Our first stop was the convention space.  It’s was an old building inside of the Exhibition grounds where I spent many summers.  The space was huge and sterile and certainly not for us.  I could tell right away it just wasn’t right.

And, neither were two of the hotels.

And, then we got to the Sheraton and here’s what was waiting for us:

A lot of foxes, everywhere, all over, as we toured the hotel.   Not only was the space amazing, but these guys just got it.  In every way.  Plus, this hotel is a few blocks from our amazing Toronto space!  I was very happy with the experience and am certain the folks who travel to  Toronto for the Summit will be in for a treat.

July 15, 2003: The Mozilla Foundation is born with start-up support from America Online and Mitch Kapor

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So what’ the change?  Capture Mozilla is Air.Mozilla too.  Duh you say?  Sounds simple! Simple yes, easy no.  Capture Mozilla was a brain child of mine born from the need to scale knowledge and know how, not in the form of formal training, but in the voice of the Mozillians who are sharing.  Here are some things I’m learning that lead to a (change) wider view of knowledge share:

1) Ownership matters.

When we build a video, either really scrappy or really produced, we want some ownership. Maybe we don’t want to hand it over to the Capture Mozilla project.  Maybe we want to share it, but curate it from a place that is our own, that we have ownership in.

2) It’s hard to know what’s C-Mo.

There are 4 distinct channels for Capture Mozilla.  Well, what if YOUR knowledge share doesn’t fit?  Do we cram you into the C-Mo box?  Do we shape your share into the C-Mo mold?  No.  We follow you.  Like Mozillians ourselves, there are many variations of video knowledge share and putting us in a box is limiting.

3)  Making your own box makes sense.

Maybe your knowledge share fits into a C-Mo box.  Maybe you and your group or initiative, or subject deserves it’s own box.  And that box comes in the form of channels.   Checkout Air.Mozilla channels and see what I mean.  They are in their infancy and can only grow with your participation.  Someone’s got to go first, it could be you.

Notice all the “maybe’s” in my post?  That’s because I’m still thinking.  Less stuck, at the beginning of change and  thinking of all the “what’s possible” and “maybe’s”.  What I do know now is that Capture Mozilla is a project, not a place.  Making implicit knowledge explicit though video storytelling can and does happen in channels too.  By the way, changing the thrust of my work takes some letting go.  And that hurts a little.  Change, there’s that work again.

And so now I see that the first iteration of Capture Mozilla was the baby version.  The version that said all short videos live here.  The idea of  Capture Mozilla is growing up and it’s next stage is the freedom of channels.

It’s a project, an intention, not a place.  Whew.

“So, in a given time frame, plan to achieve something worthwhile in half the time, throw it away, then rebuild what has to be a better version, given the advantages of hindsight.” – from an essay in the MythicalManMonth

• Time: Thursday, May 15 at 10:00 AM Pacific / 17:00 UTC
• Agenda: Identifying core contributors, community building functionality priorities and more
• Video: David Boswell’s vidyo room (link for guest access is on agenda)
• Audio (if vidyo doesn’t work): 1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf: 9634#
• Room: Get to da Choppa in Mountain View 3rd floor and Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco 3rd floor
• Backchannel: irc.mozilla.org#mozillians

Brussels is home to Tintin (image on the right), a chocolate museum (Mozilla tour please), and Fosdem,  giant Open Source event.)  It’s the capital of the European Union and the likely host of the Mozilla Summit 2013 (it’s also the birth place of Jean-Claude!)

Yes, after an amazing search for just the right spot for the third Summit location, we are focusing our attention to Brussels, Belgium.  The event venue we have our eye on is called The Square.  Check it out, seems spot on for Mozilla (creative, colorful, fun.)  We will have about 5 hotels (rather than one large one like we’ll have in Toronto and in Santa Clara.)  Here’s a map of where they all sit relative to the event space — each walking distance from it.  Think Olympic Village.  And, the best news is that Brussels is 1.5 hours from Paris, 2 from London and close to many others by train.

Next up, invitations.  Volunteers who have been selected to attend the 2013 Summit will receive email notification on May 20th.  The email will be linked to a list of assigned venues by person.  There will also be an option to participate in a lottery to attend an alternative Summit location (somewhere other than where you were assigned.)  We will select about 10% of the group (~90 people) to attend an alternative site by the end of May.

As for staff, we will kick off the site-selection process the last week in May.  Most of Mozilla’s staff will know where they are headed prior to the Planning Assembly (June 14th).

We are aiming for official registration to kick off in early July after which time we’ll start booking travel and hotels and kicking off any immigration proceedings that need to be proceeded.

As always, if you need anything or have questions, please ping me on IRC #summit2013.

September 23, 2002: Phoenix 0.1 is released, the first version of a browser that will be renamed to Firebird and then Firefox

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Catalin Iordache: 813019, 821269, 821396, 821901

ChangZhuo Chen: 778053

David Guo: 747835

Dustin L. Howett: 812647

Ian Patterson: 712748

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Jonathan Kamens: 823042

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Rik Cabanier: 748433, 809927

Sergiu Dumitriu: 826563

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Sriram: 715736

Stefan Arentz: 807659

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Steve Singer: 817356

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Ting-Yuan Huang: 815473

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Usurelu Catalin: 820197

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From my end, we are still searching for space (hotels and venue options) within the EU.  Right now, we’ve narrowed our search to Brussels and Dublin.  Interesting locations for Mozilla, but options, for a group our size, for this specific week in October, are quite slim.  What I’m also learning about Europe in general is that hotels tend to offer much smaller, more quaint, room blocks, vs. the “go big” approach of North America.  I should know more middle of this week on what each city can offer so I will keep you all posted.

I am headed to Toronto next week with our event planning partner to visit at our two venue-options for the Toronto Summit (the Fairmont Royal York and the Sheraton).  Both look beautiful so again, I will report back.  Once we have the venues, in all locations finalized, I will feel much relief and we can start pushing forward.

On numbers: the Mozilla Reps and Community Builders have come up with a list of ~850 volunteers who will be invited to the Mozilla Summit.  Because we have about 45 volunteers, who joined the group after the deadline, that we still need to decide upon, we will postpone communication on invitees until May 15th.  If you have been invited to the Summit, we will send you an email to let you know.  In general, because of cost and immigration-related issues, volunteers will be invited to the Summit location that is closest to their home country.  We will hold a lottery for about 10% of invitees who will be able to select their Summit venue.  More to come on that this month.

So, that’s my update for this week.  Lots to come.  As always, you can find me and others in the #summit2013 IRC channel.

Capture Mozilla Badge

Can you hold a recording device? Can you put together a story flow or short curriculum? Can you help someone use IMovie or record something on Quicktime?  Can you just cheer someone on while they capture their knowledge on video? Than you can help and get a badge for it!

Think you need to be fancy to make a video?  David Boswell proves fanciness and artistic prowess are not required to help another Mozillian navigate the culture.

Mozilla Runs on Pinging

Here David gives an insider tip on getting things done in the Mozilla way.  Thanks David!

November 14, 2000: Netscape 6 is released and is the first Netscape product based on open source code

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