[svlug] April 1998 video/audio/photos Netscape-Mozilla, Andreessen and after party

[Rick Moen]

Quoting rswalker at nospammail.net (rswalker at nospammail.net):

> I attended the April 1998 SVLUG meeting, flying from Switzerland to be
> there. Are there video, audio or photos available? Ideas of whom may I
> contact for access or a copy? The party after?
> 
> http://www.svlug.org/prev/1998apr/

I've found a _mention_ of the event by Doc Searles in an interview he
did with Marc a few months after the meeting.  Doc was, like you and me,
at the meeting at Netscape, and so he described Marc's bullet points.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2984

SFGate mentioned the meeting and subsequent "mozilla dot party" at Jamie
Zawinski's DNA Lounge club (and, IIRC, Sound Factory) in San Francisco:  
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/DIGITAL-BAY-Headhunting-Firms-May-Be-Ready-to-3010431.php
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Netscape-decodes-3205970.php


Here's what you probably want most, a preserved copy of the "mozilla dot
party" Web site Jamie created:
https://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/1998/  It includes photo albums --
and links to more coverage.

There was also coverage a few months later by some of the principals in
the volume "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution":
https://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/1998://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/netrev.html

Since, at the time, I was living in SOMA a few blocks away from the
parties (and living directly above SF's first Linux-based Internet cafe,
at that), I got to just walk to the parties, after driving home from the
SVLUG meeting.

I found that the release-day code, not surprisingly, was a little shaky,
albeit less so once I stopped trying to compile it with Lesstif and fell
back onto proprietary Motif 1.2 libs.  Then it at least ran and was
pretty decent -- but only became outstanding quite a while later with
the version 0.96 codebase and later.

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