I work for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation (not to be confused with the Mozilla Corporation, the Foundation's subsidiary responsible for the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client). For more about me and what I'm doing, see the “Personal” section of this page and my weblog entries below.
Entries for February 2006
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2006/02/10
This is the first in a series of reports describing activities of the Mozilla Foundation; I hope to be able to post these weekly as I have time. These reports are revised versions of the reports that I prepare for the Foundation board, and are intended to supplement other blog postings that I, Gerv Markham, or Zak Greant might make about Mozilla-related activities. ...
mozilla/foundation-activities-2006-02-10
2006-02-15
Looking for contributors in the open source world
Chris Blizzard recently posted an interesting article "open source is a side effect" in which he discussed the problem of encouraging the growth of open source developer communities in India, and by implication in other countries outside the so-called "developed" world. This is a subject of interest to me in my Mozilla Foundation role, because I think one of the Foundation's goals should be to help grow the Mozilla community, especially in countries where there aren't currently a lot of Mozilla contributors. In general I think Chris comments are spot on, but I wanted to add a few comments of my own. ...
mozilla/looking-for-contributors
2006-02-09
Starting full-time at the Mozilla Foundation
Back in August 2005, when the Mozilla Corporation was created, I began working for the Mozilla Foundation in a part-time capacity. I'm pleased to note that today is my first day working full-time for the Foundation. ...
2006-02-06