Mozilla/Firefox Summit 2008

So, the much anticipated Mozilla Summit 08 has just finished, and regardless some unforeseen, I truly believe that most of the 400 (+-) attendees had an amazing time, as so did I. Follows some of my highlights:

• Dan's team did really well on organization ...
  
• I had chance to see some really nice mozilla guys again including: both the father and grand-pa :) of mozilla mobile, dougt and choffman, respectively; the long term mozilla contributor on linux and always elegant, cblizzard; the mozilla brazil driver mgalli; as well as the nice leoz, romaxa and timeless from the microb project.
  
• From prism (+maemo), I got a fast but good talk to mfinkle: the point was mainly pushing prism forward on maemo and linux, and make it a fennec friend on the platform.
• The new mozilla embedding system is not just promising but real.
  
• I met the famous Stuart ‘Pavlov’ Parmenter and got some nice advices about browser benchmarks, steps toward a rendering server firefox, as well as about some of the huge Javascripts speed up they are about to land in Firefox 3.1 (new JS is going +- 10x faster then the current) ...
  
• Percy and blassey are also nice guys.
• It is great to see fennec and microb joining efforts toward a great mobile user internet experience.

Some not accomplished things after the event:

• I wish I had met Daniel Glazman and John Resig.
• I wish to have had a shorter trip back: 7hs (from whistler to vancouver) + 5 hous waiting + 5 hous from vacouver to toronto + one hour waiting + 12 hours from toronto to são paulo + 12 hours waiting + 4 hours from sp to manaus = 46 !

Long life mozilla ...

--Antonio Gomes
tonikitoo at gmail dot com