Things are heating up for the summer. In no particular order, here is some news from the sunny side of the Alps. Image via Wikipedia – eLiberatica 2008 in Bucharest last week was a blast, not to mention a quality conference. It got the balance between Open Source and business just right, something many conferences [...]
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Giants
Here are my slides from eLiberatica. A lot of context is lost but you will get the general idea. In case you are wondering, the Giant is you … everyone in the FOSS cycle from devs to consumers.
FOSS, Business, and Bucharest
Image via Wikipedia I’ll be in great company talking this coming week at the eLiberatica conference in Bucharest (see blurb below). … Hope to see you there. While I am used to giving more technical talks, this time around I will be focusing on something a little different. To fit in with the general theme [...]
Surviving and Thriving in the Sauna
Judging by the blog posts that covered Mozilla at FOSDEM already, there seems to be general consensus that it was a great success. Get some up to date coverage here: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Fosdem:2008:Happenings I don’t have much more to add, except to say that I agree, it was really great this year. A larger attendance in the [...]
To All Frequent Flyers
As the blurb goes: Comparison shop for the best fares on airline and travel websites. Yapta will track fares for the flights you like and notify you when prices drop. Yapta is a wonderful Web service that ‘does exactly what it says on the box’, and has just added a Firefox Add-on to their offerings. [...]
6 days in the Valley
I was in Mountain View last week visiting the Mozilla offices. Here is the low-down. Highlights Having a productive week Catching up with some old Mozilla friends, meeting new ones Meeting Neil after over 5 years. We were colleagues at ActiveState. Movie night. beltzner presented – Primer. I think I need to watch it again. [...]
Pyramid in Bosnia?
An archeological side is being examined in a hill in Visoko, Bosnia. In Slovene, ‘visok’ means tall, an apt name for a hilly town. It is thought that the hill conceals an ancient pyramid, the first of its kind discovered in (modern-day) Europe. Is this evidence that Egyptian culture spread its wings out this far, [...]
Desktop Linux Summit Day 2
Part 2 of a 2-part report. Part 1 is here. DAY 2 Tuesday morning started for me in the ‘Using’ track with an interesting talk by Peter van der Linden on his adventures in partitioning and multiple installs. I thought I was doing well with a 3 distro boot system, but Peter got up to [...]
Desktop Linux Summit Day 1
I was in San Diego earlier this week for the 4th Desktop Linux Summit, and gave a talk on Tuesday. Though I can’t compare with other years, the turnout and the buzz were good, and the content was excellent. There was a Main Session track, a Using Desktop Linux track, and a Future of Desktop [...]
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Over the next few months, I’ll be on my travels a bit and speaking at the following events: FOSDEM is the annual Free and Open Source Developer’s European Meeting, to give it the full title glory. It’s on 25/26 February in Brussels. The last time I was there was 2003, and I’m lookign forward to [...]
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