Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 14
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for April 6th to April 12th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Attended Go Open 2008 in Oslo: Gave keynote, did interviews with local media, had some great discussions, participated in an anti-OOXML protest, etc. See various reports at http://zak.greant.com/tags/go-open
Visited the Opera [...]
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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Early Coverage of Go Open 2008
Day two of Go Open is just about to get started. Already, there's a good amount of coverage in the Norwegian press on the event. I have made a pitiful attempt to translate the titles of the articles, mostly for the amusement of my Norwegian friends.
Alexander V. Røyne blogged, go open day 2008 1: Chris [...]
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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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OpenMind 2007: The Novell Keynote
Carlos Montero-Luque, the VP of Product Management for Novell's Linux Business Unit, takes the stage to give an overview of Novell's Open Source strategy and role in the market, along with how partnering is a key part of Free Software and Open Source business
If one would expect all BigCo software execs to be clued in [...]
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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 [...]
VanPHP: Mega Map Mashups with PHP
Via [Peter Gordon](http://superwebdeveloper.com/wp/):
Vancouver PHP User Group
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September 14 Presentation: Mega Map Mashups with PHP
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Jim O'Leary is a PHP and Python instructor and avid GIS enthusiast.
For this month's meeting Jim will be sharing on the following topics:
- MapGuide Open Source, an application built in PHP and JavaScript
- Web mapping servers (WMS) and how to access them
- Keyhole [...]
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ApacheCon EU 2006 CfP
Lars Eilebrecht writes:
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is proud to announce that ApacheCon Europe 2006 will be held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, June 26-30, 2006.
ApacheCon Europe is the official conference of the Apache Software Foundation in Europe. This annual event creates a unique platform for the Open Source community in Europe to [...]
Intl. Web Services/XML Con.
I will be speaking at the International Web Services/XML Conference & Expo
…and the conference was rescheduled.
Tags: conference, PHP, Speaking, Uncategorized, XML
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