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I spent most of last week at the Mozilla Summit in Whistler, British Columbia. I'd like to have something pithy and insightful to say about it (because I hear that my reflections on conferences make my blog "come alive"), but mostly I am overwhelmed and speechless at the combination of people and technology that I experienced. The Mozilla Summit is an invitation-only event that brings together Mozilla employees, community leaders, and selected friends of Mozilla for three days of sharing, connecting, and planning. There were inspiring keynote speeches, mind-blowing demos, informative and productive breakout sessions, five-minute lightning sessions on a huge variety of topics, a "science fair" of even more demos, a "world expo" with over 30 locales represented, and fabulous food throughout.

Rather than try to express it myself, here are a few links related to the Summit:

• A video of one of the keynote demos. This video is a capture of the animation that was rendered in real time at the Summit, with live Flickr and Twitter feeds. The video unfortunately does not include the perfect tweet from @sheppy: Fairly sure some of this technology was stolen from crashed alien ships. It also demonstrates that in the world of new open web standards (HTML5/CSS3/WebGL/etc.) motion sickness is the new blink tag.


• Intern Brian Louie recaps day 3, including the breakout session that I helped lead on the future of the Mozilla Developer Network.


• Summary of the Summit by Channy Yun, a community member from South Korea.

Whistler is a year-round resort town, but it's best known for snow sports (despite disappointing snowfall for the Winter Olympics). It was refreshing to go to the top of Whistler mountain for the final night's dinner and party, and see snow in July: