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SCALE 6x: Wrapup - People
While I met a lot of great people at SCALE (Michael, Moose, Sharon and a host more) I had generally interesting non-private discussions with (or observations about) the following:
Allison Randal - OSCON co-chair and Parrot architect - gave a great presentation on Parrot and an excellent low-stress guide to effective speaking. We also spent some [...]
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, [...]
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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: [...]
SCALE 6x LiveBlogging: Linux in Early Education
LA is wearing her typical veil of grey-brown smog. I've been here for enough hours that I can't really smell it anymore – or much of anything else, for that matter. I'm at the LA Airport Weston with the rest of the SCALE 6x attendees.
I'm sitting in Steve Oualline's session on Linux in Early Education. [...]
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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 [...]
Advancing the Mozilla Manifesto
Most regular readers of this blog are familiar with the Mozilla Manifesto and with the work that the Mozilla Corporation undertakes to advance the manifesto. It is good work. Actually, it is great work from a great community of people. However, the corporation focuses most on Firefox and the related software and communities. The manifesto [...]
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New Pitches for the Lab with Leo
My work at the Mozilla Foundation is, not surprisingly, focused on advancing the Mozilla Manifesto.
After my last Firefox 3 segment on the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show, I started thinking about pitches for new segments that tie in with the manifesto.
The rough ideas I've so far had are:
Deep Customization of Firefox: Make your browser [...]
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FOSSNUT: The Free and Open Source Software Norwegian University Tour
LinPro AS (a Norwegian Linux and FLOSS services firm) has organized a speaking tour of Norwegian universities. The tour will visit three Norwegian schools and will focus on introducing students and faculty to Free Software and Open Source. Speakers include FreeBSD & Varnish hacker Dag-Erling Smørgrav, eZ Systems AS CEO Aleksander Farstad and yours truly. The schools we plan to visit [...]
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Session Abstract: The Age of Literate Machines
I've never found this abstract to be terribly engaging. I'll be rewriting it when I get a moment.
Title
The Age of Literate Machines
Summary
Free Software and Open Source are understood to be reshaping technology. What is less understood is how FOSS relates to the future of free societies. During this session, we'll examine how FOSS relates to [...]
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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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