One might ask what is the follow-up for an exploratory, community-building trip to a place like India. Here is a sample of what we are doing:
1) Monday, August 6: We’ll be hosting a conference call with several teams of students from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadebad. Each team will present [...]

Chofmann and I made our last stop in Mumbai, arriving on Friday, July 20, and leaving yesterday at 12:20 AM (India time, July 23.)
Several contributors from the ILUG-BOM group assembled for the final event of our Indian Tour. It was held at the Homi Bhabha center, TIFR and many thanks to Dr. Nagarjuna G. [...]

Yesterday, Chris and I were in Hyderabad to meet more community. Through Aravind, one of our Mozilla IT gurus, I contacted a friend of his cousin who attends the Indian School of Business. To see ISB is quite impressive. It was built just under 10 years ago by many benefactors from India’s [...]

On Wednesday, Chris and I had a great meeting with Mahiti, an NGO in India that is working to spread FOSS to NGOs across the country. We learned so much from the team and they have offered to help localize Firefox in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bangali, and English-IN. We’ll work out the details to see [...]

On Tuesday, Chofmann and I had a packed day of activity. I’ve been trying to play catch up on blogging as we are cramming our days with meetings and more meetings. Sorry this comes a bit late…next post will be about Mahiti, a terrific NGO in Bangalore that is spreading FOSS across India. [...]

Our trip to Bangalore has been a fascinating experience and really started to provide great insight about the thriving tech community here in India’s version of Silicon Valley. The enthusiasm about Mozilla and its community are also extremely exciting. In addition to the packed schedule I had laid out for the trip, I was also [...]

After nearly 30 hours of travel, Chris and I landed on Friday, July 13, after midnight in Mumbai. We arrived to our hotel by 2 AM and then got up the next day, headed back to the airport to fly to Ahmedabad in the state of Gujurat. We headed there to participate in [...]

On July 12, 2007, Chris Hofmann (Mozilla’s Director of Special Projects) and I will be going to India to meet many of the Indian community members who have been contributing to Mozilla. In addition, we hope to build our community of individuals who will take an active role in promoting the Mozilla mission and [...]

Last Thursday (5/31/2007), another team was assembled to evaluate new proposals for empowering the Mozilla community. We are moving forward on the following ideas:
1) On the weekend of June 16 and 17, 2007, Mozilla will open up Building K for the Camino team to gather and for a developer/community day. Building K [...]

I’ll be going to Sun’s CommunityOne event today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It looks like it will be an interesting day. I received an invitation to attend when I met with Jim Grisanzio in Japan. Jim is the Community Manager for the Open Solaris project there and he attended [...]