Peter

I missed an entry for why I choose the USB Firefox, so here’s to make up for it. Come to think of it I didn’t even know what OSD stood for when I took the subject. I just needed 2 subjects to graduate and this is one of the 2 extra random subjects that I took. I remember being asked on the first week, what brought me here and I said, “I have no idea what I’m getting myself into”. Having Chris for professor again (since my IPC) was reason enough. This goes back to what I was saying on my “Last Class” entry though. This subject really deserves a permanent billboard to advertise enrolment!

Anyway though, after the projects were laid out for us, I really wanted to help develop something that everyone can use. That’s my biggest drive in programming also, to make someone that everyone can enjoy. If I didn’t go into programming I might have become an artist! -or something in between like computer graphics design. (Well, there’s still time )

Economically it was a good choice to make also since I wanted to take advantage of buying a USB Key. It was suggested that we get one in order to hold our Mozilla build. As it turns out though I never really did use it for that since the school is so generous with lending out laptops.

I suppose it was these two things that lead me to take on USB Firefox!

It was a little scary, I mean everyone was a bit scared for that matter. This thing is huge and we’re trying to add a brick to this quite solid building. Or another metaphor: It’s like we’re putting a new Janga piece into the tower. Chris told us that the Mozilla community didn’t know how big this project is. Some said it is small, while some others said its huge. On choosing day, I was still trying to measure the success / failure percentage of the project. You never really know until you start hammering it out.

Today though, I consider myself lucky. As I hoped, Peter E and I had gotten a good head start with 0.1. We didn’t take it lightly like we might have for other subject’s first assignments. It was this course that even got me started on using Firefox regularly.. and it has been quite the eye opener.

Next entry, Universal Firefox 0.3 Release!