"I'm very pleased to announce that the next Mozilla Add-ons Workshop will take place in Florence, Italy, on Saturday 27 June, 2009..." — see also Free addons for IceCat —

An important open source event will take place in Paris on September 24th and 25th 2008 : it is called "Paris Capitale du Libre" (PCL) and it is organised by the FNILL (French national federation of the free
software industry): http://www.paris-libre.org/.

"Florian and Nico, two OpenWRT developers from Paris, come over for a two days non-stop OpenWRT workshop. The weekend is open to all. Beginners and experts are welcome! ..."

"...this is the second Paris on Rails conference, and last year's was a tremendous success. Expect another year of great presentations from leading Ruby on Rails developers. It all takes place December 10th at the Grand auditorium de la Cité des Sciences, Paris La Villette..."

"Our good friends over at Mozilla are hosting the Mozilla 24 conference on Sept. 14th - 16th, spanning many continents and time zones. This event will feature presentations by industry leaders on the trends and technologies that will help shape the future of the Web..."

"Mozilla has said that it is organizing and hosting a 24-hour global Web conference called Mozilla 24. "Mozilla 24" is a worldwide, 24-hour open discussion that connects community members, academics and Web visionaries from Asia, America and Europe, in person and over the broadband video WIDE network.

"In previous post, I talked about Mozilla Prism, one of the Mozilla product (beta version) that provided an easy way to run your web application from desktop. This means that you can take any web site that you currently visit a lot, and place it in its own process, and you can launch it like any other application..."

http://people.mozilla.com/~mfinkle/prism/

Bespin is a new project from Mozilla Labs attempting to bring a full-featured, collaborative editor to the web. At the recent Yahoo Hack Day event we had a quick chat with Joe Walker, one of the four developers.

Mozilla has been forced to justify its decision to herd third party coders, whose add-ons sometimes break the Firefox user interface, away form the browser's components directory. In a meaty blog post on Saturday, the open source browser maker’s development boss, Mike Connor, explained the rationale behind Mozilla’s move to debut a "lockdown" feature in Firefox 3.6.