Zak Greant

Services

Community Management, Community Strategy, Thought Leadership, more...

Roles

Community Strategy Executive , Community Manager

Zak Greant has spent the last 16 years building little parts of the Net, from individual websites up to advising and helping manage the organizations that build key pieces of Internet technology and infrastructure. During this time, he has contributed to and worked with the PHP project, MySQL AB, the Mozilla Foundation, Wikipedia, the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative. Much of his work has centered on copyright and licensing issues.

He is a popular speaker at open-source conferences and has presented at over sixty Free Software, Open Source and technology events, and has helped chair or organize over a dozen of these events. He is also active as a writer and editor, having served as primary author of two books; MySQL Phrasebook, and PHP Functions Essential Reference, and as a technical editor on a few dozen more (including Mastering Regular Expressions (3rd ed.) by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl, Advanced PHP Programming by Georg Schlossnagle and MySQL (3rd Edition) by Paul DuBois.)

Weblog

HTTPS-Everywhere Rule for Mediawiki.org

The Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s HTTPS-Everywhere is a Firefox plugin designed to help make your web surfing experience more secure by routing you to the HTTPS connections that are available for some popular websites (like Twitter and Wikipedia).  The plugin also allows you to add custom rules. Here’s a rule to automatically route Wikipedia.org links opened in Firefox over to the encrypted connection available at...

Gdańsk, WikiMania and <Truth in Numbers?>

It’s 11pm on a sultry evening in Gdańsk. I’m in the city to attend WikiMania, the annual conference for wiki projects operated by the WikiMedia Foundation – especially, Wikipedia.
On this particular sultry evening, the second day of WikiMania has just about wrapped up. Buses filled to capacity with Wikipedians wrapped up in earnest discussion are...

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