20000 km, $7000, 7 days and 4 tons of CO2
… or, "Making Event Attendance Count"
Late last year, I gave a keynote at paired Finnish conferences MindTrek and OpenMind. While the events were well worth attending, afterwards I spent a few bleak hours thinking about the actual costs of my attendance. If I had left Canada just for these events (which, thankfully, I [...]
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Conference Report: OpenMind & MindTrek 2007
OpenMind 2007 and MindTrek 2007 were excellent mid-sized (400+ participants) tech events that brought together a great mix of people - academics, working developers, activists, senior IT management, public servants, industry veterans, innovators and even pirates [0].
Some presentations were lackluster, but the informal discussions were awesome. There [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-10-05
For the week ending Friday, October 5th, I attended OpenMind 2007 (and its sister conference MindTrek). Both events were excellent. While I live-blogged much of the first day of OpenMind sessions (visit the Openmind category for this blog to read the posts), I found that I got the most from the event by discussing with [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-28
For the week ending Friday, September 28th, I:
Worked out a plan for attending OpenMind 2007
Had a good chat with David Ascher about MailCo
Traveled to Finland for OpenMind
Next Week
Attend OpenMind - present The Age of Literate Machines as a keynote and network.
Tags: Age of Literate Machines, David Ascher, David Boswell, Finland, Frank Hecker, Gerv, Gervase Markham, [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-21
For the week ending Friday, September 21st, most of my time went into:
Wiki gardening on the private Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation wikis
Event planning and followup
Cleaning up minor dangling tasks (like handing some XUL community stuff over to David and (unsuccessfully) chasing after Seth about FOSS.in)
Next Week
Working on plans for Mozilla Foundation outreach the upcoming [...]
Supporting Development of Norway's Electronic Frontier
Some months ago, around the time of the 2007 eZ Conference, I started working with Tor-Arne Bellika (from Innovation Performance AS) and Aleksander Farstad (from eZ Systems AS) on a series of projects centered around helping to develop Norway's electronic frontier.
The projects are diverse and broad in scope. They range from developing a Free Software [...]
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OpenMind 2007 Age of Literate Machines Keynote
As the narrator in the Big Lebowski posited, "Some days you eat the bear and some days the bear eats you."
I gave my keynote at OpenMind and the response has been quite positive. Unfortunately, I feel that I botched some key parts of the presentation, which is a bit disappointing for me.
What I have now [...]
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OpenMind 2007 Day 2 / MindTrek 2007 Day 1
I'm sitting in the plenary session for the first day of MindTrek and the second day of OpenMind. I won't be live-blogging the sessions today - instead, I have a presentation to give (and need to pre-load my talk buffers) and hope to spend more time meeting people today.
Tags: Blogging, MindTrek, OpenMind, Uncategorized
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Conference Report: [...]
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I Love Finland
… and why, you may ask, do I love Finland so much?
Walking from the OpenMind conference sessions out into the hotel and then on into the lobby, I find that they are playing Manowar over the hotel sound system.
Earlier this morning, they were playing christmas music.
Tags: conference, Finland, OpenMind, Uncategorized
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OpenMind 2007: What does G(PE)^2 bring to the mobile space?
The next presentation is focused on G(PE)^2, a GUI for Linux-based mobile phones. It is similar to OpenMoko. I'd love to blog about the session, but I've been typing like a maniac for most of the day and my head is pretty full of the OpenMoko stuff.
If you are curious, check out the G(PE)^2 website [...]
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