Meet the Colorado Mozillians … We spent the day co-working at the Boulder Hub. Tom Tromey (Developer Tools), Justin Crawford (MDN), Teri Charles (Web QA) Stormy Peters (MDN), Chuck Harmston (Marketplace)
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I was writing a post about why you must work in the open to get more volunteers and I ended up writing this post about why I don’t work in the open. The Good So I think there are some very valid reasons for not working in the open: Personal. Not all projects are open
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During my FOSDEM talk, I spoke about how your phone company, hardware and operating system control what apps you have access to. Some phones bring internet access to those with no access but without the choice and freedom we expect on the web. For example, in Zambia people are getting free internet from Facebook but
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There’s a Free and Open Source Software Track at Grace Hopper this year! Submit your proposal now and come join us. Grace Hopper is the largest gathering of women technologists and it’s a super energizing conference. They are expecting 11,000 people this year – which I find kind of scary. But my experience at Grace
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One of the best pieces of advice I got was “Find out if they are an email person or a phone person and communicate with them that way.” These days you have to add text messages, hangouts, whatsapp, irc, etc to the list, but the same principle holds true. I’ll give you an example of
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I had breakfast with Cate Huston and I told her that I was working on a blog post called “Should you build an app or a website?†She opined that perhaps mobile apps, both native and web, are better because they have constraints. When you have a small screen, you have to have a good UI. You
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What I love about open source is that it’s a “can†world by default. You can do anything you think needs doing and nobody will tell you that you can’t. (They may not take your patch but they won’t tell you that you can’t create it!) It’s often easier to define things by what they are
Many app developers are secretly hoping to win the lottery. You know all those horrible free apps full of ads? I bet most of them were hoping to be the next Flappy Bird app. (The Flappy Bird author was making $50K/day from ads for a while.) The problem is that when you are that focused
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Traditionally, open source software has relied primarily on asynchronous communication. While there are probably quite a few synchronous conversations on irc, most project discussions and decisions will happen on asynchronous channels like mailing lists, bug tracking tools and blogs. I think there’s another reason for this. Synchronous communication is difficult for an open source project. For
A recent conversation on a Mozilla mailing list about whether IRC channels should be archived or not shows what a commitment it is to remain open. It’s hard work and not always comfortable to work completely in the open. Most of us in open source are used to “working in the open”. Everything we send
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