Yes, we just had a Firefox 4 launch party at our college today!!! and a mighty blast it was
Started off as a surprise as all the students gathered there were told it was a seminar … Oh the look on their sad faces when they were told they had to listen to another lecture was priceless… (and a sample below below) … and yes one kid slept off just as he sat down !!!
When he heard it was a lecture he was asleep in a jiffy
First question I managed to blurt out… why do you think you are here… one smart kid who had seen some Firefox banner on the notice board managed to guess it was a launch party… To get some interest we immediately rewarded him with a FF bag, a few badges and an armband!!! Bang… everyone was awake!!!
Though a huge part of the crowd seemed to know firefox, not many of them had yet started using FF 4 … we played the videos straight of the site… quite a bit of fun to watch ppl wowwing and the very same features i take for granted ( What would i do without firefox ?)
Jus for fun, i quickly stripped the wall of all firefox posters, handed out papers to everybody and the person with the best likeness of the firefox logos got a bag… while that went some techies pitted their minds against our FF quiz… surprisingly one of them even managed to answer my question about “the book of mozilla” (mental note to self : make questions harder next time)
Before the first batch of attendees was sent away we got em to screen “Firefox 4” … I think I’m half deaf now 😦
Screaming FF 4
It would have been fun to see the other off stage competitions we had but i was stuck helping out with the quiz!!!
We Finally ended up distributing the swag (so kindly sent to us by the Mozilla foundation) … The funniest part was when the kids who attended the launch went about getting the students who had classes all riled up!!!
Then some total off stage work like “firefoxing” our entire lab… and fotos with our HOD and professors… All in all an amazing event…
Note : some fotos are in this post… will be posting some on flickr with the tag #fx4party … and the fotos with other ppl will follow as soon as i get them!!!
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