:Mozilla.org: A Personal Report on the 4th Open Source Conference
Mozilla.org: A Personal Report on the 4th Open Source Conference Jul 31, 2000, 19 :29 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2243 reads) (Other stories by Katsuhiko Momoi)
"I attended the 2-day Open Source Conference in Monterey primarily to check out Mozilla track sessions but also to gauge how
the Open Source movement itself is going. The following represents my **personal** takes on some of the things I observed at
the conference...."
"The browser of the choice among the presenters -- not just in the Mozilla track but also in the Key Note speeches -- was
overwhelmingly Mozilla. Our share at the conference was probably in the above 95% range. People and exhibitors were mostly
running Linux and that was probably the reason. But there was also a consensus emerging that Mozilla is critically important to
the Open Source Community and a lot of people in this crowd are using Mozilla. In the network room, I saw several people
trying to download nightly builds on a not so fast connection. About the only people I noticed who were using IE were sales
clerks at O'Reilly booths browsing their book titles."
"Mozilla sessions went very well. The first day's sessions -- six in all -- were very well-attended. The state of Mozilla and the
general architecture sessions were packed and people sat on the floor to listen. Other sessions also attracted the room full of
attendees. There were 2 sessions on Mozilla on the 2nd day and the crowd was somewhat smaller but overall well-attended."
