Ireland plays host to the world’s biggest Firefox 3 party!
July 3, 2008 //
My stay in Dublin a few weeks ago was kicked off with Curry 2.0 - a new networking event that Aido and I are working on. The t-shirts below were picked up for the Firefox party to help promote the event. I must admit, the photo is a little cheesy and opens the door for a slagging from friends. Go for it guys! You probably can’t read the writing but it says “Curry 2.0 makes you shit hot”
The first few networking dinners will be free for attendees, at least until we can demonstrate value for money - i.e. value for membership fee and the cost of a curry. Thanks to Hosting365 and BT for sponsoring the kick-off dinner.
With 17 hungry executives, a great lively debate was had by all. I met Sorcha, a Segala ex-employee, at 6:30 and as a direct result of her bad influence, we started drinking wine at around, er, 6:30. Needless to say I can’t remember much about the evening. Apparently it was a great night.
My second night in Dublin was just as much fun, but strangely, with a lot less alcohol. In fact, I was completely sober at the end of the Firefox Party that Aido and I hosted. Our thanks go to Aido, Fergus and Conor via Web2Ireland, Laura and Marie Boran from Silicon Republic for helping to raise awareness through their own networks and Web sites. While I’m at it, I should thank BT, PutPlace, Blacknight, Segala and wubud again, for sponsoring the party and Barry from IOTC (check here for video footage from the live streaming) for arranging the venue.
It was the biggest out of 771 parties worldwide - not bad. Even Mozilla sent us a picture of them celebrating our celebrations!
Read Marie’s review on Firefox 3 to learn more about the new features. It can’t all be about parties. So I’m told.
Cuan Mulligan says 
who said rock and roll wa dead… check out those party hats. How come we didn’t have any, Paul?
July 3rd, 2008
@Peter - Aido said they were naff and left them in the car.
July 3rd, 2008
Yay, my review is linked! Cheers for that. I forgot to mention how great TwitterFox is. And for the record I think we would all have worn party hats. I feel cheated now.
July 3rd, 2008
@Peter: The free beer made up for the lack of hats.
Thoroughly enjoyed the night Paul. Cheers for organizing it.
July 3rd, 2008
STALL THE BALL - HOLD YER HORSES - RED LIGHT.
“Aido said they were naff” I did, hands up, take me away and throw away the key.
They would have made better popcorn holders, probably still where we left them in the hotel car park or else in lost property!!
For the record, Paul Walsh is too posh to push, he didn’t want to carry them. My hands were full, the story goes….
When we opened the merchandise box in the office I laughed, he cried.. seriously there was really tears.
“F’ing Pop corn holders he yelled”, no Paul they are Hats! Hats F’ING HATS!! Badges, stickers.. Where are the umbrellas and laptop bags!!
If it was not for me there would have been nothing, he didn’t want to carry the merchandise from the office to the car.
“I’m not wearing F’ing HATS after paying for this hair cut” he yelled, honest and after that strop the world started spinning again.
July 3rd, 2008
@aido - that was such a believable story. I almost fell for it; something you’re gonna do when someone cuts the rope.
July 3rd, 2008