preparation

I rented the nightclub. I enlisted the help of my friends Random (a long-time club promoter, and the brain behind the Slick fetish ball) and Brian Behlendorf (creator of Hyperreal, the net's largest Rave resource), and together they lined up enough djs to fill the whole night in both rooms; we were in business. I hacked together a web-page flyer, and announced the party on the top-level mozilla.org page.

The email started pouring in. ``But I'm going to be at IETF!'' ``But I'm going to be at JavaOne!'' ``But I live in Switzerland, will you buy me a plane ticket?'' So I added the Party FAQ, answering these and other pressing questions.

Oh no, the t-shirts!

I had been talking to Shepard and Philip at Black Market about doing some artwork for mozilla.org, and just a few days before the flyer went up, Shepard had sent me his t-shirt design (pictured above.) Excellent! Now we just needed to get the shirts printed and shipped in... less than a week. Gulp.

How many? We need to give some away at the party, obviously. Ok, I'll just order a bunch and figure out how to get the company to pay for them later. Say, 1,000 shirts. Back I went to the suits. ``Bob would like 300 t-shirts for his division. No, he's not going to pay for any more than that.'' Ok then, 1,000 shirts it is.

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