Earlier in April (4-7 April to be exact) I was in Istanbul to speak [slides] at Free Software & Linux Days at Bilgi University, the main FOSS conference in Turkey. I spoke their previously in 2010. This time I got great support from Mozilla Rep Selim Sumlu and we had a stand to show off [...]
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Local Contribution Funnels and 15 Years Campaign
Last week community builders across the organisation and community got together. Please read the wiki page account of what happened. On the first day, I gave a short update on the status of our local contribution funnels. What a local contribution funnel looks like is essentially the Mozilla Contribute page localised and with the form [...]
German Community Reboot
Re-imagining What better way to start 2013 than to reboot your community. Last Saturday we met in Berlin and in attendance were 15 of us. The goal was simple. Find a new direction and structure for the community. We had folks from Switzerland, Austria, and Germany so we have an evolution from Mozilla Germany to [...]
Mozilla At FOSDEM 2013 Call For Proposals
This is a post by Benoit Leseul, Rep from Belgium and point man for Mozilla participation at FOSDEM, and wordsmith Claire Corgnou who is a woman of many talents including writing for Bonjour Mozilla. ———- Like each year since 2003, Mozilla will have a Developer Room at Fosdem. Fosdem (Free and Open source Software Developers’ [...]
Sarajevo Web Day
A couple of weeks ago I visited one of my favourite cities, Sarajevo, to represent Mozilla at Web Day. The day was split in two. The morning and afternoon was dedicated to a Web Day mini-conference with talks from partners of Google, Microsoft, and Apple as well as other speakers. So I was in good [...]
MozCamp Run-Up
The latest MozCamp, this time in Warsaw, is approaching fast and it will be the best ever. I want to get the word out about a few things: Will you be in Warsaw on Thursday 6th before MozCamp? If so, come and join us at an event at Reaktor. We’ll be talking about Firefox OS, [...]
OSCON Report – Mozilla Reps, Mayors, Community and Change
Prologue The Mozilla Reps Council submitted a talk early on when the CFP was announced. The talk, titled ‘How To Multiply Your Community By A Factor Of X‘ seemed like a perfect fit for the Community track. The goal was two-fold, to get the word out about what we are doing in the Reps program, [...]
Mozilla Represented at OSCON 2012
This week is OSCON week in Portland, and Mozilla as always has a strong presence. If you are near, come and visit us. Even if you haven’t registered, day passes are available. The Mozilla Reps program is getting in on the act. Local Rep Benjamin Kerensa and I are presenting ‘How to Multiply Your Community [...]
Gdansk Goodness – Aviary.pl In Action
A few weeks ago I attended the Aviary.pl Mozilla community meetup in the beautiful city of Gdansk in Poland. Big thanks to the community for the welcome and organisation. I was there on behalf of the Mozilla Reps Council to observe and report back on how this successful community is running and to run some [...]
Goings On – 2012 So Far
So far this year it has been busy and exciting for me. So in reverse chronological order, here are some things I have been up to recently. Briks Is 6 I meant to call out the 5 year anniversary last year but it slipped by as I was too busy. Six is better, it rhymes! [...]
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- Ben Hearsum: Loading Python modules from arbitrary files bhearsum
- Sean Martell: Open: An Illustration Mashup mart3ll
- Dave Townsend: Six years revisited Dave Townsend
- K Lars Lohn: The TransactionExecutor vs. HBase
- Gervase Markham: Correctly Indicating Newsworthiness gerv
- David Rajchenbach Teller: Add-on breakage warning: Session Restore is changing yoric
- Patrick Walton: Safe Manual Memory Management
- Selena Deckelmann: Distributed databases: a series of posts including 2-phase commit in Postgres selena
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