MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-27
Over this week, I worked on the Internet as a Public Good Symposium and attended Ubuntu Live, OSCON 2007 and the FLOSS Foundations meeting.
I'll post more on specific activities from the various events and meetings throughout the coming week.
Tags: conference, David Boswell, Events, FLOSS, FLOSS Foundations, Frank Hecker, Gerv, Gervase Markham, Internet as a Public [...]
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Ubuntu Live: Jeff Waugh's Keynote
Jeff offered an interesting keynote that focused on what pieces helped shape the vision of Ubuntu and on what would be needed for free software to suceed.
I was interested to note that Jeff used a brief spin through the early history of printing in the West (and its entanglement with the Bible, Christianity, indulgences and [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-20
Over the week ending on Friday, July 20th, I worked most on the Internet as a Public Good Symposium, polishing the wiki, chasing around after the other participants, doing background reading, etc. I also spent some time getting ready for Ubuntu Live, OSCON 2007 and the FLOSS Foundations meeting.
Tags: conference, David Boswell, FLOSS, FLOSS Foundations, [...]
Ubuntu Live 07: Mark Shuttleworth's Keynote
It is relatively early on a Sunday morning. I'm in Portland sitting in Mark Shuttleworth's opening keynote for Ubuntu Live 2007.
At a glance, I'd estimate that there are about 240 people in the audience - great attendance for the first edition of an event.
Mark's keynote is surprising, but not in the way that one might [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-13
The week ending July 13th saw me working heavily on the Internet as a Public Good Symposium - mostly wrangling participants, writing IPG content, editing the wiki and so on.
I also did some light work preparing for upcoming events (FLOSS Foundations Meeting, OSCON, Ubuntu Live)
Next Week
More Internet as a Public Good Symposium work [...]
Looking for a roomie for Ubuntu Live/FLOSS Foundations/OSCON
I'm looking to share a hotel room at the OSCON hotel (or nearby) for Ubuntu Live, the FLOSS Foundations meeting and OSCON. While the Mozilla Foundation is covering my costs, I don't like wasting MoFo money on frivolous stuff.
I prefer rooming with people who I know, but am not that fussy. I snore a bit. [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-06-01
Frank and I traveled to Cambridge, MA, USA to attend the Berkman Center's Internet & Society 2007 event. We attended to both to learn what academics were doing in areas that interest us (such as transparency, public service, etc.) and to share concerns that we have and lessons that we have learned from our activities.
While [...]