Today I opened Firefox 3.6 to test an add-on I am working on (yes, many still support it) and saw this notice in the WordPress Dashboard. Well, it is not a surprise really, as WordPress has been doing great things for the Web to move it forward since it’s inception. They are Open Source. The [...]
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FOSDEM 2010 Mozilla Talks, And You
Image by Phillie Casablanca via Flickr 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 [...]
Jetpack for Learning Taking Off
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 [...]
The Dust Has Settled
It has almost been a week since FOSDEM 2009 wrapped up. If you are reading this on Planet Mozilla you have probably seen all the reports/slides/pictures go by over the week relating to Mozilla happenings there. If you have missed them, or if you have something to add yourself, head over the wiki aftermath page. [...]
eLiberatica Video
Lucian Savluc has posted some videos on YouTube of the eLiberatica Open Source and Free Software IT Conference that I had the good fortune to speak at and participate in at the start of the Summer. Local Romanian IT thinkers, Zak Greant of the Mozilla Foundation, Louis Suarez Potts of Sun/Open Office, and others give [...]
Friday Snippets
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 [...]
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.
TomTom HOME in Featured Apple Downloads
TomTom HOME, a fine example of the Mozilla Platform in action, gets stronger and stronger. As seen on the apple.com downloads page today… Way to go!
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 [...]
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