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 [...]
Advancing the Mozilla Manifesto
Most regular readers of this blog are familiar with the Mozilla Manifesto and with the work that the Mozilla Corporation undertakes to advance the manifesto. It is good work. Actually, it is great work from a great community of people. However, the corporation focuses most on Firefox and the related software and communities. The manifesto [...]
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Session Abstract: The Age of Literate Machines
I've never found this abstract to be terribly engaging. I'll be rewriting it when I get a moment.
Title
The Age of Literate Machines
Summary
Free Software and Open Source are understood to be reshaping technology. What is less understood is how FOSS relates to the future of free societies. During this session, we'll examine how FOSS relates to [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2008-01-04
This week, I:
Finished up the rough plan for new Mozilla Foundation programs in 2008 that will work to support the Mozilla Manifesto. Waiting for review by the rest of the MoFo team and board.
Worked on Mozilla Foundation participation in various events (F2C: Freedom to Connect and an as-yet unnamed tour of Norwegian institutions of higher [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-28
This week, I:
Drafted a rough plan for new Mozilla Foundation programs in 2008 that will work to support the Mozilla Manifesto.
Worked on Mozilla Foundation participation in various events (F2C: Freedom to Connect, SCALE 6x, PHP Québec Conference 2008 and an as-yet unnamed tour of Norwegian institutions of higher education)
Polished up the last bit of 2007 [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-21
This week, I:
Wrapped up the open 2007 grant proposals. Some will have to be pushed into 2008. Frank will report on what was approved this year.
Worked on abstracts for German event Leadership by (Open) innovation: Threat or challenge to the Telecommunications, IT and Media industries and American event F2C: Freedom to Connect.
Started revamping The Age [...]
Links for "Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing" attendees
I gave an ad hoc presentation on the last day of the International PHP Conference. During the presentation, I mentioned a few resources, which I have listed below:
The Free Software Foundation Website
The Free Software Definition
List of Approved Free Software Licenses
The Open Source Initiative Website
The Open Source Definition
List of Approved Open Source Licenses
The Software Freedom Law [...]
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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OpenMind 2007: Monty's Session on Building MySQL Community
I've come in late for Monty's session - everything seems to be running a bit early - how odd.
Monty's is covering mistakes in building communities - he's talking about Dream Box and how they have let their community fragment so deeply. Then he talks about how MySQL has provided a strong central point for the [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-14
Sunahara-sensei from Mozilla 24, originally uploaded by fumi.
For the week ending Friday, September 14th, I:
Continued to neglect my reports on various conferences
Talked to Malcolm Matson from OPLAN Foundation about possible ways to cooperate
Traveled to and from San Francisco and got to stay with my totally awesome friends at Meerkat Manor
Presented The Age of Literate Machines [...]