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Supporting Development of Norway's Electronic Frontier

Some months ago, around the time of the 2007 eZ Conference, I started working with Tor-Arne Bellika (from Innovation Performance AS) and Aleksander Farstad (from eZ Systems AS) on a series of projects centered around helping to develop Norway's electronic frontier.
The projects are diverse and broad in scope. They range from developing a Free Software [...]

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OpenMind 2007: OpenMoko - The Truly Open Mobile Phone Platform

I skipped out on the previous session so that I could get my electric plug adapter from my room (and to get a break from typing.) I've come back during the afternoon break and am waiting for the OpenMoko session to start. The room is pretty full - I'm guessing that I'm not the [...]

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$gut–

In the mid-ninties, I went from a single, heartsick, nervous and twitchy young geek who ran about 30 minutes a day (and that weighted in at about 70 kilos) to a much happier and well-loved geek who spent a lot more time snuggling on the couch.
I also went from cooking to live to cooking for [...]

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Hiveminder Wiki

While the Best Practical team didn't seem to make much of a fuss about having set it up, there is now a wiki for their Hiveminder task management service. If you use Hiveminder, you should visit the wiki and contribute.
I've dropped a few things into the wiki, including suggestions for improvements to tagging and making [...]

Standing on the Toes of Giants at Mozilla24

In 2002, a short while after I started at MySQL, I saw Lawrence Lessig present at OSCON. The presentation was extraordinarily good and Lessig is a tremendously passionate, genuine and compelling orator.
I immediately revised my presentation style. I stole what ideas and style I could. While I was mostly presenting about MySQL and PHP at [...]

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Party Planning with Bugzilla

Last month, I noticed that Syd Logan filed an interesting blocker-level bug in Bugzilla (For the less geekily inclined who read this blog, a blocker-level bug is rather important - the show does not go on unless said bug is fixed.)
The bug in question is Mozilla.org needs to throw a 10 year anniversary party for [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-08-24

During the week ending on Friday August 24th, I:

Caught up on my overdue weekly reports
Updated public MoFo activities page and the private corresponding project idea page on the private MoFo wiki.
Supported Mary Colvig as she works on Mozilla involvement with Software Freedom Day and on Mozilla24
Poked the Perl Foundation people about their grant proposal
Reviewed David's [...]

Free as in Independent: Norway's Progressive Stance on Free Software and Open Source

In a few hours Heidi Grande Røys, the surprising Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Reform, will be in the city of Drammen to launch the first of what will be several national centres of expertise for Free Software and Open Source.
This first centre is meant to provide public bodies - especially Norwegian municipalities - [...]

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VASHIKOL: A Bad Acronym for (Hopefully) Good Food

At last years BarCamp Vancouver I prepared food inspired by the Sikh practice of Langar. You can read more about it in post Borrowing Great Idea from the Sikhs.
This year, I'll do the same, but I'm going to use local food that is organic. This might be a bit tougher - especially as I am [...]

Lightning Talks on TV?

A few months ago, Ryan Yewell from the Lab with Leo Laporte dropped me a note to see if I was interested in presenting a segment on the show. Each segment is about six minutes - about the same length as a lightning talk.
While I've been mostly out of town when they've been shooting, I [...]

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