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Hi,

Feb. 26 at about 6pm starts the next Open Source Meetup in Munich at the Cafe-Netzwerk.

We are happy to announce Special Guests this time – because Kev Needham and Chris Hofmann will join us !

Kev will give a Presentation about Build your own Browser (http://byob.mozilla.com)

“To date, only a small number of organizations distribute customized versions of Firefox. Build Your Own Browser is a pilot application intended to simplify the process of creating a customized Mozilla browser (including Firefox) for distribution. During his talk, Kev Needham will provide an overview of browsercustomization and BYOB, why Mozilla thinks it’s an important tool for the community, and what it will evolve into in the coming months.”

– and Chris will talk about “The future of innovation in the browser”  — Studies, experiments, prototypes, and projects going on a labs.mozilla.com” – Thanks to the release of Firefox and it’s increasing marketshare over the last 5 years competition in the browser market is alive and well with Microsoft, Google, Apple,  and Opera producing new releases at more rapid rates.  Where will browsers go next.  The talk will explore Mozilla’s approach to research and innovating the browser and how you can participate in shaping the browser of the future. Current labs research projects including Weave, Jetpack, Test Pilot and a variety of others will be explored.

There will be also time for discussions and talks after this presentations !

When you are interested in joining us in Munich, feel free to sent me a mail tomcat@mozilla.com

See you in Munich !

– Tomcat

Hi,

during the Weekend i was in Brussels, Belgium and visited the FOSDEM 2010 !

I was a great experience and a very great conference and great to meet a lot of coworkers and  friends from all across Europe and the rest of the world 🙂  !

Also of course Mozilla had a booth at FOSDEM !

Mozilla @ FOSDEM 2010

We got a lot of visitors and was awesome to talk with the Community and have to say the Mozilla Community just rocks !

Also my talk about the Open Source Meetups in Germany, togehter with Florian, worked great and you can find the slides here !

A big thanks to everyone who made this Weekend possible, especially to William Quiviger!

William always at work

He worked basically around the clock on the weekend to make our Booth, Hotels, the Saturday Event etc possible – William just rocks !

– Tomcat

Hi !

Florian and myself will give Talk and Presentation at FOSDEM about our Open Source Meetups in Munich/Germany on Sunday, Feb 7 at 9:30 in Room H 1301 !

See you there !

– Tomcat

Hi,

last week on January 27, the Open Source Meetups in Munich started into the year 2010!

Because of the great success we have decided to organize this Meetups now every month in Munich !

This time we had with Mitchell Baker a very Special Guest for our Meetup and after a short introduction from Florian and myself, Mitchell gave a great talk followed by a great discussion !

Was a great evening and we got a lot of great Feedback from our Visitors and Linux New Media also reported from the Event. We will present the Idea of the Open Source Meetups also at FOSDEM and CeBIT !

We are already working on the next Event on February 26, also with Special Guests. Chris Hofmann and Kev Needham will be our guest on Friday, February 26 at the Cafe-Netzwerk in Munich.

Chris Hofmann will be talking about “the future of innovation in the browser  — studies, experiments, prototypes, and projects going on a labs.mozilla.com” and Kev Needham about “Customizing Firefox with Build Your Own Browser” !

Will sent out a announcement of this event next week 🙂

– Tomcat

OpenSource Projects like Mozilla are a great success story ! As Example Firefox is now 5 years old and  330 Million People around the world use Firefox. Firefox was downloaded more then 1 Billion times so far !

All this would not be possible without the help from our Community ! People around the world work together to improve Mozilla Projects like Firefox, Thunderbird, our Labs Projects and more.

You want to get-involved too, but still not sure what areas are available at Mozilla ? Getting involved in Mozilla is not just coding – its from Coding  to Support and QA, Marketing, Labs, Localization, Visual Design and more ! We have created a Page with a Overview over the various ways to get-involved on http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/

Getting started was never easier then now ! On the right site of this Page you find a little contact form. Send us a note and we can put you in touch with some people who can get you started right away !

So why wait ? Get – Involved today !

We started this Page and Posts on Volunteer Networks a few weeks ago (here you find a Blog post from David) and so far its a great success! We get every Day a lot of mails from people, eager to get started to build a better internet. Special Thanks to David Boswell and all others to set this site up !

Hope to see you soon in the Mozilla Community !

– Tomcat

Gestern am 27.10.2009 fand im Cafe Netzwerk in München ein Opensource Treffen “Spezial” zu Thunderbird 3 statt.

Als “Special Guest” hatten wir Dan Mosedale, den Chefentwickler von Thunderbird zu Gast.

Neben einer kurzen Vorstellung vom neuen Thunderbird 3 Features gab es auch eine Präsentation von Raindrop. Danach war Zeit fuer Fragen und Antworten und wir hatten eine Menge von interessanten Diskussionen.

