The Mozilla Summit is coming! On June 15th,  50 Mozillians got together for a planning session and I discovered just how much Mozillians focus on getting great things done! We met to help shape the Mozilla Summit (a 2,000 person conference happening later this year) in a way that would move Mozilla forward. We spent the first day talking […]
Mozilla is a community of do-ers! Read More »
Many of us working on free and open source software have strong values and we want to make the world a better place. I’m comfortable predicting that the rate of vegetarians, recyclers, hybrid vehicle owners and just general environmentally conscious people is higher than average in free and open source software projects. We want to
Should you only do business with those that share your values? Read More »
The number of long form blog post have been declining for years. Most speculate that it’s because most of us spend more time microblogging on Twitter and Facebook. Certainly, when I started blogging in 2004, I blogged a lot of things that I would only tweet now. In November 2010, Jeff Bercovici wrote on Forbes:
“Where there is no competition, there is no market. This is why start-ups who “have no competition” have trouble engaging partners and making sales.” – Geoffrey Moore, Escape Velocity Open source projects often shy away from competition. They value collaboration and leveraging existing solutions. But competition is good for more than making you run faster.
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We all have blog posts we haven’t written. Boris Mann wrote about why he hasn’t posted some. Here are the top 7 reasons I haven’t published some of the blog posts I’ve written. Half baked. My idea was half baked. A lot of times I find myself blogging about things I’m still trying to work
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I recently listened to a talk by Michael Lopp about how to be a great manager. During his talk, he stressed the importance of hallway conversations. Hallway conversations are informal conversations about projects, goals and status. As Shez says, they are great for bouncing ideas off people you might not normally interact with and just
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Last night on our drive home from school I started asking my 11 year old about his science fair project. I asked him what it was going to be on, what supplies he needed, what was he going to do if his idea didn’t work, what was he going to draw on his poster board,
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Mozilla is an amazingly global and diverse community. I like to think we got it from our open source heritage – open source projects know how to work globally. Mozilla is committed to working globally – we hire all over the world, hold regular community meetups around the world and have community spaces in many
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At a party, if you notice someone has food stuck in their teeth, you probably wouldn’t go “HEY! You have food stuck in your teeth and it looks GROSS! I hate it. I think you should go brush your teeth right now!” But we do that all the time in open source. Someone writes a
Open source feedback (done wrong): “Look, you have food stuck in your teeth!” Read More »
Who – or rather, which company – is holding all your email? If you couldn’t login tomorrow, do you have a copy of your email? Many webmail services, like Gmail, make it easy to download a copy of your mail using POP or IMAP but if you use their web client, it’s an extra step
Who has your mail? Read More »