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SCALE 6x LiveBlogging: Linux in Early Education

LA is wearing her typical veil of grey-brown smog. I've been here for enough hours that I can't really smell it anymore – or much of anything else, for that matter. I'm at the LA Airport Weston with the rest of the SCALE 6x attendees.
I'm sitting in Steve Oualline's session on Linux in Early Education. [...]

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SCALE 6x: Getting There

If you read my post on getting the most out of conference attendance, you know that I'm trying to reduce the environmental costs associated with my conference attendance. I even made a plan. As with most plans, real life is a bit different. Here's how I've done:

Taxi from home to YVR (I would have taken [...]

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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 [...]

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 2007-12-28

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 [...]

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