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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 [...]

PHP Québec Conférence 2008

The good folks at PHP Québec are throwing another iteration of their annual PHP conference. It will be held from March 12-14 in the beautiful city of Montréal. As I've mentioned before, this is always a great conference.
Check the conference website out - you still have a few days before the call for participation ends [...]

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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-14

Sunahara-sensei from Mozilla 24, originally uploaded by fumi.

For the week ending Friday, September 14th, I:

Continued to neglect my reports on various conferences
Talked to Malcolm Matson from OPLAN Foundation about possible ways to cooperate
Traveled to and from San Francisco and got to stay with my totally awesome friends at Meerkat Manor
Presented The Age of Literate Machines [...]

Standing on the Toes of Giants at Mozilla24

In 2002, a short while after I started at MySQL, I saw Lawrence Lessig present at OSCON. The presentation was extraordinarily good and Lessig is a tremendously passionate, genuine and compelling orator.
I immediately revised my presentation style. I stole what ideas and style I could. While I was mostly presenting about MySQL and PHP at [...]

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Dear Technical Conference Organizer

I am a conference junkie. I love attending them, organizing them, speaking at them, planning to attend them, seeing my friends at conferences, making friends with the nice (but often stressed) people who run conferences and so on. I even like eating the (often bad) food - kvetching about it builds a sense of [...]

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French Free Software/Open Source Lawyers

A few weeks ago, I asked my LinkedIn network for help finding a French lawyer or law firm who has a good knowledge of Free Software and Open Source. To my surprise, I received a few recommendations, which I've listed below:

Cyril Rojinsky
The law firm of Iteanu
Marc Lipskier of Bird & Bird
Maître Sebastian van Teslaar (+33.6.61.13.02.22)

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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 [...]

Hacking Business Models

This weekend, Monty and I got together for a different kind of hacking session.
Instead of developing software, we were working on developing a set of rough principles and rules for running a Free Software/Open Source business. We both have a good amount of experience working with various FLOSS projects (like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, etc.) and [...]

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Slides for The Age of Literate Machines

I've just posted slides and (rather) rough presenter notes and image credits for my Age of Literate Machines presentation.
These are still draft slides. I'll be working on an improved version in the coming weeks and months.
Many thanks to all who have sat through drafts of the talk (DES, Jen, Hilde, Markus, Monty, Rory, Tony).

The Age [...]

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The Age of Literate Machines: A Visionary Look at Free Software

About twenty years ago, Mr. Hughes (my excellent grade eight and nine science teacher) showed my class a television series called "Connections." The series, written and hosted by British wit and science historian James Burke, focused on how sets of seemingly disparate events came together to shape the modern world. Connections was (and is) [...]

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