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Planning my SCALE 6x Attendance

In about a week, I'll be heading down to Los Angeles to participate in SCALE 6x, the sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo. In addition to visiting the event, I'll be giving my Age of Literate Machines presentation, updated for 2008 and supported by more research. I'll be joining another Mozillion - Chris Blizzard, who [...]

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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 [...]

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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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 [...]

LCBN Euro Open Source Business Awards 2007

The Linux Business Campus Nuremberg (LBCN) presents annual awards for innovative ideas, well-considered concepts and promising business plans in the field of Open Source and Free Software.
The European Open Source Business Award is presented for innovative business concepts after detailed examination by an expert jury comprising LBCN campus coaches and selected figures from the venture [...]

Keynoting linuxdan.si: Great Food, Mild Discomfit & a Castle

LinuX dan Slovenia was held in Ljubljana castle (which, as one might guess, overlooks Ljubljana from a hill called Castle Hill.)
Conference organizers: Want to improve the next conference that you host? Hold it in a castle - everything is more interesting in a large stone building that has arrow slits. Also, when if the wireless [...]

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Conference Report: OpenMind & MindTrek 2007

OpenMind 2007 and MindTrek 2007 were excellent mid-sized (400+ participants) tech events that brought together a great mix of people - academics, working developers, activists, senior IT management, public servants, industry veterans, innovators and even pirates [0].
Some presentations were lackluster, but the informal discussions were awesome. There [...]

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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 [...]

OpenMind 2007: What does G(PE)^2 bring to the mobile space?

The next presentation is focused on G(PE)^2, a GUI for Linux-based mobile phones. It is similar to OpenMoko. I'd love to blog about the session, but I've been typing like a maniac for most of the day and my head is pretty full of the OpenMoko stuff.
If you are curious, check out the G(PE)^2 website [...]

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