You Should Be Giving This Keynote

In addition to the too-good-to-be-true economics created by the upsurge in software released under increasingly liberal licenses, open development practices and "loosely coupled" projects are demonstrating the power inherent in large and diverse communities. Mike will convince you, through examples, analogies and speaking really, really quickly that the ability to capture even "trivial" contributions from all directions will be more important to the success of modern open source projects than version control, usability guidelines, review processes, licensing, marketing or a really awesome T-shirt design. You will be tested on this material.

Mike Shaver, Co-founder, Mozilla Project Mike Shaver has been involved in the development of many of the technologies that enable interactive web pages, such as the JavaScript language. He's worked at Netscape Communications, zerøknowledge, Cluster File Systems, and the Oracle Corporation, and was a founding member of the Mozilla Organization in 1998. He currently serves as the Technology Strategist for the Mozilla Corporation where he helps determine what projects Mozilla should support.