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FOSDEM 2010 – some ideas and links

If you are going to visit FOSDEM 2010, maybe you can find these links useful:

Hotels

Cheap hotels near Central station – the journey from central station to the venue is about 20-30 min with 1 bus line. Take Bus 71, direction Delta, stop ULB

Cheap hotels near the venue

Maps

Venue @ Google Maps

Thinks to do

Thinks to do in Brussels from VT

Food

A city guide

Chi-Chi’s – Anspach
5, Boulevard Anspach
1000 Brussels
Belgium

Mexican restaurant’s Menu

Oh yes. I am addicted to …  nachos.

I just send my application to Mozilla

I just send my CV and a cover letter for an open position to Mozilla. I know I don’t have any chance, but there is still hope (yes, that’s me. ) :)

Yes, I am a community manager for … 9 years. On-line and Off-line.

During all conferences I  organize, I have been working with different kind of people off-line. I am working every day with wikis, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Linkedin, Ning, Sprouter, and so on.  I am an open source guy, that mean I am contributing to different project and ideas and this is community work too …

I have a lot of ideas and I hope Mozilla can feel it :)

The me:// protocol and Firefox

In 2010 even the small kids know Internet is a very large space of bytes. I am browsing it every day like billions of people, but I am using only a little part of it as user and contributor.

My Internet is exactly the part I am using from the biggest Internet. What am I expecting from a new generation of browser? The answer is … to support me:// protocol.

Of course this protocol doesn’t exist and will never exist, but this protocol gives you an idea what I am expecting a browser to do.

I am not interested in Bookmarks
Let me first ask you a question. How often do you bookmark some stuff? OK, how often do you visit this websites later? See?

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Right now I have more than 200 bookmarks, with tags and categories and I visit the bookmarks that are visible on my bookmark sidebar. Why? Because I don’t need them actually. Yes it is true. If I need something I will search for it, instead of using a bookmark. It is easy and I know I will find what I need faster than browsing bookmarks. Fact!

A browser must know what I want to visit.

No, I am not talking about AI. A new generation browser must remember what and when I visit and to suggest me an option. For example, I am reading every day news from a couple of websites and yes I am reading it at a particular time frame (9-10 in the morning).

What I expect from a browser is, if the time is 9.15 and I am opening my browser, to see several news websites links to choose from. Something like that:

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Saved searches
Yes. I prefer to use a search engine to find what I need, but the browser must remember what I am searching for and when and if the next time I do the same search, the browser should display a message that I have made this search 2 weeks ago and I have visit those sites:

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This is the new generation bookmark for me. Of course I will have history of my searches and visit sites linked to them.

Me://
My Internet are not only the websites, but my mail and my schedule. I am expecting my browser to show me information of some linked products like Sunbird and Thunderbird, something like that:

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