Mozilla 1.0 Release Parties 370
Screaming Lunatic writes "With the release of Mozilla 1.0 almost here, the open source Mozilla community is planning a bunch of parties all over the world. You can choose to attend a party already planned somewhere in the world or start up a party in your own neck of the woods. The main party will be at 8pm Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco." Currently 37 parties
listed, but many of them look awfully lonely... none near Ann Arbor yet ;)
No party... but capitolism (Score:3, Interesting)
I hope to get at least another 100 people using OO and Moz and away from microsoft products...
I have an excellent banner for my booth too..
Hey, if you aren't being an advocate... then you're just dead weight.
Re:No party... but capitolism (Score:2)
I hate to sound like a troll, but I really think what you're doing is wrong unless you're going to give back to the community.
Tokyo party (Score:5, Funny)
It should be called "MOZILLA DESTROYS TOKYO IN MASSIVE RELEASE" or something!
Re:Tokyo party -- vs. mechaExplorer (Score:2, Funny)
Well, (Score:5, Funny)
No women? (Score:2)
Re:Well, (Score:5, Insightful)
This is probably going to come as a shock to some of you, but there are girls out there who run linux [gentoo.org] and like mozilla.
Now, it seems to me that if you're going to all spend your time whining and moaning about how there's no gurls to be found except ugly apes (and even if there were, they'd wreck everything, 'cause they have the cooties), you're going to annoy those of us that are smart, geeky, and reasonably pretty. This creates a self-fulfilling prophecy: you whine; we avoid you.
Now I can't speak for all the other myriad geeky girls our there, but I don't want a guy who's going to:
Seriously people, if you want women to go to your parties, don't alienate them. I know there's not many of us right now, but if you play nice, maybe we'll bring friends, and maybe in another twenty years slashdot will be more like 60/40 instead of 95/5.
Sorry for the rant, but this is only about the billionth time I've seen this particular whine on slashdot. This isn't directed specifically at the original poster, or even anyone who voiced these sentiments on this particular thread. I know it's not everyone, and not even most of everyone, but for those of you who haven't yet figured it out: girls don't like boys who whine about not having girls.
Oh, and I'll probably be at the SF party. :)
Re:Well, (Score:3, Interesting)
* Drool over me 'cause I'm pretty, plus I run gentoo
Now, what about worshipping such a woman? I know of one who is a proto-geek, and I think the absolute world of her. With some patience, and some luck, I'll marry her someday. So, I'm trying to learn everything I can to avoid putting her off, and am worried that, by thinking too highly of her, I might make her desire to leave (this is just one of my worries, and a new one to boot, since I read your post). Care to shed some insight for a hopeful soul?
Re:Well, (Score:2, Informative)
If she's really worth it, she'll figure out what you like, too.
Re:Well, arghh.. (Score:2, Interesting)
anyone for a game of russian roulette?
They either love you or hate you. If you love 'em they will love to hate you, and if you hate 'em they will love to love you. Its all bout love right.
ohh well to hell with it, if you just pretend to love me I'll fuck you. Just be honest and keep me confused, else I'll get bored and replace you.
welcome to the game of love. pull, but don't pull too hard at the wrong time unless they need you to which they neglect to say when. push, but don't push too hard.
One thing is for sure, you'll never for sure know when to do what.
Fiver-rah, I respect you. Your sex really rules our minds. Fiver-rah, I accept you, but damn I want my beer.
Re:Well, arghh.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Well, (Score:3, Informative)
I can't speak for the parent poster, but my experience is that women (both geeky and non) are much easier to get along with when you're talking with them and not worshiping them. Especially if they're co-workers, or potential co-workers.
If you're attracted to someone, try flirting [sexuality.org]. If you're afraid of scaring them off with flirting, well, your hoving from a distance because you don't want to frighten them is actually scarrier than your flirting with them. At least with flirting they know what's up.
If you get rejected...hey, it happens. And it's not the end of the world.
Hope this helps.
Re:Well, (Score:2, Funny)
Don't worry, I tend to only drool over the girls that AREN'T cocky and self absorbed.
Re:Well, (Score:2, Interesting)
Now, about this party--it's 21 and over. A lot of those whiny boys are just that--high school kids and what not. They probably won't be at the party, cause guys that whine about gurls don't tend to go to parties anyway!
On behalf of all the decent guys on
Re:Well, (Score:2)
Hear, hear!
