Oh snap dude!, Owen is now an offi­cial Mozilla Cam­pus Rep­re­sen­ta­tive! Yeah, that’s right. I could pos­si­bly be the only Mozilla Cam­pus Rep here in Min­nesota, or at least in Winona, MN. Now that I am an offi­cial rep, I have sev­eral respon­si­bil­i­ties to ful­fill. Count ‘em off kiddies:

  1. I will, to the best of my abil­ity, attempt to con­vert those now cur­rently wor­ship­ing the devil (using Inter­net Explorer) to wor­ship­ing God (using Firefox)
  2. I think I get a free t-​​shirt. Sweet
  3. Although I didn’t spec­ify in the sur­vey, I just might start a Fire­fox club here at school. Please leave com­ments about what you think of the name of the club should be. Please don’t say ‘Club Fire­fox’ or ‘The Fire­fox Club’
  4. St. Mary’s might have some super cool Fire­fox events now ; p
  5. Por­tray Inter­net Explorer as most evilest thing on the Earth

I guess the eas­i­est way to start spread­ing Fire­fox is to try and get every­one in my dorm to use the best browser in the world. From there, I will try and spread it even more but I obvi­ously don’t have enough resources cur­rently to make the whole cam­pus to con­vert yet. I know that a lot of peo­ple in my dorm are pretty tech­no­log­i­cally unsavvy so those will be the hard­est peo­ple to con­vert. The rea­son for this is because these peo­ple are so uncom­fort­able with com­put­ers that they would like to make as few changes as pos­si­ble to their com­puter or else they think it might explode. This is, of course, not true or at least not for me. But I think, after I get my friends using Fire­fox, they will really appre­ci­ate how much faster the Inter­nets are with­out Inter­net Explorer. They will dis­cover that they are not slaves to slow speeds and page refreshes. They will dis­cover they never have to look at an online ad ever again. They will dis­cover how great the Inter­net really is. And I believe, that by con­vert­ing these peo­ple to Fire­fox, they will become just a lit­tle less afraid of technology.

I have seen my friends using Inter­net Explorer. It is truly sad. Pretty much any­time I see them using it, they always get frus­trated becuase ‘it’s so slow,’ or they ask: ‘why isn’t this work­ing? WTF???.’ Once I wean them off of IE, they will be so happy because they have been stuck with an infe­rior browser for so long.

Hope­fully, I can make this switch hap­pen. I will spam all the bul­letin boards with awe­some fly­ers to spread Fire­fox. I will force peo­ple to upgrade. I will eat Inter­net Explorer for din­ner. And then I found five dollars.