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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: Stormy Peters: What is a Community Manager?

The first day of SCALE 6x, I camped out in the Women in Open Source track. One of the sessions that I caught during this day was Stormy Peters' excellent, "What is a Community Manager?" presentation. My notes - in point form rather than prose - follow.

Tags: Alolita Sharma, Bytesfree.org, community, Community Manager, conference, Dawn [...]

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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 5

This is my Mozilla Foundation report for February 3rd to February 9th, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
Much of this week was focused on participating in SCALE 6x, as well as traveling to and from the event, and preparing for other events.
Projects for the Week
Events

SCALE 6x: [...]

Mozilla Foundation Report for January 2008

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the month of January 2008. In the future, I'll return to posting weekly reports. For more information on the other foundation-related activities, see the status reports published by David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham.
This month has had an unusually strong focus on [...]

Session Abstract: Open Innovation and Open Source

I've worked up this abstract for a session that I'll present at Stefan Doeblin's Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries - an event to be held in Munich on April 24th, 2008. While at the event, I'll also be participating in a panel titled, "Beyond Methods, Processes, and Tools: The [...]

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Session Abstract: Electronic Ombuds

I've started working on a session on the practice of online ombuds – especially as it applies to Free Software and Open Source communities. The session is based on my work in the Free Software, PHP, Mozilla, MySQL and Open Source communities - in particular, recent work (which I need to get back to) on [...]

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Don't get pwn3d: Why Professionalism Matters In Community Discussions

Some years ago (as penance for working at MySQL during some temporary corporate brain-damage about Free Software licensing) I began volunteering at the Free Software Foundation.
For the most part, I have spent my time providing support on Free Software licensing questions for the FSF Compliance Lab and helping out on the GPL v3 effort.
While both [...]

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About Zak Greant: Bio and Background

Hi! My name is Zak Greant and I've tired of writing things in the third person (at least for today.)
I own a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates – we help technology organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. We're a tiny shop, but we've got great clients (like eZ Systems AS and the [...]

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