Hacking Business Models
This weekend, Monty and I got together for a different kind of hacking session.
Instead of developing software, we were working on developing a set of rough principles and rules for running a Free Software/Open Source business. We both have a good amount of experience working with various FLOSS projects (like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, etc.) and [...]
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MySQL Sandalcamp Presentation
Unfortunately, I had to skip out on my presentation at this year's MySQL Conference.
Thankfully, my friend Mike Hillyer was able to pinch hit for me. I had planned to do a podcast of the session, but - as he is totally awesome - Mike even recorded the session.
Tags: conference, Media, Mike Hillyer, MySQL, Uncategorized
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Romanian Software Libre Event: LOAD
A few days ago, my friend and fellow ROSI-ist, Lucian Savluc, mentioned an upcoming Romanian Software Libre event called LOAD - the Linux Open Alternative Days.
Another ROSI member, Alexandru Lăpuşan, will give a presentation on the ROSI initiative and our upcoming eLiberatica conference.
Additionally, two other ROSI members will be attending the event as speakers: [...]
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Dear Travelocity, Study WestJet
After the recent fiasco with Travelocity, I called WestJet to straighten things out. Amazing. A real person (named Melissa) immediately answered the WestJet 1-800 number. She then answered all of my questions, confirmed my reservation and emailed out an itinerary. When I hung up, my phone time read, "03:12" and the email itinerary was already [...]
Travelocity Overrun by Gremlins
http://travelocity.ca has always been a bit of a warty, grumpy service. If you visit it using platforms other than the Windows + IE, it grumbles, threatening to lose your reservation, displaying ugly gaffs in its styling or, in rare instances, randomly serving up sessions other than your own.
For the most part, the travelocity.ca's flaws [...]
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Creating MozillaFoundation.org
One of my current tasks at the Mozilla Foundation is getting mozillafoundation.org up and running. Of course, we have all the needed infrastructure, design help and so on - this leaves just a few major tasks for me, namely:
identifying content on mozilla.org that should live on mozillafoundation.org,
collecting, revising and creating content as needed,
working with others [...]
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s/Blogging/Talking/:Tim Bray hits the nail on the head
Tim Bray hits the nail directly on the head when he writes the following about the hoopla surrounding the risks of blogging to corporations:
As a thought experiment, replace the word ‘blogging’ with ‘email’ or ‘conference presentation’ or ‘teleconference’ or ‘sales presentation’. Or ‘barroom conversation’ for that matter. Quick, quick, you wanna be safe, you better [...]
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ApacheCon EU 2006 CfP
Lars Eilebrecht writes:
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is proud to announce that ApacheCon Europe 2006 will be held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, June 26-30, 2006.
ApacheCon Europe is the official conference of the Apache Software Foundation in Europe. This annual event creates a unique platform for the Open Source community in Europe to [...]
Northern Voice: Notes from Sifry on the Blogosphere
Currently sitting in on Sifry on the Blogosphere session at Northern Voice.
Amusing quotes from Dave Sifry:
"I immediately became a stats whore."
"We are leaving little droppings on the web."
"Authority does not denote veracity.
Ideas:
Blogs allow others to observe someone else's attention, interest and world view over time.
Wanted technorati to pick up the immediacy of conversation.
Web search engines [...]
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LOTS
Bern
Nice community - need to catch up with them
Nice friendly streets
Expensive food!
Neat city - wish that I had been able to see more of it
Felt a bit like Banff - asian characters on restaurant doors
Neat street media
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