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 [...]
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: [...]
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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Links for "Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing" attendees
I gave an ad hoc presentation on the last day of the International PHP Conference. During the presentation, I mentioned a few resources, which I have listed below:
The Free Software Foundation Website
The Free Software Definition
List of Approved Free Software Licenses
The Open Source Initiative Website
The Open Source Definition
List of Approved Open Source Licenses
The Software Freedom Law [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-08-24
During the week ending on Friday August 24th, I:
Caught up on my overdue weekly reports
Updated public MoFo activities page and the private corresponding project idea page on the private MoFo wiki.
Supported Mary Colvig as she works on Mozilla involvement with Software Freedom Day and on Mozilla24
Poked the Perl Foundation people about their grant proposal
Reviewed David's [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-08-03
During the week ending on August 3rd, I:
attended OSCON 2007 and presented a Mozilla Foundation talk at the State of … Lightning Talks session.
followed up on logistics-related tasks (reimbursements) from the Internet as a Public Good Symposium
Discussed grants with some of the Perl Foundation crew
Caught up with the rest of the Mozilla Foundation crew face-to-face [...]
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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