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 [...]

Attending the GPLv3 Launch at MIT

Bright and early Sunday morning, I will be flying off to Boston to attend the GPL version 3 launch at MIT.
I am betting on heated discussions and a wild mix of Free Software fanatics, FSF staff from around the world, the Free Culture crowd (EFF, the super awesome Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons staff, …), corporate [...]