Today, we’re announcing our first beta-quality release since the Thunderbird project was re-energized about a year ago. It’s exciting to see the first in what will be a series of releases aimed at a broader set of testers make it out the door. In some ways, this is a typical beta — we’ve changed a [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Open source networked interactive whiteboards?
If you’ve never seen Johnny Lee’s videos explaining how he uses cheap Wii remotes to do amazing things, check out the TED video, or his home page. Now after watching that video, I snuck into the ActiveState game room, and poked around with the wiimotes & projector there. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on [...]
Romania ahead
I’ll be heading out to Romania next week, to talk in Bucharest at eLiberatica about Mozilla and open source, and to learn about everything from open source in eastern Europe to food (always). I’ll also be visiting my grandfather’s hometown (Braşov) for a bit of personal root-digging. Should be fun, especially if I get rid [...]
Prize money for a good Thunderbird/OpenOffice.org project
Something else I’ve had on my blogging queue for a while: Last month, when we had the Calendar meeting in Hamburg, we met with some of the OpenOffice.org and Sun engineers. One idea that came up that I intended to mention here is that OpenOffice.org has a Community Innovation Program, funded by Sun Microsystems, which [...]
University of Toronto Student Projects
What feels like years ago, my friend Greg Wilson, a book author CS prof at the University of Toronto with a deep understanding of both the practical realities of software engineering and open source, roped me into being a “client” for a class he teaches on software engineering, where he matches students with open source [...]
Thunderbird team needs help from Python/Perl build engineer
If you’re a Thunderbird fan but not interested in fixing some of the nasty C++ problems we tackle in the product, you could still be very, very helpful if you can help us with a little Python/Perl build problems. Specifically, Mozilla has a great system called “try servers” where one can submit patches against the [...]
