Mozlandia – Arrival

Portland. The three words that come to mind are overwhelmed, cold, and exhilarating. Getting there was a right pain, I’d have to admit. Though, flying around the US the weekend after Black Friday isn’t the best idea anyway. According to my rough calculations, it took about 25 hours from take off in Delhi to wheels down in Portland. That’s a heck a lot of time on planes and at airports. But hey, I’ve been doing this for weeks in a row at this point.

At the airport, I ran into people holding up the Mozilla board. As I waited for the shuttle, I was very happy to run into Luke, from the MDN team. We met at the summit and he was a familiar face. We were chatting all the way to the hotel about civic hacking.

This work week is the most exciting Mozilla event that I’ve attended. I’m finally getting to meet a lot of people I know and renewing friendships from the last few events. I started contributing to Mozilla by contributing to the Webdev team. My secret plan at this work week was to meet all the folks from the old Webdev team in person. I’ve known them for more than 3 years and never quite managed to meet everyone in person.

After a quick shower, I decided to step out to the Mozilla PDX. According to Google Maps, it was a quick walk away and I was trying not to sleep all day despite my body trying to convince me it was a good idea. At the office, I met Fred’s team and we sat around talking for a while. It was good to meet Christie again too! That’s when a wave of exhaustion hit. I didn’t see it coming. Suddenly, I felt sluggish and a warm bed seemed very tempting. After lunch with Jen, Sole, and Matt, I quickly retired to bed.

Sole and the Whale

When I got down after the nap, there was a small group headed to the opening event. This was good, because I got very confused with Google Maps (paper maps were much more helpful).

Whoa, people overload. I walked around a few rounds meeting lots of people. It was fun running into a lot of people from IRC in the flesh. I enjoyed meeting the folks from the Auckland office (I often back them out :P). And I finally met Laura and her team. For change, I’m visiting bkero’s town this time instead of him visiting mine 😉

The crowd

The rest of the evening is a bit of a blur. Eventually, I was exhausted and walked back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep before the fun really started!


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