{"id":8809,"date":"2014-10-08T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hivevan.org\/?p=8809"},"modified":"2014-10-08T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:43:57","slug":"quick-recap-vancouver-caffeine-star-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/hive-vancouver\/quick-recap-vancouver-caffeine-star-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Recap of Vancouver | Caffeine and Star Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This weekend was one of firsts \u2014 first flight, first time leaving the US, first time eating Thai and Indian food, and my first event as a Mozilla Rep. I\u2019m exhausted, and my calves are very sore, but the Vancouver Hive Pop Up was entirely<\/em> worth it.<\/p>\n

I flew in from Seattle, where my aunt drove me up to Vancouver. All things considered, everything went well \u2014 and I\u2019m now comfortable enough with airports to fly internationally. (MozFest 2015, here I come!) Admittedly, I got a little turned around, but Helen Lee picked me up at Yaletown Station and we headed over to the Mozilla office for Webmaker training. I\u2019ve wanted to visit a Mozilla space since I was a kid, so it was a very cool experience. The fact that I was there for a Mozilla function, as a Rep, made it all very surreal and awesome.<\/p>\n

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Luke rocks at explaining stuff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I met some very cool Mozillians there \u2014 specifically Dethe Elza, Luke Pacholski, and Simona Ramkisson. Luke ran us through the Appmaker training, and I was surprised by how extensive Appmaker really is. Previous to this, I\u2019d played with it a few times, but it never really progressed past basic one-or-two-button stuff \u2014 and Luke had an entire music demo<\/a> going.<\/p>\n

After the demo, we went back to the apartment, which I was sharing with Robby Sayles and Regnard Raquedan, as well as Regnard\u2019s wife Liza and their daughter Lizzie, who\u2019s a little less than a year old. We ended up with all of the extra pizza from the training in our fridge (but all of it was gone by the time we left!). It was very cozy, with a breakfast nook perfect for curling up with a book in the morning.<\/p>\n

\"vancouver2\"<\/a>On Saturday morning, we had breakfast with Helen, Dethe, and their families, then set to exploring Vancouver. It\u2019s a beautiful city. I like a more overcast, cool climate, and I love urban background noise \u2014 which is weird because I\u2019m from a small town \u2014 so I fell in love with the city pretty quickly. We took a photo by the Olympic torch, then took a bus tour around town \u2014 and in the process, found out that Lizzie finds my face extremely amusing.<\/p>\n

We spent a lot of Saturday discussing Reps stuff \u2014 the different events we\u2019re working on, MozFest, and why we love being Mozillians. At one point, I referred to ReMo as \u201ca bunch of ninja superheroes\u201d, and I think that\u2019s the essence of why I love being a Rep so much. We\u2019re really this team of scrappers, unexpectedly kicking butt, with our open-source and collaborative superpowers.<\/p>\n

Sunday was the most fun I\u2019ve had in a long time. In the early afternoon, Robby and I went to brunch while Regnard and family poked around the city a bit more. We went to this awesome Thai bistro, which looked fairly traditional \u2014 but they were playing Paramore and indie rock the whole time. I\u2019d never had Thai food before, but I really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

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Working with the kiddos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The event itself was a blast. We set up at the Vancouver Public Library around 2 pm, and the event ran from 3 to 6. We had about 120 people there, quite a few of them being kids. There were four or five Appmaker stations set up, but it wasn\u2019t enough, so I started pulling kids to an ad-hoc station I set up with my MacBook. I had four kids I worked with, in groups of two \u2014 Charlie and Hendrix, and Eric and Viktor. I saved the makes they did to my VancouverPopUp collection<\/a> in Appmaker, and emailed them links to the apps, encouraging them to continue development on them. (And, of course, I made sure that they went home with a Mozilla lanyard, stickers, and a Firefox button!)<\/p>\n

I got home yesterday, absolutely exhausted but oddly re-energized and ready to run my first MozCoffee in a few weeks. High fives to all of the participants for a job well done, and big hugs to Robby and Regnard & family for keeping me out of trouble over the weekend. :)<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing\u2019s official \u2014 I have the coolest non-job on the planet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This is a repost from Michaela\u2019s (Mozilla Rep, Michigan) Caffeine and Star Stuff blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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