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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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Profiled (and then trolled) on Linux.com

At last month's Vancouver PHP Conference, local journalist Bruce Byfield gave me a quick interview about how I got involved in Free Software and Open Source. We chatted for a while about my time at MySQL, my bits of work in the PHP community and what I am currently up to. The interview turned into [...]

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Giving Away a PHP Québec Conference Pass

Unfortunately - even though Foo Associates is sponsoring the event - I won't be attending this year's PHP Québec Conference.
Fortunately, this means that the conference pass included with our sponsorship is available for someone else to use. If you think that someone should be you, then drop by http://fooassociates.com/blog/2007/03/05/foo-sponsoring-php-quebec-2007/ for details on how you [...]

2007 MySQL Users Conference

I wonder how many people will attend a session at a tech conference where the start of the description reads as follows:
Hey You! Yes, You! Manager, marketeer, sales professional: are you tired of 98lb weaklings kicking silicon in your face?
I am thinking this way because my friends at MySQL AB are putting on another MySQL [...]

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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, [...]