Archive for February, 2008

5 Days in Europe; Feb. 2008

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Here’s a brief report of my trip to Europe, which started on Saturday, February 9 and ended on Friday the 15th.
Leave Saturday evening. Lose most of a night’s sleep. Arrive in London Sunday afternoon. Do some work, walk around a bit try to work out the kinks from the plane trip. Get a [...]

Steering Committee

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Every now and then someone asks a question about the “Steering Committee” so I thought I’d give some background on what it is and how it came to be.
The Steering Committee began early in the days of the Mozilla Foundation, sometime in 2004, I’m guessing. In these early days we were already trying to [...]

45,146 Miles

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I’ve been feeling very behind on a bunch of things lately. This isn’t so unusual, but I’ve felt more fragmented than usual. This is both in work and in the rest of life- we’ve had a water and mud leak into our house for this entire rainy season and are still [...]

The SQLite Consortium

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Yesterday Robert Accettura made an interesting post about the range of SQlite today titled “The Winner For Most Embedded Is: SQLite.” This reminds me I’ve been wanting to talk about SQLite Consortium for a while. Robert points out thatSQLite is an element of “Adobe Air, Mozilla Prism, Google Gears, Android, iPhone SDK (likely through [...]

February 23 — The Mozilla Organization

Monday, February 25th, 2008

[Note: I was traveling and unexpectedly without Internet access last week, so this post is a few days late.]
Ten years ago Netscape planted a seed by launching an organization to create an open source development process for future generation browsers. At the time no one knew how that seed would grow, what kind [...]

Welcome Mozilla Messaging

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Mozilla’s revitalized focus on mail and Internet communications takes flight today with the launch of Mozilla Messaging, Inc. Mozilla Messaging is a new Mozilla organization focused on email and Internet communications. Its first area of focus is Mozilla Thunderbird, bringing new features such as integrated calendaring as well as new attention to community development and [...]

New Home for My Blog

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Welcome to the new home for this blog.  If you have suggestions or find bugs, please let me know by adding a comment here.
Thanks!

Two Weeks of Talking

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

The last couple of weeks have been highly unusual in the number of people I’ve met and new people I’ve talked with about Mozilla, technology and hybrid organizations trying to achieve socially-oriented missions.
I spent the last ten days of January in Switzerland, first at the gathering of the Schwab Social Entrepreneurs and then at the [...]