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no party for you. [Wed, 30-Jan-2008 1:16 PM]
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Bug 392686: Mozilla ten year anniversary party.

I haven't been even remotely involved in the project for nine years, so none of this really has anything to do with me (and hosting their party would have only cost me money) but I still think it's pretty sad that the anniversary is going to go completely un-celebrated.

I kind of expected their response to be, "But we have a perfectly good cafeteria", or "Oh, we're just going to get a booth at the Tied House instead", but this is even lamer. Saying "We're not having an anniversary party because we're celebrating all year" is like saying "You don't get a birthday party because every day is equally special!"

Remember that time when you entered the science fair, and then they decided to give everybody first prize, even the kid who ate paste? It's like that.

I really shouldn't care about this. But, geez.



Update: Hey, they changed their minds! There will in fact be a Mozilla Ten Year Anniversary Party at DNA Lounge on Mon, Mar 31. Details TBA.

Update 2: Scratch that, they changed their minds again. No party for you.

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[User Picture]From: [info]jef_poskanzer
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 9:19 PM (UTC)

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...Wait, you mean every day isn't equally special?
[User Picture]From: [info]xenogram
Thu, 31-Jan-2008 6:27 AM (UTC)

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My Mummy always told me I wash speshel ...

... and she said, that when I die, I'll become an Angel.
[User Picture]From: [info]cpratt
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 9:22 PM (UTC)

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Anyone who double-spaces between sentences is a tool.
[User Picture]From: [info]gwillen
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 9:24 PM (UTC)

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Eh, that didn't sound to me like "we don't want a party at the DNA Lounge". That sounded to me like "I am a tool, please ignore me and listen to all the actual contributors."

Of course I say that having no idea who that person was, so there'll be egg on my face if she's an important developer or something.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 9:27 PM (UTC)

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Apparently that person is mozilla.org's "events coordinator", so that answer is authoritative.
[User Picture]From: [info]t0rque
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 9:28 PM (UTC)

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Amusingly enough, I think I went to high school with the Mary in that final bug comment.

The world is too damned small.
[User Picture]From: [info]mackys
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 9:32 PM (UTC)

Unsolicited advice.

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I say invite a bunch of your old Moz friends to come and have a drink and hang out at the DNA. Official or not official, who cares - the point is those were cool people and it's fun to hang out with them. And hell, you own the club, so why not? It's not like you have to close it down or make it a private party. Just invite everyone down to hang out some night when a decent band is playing.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 9:36 PM (UTC)

Re: Unsolicited advice.

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Yeah, screw that. If they don't care, why should I?
[User Picture]From: [info]gwillen
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 9:44 PM (UTC)

Re: Unsolicited advice.

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Because you're someone who invested time and effort into a meaningful open-source project, and they are corporate tools with sticks in their asses, who couldn't be paid enough to care?
[User Picture]From: [info]mackys
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 10:23 PM (UTC)

(AOL)Me too!(/AOL)

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Because, quite simply, you're a better person than they are.
[User Picture]From: [info]elliterati
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 9:37 PM (UTC)

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It's been 10 years?

Christ, I'm old...

[User Picture]From: [info]ladykalessia
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 9:55 PM (UTC)

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I share my birthday with Mozilla. Who knew.
[User Picture]From: [info]theducks
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 10:00 PM (UTC)

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"Hi, my name's Mary, and I'm a PR Droid. I don't actually care about what I'm marketing, and it's my job to put crap news in the best light possible."

Mission Accomplished ;)
[User Picture]From: [info]mark242
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 10:02 PM (UTC)

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Screw them. You need to host a 10-year anniversary of iPlanet.
[User Picture]From: [info]joel
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 10:17 PM (UTC)

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Yeah? Well, You should have your own party! With blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the party!
[User Picture]From: [info]gwillen
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 10:38 PM (UTC)

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... what is that a reference to? (This is the second time I've heard it this week.)
[User Picture]From: [info]pete23
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 10:59 PM (UTC)

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JFGI yields bender of futurama fame.
[User Picture]From: [info]bdu
Wed, 30-Jan-2008 11:11 PM (UTC)

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IIRC, Futurama S01 EP02 The Series Has Landed
[User Picture]From: [info]mc_kingfish
Thu, 31-Jan-2008 12:29 AM (UTC)

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I'm totally ignorant of the significance of any of it and I was still totally irritated by the comments made by the people in that thread.

I guess they felt they needed to make the 10 year anniversary more accessible to all the people who were involved in this thing who were under 11 years old at the time of it's creation.

Lame.
[User Picture]From: [info]lrc
Thu, 31-Jan-2008 2:22 AM (UTC)

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Wow! Ten years already!

That first party was a lot of fun, and I for one, appreciate your having thrown it. I still have the T-shirt they gave away at the SVLUG meeting that night.
[User Picture]From: [info]feyandstrange
Thu, 31-Jan-2008 4:44 AM (UTC)

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Wow, that's some bad PR work there.

"Gosh, we had a successful anniversary party 8 years ago that people are still talking about having enjoyed. But rather than do the same thing again and maybe pay homage to the old guard who helped make this anniversary happen, we want to open up this event to a bunch of teenagers who don't remember that time, oh, and because the old guard might not have a babysitter for the night. Never mind the huge press we got from that old party. We want to be famiwy-friendwy! Because, you know, the teens are where it's at, they're like, our future and stuff. Even if they haven't got much money or otherwise contribute anything useful to our enterprise."

WTF.

If for some reason this happens despite their cluelessness, I think you should play ten-year-old music.
[User Picture]From: [info]perligata
Thu, 31-Jan-2008 6:48 AM (UTC)

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[info]structurefull could be the DJ!
[User Picture]From: [info]perligata
Thu, 31-Jan-2008 6:49 AM (UTC)

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Bah. [info]structurefall, of course.
[User Picture]From: [info]lionsphil
Thu, 31-Jan-2008 3:28 PM (UTC)

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Well, Mozilla Firefox is the browser of the script-kiddie generation. Even the password manager is made out of kewl JS in FF3.
[User Picture]From: [info]transgress
Thu, 31-Jan-2008 5:32 AM (UTC)

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but I still think it's pretty sad that the anniversary is going to go completely un-celebrated.

try writing not bullshit software then.
[User Picture]From: [info]misterfister666
Fri, 1-Feb-2008 10:40 AM (UTC)

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Poor Mary. I wonder if she's been dead on the inside all her life?
Or if there was a tiny spark long ago when she was a kid.
[User Picture]From: [info]lohphat
Fri, 1-Feb-2008 7:15 PM (UTC)

\/\/

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Put the word out that you'll be open that Monday and get it out to the people who matter. If the grapevine, or in this case uucp, works properly, those who arrive will have less suck. Mary can bring her bunched panties if she wants. Who cares?

You don't have to call it an anniversary party. It's your club, you can fucking call it anything you want. "The 10th Anniversary Reunion of a Cool Project Before the Suck Arrived" Cover: $20. 21+. MBAs will be cock-punched at the door.

Go ahead. Do it.

I'll eat another handful of wasabi if you do.
[User Picture]From: [info]aml
Fri, 1-Feb-2008 7:28 PM (UTC)

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the computer shop i work for is holding a funeral for Netscape tonight, and a requiem for 90s internet euphoria. we're doing pub trivia and showing hackers.

i think AOL dropping netscape is an interesting milestone, and i hadn't realized it was in the 10th anniversary year of the initial source release.