Vielen Dank an alle die gestern dabei waren und vor allem ein grosses Dankeschön an Dan Mosedale und das Team vom Cafe Netzwerk !

Das nächste Opensource Treffen in München findet am 20.11.2009 im Cafe Netzwerk statt und am 23.11.2009 findet das erste Opensource Treffen in Leipzig statt !

Viele Gruesse

Carsten

Viele Menschen weltweit nutzen Firefox! Interessant finde ich das sich Firefox und andere OpenSource Projekte wie Opensource sich auch immer mehr in öffentlichen Verwaltungen und Behoerden durchsetzt. Der Vortrag von Florian Schiessl auf dem letzten Opensourcetreffen fand ich deshalb persönlich sehr interessant.

So nutzt zum Beispiel das LiMux Projekt Firefox und Thunderbird und Firefox/Thunderbird sind auf den den 14.000 Rechnern der Stadtverwaltung und auf allen 28.000 Rechnern des pädagogischen Netzes installiert ! Ebenso nutzt das Auswärtige Amt Firefox : „Im Auswärtigen Amt ist Firefox heute der Standard-Browser, dienstliche E-Mails werden mit Thunderbird verschickt, die dienstlichen Notebooks sind ausschließlich mit Linux und OpenOffice bestückt.“

Und die Stadtverwaltung in Münster nutzt auch zum Teil Firefox : „The default web browser on many of the city administration’s desktops is the open source tool Firefox.“

Die Liste könnte man sicher weiterführen – finde es super das sich Opensource immer mehr auch ausserhalb vom heimischen/privaten Desktop PC durchsetzt!

A lot of people work with OpenSource Software like Firefox, Thunderbird and a lot of people contribute to this Projects as Developer, QA or with spreading the word and many other things.

During the Opensource Meeting in Munich Florian Schiessl from the Munich LiMux Project gave a great talk about the Limux Project (Why they started this Project  etc ) and a lot of interesting background information.

It was great to hear that in the Municipality of Munich 100% work stations using Firefox and Thunderbird ! Munich is not only the City of the Octoberfest or Soccer 🙂 , its also the “German Silicon Valley”  and one of the most important IT Cities in Europe.

Also after some research i found an very interesting article from the Federal Foreign Office of Germany about “Open codes for an open society – German Foreign Office saves money by using open source software” and “Firefox is the standard web browser, official emails are written using Thunderbird and official notebooks are exclusively furnished with Linux and OpenOffice.”

Its great to see that the Idea of OpenSource is getting spread also beyond “end user” !

Hey ! its OneWebDay today ! 🙂

Hallo !

nachdem grossen Erfolg des 1. Opensource Treffen geht es weiter !

Wie bisher wird diese Veranstaltung von Mozilla und OpenOffice.org organisiert aber auch andere Projekte haben die Möglichkeit, sich mit einem kurzen Vortrag vorzustellen und in direkten Kontakt mit ihren Anwendern zu treten.

Im Rahmen einer Idee möchten wir versuchen, die Macher und die Nutzer von freier Software zusammenzubringen – in gemütlicher Atmosphäre, ganz unverbindlich, ohne kommerzielle Hintergedanken. Die Projektmitglieder können in direkten Kontakt mit ihren Nutzern treten, um wertvolles Feedback zu bekommen, und die Anwender lernen Leute aus ihrer Region kennen, die am Projekt beteiligt sind. Die Teilnahme ist natürlich vollkommen kostenfrei und unverbindlich.

Jeder ist willkommen, vom z.b. Firefox-User, der mehr über Open Source/beispielsweise das Mozilla-Projekt erfahren und mitarbeiten moechte bis zum aktiven Entwickler, der schon jahrelang zum Erfolg von Open Source Software beiträgt.

Das nächste Treffen wird am Freitag, den 25. September, im Café Netzwerk in München stattfinden.

Mit dabei sind neben Mozilla und OpenOffice.org unter anderem OpenStreetMap und CAcert.

Zwecks Planung gebt uns bitte kurz per E-Mail direkt an info@opensourcetreffen.de bescheid, wenn und mit wie vielen Personen ihr kommen wollt ! Die Anmeldung ist natuerlich kostenlos und unverbindlich !

Wir planen auch bereits Treffen in weiteren Regionen Deutschlands, unter anderem in Berlin, Essen, Bremen, Leipzig, Stuttgart und Nürnberg. Wenn ihr selbst ein Open-Source-Treffen in eurer Gegend organisieren wollt, dann meldet euch bei uns (info@opensourcetreffen.de)  !

Mehr Informationen zu der Event-Reihe gibt es hier http://www.opensourcetreffen.de

Viele Gruesse

Carsten