A few weeks ago I published a post entitled Some Thoughts on Improving Bugzilla. The post got a fair bit a traction and received a large number of supportive comments. But what was best, about the post, about open source, about Mozilla, is that it drew me into a serious of conversations with people who [...]
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Bugzilla – progress made and new thoughts
Some thoughts on improving Bugzilla
One of the keys to making an open source project work is getting feedback from users and developers about problems (bugs) in the code or system. Mozilla (the organization behind Firefox and Thunderbird) uses Bugzilla, but organizations have developed a variety of systems for dealing with this issue. For example, many cities use 311. I’m [...]
Awesome Interactions: More on my Mozilla Summit 2010 Ignite Talk
Last week I had the distinct pleasure of being at the Mozilla Summit. This is a gathering of about 650ish people from innumerable countries around the world to talk about Mozilla, the future of the open web, the various Mozilla products (such as Firefox and Thunderbird). As Mozilla is a distributed community of thousands of [...]
Saving Millions: Why Cities should Fork the Kuali Foundation
For those interested in my writing on open source, municipal issues and technology, I want to be blunt: I consider this to be one of the most important posts I’ll write this year. A few months ago I wrote an article and blog post about “Muniforge,” an idea based on a speech I’d given at [...]
Mozilla and leadership: Rethinking the CEO
Last week John Lily – CEO of Mozilla – announced he will be stepping down to take a job at Greylock, a venture capital firm. I’ve only met John twice, and both times he was generous with both his time and willingness to engage some of my thoughts and (many) questions. I know he is [...]
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