hyderabad

We hosted our third MozCoffee at Hyderabad this past November. It was productive meetup with great ideas and suggestions.

From left: Vivek, Sai Kiran, Soumya, Vineel, Ajay, Anup, Goutham.
What: Mozilla meetup (anyone interested can join for free)
When: 25 November, 3.00 PM
Where: Barista, beside Google office, Madhapur.

Notes from the meetup:

• Plan for a major Mozilla event in Hyderabad in early 2013.

-- Tracks/Agenda:

-- Mozilla --> Background --> Projects

                                           -- Firefox OS
                                           -- Localization
                                           -- SUMO (Support Mozilla)
                                           -- QA (Quality Analysis & Testing)
                                           -- Webmaker
                                           -- Marketing
                                           -- WoMoz

-- HTML basics --> HTML5 --> Web Apps (help guide to start porting)

                                           -- Application Building

Firefox is the only browser that puts you first, to share this message, Mozilla launched, Firefox Flicks, a global video contest. Users, fans, filmmakers, animators and people with creativity and an appreciation for Firefox participated in the contest by creating a short video to share our message. The last date for the Submissions was May 1st 2012. There were more than 400 submissions, 1000 plus filmmakers from around the world! We had a great time watching all the videos.

The global winners were selected by the Hollywood judges like Edward Norton, Shauna Robertson, Jeffrey Silver and many other at 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Mozilla India Would like to congratulate everyone who submitted a video and thank everyone who voted. You can still watch all of the clips at the Firefox Flicks website.

We are excited to share that, we have a winner from India! Anahita Gottipati from Hyderabad is the BAVC(Bay Area Video Coalition) Winner.

Helloo ,

I am AnanthulaSrikar,persuing my final year in Sreenidhi Insitute Of Science And Technology,Hyderabad,which is top most college in JNTU affialated colleges.

I being selected as a student rep for Mozilla organised the Mozilla Session followed by interative session which was amazing.

There were almost 40-50 students who attended for this session and made it quite intresting..!!!
It was great to be a part of this.

There was a sesison abt 40 min how mozilla community works,its projects to be contributed,how it evolved was the whole agenda of the session and followed by some vedios like mozilla story,manifesto,localization too.

There was Q &A session where the students wer very interative who are from all years of study,they are given goddies for the appropriate answers which was very awesome.It was quite surprising to know that all are very intrested to learn abt the mozilla projects and take them hands on.

I being student representative was vey happy to be in this such a great community and promoting ,making people aware what is mozilla..really i am very happy to be part of it and hope this will be continued in the future too.

Below are the few clicks taken when the session is being held.

Thanks for reading the post,

Regards,

A.Srikar,

Mozilla Student Rep,

Hyderabad.

International Mother Language Day is an observance held annually on 21 February worldwide to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. It was first announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999.

This year, Andhra Pradesh State government, department of IT, in association with Silicon Andhra celebrated International Mother Language Day at Jublee Hall, Hyderabad. The State Government has taken a positive step in making Telugu as an official full member of the US-based Unicode Consortium, paving the way for standardised, user-friendly fonts and scripts for the language on computers.

Telugu is the first Indian language to join the Unicode consortium as a full permanent member.

In an interview given to The Hindu, the IT & Communications Minister for Andhra Pradesh, Ponnala Lakshmaiah said: