a2geeks Blog from Nov 25, 2008

Who are you and what do you do?

My name is Les Orchard, and I am a {web,mad,computer} Scientist working for the Mozilla Corporation. I telecommute from our house in Livonia, often from coffee shops in Ann Arbor, and sometimes from the Corner Brewery in Ypsi. I don't work on Firefox, but I work on many of the web properties supporting Firefox and other Mozilla products - eg. addons.mozilla.org, support.mozilla.org, crash-stats.mozilla.com

Why are you attending ArbCamp?

I'm attending ArbCamp because I lived out in the Bay Area for 2 years and really dug the handful of BarCamps and SuperHappyDevHouse events I managed to attend. Having returned to Michigan, I'd really like to see a hacker / knowledge worker community and industry grow here and be a part of it.

If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?

I'm not sure - I'd like to see what people are interested in. I can cover things such as social software sites like Twitter or Delicious (wrote a book, worked there); working with RSS/Atom feed content (wrote a book); working with JavaScript and JS frameworks (wrote a book); Mozilla projects and how they're run (I work there); and even World of Warcraft papercraft (I made a pumpkin and a rabbit).

Tell us one random fact about yourself.

I really, really like Domokun.

Where can we find you?

I can be found on Twitter as http://twitter.com/lmorchard and more of my spew can be found at http://decafbad.com/