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2008 Mozilla Summit Affected By Rock Slide
An anonymous reader writes "The recently concluded 2008 Mozilla Summit, held in Whistler, Canada, was impacted by a rock slide that cut off the main highway between Whistler and Vancouver, where most attendees planned to depart via airplane. In true open-source fashion, summit attendees collaborated on a solution, opening a Bugzilla bug (severity: "blocker"), posting crash dumps, and proposing solutions, including chartering a flight (which would land first in TRUNK, then BRANCH). Eventually, attendees settled on a workaround which seems to have been successful. For next year's summit, organizers might want to consider a location with more redundancy."
Wasn't that where some Microsoft people used to meet, and wasn't that a codename of a version of Windows?
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
*Strokes chin in style of Dr. Evil*
Mozilla Summit rocks!
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
...or an attack from Microsoft's ultra high tech assault geek ninja squad, aimed at derailing the conference?
I think any sane person already knows the answer.
if this a TRUE bugzilla ticket, it would be closed ("I'm not blocked in") or ignored for years.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
That highway is quite spectacular, with some interesting vista's along the way. Unfortunately, some of those vista's were poorly designed. The foundation of this particular one was unstable from the beginning, and looks to have crashed Mozilla. Personally, I think they should do away with the vista's and focus on stability and long term viability.
This isn't something you want women to read :)
they would've seen, high in the mountains, a group of rogue engineers from the MSIE team playing with "Acme TNT" and sticking their thumbs in their ears.
Couldn't they just use Microsoft LiveMeeting to hold their summit?
I should probably hide right now.
Sorry.
Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Many events during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics will be held in Whistler.
Now we are seeing why people are very nervous about the idea that the one and only direct connecting highway connecting Vancouver and Whistler does not have acceptable uptime, security, or redundancy. The Pemberton-Lilloet-Hope-Vancouver workaround is hopelessly time consuming.
There is a train route between Whistler and Vancouver but it is also vulnerable for most of the same reasons.
The government sold the IOC on the Vancouver-Whistler idea by promising to throw millions of dollars of upgrading at that highway, and after a few years of work already underway we get this giant dump file.
Are we being set up for a snowcrash?
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
They have been twinning most of the highway between Vancouver and Whistler in preparation for the Olympics. Before the twinning, yes, it was a death trap. Very twisty... just the sort of road a good for an evening motorcycle ride from downtown Van to Squamish (~50km), a coffee at Starbucks, and back... hoping to avoid the slow moving cages on the road. The view is AMAZING as half the trip between Vancouver and Whistler (i.e. up to Squamish, where there is a shear 2000 foot rock climbing face) is along the Howe Sound... the road is all on cliffs over the water. A few places where they have twinned the road is a very high speed twisty race track that will generate a lot of revenue for the province by way of radar detector. But it will no longer be the death trap that it was. Most of those were cars hitting head on, on the very, very twisty corners on the cliff faces.
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Even through the bear encounter, rock slide, power outage, and overnight bus trips to the airport, the organizers (especially Dan Portillo) made everything happen as smoothly as it could. Everyone had a great time, and (most) of the almost 400 attendees made their flights home. There was even a "Mozilla Camp" at the Vancouver airport where everyone was waiting for hours. Pictures of the summit are being aggregated on summit.mozilla.org. We all learned a lot and met lots of people, and overall the summit was a huge success.
Bring our the lizzard, ask it to move the rocks.
Sheesh. Such smart people didnt think of THAT?
NO SIG
I guess you missed comment #35:
Robert Accettura wins that bug.
Typical slashbot; faced with massive memory leaks and crashes in Mozilla, you find a way to blame Vista.
Neil Deakin almost missed his own wedding because of the rock slide. He had to take a float plane to get out of there.