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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 [...]

Session Abstract: Electronic Ombuds

I've started working on a session on the practice of online ombuds – especially as it applies to Free Software and Open Source communities. The session is based on my work in the Free Software, PHP, Mozilla, MySQL and Open Source communities - in particular, recent work (which I need to get back to) on [...]

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Sandro Groganz starts new Open Source marketing consultancy

After handling the marketing for Open Source vendors eZ Systems AS and Mindquarry, my friend Sandro Groganz taking the leap into entrepreneurship and is starting his own Open Source marketing consultancy. Sandro's a smart guy with experience working with several different Open Source communities, including PHP - I'd recommend him to anyone looking to get [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-28

This week, I:

Drafted a rough plan for new Mozilla Foundation programs in 2008 that will work to support the Mozilla Manifesto.
Worked on Mozilla Foundation participation in various events (F2C: Freedom to Connect, SCALE 6x, PHP Québec Conference 2008 and an as-yet unnamed tour of Norwegian institutions of higher education)
Polished up the last bit of 2007 [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-21

This week, I:

Wrapped up the open 2007 grant proposals. Some will have to be pushed into 2008. Frank will report on what was approved this year.
Worked on abstracts for German event Leadership by (Open) innovation: Threat or challenge to the Telecommunications, IT and Media industries and American event F2C: Freedom to Connect.
Started revamping The Age [...]

First Partial Remix of the Age of Literate Machines

Paul Scott from the AVOIR project has remixed some of the content and slides from the Age of Literate Machines presentation into one of his own presentations. If you are curious, Age of Literate Machines presentation into one of his own presentations. If you are curious, check out the slides.

Tags: Age of Literate Machines, CMS, [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-11-09

This week focused on events and event planning.

Caught up with Mary Colvig (after missing our bi-weekly events call) to discuss upcoming events and our events strategy for 2008. We focused on the events listed in last week's report.
Worked on expanding the Age of Literate Machines to provide additional focus on the importance of the network [...]

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Links for "Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing" attendees

I gave an ad hoc presentation on the last day of the International PHP Conference. During the presentation, I mentioned a few resources, which I have listed below:

The Free Software Foundation Website
The Free Software Definition
List of Approved Free Software Licenses

The Open Source Initiative Website
The Open Source Definition
List of Approved Open Source Licenses

The Software Freedom Law [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-11-02

Most of this week focused on events and task triage. I was holed up in a small, comfortable hotel in Slovenia with good Net access. This, combined with a chest cold, kept me nicely focused on doing lots of small tasks.
Events

Missed our bi-weekly MoCo/MoFo events triage call - the call was a bit late and, [...]

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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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