The first Victoria DemoCamp is tomorrow 5.30pm, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 834 Johnson St. (Juliet Living Demo Space, a.k.a. the OLD peacock billiards place). DemoCamp is basically a hipster geek term for people coming together to give demonstrates (or presentations) (practice) on technology products or services (only needs to be loosely related to tech).
My friend Zbigniew Braniecki, long time Mozilla participant, has left Flock and is now employed by Mozilla. I was waiting for him to publicly share this news and now he has with “Joining Mozilla!“.
My first project is to help Mozilla Central/Eastern European communities and raise the awareness of what’s going there in Mozilla project.
) It means that I consider myself as a kind of evangelist, strengthening Mozilla signal in Central and Eastern Europe and on the other hand strengthening the signal from those countries inside Mozilla.
It sounds like he will have a similar community role combining evangelism and technical leadership in internalization and localization there. It seems like a natural progression in his career. He will be continuing his work that was previous volunteering for Mozilla and combining it with a mandate. He is a incredible addition to the Mozilla Corp team!
The other day, I went to reread an amazing article Eli Goldberg wrote on “Verifying a bug” written when we were both working at Flock. I was saddened to find that http://wiki.flock.com/ has been replaced by a sparse “Flock developer website” and I couldn’t find that article.
Matt linked to our Happiness Engineer job posting:
Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people aren’t shy about contacting us asking for help. We consider the support side of the user experience to be vitally important because it’s the person who interacts with our customers most and makes the biggest impression in their time of need. In fact everyone who joins Automattic, regardless of position, does support for 3 weeks. The customers range from the everyday blogger to VIPs like CNN, Flickr, and People Magazine. The job requires:
- Patience and grace.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Working knowledge of WordPress, HTML, and CSS.
The other day I was trying to figure out a problem I was having with Google’s awesome Gmail, and whether to let Google know about their problem, when I remembered that Google thinks I (and Flock) hate them.
I actually own a Google shirt and enjoy wearing it. I admire the people of Google.
I met up with friend, former colleague, and current Flocker Richard Phan to watch the hour documentary Code Rush last night.
“32 of your friends joined the (FaceBook) group ex-Mercs.”
Mark Towfiq, Flock Vice President of Engineering and Product Development, departure was “announced” today after 1.5 years leading Flock browser development.
With any personnel change in a senior role of a small company, you can expect some change in the direction and execution. Mark had the most important job at Flock, so I expect big change.
Flock continues to go it alone. My greatest concerns for Flock nine months ago are just as relevant today. Continue reading
This last week has seen two of Flock’s ever so talented developers quit, Jesse Andews and Raj Paul.