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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 PHP Québec Conference from March 12 to 14. Moderated one of the conference rooms (focused on DBMS) for 1/2 a day. Gave the Age of Literate Machines as [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 9

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 2nd to March 8th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

Attended the Open Source Initiative's face-to-face board meeting on March 2nd and 3rd as a board observer. Additionally, I worked with some of the board members on March 1st on [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Speaking at OSCON 2008

I'm happy to report that I'll be presenting two sessions at OSCON 2008. The first session is called, "Greening the Conference Circuit" and the second is my (now-)usual Age of Literate Machines presentation.

This year, I'll be at OSCON on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation. In addition to attending the main conference, I'll also be attending the FLOSS Foundations meetings, the Open Source Initiative meetings and participating in a revamped version of OSCamp.

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: Wrapup - Results

I had a set of goals for SCALE 6x, namely to:

Identify five potential Mozilla Foundation grant recipients.
Find three organizations willing to match some or all of our grants for a specific project or set of projects.
Find three organizations who we can help implement (or improve their implementation) of some or all of the principles of [...]

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 [...]