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Summary of Firefox OS App Days Bangalore | 26th January 2013.

Firefox OS App Day: 26th January 2013 at ThoughtWorks, Bangalore, India

A full day of fun, joy, networking, sharing, and learning “Firefox OS App Day" is kicked off on January 26, 2013 at ThoughtWorks, Kormangala, Bangalore, India.

Firefox OS App Days happened in at least 25 locations across the world during the January 2013. The concept of this event was to bring Mozilla Contributors, Reps, Developers, Technologist, Evangelist at one platform and to collaborate on this program.

A series of Firefox OS App Days will take place over the course of approx one week in January 2013 in ~20 locations around the world. Mozilla Contributor Engagement & Tech Evangelism will collaborate on this program. The events themselves will be organized and coordinated through the Mozilla community.

We are thrilled to annouce that one of the Firefox OS App Day Hackathon will take place at Banaglore. Please join us at Bangalore on Saturday January 26, to learn, hack and celebrate the Firefox OS, Mozilla's open source operating system for the mobile web.

If you're a web developer, you’ll be right at home coding apps in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS for the Firefox OS. We’ll help you with everything else, including how to access mobile Web APIs and how to use the Firefox OS Simulator in your desktop browser to view and test your mobile apps.

Technology leaders from Mozilla will present new technology built to extend and support the new platform.

You can say, one of the reasons why Mozilla has been hugely successful in its marketing, is because of Localization –Making software products available in local languages. Not many of them are good at English. And Localization gives a chance for people to use the software with local flavor and taste.

Sadly though, in a country like India, with many languages, there hasn’t been a very active contribution towards localization of Mozilla’s products.  So, in an attempt to bring in more contributors, Mozilla is organizing a series of L10N sprints across the country in various cities.  One such event happened in Pune last Sunday as a part of GNUnify’12 and Mozilla India Meet up.  Coming weekend, events are scheduled to take place, one in Bangalore (Saturday) and in Chennai (Sunday).

Brainchild behind this is, Rakesh ‘Arky’ Ambati, Mozilla’s Localization Community Manager, who will be visiting the cities and leading the events. Also expected are contributors from various local Linux Users’ Groups. Going by the way things happened at Pune, I can assure you that this is going to be really exciting!  Apart from people who are already into localization, this will be a great opportunity for budding enthusiasts and students who would like to contribute and get involved with Mozilla.