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Popathon London

Last weekend was Popathon London #2. An event aimed at hacking video with open source tools to make new, web native video content. It was a great event with lots of interesting people and a great learning experience for me, and hopefully all the other participants. The event covered the

Year In Industry

The strange weekend

> …also, don't work the weekends ;) -- Michelle Thorne [http://michellethorne.cc/] An apology So last week was my first working for the Mozilla Foundation, and it was one of the best Mozilla experiences I've ever had. Second only to meeting community members from around the world. This may not make

An experiment into feedback through making

An experiment into feedback through making

One of the things that makes Mozilla such a welcoming, and engaging community is that it, well, engages with its community. It does this through events, Dev Derby, social networks… the list goes on. One thing that is in common with all of these things is that Mozilla take feedback

Year In Industry

Getting Settled

> Working at Mozilla isn't work… It's a lifestyle, a mission, and a close-nit, yet geographically distributed community. It's been a week now since I started at Mozilla, and its been an absolute blast so far. More than that its taught me a number of things about myself, and the difference

First day on the job (Morning)

Year In Industry

First day on the job (Morning)

[This is cross posted on yii.wduyck.com [http://yii.wduyck.com]] > Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648294] Sure it’s a little cliché, however I am hoping that

Beaten to the finish.

Beaten to the finish.

Isn’t it always the same. You have an idea that could benefit people, but don’t find the time to work on it. You commit yourself to working on it and getting it done, you set a day to do it, you work on it and are almost finished…

Year In Industry

Aims and Objectives

So its almost time for me to start work, and I still haven't chosen (well in writing anyway) what aims and objectives I'm setting myself for this year. As a part of my placement I have to have a few aims and objectives that span the entirety placement. They need

Year In Industry

The Year in Industry Begins

So in just a few short days I start my Year-In-Industry. This fancy thing is basically a glorified internship, with one major advantage. It counts towards my degree! Even better my placement is with an organisation I've been volunteering for since I was 13. There are some disadvantages though... well

I'm not dead!

Okay so that may seem like a little bit of an odd blog post title, but it’ll make sense to the target audience (I hope :P), but for the past couple of months I’ve been basically dead to the world beyond university. Unfortunately once again exams came and

Taking a step back

Taking a step back

So it turns out, that as ever, I might have bitten off a little more than I can chew. Therefore over the next week or two I am going to be taking a step back from everything, Mozilla, Societies, Personal Projects, etc… and working only on a select few tasks

Mozilla Festival... not enough words to describe the aweome!

Mozilla Festival

Mozilla Festival... not enough words to describe the aweome!

[http://www.mozillafestival.org/] Its been one of the busiest weekends of my life, and many other people’s too, but I wouldn’t trade it for a thing in the world. The Mozilla Festival, for those who have been living under rocks for the last few weeks, is an

Blogging Reboot

Okay… so I have neglected this blog quite a bit recently however I will be blogging more soon. I have been doing a lot that I will recap shortly, however this post is to announce that I will only be blogging about Mozilla related things on this blog from now

A Firefox T-shirt on Google Streetview

A Firefox T-shirt on Google Streetview

This is a guest post by fellow Mozillian Otto de Voogd [http://7is7.com/]. > Moments ago a Google Street View car passed, filmed me wearing a Firefox T-Shirt... Exact location: http://ottodv.com/fxsw — Otto de Voogd (@ottodv) June 25, 2011 [https://twitter.com/ottodv/status/84573401934610432] [http://goo.gl/

Mozilla London Learning Jam

Mozilla London Learning Jam

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/oliverquinlan/] cc-by-nc Oliver Quinlan So last week was the Mozilla Learning Lab in London. I was unfortunately unable to attend the first day of the event (Thursday 24th May) due to having an afternoon exam that day. However I travelled up that evening and took

BarCamp Canterbury 2

> BarCamp Canterbury is an unconference [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference] that is a completely free to attend and based loosely around the theme of:innovative, unusual, and amusing examples of information and technology. A technology conference with a difference: more like a gathering of enthusiastic people that are into

More Mozilla UK work

Okay… so I am happy with the Analysis section of document I have been writing and so will transfer that to a wiki page in the next few hours, I am now moving on the development. This is where I am going to be talking entirely about my proposed system.

Mozilla UK revamp updates

[mozilla.org.uk] Proposed vertical version of Mozilla UK logo Okay… so it appears that even though this revamp is still in the early stages there is a reasonable amount of interest in the project. So I thought I would make it easy for those of you who are interested

Mozilla UK meetup and mozilla.org.uk revamp

Okay so this post is actually two rolled into one. I decided it would not be worth doing them separately as there is just way to much cross over. Mozilla UK meetup Not long ago, about a week ago in fact, was the second Mozilla UK meetup that I have

Bang Goes The Mozillian?

Bang Goes The Mozillian?

Okay… so despite the title there this post is not listed as being in the Mozilla category. Why? well this one is more personal than anything else. It is a funny thing in life, as to what you can end up doing while waiting on people to arrive from another

The problem with filtering off posts.

Okay… so here is my two cents to the discussion happening on what content should be on planet.mozilla.org. It is a simple little thing however it is a problem as I see it, and that is this. I currently, as I know others do, rather enjoy reading the

Chapter One: The Beginning of The End

Okay, so right now it is about 1:30 in the morning, and I am finally feeling like I might be able to sleep, when I realize that my pen (a fountain pen) may need a new ink cartridge. So I decide to quickly check it before I go to

The Two Things about Mozilla

I recently learned about The Two Things [http://www.csun.edu/%7Edgw61315/thetwothings.html] question from William Reynolds [http://dailycavalier.com/2012/02/the-two-things-about-mozilla/] and wanted to respond with what I’ve learned about the Mozilla Community. > For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to

The Free and Open Source Software Developer's European Meeting '12

The Free and Open Source Software Developer's European Meeting '12

Okay, so at the time of writing this it has now been more than a few weeks since I finally left FOSDEM, and I am ashamed to say that it has taken me this long to get round to blogging about it properly. I have some notes for the post

Looking at the Past, Present, and Future

So it has been a busy and life changing year that just went by. 2011 brought not only a number of new events, and friends, but also a new look on the world around me. It has been fun, and I hope that it is an indication of things to

Response to Danny Moules on going to University

Okay… So, Danny. I while ago (well almost 3 months ago) I wrote a blog post about how things never go as planned. More specifically I asked the question “what tips, tricks, and recommendations do you have for a Mozillian going to university?” Well I took your advice onboard and