I’m going over to Manhattan for the IORG meeting. I’d love a recommendation for a place to stay. My favorite hotels are small boutique places — I have a strong dislike for the huge chains, and I’ll pick a safe hostel over a hilton. The conference is midtown (30 W 44th Street), so anywhere within [...]
Archive for June, 2008
An impossible and incredible job: leading the quality effort for Thunderbird
I have a job for someone who is either incredibly ambitious and audactious, or just crazy (in a good way). Whoever gets this job will undoubtedly get emails like the ones I got when I joined Mozilla: “I don’t know whether to envy your or pity you.” The challenge is this: we need someone to [...]
Movie recommendations
Based on Simon‘s recommendation (he’s quite reliable), I squeezed Elling in the kids’ Zip.ca subscription. I highly recommend it. It’s a peaceful, thoughtful, grownup movie, about a couple of slightly odd Norwegian men trying to figure out life. Don’t even bother looking at the imdb.com page, it’s worse than misleading. Just watch it. Other recommendations [...]
FOSSCoach, OSCON
At the last eLiberatica, I was talking to some of the speakers, and several of us reflected that while we really enjoyed giving the standard, “speak up and monopolize everyone’s attention for 20 minutes, then take 5 minutes of questions”, given the energy in the crowd, we’d be really keen, in general, to have less [...]
Building compelling, engaging brands, in previously boring markets
I’ve been thinking a bit about brands recently. The Mozilla brand, the Thunderbird brand (and what it should evolve to be). One of the brands that I keep being impressed by is VanCity. For those not around here, VanCity is Canada’s largest credit union, with about 400,000 members and $14 billion in assets. They’re local [...]
What’s Mozilla’s scope? What should it be?
A couple of canadians (!) have recently put up interesting posts about the Mozilla Foundation: David Eaves, with whom I had a great breakfast a few weeks ago, and Marc Surman, with whom I had a great long-distance phone chat. Both posts are worth reading, and digesting. For what it’s worth, I agree with both. [...]
What's Mozilla's scope? What should it be?
A couple of canadians (!) have recently put up interesting posts about the Mozilla Foundation: David Eaves, with whom I had a great breakfast a few weeks ago, and Marc Surman, with whom I had a great long-distance phone chat. Both posts are worth reading, and digesting. For what it’s worth, I agree with both. [...]
eLiberatica 2008
I’m back from Romania, where I had the pleasure of participating in the second annual eLiberatica conference, on open source, organized by Lucian Savluc, a fellow Vancouverite, with organizational support from ROSI, and with Zak’s assistance. It was a lot of fun, as well as a highly energizing event (which is hard when the base [...]
