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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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Shell-like aliases for Hiveminder
If you are nerdy (and, if you are reading this blog, that is probably the case), then you probably like the alias built-in for *nix shells.
If you also use Hiveminder, then you should be pretty happy, as Shawn over at Best Practical has added alias-like support to Hiveminder's IM interface.
The syntax is simple.
Create an alias [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-06
Sorry for the missing reports (for the June 22nd and 29th) - I'll catch up in this report.
June 22nd and 29th were quiet on for Mozilla-related activities. I did what I could to keep the ball rolling for our organization of the Internet as a Public Good Symposium, but my real focus was taken up [...]
Hacking Business Models
This weekend, Monty and I got together for a different kind of hacking session.
Instead of developing software, we were working on developing a set of rough principles and rules for running a Free Software/Open Source business. We both have a good amount of experience working with various FLOSS projects (like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, etc.) and [...]
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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 [...]
tOSSad FLOSS Usability Survey Posted
My friend Sandro Groganz wrote to let me know that the tOSSad survey on FLOSS usability has been published. Sandro has a quick overview of the survey, along with his impressions of it, on his blog
Tags: FLOSS, Uncategorized, USA
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OSCON Lowlights: greenplum Keynote
The sponsored keynote must always present a quandary for conference organizers: how much should a conference organizer charge to give a vendor the opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot while on stage?
Take the greenplum keynote that was just presented at OSCON 2006: greenplum probably forked over a large chunk of change to get that [...]
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Northern Voice: I'm Too Sexy for My Blog
Sitting in on Susannah Gardner's session, "I'm Too Sexy for My Blog: Blog Design for Everyone"
So far, it is a good session for less-technical bloggers who aren't technologists or designers.
I am guessing that I don't need this, except as a reminder that I really should fix the Polymorph template and get Buddha John Two Fish [...]
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A Free Software / Open Source Basecamp?
Recently, I have been playing around with the rather excellent Basecamp. For a project management app, it provides a great mix of usability and features. I am even happy to pay a moderate fee to support a high-quality service that I don't have to worry about (though I admit I would prefer that it were [...]
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