And I would personally like to offer up my house for a party for all those young ladies you speak of. You're invited too, but you'll have to foot the expense of flying to Orlando.
Most geeks don't want a geeky woman though. (Score:2)
Who wants a woman that can code better than you? Who wants a woman who understands the ins ands outs of Linux? Not me! Sure, I don't want a total airhead, but an artist, a musician, a doctor, those are all very skilled things, but mean that the woman isn't a total geek.
I couldn't think of anything worse than having a girlfriend/wife who did anything closely related to my line of work. Variety is the spice of life you know.
Re:Most geeks don't want a geeky woman though. (Score:2)
Of course all that means is when I find the right girl she'll be exceptional.
Re:Well, (Score:2)
Ahem,
I know I speak for the vast majority of
-Russ
P.S. Crap, I almost forgot... I'm already married. (With a new baby boy to show for it! Pics at the above home page, I'm a proud papa.)
Re:Well, (Score:2)
I wish you the best of luck, and I pray that you are able to get some sleep!
Hope that he brings you lots and lots of happiness. =)
Well ranted! (Score:2)
This makes a lot of girls hesitate to get into computers and that is truly a shame.
Those are 51% of the potential braincells alive we are talking about! There might be dozens of potential female Linuses out there for all we know!
If nothing else, I bet more geek girls would make my male geek friends a lot less irritating...
Am I the only male geek out there with 50%+ female friends?
whine? observation. (Score:2)
Re:Thank you Fiver-rah (Score:5, Funny)
I'm so impressed by your use of pointless jargon and unfounded meaningless statistics that I've decided to switch from Linux, the operating system which causes men to oppress, rape, and kill women around the globe, to the more female-friendly MS Windows, which oppresses, rapes, and kills people around the globe regardless of gender.
Cheerio, troll.
Re:Thank you Fiver-rah (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Thank you Fiver-rah (Score:2)
Sounds like you could use some Lesbian GNU/Linux [lesbian.mine.nu]
Seriously you made some good points - but not all the people (men?) that will be at the parties will be the stereotype you present.
Some of us will be decent people who just happen to like Mozilla - well I say us, but there's no party in Scotland :(
Re:Thank you Fiver-rah (Score:2)
My comment was directed only at people who regularly whine/joke about lack (or quality) of women. It wasn't meant to be a blanket statement condeming all slashdotters, nor by illogical extension, everyone at the Mozilla party.
If you're already decent, as most of you are, move along. There's nothing to be seen in that comment.
You do not work for Los Alamos! (Score:2)
I called. I asked for Angela Taylor's direct number. They have never heard of Angela Taylor. I asked if she might be at another facility. They said that if she was, she would be listed in their directory.
Angela, you should call human resources. Perhaps you've been riffed and you haven't been told yet.
Re:Well, (Score:2)
No date for you, whiny moderator!
Let us pause while my karma sacrifices yet another of its bretheren just to be obnoxious...
Re:Well, (Score:2)
Re:Well, (Score:2)
The whole "can't find any girl" complaint, amusingly enough, on this thread reminds me of the "booth babes" bullshit about E3 - gee, by advertising products using gimmicks designed to attract sexually-frustrated late-adolescent boys, are you surprised that you aren't attracting women? Would you feel welcome at an expo in which all the products were advertised using buff male Chippendale models? No, you'd get the feeling that you weren't really welcome.
Re:Well, (Score:2)
Re:Well, (Score:2)
I'm serious. You wear a Rush t-shirt, you may as well castrate yourself, because Your Little Elvis will be seeing no love. Same goes for khakis and polo shirts with tech company logos on them. ThinkGeek swag works fine.
Re:Well, (Score:2)
Party list (Score:3, Funny)
Find your ol' Prison Buddies Online [lostbrain.com]
tcd004
Re:Party list (Score:2)
Gee, I actually went to look :-(
Irony... (Score:5, Interesting)
JWZ is actually organizing it - his comments (Score:5, Informative)
It continues. Interesting story - go read it.
Re:JWZ is actually organizing it - his comments (Score:2)
Well, Mozilla may or may not have faced roadblocks of their own devising (I wasn't there, so I won't pretend to know. The DNA Lounge, though, famously faced roadblocks made of red tape and paper trails. [dnalounge.com] Heck, I don't know if you could every permit you would need to run a nightclub in my wimpy little city in any kind of reasonable timeframe...
