DISQUS

In Pursuit of Mysteries: MozCamp?

  • stevel · 1 year ago
    I'm with Songbird - I'd be interested in participating and helping organise.
  • Michael Kaply · 1 year ago
    Great idea!

    The key for stuff like this is plenty of notice so that people in places other than the bay area can make plans to attend.

    Also, I'd love to see things be at least more than one day, again to justify traveling in.
  • Gen Kanai · 1 year ago
    Al, please don't forget the 2007 Firefox Developer Day in Japan.

    http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/06/18/somethin...
  • Al Billings · 1 year ago
    Thanks, Gen. That happened the week I started at MoCo. My apologies for not remembering it.
  • Mark Finkle · 1 year ago
    What about a multi-day extravaganza - Mozilla Developer Conference.

    3 days, in Las Vegas, all aspects of Mozilla - hacking the platform, building extensions, building xulrunner apps, 3rd party mozilla-based app presentations, getting involved with testing, tips and ticks for building better websites with gecko based browsers, ....
  • Al Billings · 1 year ago
    Well, that sounds fine but will non-developers go to Vegas for a developers conference?

    Leaving that aside, I can probably organize MozCamp with a few people. For what you describe, some institution would have to do the work and pay for everything to get going. I expect that MoCo and others will organize events after Firefox 3 is out the door but I'm looking at my proposal as kind of a grassroots thing that people in the community, like us, can do on their own.
  • Brian King · 1 year ago
    You could try to have it close to OSCON dates, as there would be more hackers around at that time, in Portland anyway. They might take the jump down to the bay area.

    http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008
  • Alex Polvi · 1 year ago
    Hey Al -- I'd love to help organize such an event! Let me know how I can help.
  • Percy · 1 year ago
    Great idea Al and hope this become real. I wish even more there was a Mozilla event in the East Coast so it isn't so expensive to make it. I look forward for dates anyway!
  • Shane Caraveo · 1 year ago
    I've been talking with a couple people in Victoria, BC (some songbird and flock people are there) about doing a afternoon event near the Vancouver Openweb conference. With ActiveState, MozMess, Songbird, Flock, we have a small set of devs here that could take part. It's still in the idea phase, would be low-key.
  • Al Billings · 1 year ago
    Shane,

    I was going to go to that conference but Firefox 3 events got in the way. I wish I could go.