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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 12

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 23rd to March 29th, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports. This Week Many small tasks. Worked on my Go Open 2008 keynote (slides are at http

Posted: Apr. 19, 2008 12:13 AM

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 t

Posted: Apr. 18, 2008 07:36 PM

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,

Posted: Apr. 10, 2008 02:27 AM

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 frie

Posted: Apr. 9, 2008 02:48 AM

Resources for Go Open Keynote

During the keynote at the Go Open conference in Oslo, I am going to be mentioning several papers and articles. I've included links and a brief summary of each below: Paper: Adoption of Open Source in The Software Industry An excellent research p

Posted: Apr. 7, 2008 08:58 PM

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)

Posted: Apr. 4, 2008 07:56 AM

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 11

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 16th to March 22nd, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional Mozilla Foundation reports. This Week Focused on reports and conference follow-up. Will be

Posted: Apr. 4, 2008 05:48 AM

Recommendations for OpenLogic's Open Source Census

Last week, I was excited by, and then disappointed with, OpenLogic's Open Source Census project – while the project has promise, OpenLogic planned to license the complete data set only to project sponsors (and I didn't feel that they

Posted: Apr. 4, 2008 12:37 AM

Posting my OSI Weekly Reports

A couple of weeks ago, I promised to post weekly reports on my OSI activities. I've done that, but not on my blog — it turns out that I have a blog on the Open Source Initiative website, which I am using for my weekly reports. To keep up t

Posted: Apr. 3, 2008 09:26 PM

eLiberatica Abstract: Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing

Much to my friend Lucian's dismay, I have been sitting (a.k.a. not doing a damn thing) on the abstracts for my upcoming sessions at the Romanian eLiberatica conference. The first abstract is easy — I will present a slightly modified versio

Posted: Apr. 3, 2008 09:15 PM

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