Participant/zak-greant

Zak Greant

Hi!

My name is Zak Greant and I've tired of writing things in the third person (at least for today.)

I own a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates where we help technology organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. We're a tiny shop, but we have great clients (like eZ, Mozilla & Navarik.)

The Net has been a part of my daily life for more than a decade now - most of my adult life, in fact. After dropping out of high school, then cooking school, the Net was a gateway to tremendous opportunity and wonder. Like all tools, it wasn't the Net that mattered so much - instead it was what the Net let people do that was the true alchemy.

I've been an active participant in many Free Software/Open Source communities, from PHP (my first love, who I still have the occasional fling with) to MySQL (where I worked as MySQL AB's community advocate to volunteering at the Free Software Foundation's License Compliance Lab Team.

I'm participating in and organizing this symposium on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation. I want to help us find effective ways to fulfill our manifesto and to further develop our vision of what we are and what we stand for.

Personally, I've taken a great interest in how the development of the Net parallels prior changes in communication. See an in-progress version of my thoughts at [1] I want to develop and discuss these ideas and to use them to help refine our views of what the Net is.

Contact Info

• email: zak@mozillafoundation.org
• Mobile: +1 604 781 3139

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You can find out a bit more information at the links below:

• Blog
• Bio Bio info (in need of a good edit)
• Affiliations and disclosure (also in need of a good edit)
• Various pictures of me
• As far as I know, I'm the only person named "Zak Greant" - for better or worse, this makes is easy to find me on the Net.
  http://www.google.com/search?q="Zak Greant"