At Kids on Computers, we’ve spent a lot of time and energy getting computers to kids that have no access to technology. Many of these places (rural Mexico, Africa, India) have cell phones before they have phone lines or even power. (The second time you blow the power for an entire school trying to set […]
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One of the things I love most about the open source communities I’m a part of is that when I ask a question, I just don’t get the answer, I get taught how to find the answer. A few weeks after I started as executive director of the GNOME Foundation, I asked Dave Neary for
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Think of the last time you walked up to a complete stranger, stuck out your hand and said, “Hi, my name is …” Depending on how often you do that, it was probably a scary moment. Before you walked up to the person, you had to steel your nerves, decide what you were going to
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When I first started using email, I had a part time job in the computer science department at Rice University. A new grad student joined the department and a few days after he started, I noticed it was his birthday. Knowing he was unlikely to know many people in town, I sent him an email
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When I told the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors that I was leaving my job as executive director, I told them my number one priority was to hire my replacement. Before I was hired, the GNOME Foundation went through a long period without an executive director and I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen
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I’m really excited to tell you that Shezmeen Prasad has joined the Mozilla Developer Engagement Team to help us figure out our event strategy and presence. I’m not the only one that’s excited. So many people were excited that I started to get worried. I warned Shez that a ton of people had a lot of
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My son broke his arm this week and had 2.5 hours of surgery this morning. Firefox kept him company throughout. (When the nurse asked him where Firefox came from, he told her “Mommy’s work.”) Firefox even keeps watch over the elevated arm. Firefox the web browser has also been a life saver. Watching movies over
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High context cultures value personal relationships over process. You have to know someone before you can trust them and work with them. They also tend to be less explicit and rely more on tone of voice, gestures and even status to communicate. Typically Asian countries are more high context than Western countries. Think Korea and
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Rob Hawkes joined our team. Welcome, Rob! He’s been getting up to speed with all the cool things going on in Developer Engagement and is really looking forward to settling in and sinking his teeth into the projects that he’s taking on. You can read his blog post about starting at Mozilla (and working remote.)
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Firefox is visiting us for a while before he heads to Brazil with me. He’s been a big hit so far. I was asked if he came in kid sizes. I foresee a request for a Firefox Halloween costume. Luckily I have experience making Firefox costumes too …
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