I’m very excited to share the following news: Dan Mosedale (dmose to his IRC friends) has agreed to help me launch MailCo. For those of you who don’t know Dan, you should know that he’s been involved in Mozilla since the early days, and has contributed significantly both to Thunderbird and to the Calendar project. [...]
Archive for January, 2008
CouchDB + IBM => Apache
I’m very happy about this bit of news which was made public today: Damien Katz was just hired by IBM to work on CouchDB, and CouchDB will be donated to the Apache Software Foundation. This is very cool stuff, and this new job means that it will move faster, not slower. CouchDB is a project [...]
CouchDB + IBM => Apache
I’m very happy about this bit of news which was made public today: Damien Katz was just hired by IBM to work on CouchDB, and CouchDB will be donated to the Apache Software Foundation. This is very cool stuff, and this new job means that it will move faster, not slower. CouchDB is a project [...]
New jobs, same people
The Mozilla story of the day is that John Lilly is taking on the title of CEO for MoCo, and that Mitchell Baker will switch some of her focus to other Mozilla projects, such as unblocking standards, making security understandable, etc. I’ve known Mitchell for years through my informal association with the project, and through [...]
Travel plans
Wide-open dopplr feed: In Mountain View from this Wed night till Saturday morning Back in California for CalConnect roughly around Feb 4-8 Unfortunately, I can’t make FOSDEM, which I was really looking forward to.
Gateway drug for Thunderbird devs
If you’re keen to get involved with Thunderbird development but don’t know where to start, here’s a simple step which can 1) help you figure out all of the mechanics of doing work with Mozilla, and 2) move the project forward by addressing a fairly mechanical but still useful set of issues. Joey Minta setup [...]
Organizational Deployments, AKA enterprise users
One of the TODO items I brought back from France last year was to start a discussion area for what I’ve been thinking of as “organizational deployments” — everything related to making it easier for organizations to deploy Thunderbird, in particular in larger organizations, where the scale of these deployments makes the “standard” processes hard [...]
Thoughts on Thunderbird’s Evolution
Aside from all of the organizational stuff I’m doing like recruiting (more news soon I hope), dealing with the incorporation papers, budgeting, etc., I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about Thunderbird’s evolution. Specifically, how should we, as a project, figure out what to work on? Some of my thinking about this hasn’t changed [...]
Thoughts on Thunderbird's Evolution
Aside from all of the organizational stuff I’m doing like recruiting (more news soon I hope), dealing with the incorporation papers, budgeting, etc., I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about Thunderbird’s evolution. Specifically, how should we, as a project, figure out what to work on? Some of my thinking about this hasn’t changed [...]