Re:Irony... (Score:4, Insightful)
Sounds to me like he had his own reasons for leaving the project and stands by them:
I even manage to studiously ignore the messages I see every time mozilla.org announces a new alpha release: invariably some twinkie will pop up out of nowhere and claim that the fact that mozilla.org is asymptotically closer to maybe someday actually releasing an end-user product means that somehow I've been proven wrong about something. They usually say something about ``this ought to teach jwz a lesson!'' I just don't get that. My point was not that mozilla.org would never be able to finish the product: my point was that they were already a year late, and showed every indication of being even later. Which they have been: it's now more than two years later, and they still haven't finished it. Even if they had finished it six months ago, my reasons for leaving would still have been valid: that mozilla.org did not manage to ship an end-user product in any kind of reasonable timeframe, and that I was tired of waiting. I had certain goals, and I didn't see those goals being met.
Re:Irony... (Score:2, Informative)
That's called rewriting history - read his original statement. Only later does he claim it was about "shipping an end-user version soon." That extra bullshit only makes me dislike the arrogant shit even more.
Okay, from his original resignation from AOL and Mozilla:
But despite all this, in the last year, we did not accomplish the goals that I wanted to accomplish. We did not take the Mozilla project and turn it into a network-collaborative project in which Netscape was but one of many contributors; and we did not ship end-user software. For me, shipping is the thing.
Perhaps my goals were unreasonable; perhaps it should have been obvious to me when we set out on this project that it would take much longer than a year to reach these goals, if we ever did. But, it wasn't obvious to me then, or now. These are the goals I was aiming for, and they have not yet been met.
And so I'm giving up.
Not sure where else I should be looking.
Re:Irony... (Score:2)
I hope my point has now been made complete.
Here ya go... (Score:3, Informative)
Humor: Party and release dates (Score:4, Funny)
How many people will show up "fashionably late"? :-)
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St. Louis area? (Score:2)
Re:St. Louis area? (Score:2)
Re:St. Louis area? (Score:2)
Re:St. Louis area? (Score:2)
Won't everybody be heading out to Columbia instead? OK, so everybody who wants to come, send email to the MLUG [missouri.edu] mailing list, and maybe something will happen. :-)
Everybody can have a Party... (Score:2, Funny)
Spam Bait (Score:3, Funny)
My Mozilla's Icons are nothing like the Explorer (Score:2, Funny)
My Mozilla's Icons are nothing like the Explorer;
China is far more red than her licence red;
If button mean down, why then she come back up?
If html be wires, broken wires jut one of her engine;
I have seen webpages advertising other browsers;
But no such promotions I see in her windows;
And in some MS java there is more delight;
Than in the broken applets that from my browser reeks;
I love to browse her tabs, yet well I know
That some Flash hath a far more pleasing look;
I grant I never saw OS X though;
My Mozilla, when she browsers, slumps through links;
And yet, by Linux, I think my browser as rare
As any I belied with false compare;
"none near ann arbor yet"... (Score:2)
I knew geeks were antisocial, but begging for a party to spring up near you is downright pathetic.
- A.P.
Re:"none near ann arbor yet"... (Score:2)
- A.P.
Mozilla on the beach (Score:4, Funny)
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Mozilla on the beach party (Score:2, Funny)
None near Anne Arbor yet... (Score:3, Interesting)
Unlike most people, you have the forum to get the interest in and you can write it off as a business expense!
Seriously - if you want to see a party nearby, MAKE ONE!
(of course, one wonders about the sort of people who would go to a Mozilla release party... will there be many "wimmin of the female persuasion" as a certain squint-eyed sailor might ask...)
Re:None near Anne Arbor yet... (Score:2)
There are now TWO Ann Arbor parties as of this writing. I think his method worked.
Party one: Ann Arbor party [schnitzer.at] (That's its actual name)
Party Two: Ann Arbor Destroyed by Mozilla [schnitzer.at]
Re:None near Anne Arbor yet... (Score:3, Informative)
-Adam
Re:None near Anne Arbor yet... (Score:2)
Activities? (Score:4, Interesting)
But I'm at a loss to think of other activities. Suggestions?
Booth Babes? (Score:2)
So, will there be any booth babes [envynews.com] at any of these parties?
Before you try that link, the site has not yet recovered from this morning. :)
Parties are cool but... (Score:2)
Is this appropriate? (Score:3, Interesting)
Is it really appropriate that Mozilla be celebrated at the DNA Lounge?
