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Mozilla Day Part 1

posted 22 Oct 2005

Today shall be deemed Mozilla Day.

Update: Write-up from the OSLUG Website

Weather Balloon Spectator balloon Last Saturday at a Kveton BBQ Polvi, Marineau, Kveton and I were trying to come up with an idea to celebrate the 100 Millionth download of Mozilla Firefox.

At 50 Million we painted a Firefox logo mural in the middle of the MU quad which got a ton of attention. This time we wanted to do something even bigger so after several suggestions like paper mache logos and beachballs.

Then I remembered the NASA Oregon Space Grant Consurtium and LaunchOregon weather balloon program. Perfect! NASA and Firefox together at last So after a few minutes of thinking through the logistics it was a done deal.

On Monday I went to the Space Grant and talked to Catherine Lanier at the OSGC and she was pumped! w00t. The weather balloon was a go.

By Friday Northwest Graphic Imaging had donated a 5'x6' poster that would fly on the balloon, press was covered and we found out perspective students would be hitting the quad at 12:00pm for launch due to the Beaver Open House.

The event went off smoothly today and we had a ton of people and coverage in the quad. It was a great collaboration of OSLUG, NASA Oregon Space Grant Consurtium, Mozilla, and NW Graphic Imaging. Thanks guys!

Around 3:00pm the satellite should have landed back on Earth from a descent of 100,000 feet. The satellite carried two cameras, one pointing down and another pointing at the poster both were on a 3 minute delay. And when we recover the balloon there will be amazing shots of the horizon and the Firefox logo.

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ifup.org is the weblog of Brandon Philips and contains excerpts from my code, work and play.

I write Linux software and work on the systems layer of Linux. In the last two years I have helped to organize Linux Plumbers Conf and Freedom HEC Taipei. It has been rewarding to bring together these communities to discuss current Linux issues.

Robotics is another passion and I had the opportunity to mentor a FIRST Robotics team in Portland recently too. I also continue to work with my friend Ron Jackson to build some neat USB devices for robotics.