
Events

SCALE 6x: [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for January 2008

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the month of January 2008. In the future, I'll return to posting weekly reports. For more information on the other foundation-related activities, see the status reports published by David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham.
This month has had an unusually strong focus on [...]

Session Abstract: Electronic Ombuds

I've started working on a session on the practice of online ombuds – especially as it applies to Free Software and Open Source communities. The session is based on my work in the Free Software, PHP, Mozilla, MySQL and Open Source communities - in particular, recent work (which I need to get back to) on [...]

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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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Aikido in Hamburg

When I was at FOSDEM, I had a very brief chat with Georg Greve. We made vague statements about how it would be good for us to meet and chat about the European Free Software community and other interesting things (preferably over a beer) when I was in Hamburg.
After a few email messages, and me [...]

FOSDEM

Good event
Met with colleagues
Caught up with friends I have been neglecting
Met some new friends
Need to have someone formally organizing community events
Belgium - gorgeous buildings, good food, too much dog shit,
Each cab ride took a different route
Tin Tin flashbacks - falling flat into the frame

Tags: Belgium, community, Events, FOSDEM, Uncategorized

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Traveling from Brussels to Cologne

FOSDEM finished up a few days ago and the MySQL dev meeting after FOSDEM is now complete as well.
Brian, Monty and I woke up far before the dawn. Brian and Monty had a flight to catch and I was planning on going by train from Brussels to Hamburg.
Now, some hours later, I am on a [...]

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