Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 19

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for May 11th to 17th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

FOSSCoach, FOSSCoach, FOSSCoach, FOSSCoach, …
Events - Writing eLiberatica keynote, coordinating Mozilla presence at various events, cleaning up transcription of Open Innovation talk, light work on Toronto DevDay
Co-working with David Ascher, including [...]

eLiberatica Abstract: Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing

Much to my friend Lucian's dismay, I have been sitting (a.k.a. not doing a damn thing) on the abstracts for my upcoming sessions at the Romanian eLiberatica conference.
The first abstract is easy — I will present a slightly modified version of my Age of Literate Machines presentation.
The second session will take a little bit more [...]

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20000 km, $7000, 7 days and 4 tons of CO2

… or, "Making Event Attendance Count"
Late last year, I gave a keynote at paired Finnish conferences MindTrek and OpenMind. While the events were well worth attending, afterwards I spent a few bleak hours thinking about the actual costs of my attendance. If I had left Canada just for these events (which, thankfully, I [...]

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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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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 [...]

Romanian Software Libre Event: LOAD

A few days ago, my friend and fellow ROSI-ist, Lucian Savluc, mentioned an upcoming Romanian Software Libre event called LOAD - the Linux Open Alternative Days.
Another ROSI member, Alexandru Lăpuşan, will give a presentation on the ROSI initiative and our upcoming eLiberatica conference.
Additionally, two other ROSI members will be attending the event as speakers: [...]

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Just missed the first ROSI/Liberatica live meeting

Lucian and many of the other participants in ROSI got together for a face-to-face meeting in Brasov, Romania. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend - I was having fun today with my eZ colleagues at our annual face-to-face meeting in Skien. However, despite some bad timing, it seems that everyone still had fun - [...]

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