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Add-on-Con & Mozilla’s Open House

Thursday, Dec 11. 2008  –  Category: Songbird

After yesterday’s Ubuntu Developer Summit, I headed over to the Mozilla Open House w/ the Ubuntu Mozilla-team guys. T’was good to hang out with the Moz folks… there was some interesting conversation over add-on versioning, the FF3.1 release train, AMO policies, and backwards/forwards-compatibility. Though really the best part of the night was getting to play with Mary Colvig‘s new golden retriever, CJ. Here are the rest of the photos from the open house..

Today was spent at the first annual Add-on-Con. I watched the opening keynote panel, Brian King’s talk, Mark Finkle’s talk, the panel on cross-platform add-on development, and the lightning talks. Photos are here.. Thanks to Brian & Mark both for pimping Songbird in their talks

Brian’s talk was really interesting… especially where he mentions the future of AMO and has slides covering some of its upcoming roadmap. 1 billion add-ons is a phenomenal number. I definitely recommend flipping through his slides.

One of the cool things I saw at today’s talks was Yoono’s XUL/JS Profiler add-on for Firefox. In fact, I thought it was so cool I took advantage of the follow-up Internet Explorer session to port it to Songbird. The XPI for Songbird is here.