MoFo Weekly Report 2007-08-24

During the week ending on Friday August 24th, I:

Caught up on my overdue weekly reports
Updated public MoFo activities page and the private corresponding project idea page on the private MoFo wiki.
Supported Mary Colvig as she works on Mozilla involvement with Software Freedom Day and on Mozilla24
Poked the Perl Foundation people about their grant proposal
Reviewed David's [...]

php|works 2006: General Followup

php/db|works ended yesterday in the early afternoon after the most merciful (read brief) closing keynote I have attended (Thanks Marco!) Congratulations to Marco, Sean, Arbi and crew for running a nice community-centric event! It was small, but it was also easy to have nice conversations with many of the attendees and the atmosphere was [...]

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Don't get pwn3d: Why Professionalism Matters In Community Discussions

Some years ago (as penance for working at MySQL during some temporary corporate brain-damage about Free Software licensing) I began volunteering at the Free Software Foundation.
For the most part, I have spent my time providing support on Free Software licensing questions for the FSF Compliance Lab and helping out on the GPL v3 effort.
While both [...]

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Creating MozillaFoundation.org

One of my current tasks at the Mozilla Foundation is getting mozillafoundation.org up and running. Of course, we have all the needed infrastructure, design help and so on - this leaves just a few major tasks for me, namely:

identifying content on mozilla.org that should live on mozillafoundation.org,
collecting, revising and creating content as needed,
working with others [...]

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Preparing for upcoming sessions on Free and Open Software licensing

Over the next few months, I need to prepare for a series of sessions on contracts, copyright and licensing - especially as they pertain to Free Software and Open Source.
To do this, I plan on writing a series of concise articles that answer common questions in this topic area.
I have a draft list of questions, [...]

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