Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 18

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for May 4th to 10th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

Strong focus on FOSSCoach - planning schedule, coordinating participants, gathering support, developing Wiki, etc.
Event work - writing eLiberatica 2008 keynote, light planning for Open Nordic, Open Source Meets Business Congress, Open [...]

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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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 2007-10-05

For the week ending Friday, October 5th, I attended OpenMind 2007 (and its sister conference MindTrek). Both events were excellent. While I live-blogged much of the first day of OpenMind sessions (visit the Openmind category for this blog to read the posts), I found that I got the most from the event by discussing with [...]

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Supporting Development of Norway's Electronic Frontier

Some months ago, around the time of the 2007 eZ Conference, I started working with Tor-Arne Bellika (from Innovation Performance AS) and Aleksander Farstad (from eZ Systems AS) on a series of projects centered around helping to develop Norway's electronic frontier.
The projects are diverse and broad in scope. They range from developing a Free Software [...]

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OpenMind 2007 Age of Literate Machines Keynote

As the narrator in the Big Lebowski posited, "Some days you eat the bear and some days the bear eats you."
I gave my keynote at OpenMind and the response has been quite positive. Unfortunately, I feel that I botched some key parts of the presentation, which is a bit disappointing for me.
What I have now [...]

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OpenMind 2007 Day 2 / MindTrek 2007 Day 1

I'm sitting in the plenary session for the first day of MindTrek and the second day of OpenMind. I won't be live-blogging the sessions today - instead, I have a presentation to give (and need to pre-load my talk buffers) and hope to spend more time meeting people today.

Tags: Blogging, MindTrek, [...]

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