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Quicksilver + Adium + Hiveminder

Jesse and the gang at Best Practical have cooked up a slick IM interface for Hiveminder. Now, with a bit of AppleScript and the help of Adium, it is easy to hook Quicksilver up to Hiveminder.

If this is all a bunch of jabberwocky, then you probably aren't using a Mac. Move along, nothing to [...]

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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-20

Over the week ending on Friday, July 20th, I worked most on the Internet as a Public Good Symposium, polishing the wiki, chasing around after the other participants, doing background reading, etc. I also spent some time getting ready for Ubuntu Live, OSCON 2007 and the FLOSS Foundations meeting.

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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-13

The week ending July 13th saw me working heavily on the Internet as a Public Good Symposium - mostly wrangling participants, writing IPG content, editing the wiki and so on.
I also did some light work preparing for upcoming events (FLOSS Foundations Meeting, OSCON, Ubuntu Live)
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More Internet as a Public Good Symposium work [...]

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 [...]

Slides from eLiberatica 2007 online

For the curious, the slides for the eLiberatica 2007 presentations are now up at http://eliberatica.ro/2007/ - the slides include presentations from eZ CEO Aleksander Farstad, Brian Behlendorf, FSF Europe President Georg Greve, Ubuntist Kurt von Finck and MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius (and yours truly, but the slides are a bit weak - check out my [...]

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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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The Age of Literate Machines: A Visionary Look at Free Software

About twenty years ago, Mr. Hughes (my excellent grade eight and nine science teacher) showed my class a television series called "Connections." The series, written and hosted by British wit and science historian James Burke, focused on how sets of seemingly disparate events came together to shape the modern world. Connections was (and is) [...]

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New Blog Design

After many months of being dissatisfied with the look of my blog, I finally got around to the pleasurable proactive procrastination of redesigning it.
The major changes are focused on readability and accessibility - the layout has been simplified (and should now work better with screen readers), the font size has been increased to help those [...]

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Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-05-18

Most of this week was taken up with preparing for and attending the eLiberatica conference. In fact, as I write this very brief report, I am in the town of Rasnov in Romania. I'll be here for another day before I return home.
The event went extremely well - people were eager to discuss and share [...]

Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-05-04

Helped produce the Internet as a Public Good event. We've sent out a set of invites and are still looking for people who come from different cultures to help round out the view at the symposium. As a group, were moving pretty darn slow on the site. I'll try some prodding next week. Did a [...]