Conferences Articles
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Mozilla at Smashingconf 2012
Smashingconf this week attracted 350 web enthusiasts from all over to come to Freiburg, Germany. Workshops and talks by 16 international experts and speakers promised a good overview over what is happening right now. Overall the conference was a great experience. Asking attendees why they came to the conference they said they wanted to learn […]
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Selling HTML5 to a consulting company
I just spent a weekend in a resort in Mallorca. I was invited by an IT consultancy from Frankfurt to join them at their off-site and give a two hour (re)introduction to HTML5. The audience and the challenge The consultancy is very successful in what they do and are very much a Java / native […]
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Mozilla at OpenReaktor Warsaw – Firefox OS and Open Business
As a warm-up for Mozcamp happening in Warsaw, Poland this weekend the Mozilla DevEngage team together with Reaktor Warsaw gave around 100 developers and entrepreneurs a first look at Firefox OS and the upcoming infrastructure Mozilla is working on to enable Open Business. Chris Heilmann and Brian King had an hour to bring our messages […]
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Push the Web Further at Hackanooga
If you enjoy pushing the limits of the open web platform, we want you to join us September 14-16 in The Gig City (Chattanooga, Tennessee) for a weekend of good food, good friends, and—most importantly—a unique opportunity to play on a citywide, 1 gigabit per second network. What happens when you hack with WebGL, WebRTC, […]
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Keynote on Firefox OS at Campus Party Recife
Chris Heilmann and I just finished our keynote at Campus Party Recife in this lovely Brazilian coastal town. It is amazing to see the enthusiasm and momentum around Firefox OS in the local community. By partnering with Telefonica and their Open Web Device initiative the reception was that much that the organisers had to double […]
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Dr.Seuss and Persona – Mozilla at Webvisions Barcelona
Last week Webvisions, a 3 day conference covering everything UX and web lured a few hundred enthusiasts to the sunny Barcelona. Mozilla sent Crystal Beasley and Chris Heilmann to talk about logging into the web with Persona and the future of the web. Crystal gave a workshop on login systems and how to improve them […]
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Report from Ancona: CONFSL 2012
Last month I attended CONFSL, an interesting conference about Free Software that took place in Ancona, Italy. I had the opportunity to meet other Mozillians (Iacopo Benesperi and Francesco Lodolo) and to talk to some people working for Mozilla: Tristan Nitot, Marcia Knous, Marco Bonardo, Paolo Amadini. They are amazing people who make our lives […]
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Bringing the web to mobiles – Mozilla and Telefonica at Over the Air 2012
A few weeks ago, Over the Air 2012, Englands biggest mobile (un)conference in Bletchley Park, England (home of the first ever computer built to crack the German Enigma encryption machines) attracted a few hundred developers to hear about the latest happenings in the mobile space and hack with them. Mozilla’s contribution was not only the […]
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Mozilla at SudWeb 2012, France
SudWeb is a Web event located in the south of France. The second edition took place in Toulouse, “The Pink City” for two days of fun and Web on Friday, May 25th and Saturday, May 26th. SudWeb is unique in the French web landscape, it mainly focuses on professional best practices and sharing knowledge. It’s […]
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Presentation: Web vs. Native at Reasons to be Appy
Yesterday around 300 attendees came to the amazing L.S.O. at St Luke’s in London, England for Reasons to be Appy conference. In nine presentations several speakers covered all kind of concepts around app development, from typography to mobile debugging. Mozilla’s presentation was Christian Heilmann talking about the controversy around the battle of native vs. web […]
