I wuv you.
You are currently browsing the archive for the Speaking category.
I’ll be speaking at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference on June 23rd in San Jose, CA. There’s a presentation/panel on What Makes Browsers Performant that I’ll be part of. We’ll have reps from both Google and Microsoft there as well. Should be fun!
If you want to attend, use this code: “vel09cmb” – it will get you an extra 15% off the price.
Update on February 24th, 2009: Due to popular demand I’ve made a screencast of the two demos that I used in this presentation.
I’ve put up slides from my talk at SCALE 2009. Lots of people were interested in the slides. There’s the .pdf I’ve linked to above and the original .odp format. It covers most of the interesting new technical features that we’re going to include in Firefox 3.1.
Here are two relevant links from the talk:
Enjoy!
I’ll be speaking at OSCON on monday at the open mobile exchange. I’m speaking at 2pm with a talk titled the browser is the new open mobile platform. Should be fun – come and say hi!
July is going to be a pretty intense travel month for me. Here’s a rundown of where I will be:
If anyone wants to meet up to discuss things, let me know. I’ll be around!
We’re going to have a few Mozilla people and events at FISL this year. If you’re a Mozilla contributor or enthusiast, let us know you’re going to be there by adding yourself to the list!
Here’s a rundown of the agenda:
Mitchell always has something interesting to say. From the global impact and reach of our little project to the importance of creating an area for people to work together openly to mixing non-profit goals with good business sense. Her talk is on Saturday April 19th at 3:00pm. Be there!
He’s going to be talking about XUL which means a good combination of how to extend Firefox and possibly also writing your own XUL application. For people who are local in Brazil this is likely to be a great technical talk. There’s a huge amount of power locked up in our platform and it’s great to see another way for people to express it. He’s speaking at 2pm on Friday, April 18th.
This should be an interesting panel. Chris and I have been with the project for a long time and will talk about what’s going on in the Mozilla project today, how we can bring Mozilla and Firefox to Brazil in a way that’s appropriate for the local culture and Marcio will talk about what’s he’s been learning about our project in Brazil from localization to customization. Lots of Q&A, lots of discussion. If you really want to have the chance to ask your own questions and learn about our project, this is the place to do it.
Manned by the totally awesome Clauber Stipkovic Halic and Mário Rinaldi, they will be available to answer questions and will also be handing out neat Mozilla and Firefox merchandise.
Come hang out with cool Mozilla people! [ Note: I don't know the date for this yet. ] We’ll be having short sessions and we can do some cool stuff together. Here’s some of the things that we’re thinking of doing:
But that’s just a short list. We hope that people will suggest new things and join us. There’s an open wiki page for the workshop – edit away with suggestions!
I have a pile-o-stuff to post about here. In no particular order.
Interview starts about 4 minutes in.
There’s a large number of people in the Mozilla community (outside of the Corporation staff) that don’t know John very well. This interview starts to give a sense of him. Honest, intense and very thoughtful. It’s a good interview and talks a little bit about what Mozilla is about and how he feels he fits into the bigger picture. Worth watching.
For the Record is something that Asa started to help process, catalog and understand what’s being said about Mozilla and Firefox online. The first post talks about the Firefox release cycle and how we get to the point where we’re ready to release.
This is a good companion to the newly-launched about:mozilla newsletter. If you want some low-traffic, high-quality weekly access to what’s going on in Mozilla this is another good place to get it. Signing up is pretty easy.
Christian and Jay will be in Tokyo, Japan to talk about Mozilla’s mobile strategy. If you’re in the area, it’s a pay event, but it’s probably worth attending.
Will Guaraldi talks about the work that he did to include better podcast support in Firefox 3. Will spends most of his time working on Miro, a wonderful counterpart to Firefox for video podcasts. (Seriously, why aren’t you using Miro already? It’s a great app. Go try it. Right now.) I ran across this feature today when I was looking at some feeds for a friend’s photo site and it’s pretty nice. It shows the inline enclosures and types and gives you a sense of what you’re about to get. Very nice.
Eric mentions my interest in his D-Bus JS bindings. True – I am interested! He’s apparently trying to get help on the Mozilla Linux Platform mailing list and trying to integrate a bunch of stuff. Assuming that he does, it will be a great way to get some more great integration when you’re using Linux. Being able to connect extensions to other services on the desktop and being able to use them to affect your web experience sounds pretty good to me.
Matt Asay posts about his thoughts about the web, including my talk at SCALE. I don’t know Matt personally, but I do read his weblog. Given how much attention he pays to Red Hat and the other Linux vendors, I always assumed that he knew what was going on with us, our current impact and our future. I was wrong. We’re a fantastically transparent project, but that also means that it’s sometimes hard to find the clear message and the meaning in all the noise. Efforts like For the Record will hopefully make it easy for people to understand the meaning we’re trying to create in the world.
I did a talk at SCALE on Saturday, talking about the future of Firefox 3 on Linux and in general. There was a good attendance and the audience seemed like they really understood what Firefox meant to the future of the web. Lots of people in the audience were using the latest trunk nightlies (use at your own risk, of course!) and tons of people were using extensions – many extensions I had never heard of. I love that there are now so many extensions that there’s no way anyone can know all of them.
Ryan Paul put up a great story about the talk on arstechnica. It’s worth reading. You can digg the story or see the the slides as well.
interesting stuff