For those of you not aware, the DNA Lounge is owned by Jamie Zawinski (aka JWZ), a former Netscape employee. When things weren't going his way, JWZ made a very high-profile exit [jwz.org] from Netscape Communications and from the Mozilla project. He was very rude about it; he had very harsh words about Netscape's newer employees, he pushed all of the same FUD arguments that MS mouthpieces such as ZDnet tend to do, and he basically declared the project a failure.
JWZ's high-profile registration was a big setback for Mozilla, because it lowered morale inside the team and served as a huge negative PR piece.
Now that Mozilla has successfully reached its 1.0 release, they're going to celebrate by paying JWZ for booze and entertainment? Is this the way to reward the person who did more to hurt the Mozilla project than any other single person in the industry?
Perhaps I'm just being curmudgeonly about this, but I really don't think it's appropriate. Mozilla succeeded despite JWZ.
Re:Is this appropriate? (Score:3, Insightful)
And now they are going to his lounge, partying hard, celebrate success right in front of him, and throw the whole project in his face.
Its very appropriate!
Re:Is this appropriate? (Score:3, Informative)
Like manage to renovate and open a club and operate it for almost a full year before they ever got the release done.
The only thing they're throwing at him is cash. I'm sure he has no problem with that...
...plus, he has posted several notes about *trying* to use Mozilla as the browser on his club kiosks. Submitted bug reports and everything... so he's trying his best to be a good open source dude.
Re:Is this appropriate? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Is this appropriate? (Score:2, Insightful)
Second of all, JWZ may be an arrogant prick at times, but I'm highly doubtful that Mozilla would exist without him. He's a very fine coder, and put a lot of work into it. I can understand if he gets pissed off at Netscape and AOL, when they don't listen to the coders, and hires new people that really aren't that good and just throw them in with the old team.
Re:Is this appropriate? (Score:4, Insightful)
ON THE OTHER HAND, Mozilla succeeded because of JWZ. First, without JWZ pushing hard at the beginning, Mozilla would never have been released in the first place.
Furthermore, JWZ's high-profile exit had one major effect on Mozilla. It galvanized the community. I'm sure I'm not alone in seeing it as a highly-effective kick-in-the-pants that the community sorely needed.
Jamie got tired of waiting. I did too, to be honest. But then when he left the project, he had a point. The community hadn't yet formed around the project. Most of the bug-reports, bug-fixes, and code were being written BY NETSCAPE employees. Not members of the community. Months after Jamie's departure, things had changed for the better, but in the year just before, Jamie was right.
Ann Arbor/Ypsi added (Score:2)
I'm not going home alone... (Score:5, Funny)
Hey baby, wanna see my lizard?
Let interface at port 69...
Wanna exchange IP's. Better hurry - I'm dynamic!
On second thought, I'd better resort to large quantities of alcohol...
Re:I'm not going home alone... (Score:2)
Perhaps you should visit a party for embedded developers. Real men use real ftp.
expectations (Score:4, Funny)
How about an IRC party? (Score:2)
They Should Book Some Open Source Hacker DJ's (Score:2)
If anyone wants DJ's who also happen to be code hackers I've got more than a few suggestions.
DJ S&M
Here's the Ann Arbor party! (Score:2)
http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/#52
Why? (Score:2)
What's the big deal?
Re:Why? (Score:2)
Here is my take on it. Unlike Apache (for the most part), Mozilla was a project that brought the end user into the development cycle - usability, bug hunting, feature enhancement, etc. It was more than just coders working hard to make it viable. Every end user who made the initially painful transition to early builds to where it rocks today has reason to celebrate. Whenever a large software project went gold, my team always partied. This just has a lot more people.
As for the wrench, I saw the strangest thing today as I paid my Discover bill at Sears today.
Craftsman 75th Anniversary Ratchet, Teardrop Quick release 22k Gold plated 3/8 in Drive
This standard 2/8 in. drive, fully polished 22k gold-plated ratchet is a Craftsman collector's item. Comes with premium wooden storage display to show off your new collector's item.
Who said machanics don't know how to party... go to sears.com, search for "gold plated ratchet"
Re:Why? (Score:2)
I see that you've never met my boss. He told one of the CAD guys today to go and download the demo for a product that was only first announced last month.
