Getting Things Done vs. Simplicity
For a good (or perhaps bad) part of July and August, I was caught up in various ideas about how to better manage the complexity in my life. I re-read Getting Things Done, cursed at the wonderful (and unstable) GTDInbox, tried the 1.0 release of Chandler, twiddled the dials on a handful of different task [...]
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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 [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 12
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 23rd to March 29th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Many small tasks. Worked on my Go Open 2008 keynote (slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/zakgreant/go-open-08-floss-what-and-why). Minor administrative work. Got ready for travelling to Go Open 2008 in Oslo. Chased after various [...]
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 [...]
Posting my OSI Weekly Reports
A couple of weeks ago, I promised to post weekly reports on my OSI activities. I've done that, but not on my blog — it turns out that I have a blog on the Open Source Initiative website, which I am using for my weekly reports.
To keep up to date, visit http://opensource.org/blog/zak
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eLiberatica Abstract: Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing
Much to my friend Lucian's dismay, I have been sitting (a.k.a. not doing a damn thing) on the abstracts for my upcoming sessions at the Romanian eLiberatica conference.
The first abstract is easy — I will present a slightly modified version of my Age of Literate Machines presentation.
The second session will take a little bit more [...]
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Joining the Open Source Initiative as a Board Observer
I just realized that I never formally announced that (as of January 9th, 2008) I have joined the Open Source Initiative as a board observer. This is an unpaid position without voting privileges.
The role of board observer is quite loosely defined; it feels much like being a member of an open source project where you [...]
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