• Pictures and other stuff from Japan

    May 1st, 2007 by seth bindernagel with 2 comments »

    Here are two blogs from presenters at the Mozilla Gumi 8th annual event on April 21.

    http://hidenosuke.org/ — Presented on the Mozilla Trunk

    http://minism.jp/–An extension developer with a keen sense of social marketing and browsing and other things.

    Also, here are all my pictures:

    Seths/Gen/Mozilla in Taiwan (already posted once…posted again).

    Seths and Kaori in Osaka and Kyoto

    Seths and the team at the Mozilla Gumi 8.0 in Tokyo.

    BTW, I uploaded all of these photos to Flickr with the Fotofox companion.  Nice work on that!

    p.s. I have jet lag. Any remedies?

  • Mozilla 24

    April 23rd, 2007 by seth bindernagel with 8 comments »

    One of the great things that the Mozilla JP office is currently planning is the the Mozilla 24 conference. The idea is in development, but it would be excellent to get our global community to help with the execution.

    For now, the conference is happening in Japan, but the idea is more global. Essentially, the idea is to hold a 24 hour conference that kicks off in Tokyo. As business day progresses around the world, each of our communities will be able to come online and contribute to the conference. Mozilla 24 will take a lot of logistical coordination and we’ll need to find people in each of our locales across the globe to help contribute. If you’re interested in learning more about the planning, contributing to the proposed tracks, or just have some general questions, please email me and I will make sure to put you in touch with Gen or Kaori.

    (Have been having some trouble uploading to Flickr…pictures from yesterday and the Gumi are forthcoming.)

  • Mozilla Gumi

    April 21st, 2007 by seth bindernagel with 2 comments »

    We are in Tokyo, attending the Mozilla Gumi 8.0 party. Seth S presented about Firefox 3 and I spoke about the Mozilla Community. There were so many great presentations by other members of the community. Experts presented on SVG, Javascript, new extensions and web apps, an explanation of Mozilla’s trunk, and more. Really very impressive stuff…Osaka was also an excellent visit. In addition to presenting to a joint meeting of Mozilla community members and the Nippon Sun User Group, we also had the chance to meet some of our key Japanese contributors who are maintaining the localized version of Bugzilla.

    Just a few observations as a visitor to Japan. Everyone seems to be incredibly friendly. The food is fresh and very tasty. I have tried to say yes to every suggestion, just to get the full perspective and experience. In some cases, it has left me tasting things like raw beef liver, sea urchin and fried crickets (OK, the crickets were actually in Taipei). Not surprising to me, every recommendation so far has led to a very positive experience.

    Additionally, the Japanese community is very hard working (probably also not a surprise). Hats off to our contributors, Kaori, Gen, Takita-san and all the community members for continually showing us hospitality and amazing dedication to Mozilla. Our visit has been seamless because of them.

    The community here is thriving and I believe we can do some good things to help empower everyone who is driven to contribute to Mozilla in Japan. The Gumi event has been fantastic and I think we have members here who we can support. It is my hope that the Japanese contributors will nominate many ideas for the program to support.

  • More from Dev Day Boston

    March 30th, 2007 by seth bindernagel with Comments Off

    more from dev day boston…

    After lunch, lightning talks started again.

    • luser gave a good presentation about Breakpad. Here is a helpful post from bsmedberg.
    • Window talked security, starting off with her thoughts about metrics in the security world. She mentioned some people/projects with new ways to look at metrics, including securitymetrics.org, metricon, Dan Geer (of MIT) and Allen Jones (at MSFT). Finally, she discussed how instrumental the Mozilla community has been in fixing bugs, and gave a shout out to the bug bounty program.

    Now…we’re breaking into discussions, including more on SD/gaming, security, the build system, community, FUEL, and mentoring & teaching (w/ Dave Humprhey from Seneca). Overall, this has been a really cool day. IMO, we should definitely do more of these.

  • Blogging from Boston Dev Day

    March 30th, 2007 by seth bindernagel with 2 comments »

    Asa and I have traveled to Boston for the dev day that is happening. You can probably get a sense of what is going on by reading the schedule on the wiki, so what can be relayed that you won’t read there? Well…the Hotel @ MIT is sweet, though the air conditioning is on and it 45 degrees outside. About 35 of us are sitting in a big conference room, each of us equipped with an orange thermal “Boston Dev Day” mug as a gift from Mozilla. Shaver is cranking us through the morning schedule like John Stewart emcee-ing (sans tux) at the Oscars…keeping it light-hearted and only a *bit* behind schedule…and then ahead of schedule…great job Shaver!

    Lots of great presentations so far.

    • Mark and John presented on extension building for Firefox. Check out Fuel to learn about a JavaScript Library designed to help developers build extensions using terminology and interfaces that are familiar to them.
    • Beltzner talked about Mozilla Labs, including Joey, The_Coop, and UI experience (using some great slides from Alex Faaborg).
    • BSmedberg presented about LXR and Bonsai – super helpful for developers who want to search for check-ins to the source or who want to track how things have changed.
    • Rob Sayre presented on Mozilla’s automated testing for Fx 3 and Gecko 1.9.
    • David Humphrey from Seneca College up North talked about teaching Mozilla. IMO, this is a great place to focus some community efforts. Check out Teaching Mozilla.
    • Then Asa and I talked about community. Yeah…it was the same schtick…we want to help the community…send us your ideas! :) (p.s. Pav is still making a weekly request for a pony. Sorry…not part of the program.)
    • Vlad presented very cool 3-d features, specifically related to the gaming world.

    Off to lunch…more later…

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