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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 6

This is my Mozilla Foundation report for February 10th to February 16th, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
Projects for the Week

Participated in the last day of SCALE 6x on February 10th - see posts tagged with SCALE 6x for my reports. Also did bits of SCALE [...]

SCALE 6x: Wrapup - People

While I met a lot of great people at SCALE  (Michael, Moose, Sharon and a host more) I had generally interesting non-private discussions with (or observations about) the following:

Allison Randal - OSCON co-chair and Parrot architect - gave a great presentation on Parrot and an excellent  low-stress guide to effective speaking. We also spent some [...]

SCALE 6x: Hello, Can Anyone Hear Me?

I started liveblogging Adaora Onyia's, "Hello, Can Anyone Hear Me?" session, but after a few moments abandoned the attempt – the presentation left me too conflicted to easily commit notes on it to text.
Adaora's presentation described survival tactics for a workplace that I'd prefer never to enter, along with gender roles that I'd rather not [...]

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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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FOSSNUT: The Free and Open Source Software Norwegian University Tour

LinPro AS (a Norwegian Linux and FLOSS services firm) has organized a speaking tour of Norwegian universities. The tour will visit three Norwegian schools and will focus on introducing students and faculty to Free Software and Open Source. Speakers include FreeBSD & Varnish hacker Dag-Erling Smørgrav, eZ Systems AS CEO Aleksander Farstad and yours truly.  The schools we plan to visit [...]

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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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Lab with Leo Laporte: Demoing Firefox 3 and an (Emulated) Trip Down Memory Lane

Some ways back in the haze that was 2007, I was a guest on a few episodes of the Lab with Leo Laporte show. When I was visiting, I did two brief segments – one on Hiveminder and another on Free Software/Open Source.
I'll be going back next week to record another few segments. This time, [...]

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Life on the Lagging Edge: Greasemonkey Rocks!

I've been doing some interesting work (though, perhaps only to me) on the OSI mailing lists over the last week (which I'll be writing about later). A lot of it has involved far too much manual processing of data from mailing list archives. In particular, I've found that I'm doing the following over and over [...]