Scale 6x: Stormy Peters: What is a Community Manager?

The first day of SCALE 6x, I camped out in the Women in Open Source track. One of the sessions that I caught during this day was Stormy Peters' excellent, "What is a Community Manager?" presentation. My notes - in point form rather than prose - follow.

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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 [...]

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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Attending the GPLv3 Launch at MIT

Bright and early Sunday morning, I will be flying off to Boston to attend the GPL version 3 launch at MIT.
I am betting on heated discussions and a wild mix of Free Software fanatics, FSF staff from around the world, the Free Culture crowd (EFF, the super awesome Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons staff, …), corporate [...]