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For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference
In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the Vancouver PHP Users Association (who are a bunch of web developers, [...]
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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 [...]
FrOSCon 2008 Call for Papers Now Open
David Roetzel from the FrOSCon organization team just wrote to let me know that the FrOSCon 2008 call for papers has just opened.
FrOSCon is a great, community-focused and community-run free software and open source conference. Each year it brings together hundreds of some of the most engaged FOSS project members from across Europe and beyond.
The [...]
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350 Free Linux Computers for Northern California Schools
Last month I blogged several times about the then upcoming Alameda County Computer Resource Center and Untangle "Installfest for Schools" event.
With a good deal of support from the local free software and open source community, the event seems to have come off beautifully - working together, volunteers managed to assemble 350 working computers for schools [...]
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 [...]