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 [...]
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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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-10-26
Traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia to attend LinuX dan 10:
Presented the Age of Literate Machines as a keynote
Chatted with attendees
Interviewed with local journalist Damjan Franz Lu from NeDeljski (which I think is the major Slovenian daily)
Traveled to Zagreb, Croatia to attend LinuX dan 5.
Pondered the naming convention for the events
Presented the Age of Literate Machines as [...]
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 [...]
ApacheCon EU 2006 CfP
Lars Eilebrecht writes:
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is proud to announce that ApacheCon Europe 2006 will be held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, June 26-30, 2006.
ApacheCon Europe is the official conference of the Apache Software Foundation in Europe. This annual event creates a unique platform for the Open Source community in Europe to [...]
MySQL ComCon Europe 2004
From November 8th to 10th, some of MySQL's core developers and key community members are getting together in Frankfurt for the MySQL ComCon Europe.
The ComCon seeks to mix the vigor and excitement of a community event (like LinuxTag) with a strong focus on the issues that matter to companies and consultants. The ComCon is a [...]
Changing Fortunes
A rainy day in Calgary turns to evening, and the city outside comfortably settles into the artificial twilight of house lights and street lamps. Inside, my little family wanders away from a quiet celebration over a few containers of Chinese takeout and returns to nursing colds or working on book projects.
The celebration wasn't much - [...]
Back in Germany
Just after dawn in Frankfurt. After spending 9 hours flying from Dallas to Frankfurt with a group of German tourists with food poisoning, I am glad to get off of the plane. I suppose that the tourists were much more grateful to get on the ground than I. Spending the majority of a nine hour [...]