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Looking for a roomie for Ubuntu Live/FLOSS Foundations/OSCON
I'm looking to share a hotel room at the OSCON hotel (or nearby) for Ubuntu Live, the FLOSS Foundations meeting and OSCON. While the Mozilla Foundation is covering my costs, I don't like wasting MoFo money on frivolous stuff.
I prefer rooming with people who I know, but am not that fussy. I snore a bit. [...]
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Speaking at FrOSCon 2007
I just received word that my proposal (which was to present my Age of Literate Machines presentation) for FrOSCon has been accepted.
I'm pretty excited - the event should be fun and it will give me a good chance to see friends (including a good number of my German MySQL colleagues)
Tags: Age [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-06-01
Frank and I traveled to Cambridge, MA, USA to attend the Berkman Center's Internet & Society 2007 event. We attended to both to learn what academics were doing in areas that interest us (such as transparency, public service, etc.) and to share concerns that we have and lessons that we have learned from our activities.
While [...]
Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-05-18
Most of this week was taken up with preparing for and attending the eLiberatica conference. In fact, as I write this very brief report, I am in the town of Rasnov in Romania. I'll be here for another day before I return home.
The event went extremely well - people were eager to discuss and share [...]
Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-04-20
Summary
A good week - we made progress on the Internet as Public Good Symposium, which is the major task on my Mozilla plate right now. However, an unexpected event at another client meant that my Friday was a bit messed up. Will work on reviewing bugs and other missed responsibilities over the weekend.
Activities
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Old Notebooks
Mandy and I were working together on some accounting for Foo Associates earlier today. We were scratching down notes in an old notebook when I ran across some old bits and pieces from my days at MySQL - random lists of tasks, flight schedules, doodlings and this little snippet of text under the hotel address [...]
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Random Thought: MySQL is the Perl of RDBMS
While chatting with a few SVN hackers at OSCON, it occured to me that MySQL is the Perl of RDBMS. Discuss among yourselves.
Tags: DBMS, MySQL, OSCON, perl, Uncategorized
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EuroOSCON 2006: Funny Closing Keynote Quip
Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical and Ubuntu has just taken the stage at EuroOSCON for the closing keynote. To my surprise, most attendees appear to have stuck it out to the last hour of the conference. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised - EuroOSCON was phenomenally good this year, the content was stellar, the attendees were engaged [...]
EuroOSCON 2006 Slides: Guerilla Evangelism
Download my EuroOSCON 2006 presentation here: Guerilla Evangelism Slides. The presentation is HTML + Javascript + JPEGs.
Tags: Java, OSCON, Uncategorized
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php|works 2006: Mozilla Report
At php/db|works, I didn't end up doing much direct Mozilla Foundation evangelism - I spent too much time catching up on various bits of Mozilla work unrelated to the conference and sleeping off my cold.
I did draft (and test) a set of interview questions for my upcoming string of interviews with various FLOSS community members, [...]