Re:Why? (Score:2)
Newsgroup for Mozilla users (Score:2)
Geek Party Pickup Lines...suggestions needed... (Score:2)
"Do you wanna see my lizard?"
"Wanna help me with my buffer overflow problem?"
and...
"Are you interested in a brute force attack?"
any other helpful suggestions???
Triangle party (Score:2)
I've gotta get new glasses (Score:3, Funny)
IE, of course, would be boxer shorts with an indelible racing stripe.
Pakistani Party (Score:2)
Kansas (Score:2)
The nerds become socially acceptable (Score:2)
Don't start chilling the champagne just yet... (Score:2)
How many more incremental releases will there be?
Re:Don't start chilling the champagne just yet... (Score:2, Interesting)
Mozilla_Release_version(t)=1.0-exp(-t*num_dev)
Re:Don't start chilling the champagne just yet... (Score:2)
Mozilla_Release_version(t)=1.0-exp(-t*num_dev)
No, in this formula the release number goes down if the number of developers decreases. And the number's continuous, which is not realistic.
Re:parties for a web browser? (Score:2)
I would dare say that the world of web browsing is severley different since version 1.0 of Internet Exploder. Remember, even back then, IE was *just* a web browser, and, for the most part, still is. What HTML spec did IE support then? How many different versions of the HTML spec are there now? Stylesheets? How many different image formats?
If you're looking to compare Mozilla 1.0 to IE 1.0, then I think you're trying to compare apples and oranges.
Re:parties for a web browser? (Score:2, Informative)
Have you included the development time of Spyglass? Have you, in fact, compared the features and supported technology of IE 1.0 to Mozilla 1.0?
Now, if you had said "It took 5 times as long to get to version 1.0 than MS did with getting IE to version 6.0", then yes, you might have a point. But you didn't say that, and besides, it has taken less than half the time for Mozilla to reach 1.0 than it has taken IE to reach 6.0...
IE is Mosaic (Score:2)
It took 5 times as long to get to version 1.0 than MS did with IE.
The Mozilla team started from scratch and produced a working web browser in three years, after deciding that the Netscape 5.0 code on which they had been working for the last year just wouldn't cut it. The Microsoft Internet Explorer team bought the Mosaic browser [blooberry.com] (a project presumably begun in 1992) and released IE 1.0 in August 1995, and it wasn't actually usable until 3.0 in August 1996. Again four years.
Re:parties for a web browser? (Score:2)
Re:parties for a web browser? (Score:2)
IE is an ActiveX control (Score:4, Interesting)
I bet they could use some of that Mozilla code in IE7! MS Mozilla!
You too can use the Gecko engine (Mozilla's rendering engine) in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Use this tool [www.iol.ie] to patch iexplore.exe and other apps to use an ActiveX wrapper around the Gecko engine instead of MSHTML.
Re:What is that.. Never trust the 1.0 version... (Score:2)
Re:What is that.. Never trust the 1.0 version... (Score:2)
A stupid one... (Score:2)
Re:The release party flyer invitation (Score:3, Interesting)
OT, but the answer is simple; because teens in the 70s messed up, and "ruined" it for future teens.
In case you are unaware, people made this same argument after the Korean and Vietnam wars. Eventually, people started listening. In the early 1970's, 28 states in the USA lowered the drinking age from 21 to 18. This was raised back to 21 in the 1980s.
Why, you may ask?
Because drunk-driving accidents, public drunkenness, and alcohol-influenced fighting increased almost immediately, and steadily climbed in the 18-20 year old age bracket. Some states had increases of over 25% in the first year alone. In fact, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that changing the minimum drinking age laws to 21 years of age have saved over 16,000 lives since 1975.
18 year olds had their chance in this country, and they blew it. I'd be very surprised if the legal age was ever lowered again.
Re:The release party flyer invitation (Score:2)
Re:The release party flyer invitation (Score:2)
Please, no comments about how drinking isn't that important and how it's a right people don't need to survive. That's not the point: the point is that people should be free to live their lives without the interference of others, as long as they don't infringe on anyone else's rights.
The proper thing to do in this situation would have been to prosecute more enthusiastically those who drank and then proceeded to drive under the influence. But it's a lot easier just to take away the rights of the 90% who would obey the laws in order to protect the rest of society from the actions of the remaining 10%, right?
This is America, and that sentiment is un-American.
Re:You're joking right? (Score:2)