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Thursday, October 8 2009

Run, Firefox, run!

By Jean-Bernard Marcon on Thursday, October 8 2009, 18:57

Tags: community, Firefox 3.5, France, local, promotion

running with FirefoxEvery year in Tours, France  by the end of September we have a very popular running race (10 and 20 kms) in the downtown center. It is a kind of festive occasion with music and disguise, and serious athlete competitors are there, looking for performance, along with amateur joggers, just having fun together during a little effort. School boys and girls also take part (with more adapted distances).
All in all, more than 13 000 runners were running under a bright sun on September 27th.

As it is an occasion for every kind of company to sponsor runners with t-shirts, why not promote our favourite Open Source browser?

Thanks to Mozilla, 20 runners were proudly showing their love for  Firefox 3.5 on t-shirts.

Here is young Miss Firefox, for her first time on the race, with ehm veterans...

miss fx and vets

During the race, she runs along with competitors clad in Indians

Indian runner

and animals of every kind

rabbit   pig  monkey
among serious runners

runners  sylvain

There was also Sylvain Naudin, who plays an active part in several local associations  to promote Open Source and Open Culture.
(see his flickr gallery for more)

After 10 kms and a little more than one hour running, here we are at last !
arrive

And of course, let's recover during the paëlla party!
paella

Hey, I am sure you have local events where you can promote Firefox for a mainstream audience. Tell us about local actions!

Go, Mozilla, Go!












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Tuesday, July 28 2009

Firefox 3.5 Launch Parties in Catalonia

By Alina Mierluș on Tuesday, July 28 2009, 21:04 - Community meeting

Tags: Barcelona Party, Catalonia, Firefox 3.5

   A few weeks ago, Mozilla Catalan team celebrated the launch of the new 3.5 version of Firefox.

       

   The first community party we organised was in The 1916, an Irish Pub in Cerdanyola del Vallès, a town close to Barcelona and just 2 days after the new browser release. Our local community enjoyed a great time whereas we explained the aim of Mozilla project to both habitual clients and supporters who came deliberately to the celebration.

   Two weeks later, a second party took place at Espai Mallorca, a cultural site devoted to the Mediterranean Island in the very Barcelona city centre. Over 30 people participated and joined in interesting discussions about what Open Web means and the new improvements of Firefox 3.5.

  

   Eduard Gamonal held a short presentation about the new features and showed a series of demos about how Firefox 3.5 actually upgrades the Web.

   Toni Hermoso introduced the new Ubiquity 0.5, localised in Catalan as well, and talked about the new concept of communication with the browser by using the natural language.

   Diana Coromines held a short practical presentation about how to translate articles in SUMO and she invited the participants to get involved by explaining the benefits of having support in your own language.

   Alina Mierluș closed the session by making a presentation about the importance of collaborating, where she presented the advantage of being a community member and also, a few of the newest Mozilla initiatives, in which people from any kind of background or location can join in, such as Mozilla Service Week or Mozilla Creative Collective.

  Afterwards, we enjoyed a Majorcan food snack and all attendees received the new Firefox 3.5, some Mozilla Firefox Goodies and calendars.

  We prepared free USB sticks with Fedora 11 with Firefox 3.5 included and Firefox 3.5 portable for Mac OS X.

  

  We would like to thank our collaborators for making Barcelona party happen: Fundació .cat, Consell de Mallorca and Espai Mallorca, Mozilla Europe and, last but not least, Fedora Linux Catalan Community, which prepared for us a customised and fully-localised distribution with the new Firefox 3.5 up-to-date available by default.

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Firefox 3.5 launch parties in Romania

By Irina Sandu (Romania) on Tuesday, July 28 2009, 19:35 - Open source events

Tags: Firefox 3.5, patrty, Romania

As far as Firefox 3.5 launch parties are concerned, Romania was not a country to be left behind. We had not one, but two events celebrating the launch of the world-acclaimed browser.

The first one, chronologically speaking, was organized in the beautiful city of Cluj, in the heart of Romania. Over 30 people gathered in the pub chosen for the event over beer, cake and Firefox swag. A special, big and yummy Firefox 3.5 cake was made for the ocassion. The first thing on the agenda was the viewing of the Meet Firefox 3.5 video, where Mike Beltzner gives "A quick overview of what makes Mozilla’s latest browser so great". Now that everybody was up-to-date, the feasting on the cake could begin.

Cluj launch party cake

In Bucharest, the party had a more academic feel, as it took place on the university campus, and had a similar format: presentations first and drinks and food later. This time there were two talks: the first was about the new features in Firefox 3.5 and the second, more designer-oriented, was focusing on the new HTML technologies Firefox supports. The second part of the celebration consisted of beer, pizza and ice cream at the nearby pub. More photos here.

bucharest ff 3,5 party

Now, for the people who helped organize the parties, I want to give thanks to the wonderful enthuziasts who joined Mozilla in celebrating another successful launch and made sure the parties were a success. Among them there are Stas Sushkov, Tibi Turbureanu and Nicu Buculei. Thank you guys!

Photo credits: Stas Sushkov and Nicu Buculei

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