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 [...]

OOXML: Go To Hell!

Demonstration against OOXML, originally uploaded by Martin Bekkelund.
It is a day after the Go Open conference in Oslo and I am still holed up in a hotel nearby. Blearily stumbling down to breakfast, I was confronted with a mix of lukewarm meatballs, easy listening radio — both of which are common enough to encounter in [...]

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Early Coverage of Go Open 2008

Day two of Go Open is just about to get started. Already, there's a good amount of coverage in the Norwegian press on the event. I have made a pitiful attempt to translate the titles of the articles, mostly for the amusement of my Norwegian friends.

Alexander V. Røyne blogged, go open day 2008 1: Chris [...]

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Resources for Go Open Keynote

During the keynote at the Go Open conference in Oslo, I am going to be mentioning several papers and articles. I've included links and a brief summary of each below:
Paper: Adoption of Open Source in The Software Industry
An excellent research paper paper produced by Reidar Conradi, Øyvind Hauge and Carl-Fredrik Sørensen from the Norwegian University [...]

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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 [...]