Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 18

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for May 4th to 10th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

Strong focus on FOSSCoach - planning schedule, coordinating participants, gathering support, developing Wiki, etc.
Event work - writing eLiberatica 2008 keynote, light planning for Open Nordic, Open Source Meets Business Congress, Open [...]

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 [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-11-02

Most of this week focused on events and task triage. I was holed up in a small, comfortable hotel in Slovenia with good Net access. This, combined with a chest cold, kept me nicely focused on doing lots of small tasks.
Events

Missed our bi-weekly MoCo/MoFo events triage call - the call was a bit late and, [...]

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Conference Report: OpenMind & MindTrek 2007

OpenMind 2007 and MindTrek 2007 were excellent mid-sized (400+ participants) tech events that brought together a great mix of people - academics, working developers, activists, senior IT management, public servants, industry veterans, innovators and even pirates [0].
Some presentations were lackluster, but the informal discussions were awesome. There [...]

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Supporting Development of Norway's Electronic Frontier

Some months ago, around the time of the 2007 eZ Conference, I started working with Tor-Arne Bellika (from Innovation Performance AS) and Aleksander Farstad (from eZ Systems AS) on a series of projects centered around helping to develop Norway's electronic frontier.
The projects are diverse and broad in scope. They range from developing a Free Software [...]

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