Firefox Crop Circle!

[smctainsh]

Hehehe, cool. :D

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[E t h a n]

...Dear god... WHY!?...

Still, I prefer "Firefox crop circle fans" over the "Firefox anime foxlady artist weirdo fans" anyway.

I suppose all of these things help draw in the niche markets.

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[Rodrigo]

So that's where the donations are going.

But nice nonetheless.

[gordonel]

No hired professionals, British or otherwise, were involved in the making of this crop circle. We don't need them; we do go to an engineering school after all. :) Just a bunch of college kids with a basic knowledge of geometry. Though it is a nice compliment. :)

[p858snake]

It was neat how they did this, looks totally cool as well. When i first got told about it "IM" this morning i totally though this was a neowin news item, and so i wrote up a article and submitted it. I may as well post the article in here:

FireFox users take the fox to an all new level

Does the sudden apprence of a firefox symbol in a crop field scare you? Are there aliens at work?

No this shouldn?t scare you, and yes we can promise you that no aliens had a hand in building this. Contrusted by a group of firefox fans and the same team that created the Firefox mural from cornstarch and kool-aid (http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Sidewalk) and also lanched the Firefox Weather Ballon (http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Sky).

The complete project was planned in under 2 weeks and contuscted in under 24 hours, the final diameter of the fox was about 68 meters (220 Feet). The crop circle was constructed in a oat field near Amity, Oregon where the crop circle is completely invisable from the road but unmistakable from the air.

The team of FireFox 12 fans consisted mainly of OSU stundents who carefully stamped down the oats from 3:00pm (1500 Hours) Friday afternoon and went to 2:30am (0230 Hours) the next morning. The group placed the finishing touches on the crop circle from 7:30am till 11am staturday morning.

The idea came from Matt and John (Mozilla video interns) who came up with the idea a few weeks before hand, While bing fuled by the enthusiasm of Asa Dotzler (Mozilla) the crop circle project became within reach.[Links:[/b]b>iImagesu>

*Completed Crop Circle

*Complete OSU Linux Group Photo Gallery

*Some of the Images emailed to me[/urlVideosu>

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*OSU Linux Group

[Rodrigo]

No hired professionals, British or otherwise, were involved in the making of this crop circle. We don't need them; we do go to an engineering school after all. :) Just a bunch of college kids with a basic knowledge of geometry. Though it is a nice compliment. :)

Sorry but the photo title in page one crearly disagrees with you.

Professionals from england were paid and flown in to do this, also the farmer was paid. Noting this to try and reduce comments about mad off farmers or stupid fans with too much time on their hands kind of posts.

[gordonel]

Sorry but the photo title in page one crearly disagrees with you.

Except that he made that up.. Take a look at the actual page and write-up. I was there, helping make the crop circle. This is the actual link: http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Proje.../Firefox_Circle

I'm the Beth that contacted the Alex. This is me: http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox...circle/img_5200

It really wasn't that hard to make, sorry if you can't believe us :)

[zhangm Supervisor]

I go to college in Oregon and I have to agree that this is well within the grasp of sufficiently motivated college students.

Professional crop circle makers are nothing compared to college pranksters.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Opera is better.

Crappy Photoshop, but oh well. :whistle:

[supernova_00]

Except that he made that up.. Take a look at the actual page and write-up. I was there, helping make the crop circle. This is the actual link: http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Proje.../Firefox_Circle

I'm the Beth that contacted the Alex. This is me: http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox...circle/img_5200

It really wasn't that hard to make, sorry if you can't believe us :)

I remember when the plans first came out that some guys in england were contacted and supposed to be flown iin to do this and were just waiting on a field for it. So this changed? I didn't hear anything about them not doing it, so I figured it was still that guys from england that were paid to do it?

[gadean]

That is awesome! Great advertising. :)

[MulletRobZ]

Whoa! That's just so cool.

[gordonel]

They were originally thinking about flying in professionals from England (they were never contracted, and certainly weren't waiting on standby), but that would have cost about $10,000 PLUS Mozilla was going to have to find a field for them, pay for their flights, and accomodations. They ran into a few OSLUG members (including me) at OSCON 2006, and we got really excited about the project, and it was obvious that we could do it for a tiny fraction of that price. We found a field and secured permission ourselves. Mozilla also appreciated the fact that it would be a grassroots effort. ;) Mozilla paid for the farmers to be compensated, for an hour of helicopter time, and for a bunch of our food. We received no other compensation for this project. The guy with the small airplane is my friend who lived in the dorms with me a few years ago.

If you had read the write-up we did on it, you would see a clear explanation of how we pulled it off and no mention of hiring professionals to do the basic math necessary to accomplish this project. Please don't spread blatantly wrong and misleading information without bothering to check the facts.

[Echilon]

Grats to them for doing this so well (Y)