Gervase Markham notes:
The Mozilla Foundation isn't organising a big public party, so those of you in San Francisco have an opportunity to join the rest of the world and roll your own this time around.
Gerv blogs about the Firefox/Thunderbird 1.0 parties.
Given the limited budget of the Mozilla Foundation, this is perfectly understandable. Somebody's gotta throw a bash, but no one in the SF Bay Area has stepped forward yet.
I remember the Mozilla 1.0 party Netscape threw a couple years ago. I still have the 1.0 CD. I gave out a couple copies of my book at that party. The only reason I don't step forward to organize such a party myself is I know the turnout will be (relatively) huge, and I have never done such a big event before...
Who's brave enough to host it in San Francisco?
And why isn't Antarctica on the list? They're already partying...
Posted by WeirdAl at October 12, 2004 4:56 PMHmmm...
Alright, a couple things.
I used to do artwork for a local promoter who would do a show -- he would most likely organize a club or a local bar if we wanted to go that big. It would:
1) Either be free with a garaunteed amount of people, so they make their money back at the bar
2) pay at the door, or we pay him a bit up front -- not what any of us would like:)
That's if it's going to be that huge (say over 200 people). So if we could rack that up, then that would be workable.
Otherwise, it can be in a low key bar/club that we would just ask to host the party, and tell them they'll make a bit of cash off food and liquor.
Both of which are workable -- the only problem would be if we had a low turnout -- any idea what it's been like in the past?
Posted by: Brady J. Frey at October 12, 2004 7:41 PM