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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 17
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for April 27th to May 3rd, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Returned to Canada from Germany
Lots of event-related work - FOSSCoach dev., following up with contacts from the Open Innovation event, Go Open, eLiberatica planning and community relations, declining attendance of [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 16
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for April 20th to April 26th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Travelled to Munich and Nuremberg
Attended the Muenchner Kreis Open Innovation Event in Munich.
Polished and gave presentation. Presentation was well-received (though I was disappointed, as is often the case.) Posted slides [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 15
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for April 13th to April 19th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Light week, as the prior week was exceptionally long (80+ hours)
Attended Open Web Vancouver: Gave keynote, met people (but I was pretty dull after the travel delays). Keynote was well-received.
Go [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 14
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for April 6th to April 12th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Attended Go Open 2008 in Oslo: Gave keynote, did interviews with local media, had some great discussions, participated in an anti-OOXML protest, etc. See various reports at http://zak.greant.com/tags/go-open
Visited the Opera [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 13
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 30th to April 5th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Prepared for next week's Go Open 2008 conference in Oslo: earnestly worked on keynote (slides here), prepared for press interviews, organized meeting in the area, etc.
Light work on eLiberatica planning [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 12
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 23rd to March 29th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Many small tasks. Worked on my Go Open 2008 keynote (slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/zakgreant/go-open-08-floss-what-and-why). Minor administrative work. Got ready for travelling to Go Open 2008 in Oslo. Chased after various [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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