Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 18
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for May 4th to 10th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Strong focus on FOSSCoach - planning schedule, coordinating participants, gathering support, developing Wiki, etc.
Event work - writing eLiberatica 2008 keynote, light planning for Open Nordic, Open Source Meets Business Congress, Open [...]
Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 13
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 30th to April 5th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Prepared for next week's Go Open 2008 conference in Oslo: earnestly worked on keynote (slides here), prepared for press interviews, organized meeting in the area, etc.
Light work on eLiberatica planning [...]
Go Open 2008: People
As usual for a conference, I spent almost all of the time I was at Go Open 2008 talking with people (and occasionally talking at people.)
The following is a list of people I talked with (or listened to) along with the interesting or exciting things that they shared with me or that they're working on:
The [...]
OOXML: Go To Hell!
Demonstration against OOXML, originally uploaded by Martin Bekkelund.
It is a day after the Go Open conference in Oslo and I am still holed up in a hotel nearby. Blearily stumbling down to breakfast, I was confronted with a mix of lukewarm meatballs, easy listening radio — both of which are common enough to encounter in [...]
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Coaching the Next Generation of FOSS Developers
Each year it seems that there are more and more grumblings about how commercial Open Source conferences are moving further and further away from Free Software and Open Source communities. Incongruously, some of the loudest (or at least most noticed) complaining comes from some of the most consistent participants on the conference circuit. I myself [...]
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April Fools Comes Early This Year
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Helping Businesses Catch the Cluetrain
Back in the misty reaches of time — just before the last millennium turned, to be precise — four smart people got together to write about the growing gap between companies and markets. The result was called "The Cluetrain Manifesto", a cogent and plainly-written set of theses about how the Internet changes some of the [...]
For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference
In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the
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OSI Report for 2008 Week 10
This report is a summary of Zak Greant's Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 9th to 15th, 2008.
This Week
This was my first week of real activity in 2008 (except for my attendance of the March 2008 OSI face-to-face meeting.)
My primary activities were embarrassingly few. I worked with Alolita Sharma and Andrew C. [...]
Adventures in Experimental Cooking: Vobla Soup
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Vobla, originally uploaded by zak_greant.
Early last week, I ventured out to our local German and Eastern European deli. While picking up the regular assortment of cured meats, [...]
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