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Pecked by the Vulture for Knitting In Public

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine received a light pecking from one of the vultures at The Register (or, more precisely, an appendage of The Register called RegDeveloper) and took some offense.
Frankly, as someone whose never been pecked by El Reg, I'm almost envious. I've only been trolled by anonymous cowards, while Danese [...]

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 2007-08-10

During the week ending on August 10th, I followed up on bit and pieces from OSCON 2007 and the Internet as a Public Good Symposium. Most of the rest of my time was spent digging out from an email backlog.

Tags: conference, David Boswell, Frank Hecker, Gerv, Internet as a Public Good Symposium, MoFo, Mozilla, Mozilla [...]

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 [...]

Craigslist Foundation Non-Profit Boot Camp

At the last FLOSS Foundations meeting, Brian Behlendorf mentioned the upcoming Craigslist Foundation Non-Profit Boot Camp.
The event is focused on helping people develop the skills and connections needed to help them run a successful non-profit.
Brian attended the event two years ago and found it a good use of his time.
I'm certainly interested in going, but [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-27

Over this week, I worked on the Internet as a Public Good Symposium and attended Ubuntu Live, OSCON 2007 and the FLOSS Foundations meeting.
I'll post more on specific activities from the various events and meetings throughout the coming week.

Tags: conference, David Boswell, Events, FLOSS, FLOSS Foundations, Frank Hecker, Gerv, Gervase Markham, Internet as a Public [...]

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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-20

Over the week ending on Friday, July 20th, I worked most on the Internet as a Public Good Symposium, polishing the wiki, chasing around after the other participants, doing background reading, etc. I also spent some time getting ready for Ubuntu Live, OSCON 2007 and the FLOSS Foundations meeting.

Tags: conference, David Boswell, FLOSS, FLOSS Foundations, [...]

Ubuntu Live 07: Mark Shuttleworth's Keynote

It is relatively early on a Sunday morning. I'm in Portland sitting in Mark Shuttleworth's opening keynote for Ubuntu Live 2007.
At a glance, I'd estimate that there are about 240 people in the audience - great attendance for the first edition of an event.
Mark's keynote is surprising, but not in the way that one might [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-13

The week ending July 13th saw me working heavily on the Internet as a Public Good Symposium - mostly wrangling participants, writing IPG content, editing the wiki and so on.
I also did some light work preparing for upcoming events (FLOSS Foundations Meeting, OSCON, Ubuntu Live)
Next Week
More Internet as a Public Good Symposium work [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-06

Sorry for the missing reports (for the June 22nd and 29th) - I'll catch up in this report.
June 22nd and 29th were quiet on for Mozilla-related activities. I did what I could to keep the ball rolling for our organization of the Internet as a Public Good Symposium, but my real focus was taken up [...]