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 [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 7

This is my Mozilla Foundation report for February 17th to February 23rd, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
Projects for the Week
Events

FOSDEM 2008: Travelled to, participated in and spoke at FOSDEM. I'll write reports shortly and will tag them with FOSDEM 2008.
FOSSNUT: Getting ready to present at [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 6

This is my Mozilla Foundation report for February 10th to February 16th, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
Projects for the Week

Participated in the last day of SCALE 6x on February 10th - see posts tagged with SCALE 6x for my reports. Also did bits of SCALE [...]

SCALE 6x: Getting Back

By Sunday morning, SCALE had wound down. Various participants were scattered around the hotel lobby – chatting about the previous days, waiting for shuttles with their bags and napping after a few to many late night discussions. Outside the hotel, a small army of police had gathered in the wake of an unfortunate window-washer falling [...]

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: [...]

SCALE 6x: Getting There

If you read my post on getting the most out of conference attendance, you know that I'm trying to reduce the environmental costs associated with my conference attendance. I even made a plan. As with most plans, real life is a bit different. Here's how I've done:

Taxi from home to YVR (I would have taken [...]

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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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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 [...]

Of Warfare Metaphors and Tribes on the Electronic Frontier

In recent post Earning one's way out of the trenches Matt Asay posits:

It has become an unspoken for me, and should be a common rule throughout the open source business landscape, that no one should become a commander without first having slogged through the trenches as a private. … I don't think it's wise to [...]