OOXML: Go To Hell!
Demonstration against OOXML, originally uploaded by Martin Bekkelund.
It is a day after the Go Open conference in Oslo and I am still holed up in a hotel nearby. Blearily stumbling down to breakfast, I was confronted with a mix of lukewarm meatballs, easy listening radio — both of which are common enough to encounter in [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 11
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 16th to March 22nd, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional Mozilla Foundation reports.
This Week
Focused on reports and conference follow-up. Will be making individual reports an most of these activities and events as time permits - first priority is following up with [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 10
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 9th to March 15th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Attended the PHP Québec Conference from March 12 to 14. Moderated one of the conference rooms (focused on DBMS) for 1/2 a day. Gave the Age of Literate Machines as [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 9
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 2nd to March 8th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Attended the Open Source Initiative's face-to-face board meeting on March 2nd and 3rd as a board observer. Additionally, I worked with some of the board members on March 1st on [...]
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 [...]
Scale 6x: Stormy Peters: What is a Community Manager?
The first day of SCALE 6x, I camped out in the Women in Open Source track. One of the sessions that I caught during this day was Stormy Peters' excellent, "What is a Community Manager?" presentation. My notes - in point form rather than prose - follow.
Tags: Alolita Sharma, Bytesfree.org, community, Community Manager, conference, Dawn [...]
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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: Open Innovation and Open Source
I've worked up this abstract for a session that I'll present at Stefan Doeblin's Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries - an event to be held in Munich on April 24th, 2008. While at the event, I'll also be participating in a panel titled, "Beyond Methods, Processes, and Tools: The [...]
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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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