Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 13
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 30th to April 5th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Prepared for next week's Go Open 2008 conference in Oslo: earnestly worked on keynote (slides here), prepared for press interviews, organized meeting in the area, etc.
Light work on eLiberatica planning [...]
Coaching the Next Generation of FOSS Developers
Each year it seems that there are more and more grumblings about how commercial Open Source conferences are moving further and further away from Free Software and Open Source communities. Incongruously, some of the loudest (or at least most noticed) complaining comes from some of the most consistent participants on the conference circuit. I myself [...]
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Bay Area Linuxists: Butt kicking for goodness
On March 1st, the Alameda County Computer Resource Center and Untangle are pairing up to run a massive installfest, pairing donated computer hardware with Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
If you live in (or are visiting) the Bay Area, you can help by donating old hardware and by helping install Ubuntu.
If you are part of a company with a [...]
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Bay Area Techies: Help Schools with Your Old Hardware and Free Software
On March 1st, the Alameda County Computer Resource Center and Untangle are pairing up to run a massive installfest, pairing donated computer hardware with Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
If you live in (or are visiting) the Bay Area, you can help by donating old hardware and by helping install Ubuntu.
If you are part of a company with a [...]
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Planning my SCALE 6x Attendance
In about a week, I'll be heading down to Los Angeles to participate in SCALE 6x, the sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo. In addition to visiting the event, I'll be giving my Age of Literate Machines presentation, updated for 2008 and supported by more research. I'll be joining another Mozillion - Chris Blizzard, who [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-07
This week, I focused on shepherding new grants and on following up existing grants. There isn't much to report publicly yet, however I note that Patrick Michaud - recent recipient of a joint Perl Foundation/Mozilla Foundation grant for Perl 6 - is making steady and visible Perl 6 progress.Also, David Boswell, Frank Hecker and I [...]
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 2007-08-17
During the week ending on August 17, I:
followed up various tasks from the Internet as a Public Good Symposium - getting people set up on an IPG mailing list for further discussions, handling the last bit of reimbursements and procrastinating on cleaning up the summit notes.
bits of planning for upcoming Mozilla-related events (like Mozilla24 and [...]
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 [...]
Quicksilver + Adium + Hiveminder
Jesse and the gang at Best Practical have cooked up a slick IM interface for Hiveminder. Now, with a bit of AppleScript and the help of Adium, it is easy to hook Quicksilver up to Hiveminder.
If this is all a bunch of jabberwocky, then you probably aren't using a Mac. Move along, nothing to [...]
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