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 Flickr Find in action Did you ever need that perfect image for a presentation you were doing? Flickr Find makes it easy. Creative Commons images are returned by default, but you can make an easy change to search all images.
Requirements
Install
Flickr Find is available at the Jetpack Gallery.
Basic Usage
- Select a word or a phrase on a web page
- Cloose ‘Search Flickr…’ from the context menu
- If the slidebar is closed, you will see the icon move. Click on it to see your results. If already open the results will just load there
- 20 items per page is the default, and you can change that in Settings. At the buttom choose ‘More…’ to fetch more images
- Selecting a new word or phrease will start a new set of image results. Selecting the same will just fetch more images and add them to the list
- Clicking on one of the images in the slidebar will open the Flickr photo page in a new tab.
I’m keeping it very simple, but if you have any features requests, I would certainly consider them.
    
I was really impressed with the File Upload demo on Mozilla Hacks because it mixed in a few nice technologies like XHR upload progress events, Canvas, and the File API new in Firefox 3.6. It turns out that I needed to talk about some of the things in last week’s Jetpack for Learning seminar. So rather than reinvent the wheel I lazily just ported the code over to run in a Jetpack slidebar. Go install it at the Jetpack Gallery.
 File upload in a Jetpack slidebar And so, it is presented as-is, just as a showcase. It is missing some things like Drag and Drop which would be trivial to add. So go ahead and take the code and run with it, adding some nice upload feature to your jetpack. The thing to keep in mind here is that all the great Web developer features packed into Firefox are also available to jetpacks add-ons.
The FOSDEM 2010 Front Page countdown says says there are 32 days to go. Mozilla has a dev room ready to go, like previous years. Two years ago at FOSDEM we celebrated 10 years of Mozilla, this year it is 10 years of FOSDEM.
The schedule for the Mozilla dev room is not yet finalised. This year we want to mix it up a bit, and promote cross-pollination talks between various Open Source projects present. One good example of this is Firefox and Maemo, the latter being the first Mobile platform that Firefox has reached RC status on. The schedule is usually packed but we may trim it down a little this year to allow Mozillians to roam the corridors and find talks in other areas that interest them.
Right now there is a very rough list of suggested topics up on the wiki. I’m giving myself until the the end of the week to have the first draft schedule up. What this means is that if you are coming or would like to come, you still have time to get your topic suggestions in. William has set a deadline of 15 January. It is still wide open. Just go ahead and edit the wiki page, or leave a comment here. Even better, let me know if you would like to speak.
Come and join in this unique event.
 Image via Wikipedia
I’m privileged to be be one half of the technical mentoring team for the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge, along with the prolific Andy Edmonds. We’re well under way to getting the participants going with implementing their ideas in Phase 2. You can read about some of them on the Mozilla wiki. I’m looking forward to seeing the ideas turn into great browser add-ons.
A huge hat-tip to Frank Hecker for getting the project going, and I wish him much success and happiness in his new pursuits. Philipp Schmidt has done amazing things pulling things together, and he writes about Phase 2:
The selected teams are eligible to participate in a set of online seminars covering Jetpack development and user interface design. They will also get support and mentorship from the Mozilla community to help them turn their ideas into Jetpack prototypes. At the end of phase II up to 10 participants will be invited to a hands-on Design Camp at SXSW Interactive 2010.
Read Philipp’s full post.
Here in Slovenia we like to party like any good nation, so what better excuse than the birthday of our beloved Firefox. After all we were 2nd or 3rd to reach 50% Firefox market share, but are still licking our wounds after being pipped at the post by an Indonesia that came from nowhere. Not ones to hold a grudge, we have vowed to become the first country to reach 100% market share.
 Firefox Fathead at Kiberpipa's entrance - by nitot on Flickr That might require some pretty heavy political lobbying and/or bribery, so in the meantime we’ll start off by having a party. Read all about it over on mozilla.si and RSVP at the Facebook event page. If you can’t speak Slovene (don’t worry, you are not alone) or have an aversion to Facebook, here is the short version:
- Event Title: You’ve Come a Long Way, Foxy (hat tip)
- When: 19:00 on Wednesday, November 11
- Where: Kiberpipa Kersnikova 6, 1000 Ljubljana (map)
- What: 4-5 very short talks, followed by an evening of immense fun
The famous Firefox wine will be served. There will be cake. There will be blood. We are working on the music. Mozillians and party-lovers everywhere, you are invited.
It has been over a week since I got back from SFK09 in Prishtina. I haven’t had time to write about it until now, but it is worth talking about.
I gave an overview talk on Mozilla activities titled ‘Firefox and the Open Web: Web Hacks, Add-ons, Jetpack, and More‘ (Slides: Google Docs | PDF | OpenOffice ODP) that was extremely well received. I got a rapturous applause before talking, unlike any talk I’ve given before. That cheer was for Mozilla. How great that Mozilla is still so popular.
I was interviewed by David Bailey on various things Open Source, what it means to me, and what it potentially means to the people of Kosovo. Check out the audio.
Some more random thoughts:
- James Mike DuPont is a hero for leading the way in organising the event. It looks like it will continue next year. Mike put it quite succinctly in his interview with David. His motivation is to help people get jobs, and move away from false economies like pirated software. Open Source gives you skills and job prospects. Simple.
- The local team who helped out are also heroes. There are too many to mention. Thanks for everything.
- Burek!
- My Flickr Photo Set. All tagged sfk09.
- The main currency used there is the Euro. I’m wondering if they will adopt their own currency.
- The Firefox t-shirts were in huge demand, and I didn’t have enough to go around. I must try and bring more next time.
- Was great to meet, amongst many others, Novica from the Macedonian Firefox l10n team.
Continue reading Software Freedom Kosovo Roundup
Next weekend I am privileged to be attending and speaking at (Keynote, Sunday 30th) the Software Freedom Kosovo Conference in Prishtina. The event aims to bring together local developers and decision making folks with international visitors, to encourage further adoption of Free and Open Source Software in the region. There is a lot of energy to be tapped into in the region, and I am excited to be going.
Speaking of energy, Mozilla community member extraordinairre Besnik Bleta has been working tirelessly on putting together Mozilla Service Week flyers in Albanian to distribute at the event. I received them yesterday and we were panicking with our lack of printing options in the run up. So I mentioned this to Mary Colvig, who came to our rescue and rushed to a local printers to do the job. Thank you Mary! Luckily I have ample room in my luggage to take them back. A few exta kilos is no price to pay for getting the word out in another valuable local community. Local is what matters after all.
If you want to find out more about the event, get in touch. In the meantime, some relevant links to find out more:
Day by day more information is emerging about the upcoming Mozilla Camp Europe. Last year in Barcelona was a great success and this year in Prague will be even better. We will be trying some new things such as engaging the public more, and setting up various workshops.
I’m helping pull the dev track together with Paul and gandalf, and would like to remind all potential speakers that now is your chance to step forward and get a slot. There are a number of ways to do this. You can leave a message here on this post, add yourself to the wiki page, or contact me.
So head to the wiki page and see if anything catches your fancy, and if not suggest a topic. The range will be broad this year, but we listened to feedback from last year and will try to balance content with time, so as not to overwhelm and to encourage as much participation as possible.
I found this fascinating quote today:
That’s the thing that gets me so excited to get up and get going every day. Technology has reached a point where anyone can get involved with innovation. Patents and degrees matter a lot less. Imagining something and then coding it up is what its all about these days.A VC, Jun 2009
You should read the whole article.
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