We will have more than 28 talks this year’s Mozilla Developer room at FOSDEM.

Take a look at the schedule and plan your visit now. It will be a great time, like every year.

P.S Let’s say “Merci” to Benoît to taking care about Mozilla’s presence at Fosdem.

I just uploaded for approval an Add-on that defines FOSDEM protocol.

What is FOSDEM?

FOSDEM is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software.

Protocol?

This Add-on:

• defines FOSDEM protocol  (see bellow)
• it’s showcase how to create your own protocol for Mozilla Firefox

Supported commands:

fosdem:about – learn more about the event
fosdem:venue – learn more about the venue and transportation
fosdem:schedule – see the latest schedule
fosdem:2003 to fosdem:2011 – see the archive
fosdem:2012 – see the info about the 2012 event

Notice

If you are fan of Fosdem and Firefox – please install it (click on the link) to have fun and to help me develop it more.

A special “Thank you” goes to Mike Kaply and Wladimir Palant

See you at Fosdem in 2 weeks.

We’ve started a campaign to make our locale better. More than 500 000 Bulgarian every day using localized content from Mozilla and we think they deserve a better quality. We cannot afford to pay big numbers as Google does for localization, but for every confirmed bug  you will get a @mozilla.bg email address and maybe something else, if the bug is very nasty one ))

If you read/understand Bulgarian, Join our effort now., if not, why don’t you start similar action for your own locale – we can help you with some advices.

Bulgarian Mozilla community Rocks!

P.S If you will go to FOSDEM, feel free to attend my talk about communities and to eat some Belgian chocolate at the same time.

I will be talking about that at FOSDEM in Mozilla’s room. (*)

Abstract:
We’re living in hard times right now. Most of the F(L)OSS projects suffers from lack of volunteers especially if they must donate a large amount of time to this project. My talk will show how you can plan better your community how to measure it, how to use tips and tricks from the commercial world and how to use some agile methods and tools to make you community kick-ass squad.

1. How to plan your community for next couple of months; (ex. We need 3 more people to join our translation effort) and Create the Flow – how a bug report goes from bugzilla to the  the end of it’s life. (a.k.a kill the bug)
2. Define how to do it (ex. Troll the forums, create twitter campaign, contact universities, or something else?)
3. How to Measure it (How many retweets do you have, how many clicks, etc) and Why?
4. How to find patterns into your community and how to use them. For example – Most of the answers I receive to my mailing comes during business hours OR Friday is not a good day to send emails
5. What is Agile and how to use it to make my community life easier? ( Trello show-case )

(*) room U.218A (next to Chavanne)

Feel free  stop by, eat some belgian chocolate (provided by me) and listen to my thoughts and share yours.

P.S If you still don’t have place to stay during the FOSDEM, take a look on my blogpost here.