Open Source Census Results Not Open Source?
Earlier today I wrote about the Open Source Census project, wondering what license the data collected would be distributed under.
After reading the sponsorship page for the project, I believe that OpenLogic intends to restrict distribution of the data gathered, as indicated by the following quote from the page:
Platinum sponsorship is designed for companies that want [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 8
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for February 24th to March 1st, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Finished my FOSDEM 2008 trip in Belgium. It was really great to be able to spend time with my Mozilla colleagues and peers in the free software community.
Participated in FOSSNUT [...]
Speaking at OSCON 2008
I'm happy to report that I'll be presenting two sessions at OSCON 2008. The first session is called, "Greening the Conference Circuit" and the second is my (now-)usual Age of Literate Machines presentation.
This year, I'll be at OSCON on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation. In addition to attending the main conference, I'll also be attending the FLOSS Foundations meetings, the Open Source Initiative meetings and participating in a revamped version of OSCamp.
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 [...]
Advancing the Mozilla Manifesto
Most regular readers of this blog are familiar with the Mozilla Manifesto and with the work that the Mozilla Corporation undertakes to advance the manifesto. It is good work. Actually, it is great work from a great community of people. However, the corporation focuses most on Firefox and the related software and communities. The manifesto [...]
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New Pitches for the Lab with Leo
My work at the Mozilla Foundation is, not surprisingly, focused on advancing the Mozilla Manifesto.
After my last Firefox 3 segment on the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show, I started thinking about pitches for new segments that tie in with the manifesto.
The rough ideas I've so far had are:
Deep Customization of Firefox: Make your browser [...]
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Session Abstract: Greening the Conference Circuit
Title
Greening the Conference Circuit
Summary
Hackers and makers, inventors and innovators, evangelists and activists, CXOs and entrepreneurs: Each year thousands of us make our rounds on the FOSS conference circuit. Arriving through environment-punishing air travel, we descend into a banality of over-packaged shwag, glossy brochures, disposable cups and hotel stays. We're a principled, smart and innovative lot [...]
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Session Abstract: Electronic Ombuds
I've started working on a session on the practice of online ombuds – especially as it applies to Free Software and Open Source communities. The session is based on my work in the Free Software, PHP, Mozilla, MySQL and Open Source communities - in particular, recent work (which I need to get back to) on [...]
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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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A Conversation (or the Notable Absence Thereof) with David Suzuki
Earlier tonight I went to see a set of onstage, live-to-tape interviews between Shelagh Rogers (host of CBC Radio's Sounds Like Canada), sustainability expert John Robinson (who is working on the fascinating Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability) and leading environmentalist David Suzuki.The interviews were interesting - both John and David have compelling messages that [...]
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