Events

Hi all: Mozilla will be conducting a Project Day in conjunction with FOSS.IN, India's largest Free & Open Source Software event the first week of December in Bangalore.

We'd love your help to make this day a success. Here's how you can participate:

1) *Speak at the project day:* As a contributor to Mozilla we encourage you to take a look at the proposed schedule for the day and then, if you are interested, submit an abstract to speak for our project. We encourage you to submit your discussion idea about Mozilla's project day to FOSS.IN. Some ideas might be focused on localization issues or around testing Indian websites -- or come up with a new one! Here is how to submit an abstract.

2) *Indicate you are interesting in attending:* If you don't feel like presenting at the project day, please post a comment indicating that you would like to participate. We are trying to get a sense of how many presenters and participants we will have. As of right now, the FOSS.IN website is only providing information about the Call for Participation, but please stay tuned and plan to attend the Mozilla Day!

3) *Please spread the word!* We will need you to help get a lot of momentum behind our project day so it proves to be valuable to all participants and to the Mozilla project. We need speakers!

Let us know what you think. We really want there to be a lot of community members (new and old!) in the room during the day of FOSS.IN.

Thanks!

Mozilla is helping recognize Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 15th, along with hundreds of organizations worldwide.  SFD is a global, grassroots effort to spread the word about the importance of free and open source software.  Here are the events we're helping to support:

•  Utah Open Source Conference, 9/6 - 9/8
  
• San Francisco State's celebration, 9/13:  Zak Greant of the Mozilla Foundation will be giving a talk to Dr. Sameer Verma's "Managing Open Source" class. 
  
• Carolina Open Source Initiative's event at UNC Chapel Hill -- Mark Finkle, one of our evangelists, and Justin Scott, an intern responsible for creating and launching Rock Your Firefox, will be conducting a session on how to get involved with Mozilla.
  
• The Beijing Linux Users group event at Tsinghua University, 9/15.  Li Gong who heads our China office will be speaking.
  
• Mozilla 24, 9/15:  We've registered our own worldwide conference as a Software Freedom Day event.  Zak Greant will be providing a talk on free and open source software, while David Humphrey, professor at the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada, will discuss how to get involved with open source.  Register here to attend an in-person event at Stanford or catch the sessions online.
  

Mozilla is hosting its own conference on September 15 - 16th, taking place online and at locations in Japan, Europe and the San Francisco Bay Area.  The event will feature industry leaders who will present on Web trends and technologies that will help shape the future of the Web.

Current speakers include:

• Dr. Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google Inc.
• Dr. Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society
• Dr. Jun Murai, professor of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies and Vice President at Keio University
• Dr. David Humphrey, professor at the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada
• Mitchell Baker, Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation
• Mike Shaver, Director of Ecosystem, Mozilla Corporation
• Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe
• Satoko Takita, Chairman of Mozilla Japan

You can sign up to attend the U.S. event at Stanford here.  Come be a part of our inaugural event!

Hi everyone:

We'll host an events triage call tomorrow at 10 a.m. PDT:  Dial-in: +1 650-903-0800, ext 91, ID 248 & #events on
irc.mozilla.org. 

Agenda:

• FOSS.in
• OSSummit
• Portland PHP User Group meeting
  
• F2C:  Freedom to Connect 
• Free Software Conference in Scandinavia 
• Europe Update
• Other events under consideration

Below please find notes from our call on 11/2.

 Attendees:

• Mary
• Jane Finette
• Chris Hofmann
• Seth Bindernagel 

Agenda:

• FOSS.in:
• Need to revise Project Day schedule due to changes in speakers:
• Tim Riley and Arun Ranganathan no longer able to attend
• Chofmann to pick up testing workshop -- Mary to get approval from FOSS.IN
• Need a fill in for an "Getting Started with Add-ons" Overview
• Mary to check on status of her talk
  
• OSSummit:  Mary to secure Li Gong's head shot
• FLOSS Usability Sprint:  Mozilla sponsoring -- event is intended to encourage UX designers to get involved with FOSS.
  
• Europe Update:
• Tristan speaking at Web 2.0 Expo this week.
• The team is also participating in an event in Stockholm
• 2008 Planning
• Developer Days - Seth to check with Evangelism team on any planned dates or locales
  
• Call time:  We'll try scheduling the call at 10 a.m. PST going forward.
  

Hi everyone:

We'll host an events triage call tomorrow at 11 a.m. PDT:  Dial-in: +1 650-903-0800, ext 91, ID 248 & #events on irc.mozilla.org. 

 Additionally, I'm looking switch the time of the call (and potentially the day) in order to better accommodate folks in Europe.  Please drop me a line or respond with a comment here if you have any preferences.

Agenda:

• FOSS.in
• OSSummit
• FLOSS Usability Sprint
• F2C:  Freedom to Connect 
• Europe Update
• 2008 Planning
• Developer Days?
• User events
  
• Other events under consideration

Hi everyone:

Here are notes from Friday's call:

Attendees:

• Alix
• Chofmann
• Mary
• Zak Greant 

• Speaking submissions for Mozilla Project day due 10/20
• Mitchell received invitation to speak at Main Conference
• Mary to create Project Day agenda as soon as the submissions are received
• Slide deadline will be adjusted
  

• Mozilla sponsoring & exhibiting
• John Resig speaking
• Mary to run mini Extend Firefox competition
  

• Mozilla sponsoring and speaking
  
• Mary working on pulling together materials for Dave Humphrey
  

OSSummit:

• Li Gong and Zak invited to participate in opening OS panel featuring Apache and Eclipse

• TC Liou invited to speak on community panel -- Mary to send Mozilla Messaging document
  

• Mozilla offering small sponsorship
  
• Will promote Extend Firefox
  
• Mary & Melissa Shapiro to attend

Zak's items:

• Mozilla Foundation 2008 Events Plan:  Zak will send Mary his draft.
• Event report from recent speaking opps
  

Other events under consideration

•  FOSDEM:  Mary in touch with Europe on this.  Likely the weekend of 2/23
• Chofmann suggested Open Source in Mobile in January '08