Go Open 2008: People
As usual for a conference, I spent almost all of the time I was at Go Open 2008 talking with people (and occasionally talking at people.)
The following is a list of people I talked with (or listened to) along with the interesting or exciting things that they shared with me or that they're working on:
The [...]
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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Go Open Resources
During the keynote at the Go Open conference in Oslo, I am going to be mentioning several papers and articles. I've included links and a brief summary of each below:
Paper: Adoption of Open Source in The Software Industry
An excellent research paper paper produced by Reidar Conradi, Øyvind Hauge and Carl-Fredrik Sørensen from the Norwegian University [...]
Resources for Go Open Keynote
During the keynote at the Go Open conference in Oslo, I am going to be mentioning several papers and articles. I've included links and a brief summary of each below:
Paper: Adoption of Open Source in The Software Industry
An excellent research paper paper produced by Reidar Conradi, Øyvind Hauge and Carl-Fredrik Sørensen from the Norwegian University [...]
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Coaching the Next Generation of FOSS Developers
Each year it seems that there are more and more grumblings about how commercial Open Source conferences are moving further and further away from Free Software and Open Source communities. Incongruously, some of the loudest (or at least most noticed) complaining comes from some of the most consistent participants on the conference circuit. I myself [...]
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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 [...]
OSI Report for 2008 Week 10
This report is a summary of Zak Greant's Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 9th to 15th, 2008.
This Week
This was my first week of real activity in 2008 (except for my attendance of the March 2008 OSI face-to-face meeting.)
My primary activities were embarrassingly few. I worked with Alolita Sharma and Andrew C. [...]
SCALE 6x: Wrapup - People
While I met a lot of great people at SCALE (Michael, Moose, Sharon and a host more) I had generally interesting non-private discussions with (or observations about) the following:
Allison Randal - OSCON co-chair and Parrot architect - gave a great presentation on Parrot and an excellent low-stress guide to effective speaking. We also spent some [...]
SCALE 6x: Hello, Can Anyone Hear Me?
I started liveblogging Adaora Onyia's, "Hello, Can Anyone Hear Me?" session, but after a few moments abandoned the attempt – the presentation left me too conflicted to easily commit notes on it to text.
Adaora's presentation described survival tactics for a workplace that I'd prefer never to enter, along with gender roles that I'd rather not [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 5
This is my Mozilla Foundation report for February 3rd to February 9th, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
Much of this week was focused on participating in SCALE 6x, as well as traveling to and from the event, and preparing for other events.
Projects for the Week
Events
SCALE 6x: [...]