Oct 27
2006
Piata Universitatii – Firefox Party
I’m learning too late about an interesting event happening in Bucharest today: Piata Universitatii Firefox Party.
Too late for do something like finding some ROSI members who can present eLiberatica there, but not too late to find that in Romania, Firefox has an energetic community. And I’m sure this community would be glad to hear that an official Mozilla Foundation staff representative – Zak Greant – will speak at eLiberatica next year in May.
The event was organized by e-utile.ro.
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I am among the people that said they’ll come to the Firefox party (acm is my handle), but I couldn’t go due to personal reasons.
I was somewhat disappointed that only 8 t-shirts were sent while they promised bags and umbrellas and stuff for parties with more than 50 people, but hey, open-source doesn’t pay that well :)
The gathering was impressive from my point of view because I was expecting a small number of people; it turned out that almost 40 persons appeared.
It was great, with ideas exchanged and discussions varying in thematic from IT&C to music and travel. Jokes, stories and very little geek’e'ness. It was great! Met some interesting people.
I’m just sorry that we didn’t have more merchandise to give away (hey, a girl won, we’re politically correct) and the event more organized but we will have more experience for Firefox 3.0.
“…, but hey, open-source doesn’t pay that well” – he, this is not a rule; I know some businesses here based exclusively on Open Source and they are paid very well :)
“… I was expecting a small number of people; it turned out that almost 40 persons appeared.” – that’s great!
Related to promotional merchandize, we are doing all our best to provide plenty for eLiberatica. I’m sure that will be some from Mozilla too. As far as I know, they (Mozilla guys) are not informed about the fact that in Romania are a lot of Firefox fans.
This is one thing that is going to be changed, but depends of you, the ones living there, to make your voices heard in the world community.