So I relocated across to Portland and started working on the User Advocacy team for FireFoxOS Support. My main tasks where to help bring some technical expertise to the team to help them build a set of tools for their reporting. My time with Mozilla in Portland was short and during that time I got to get a lot achieved with a main achievement leading the push to have input.mozilla.org non english content translated. This…
One of my favourite all time conferences in Australia is Joomla Day. I have been hanging around the Joomla community since its inception and was a proud user of Mambo (Hey you know it came from an Australian Melbourne University right?) So it is a conference that I do like to attend even if I am not working directly on the code base. So I was happy that I would be back in Australia to…
So after spending most of the year in America and some great opportunities on offer I decided to head homeward bound. There was a couple of major factors that made me and the highest one was that my Grandmother (Nuna as you would say in Maltese) was diagnosed with the late stages of Lung Cancer. Most people who know me know that my Nuna means the world to me and to not be around her…
So getting selected for a talk at LinuxCon America was well what can I say a dream come true for me. I was very happy to also be talking about FireFoxOS and the use of Linux, a nice deep technical talk for my first one at a Linux Conference. There is not much to say but WOW about the conference I had been to a LinuxCon Europe before but this was my first American one.…
So once again another random twitter comment lead to an amazing mentoring experience. I saw a random tweet whilst sitting in an apartment room in Belltown Seattle from a friend sitting in Sydney who retweeted one of his friends who needed help with mentoring for an Apps Camp for Girls being ran in Seattle. Of course we all knows what followed because well im involved in the story, so the next step was me volunteering…