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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 [...]
Standing on the Toes of Giants at Mozilla24
In 2002, a short while after I started at MySQL, I saw Lawrence Lessig present at OSCON. The presentation was extraordinarily good and Lessig is a tremendously passionate, genuine and compelling orator.
I immediately revised my presentation style. I stole what ideas and style I could. While I was mostly presenting about MySQL and PHP at [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-07
A simple week to report on. For the week ending Friday, September 7th, I:
Neglected my reports on various conferences
Prepared for presenting The Age of Literate Machines at San Francisco State University's Software Freedom Day and at Mozilla24. For Mozilla24, I follow Larry Lessig in the speaker's roster. I'm not nervous. Really.
Reviewed some of Doc's followup [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-08-31
During the week ending on Friday August 31th, I did the following things:
Events
Attended FrOSCon (which was awesome) - need to write report. Briefly, I - gave a session, met and discussed with another FLOSS Foundations member and caught up with a few CACert folks. More later.
Did some followup work for the Internet as a Public [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-08-24
During the week ending on Friday August 24th, I:
Caught up on my overdue weekly reports
Updated public MoFo activities page and the private corresponding project idea page on the private MoFo wiki.
Supported Mary Colvig as she works on Mozilla involvement with Software Freedom Day and on Mozilla24
Poked the Perl Foundation people about their grant proposal
Reviewed David's [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-08-17
During the week ending on August 17, I:
followed up various tasks from the Internet as a Public Good Symposium - getting people set up on an IPG mailing list for further discussions, handling the last bit of reimbursements and procrastinating on cleaning up the summit notes.
bits of planning for upcoming Mozilla-related events (like Mozilla24 and [...]
Of Warfare Metaphors and Tribes on the Electronic Frontier
In recent post Earning one's way out of the trenches Matt Asay posits:
It has become an unspoken for me, and should be a common rule throughout the open source business landscape, that no one should become a commander without first having slogged through the trenches as a private. … I don't think it's wise to [...]
Don't get pwn3d: Why Professionalism Matters In Community Discussions
Some years ago (as penance for working at MySQL during some temporary corporate brain-damage about Free Software licensing) I began volunteering at the Free Software Foundation.
For the most part, I have spent my time providing support on Free Software licensing questions for the FSF Compliance Lab and helping out on the GPL v3 effort.
While both [...]
Barcelona to host the 3rd Intl. Conference on the GPL v3
The 3rd international conference on GPL v3 will take place in Barcelona, Spain on June 22nd and 23rd. The international GPLv3 conferences are part of a year-long public consultation process to update the GNU General Public License.
Speakers include Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, chairman at Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and Georg Greve, President of Free [...]
Good Books on Free Software, Open Source and Intellectual Monopoly Law
This list has been created primarily to help one individual learn more about the laws and agreements which affect their business. As such, it is quite limited in scope. I plan to expand the list as time permits.
Free Software/Open Source-specific Resources:
A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Project (prepared by the [...]