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Mozdev was in esteemed company at the OSCON 'State Of' lightning talks yesterday, including Mark Shuttleworth speaking about Bazaar, Louis Suarez-Potts on OpenOffice, and many others. Thanks to Josh Berkus of the PostgreSQL Project for the organisation. It was a challenge to get our message across in 5 minutes, but we feel like we achieved it as the horn blew mid-way through the last sentence.

Here are the slides:

Well, if the Songbird folks can do it, so can we!

Mozdev will be at OSCON this year from Weds 23 to Fri 26 July. Representing are David Boswell, Doug Warner, Eric Jung, Myk Melez, Nigel Howard, and Brian King. We are partly sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation, and would like to express great appreciation for that.

What will we be doing there?
- Leading a BOF session on extension development, at 19:30 on Wednesday, the 23rd.
- Giving a "State Of" Lightning talk with other non-profit organisations.
- Having a Mozdev board meeting, the first ever in person.
- Volunteering at the Mozilla booth.

We hope to see current Mozdev project owners and site users there, but also would like to get new people on board. The Mozdev mission fits nicely into the OSCON ethos, and meeting people from other communities will be beneficial.

For one day a year only, Mozdev goes green. If you stumble upon this post some day other than March 17, here is what it looks like:

Themes are not new to Mozdev. There are at least 12 that you can check out in the Gallery. And unless you apply your own CSS and layout, applying the theme to your project pages is a snip. Add a file called local.conf to your www/ folder and put in the following 2 options:

$local_conf_ignore_holidays=OFF;
$now = time();

See the local.conf documentation for more details on shaping your Mozdev project pages to suit your needs.