Last year, Chris Hofmann and I participated in Net Squared’s annual conference as judges of a challenge that awarded various social enterprises leveraging technology and the Web to create social change. Frank Hecker from Mozilla Foundation also supported the conference by providing some funding. You might remember that Miro (who was at that time changing [...]
On Sunday at FOSDEM, Stas Małolepszy and I did a presentation about the Community Survey Program, displaying the results from our first two surveys and really trying to engage the audience to ask questions and provide feedback. I thought the presentation went pretty well. (Please let me know what you thought if you were there.) [...]
On Friday, February 22, we hosted a Birds of a Feather conversation about localization tools. I had blogged a bit about the event leading up to the day and was very please to see that we had over 20 people show up to the meeting.
The format was pretty simple. I introduced the team and what [...]
I received a note from one of our student teams in India who volunteered to do market research for us. If you remember, I blogged about Team 21 from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadebad and the research they did about marketing Firefox in India. For their hard work, they “won the best industrial project [...]
A friendly reminder: On Friday, February 22, 2008, we will host a Birds of a Feather meeting from 15:00 to 17:00.
It will take place at
Novotel Brussels Off Grand’ Place
120, rue du marché aux herbes
B - 1000 Brussels
tel: +32 2 500 3721
We will use this session to discuss localization tools. Here is a rough agenda:
I. [...]
Zak Greant visited Mozilla yesterday and it was really good to catch up with him over lunch. Among other things that he is working on, Zak has been speaking at conferences about the importance of open source software, net neutrality, and the long-term implications of not promoting each of these ideas.
He’s written an interesting abstract [...]
The past month has been busy for me with distributing stuff through the Community Giving/Empowerment program. Here is a list of what we have done.
Philipp Kewisch, who is our first participant in the Community Loan Program. He is helping on the Calendar project. Philipp has been a critical member to the team and figured out [...]
FOSDEM’s coming. I’m going. So are a ton of others.
Why am I going? Primarily to present about the Community Survey Program. We’ve conducted two surveys with over 1,000 responses to each one. Pascal, Stas and I will use this time to present our findings and then I’ll post our presentation here or to Spread Firefox.
The [...]
Another student team from India has posted their report to Spread Firefox. If you follow that link, you’ll see the team, an executive summary about the project, and a link to download the .PDF. Please take a look and participate in the forum there if you have questions or comments.
From the student team’s executive summary:
“India [...]
