Pune

Below is the brief summary of the Mozilla activities that took place during GNUnify'13 over a course of 3 days(February 15-17th) at SICSR, Pune. The idea was to target 3 major events at a time.

1. Friday, February 15: Firefox OS App Day Hackathon at GNUnify’13

2. Saturday, February 16: Mozilla participation at GNUnify’13

3. Saturday & Sunday, February 16-17: Mozilla India community meet-up at SICSR Campus.

I represented Mozilla India in “Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013” held in Pune between 12-13 January 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Summit_India

Before updating about the Wikipedia Summit, I would love to share about an awesome event which was organized in just 30 minutes of short notice. Since there is no direct flight from Kolkata to Pune, I decided to take flight for Mumbai and then traveled from Mumbai to Pune by train. I took halt at Mumbai for few hours. I called one of my friend at IIT Mumbai and asked him to meet. I reached IIT Mumbai at 10:00 PM and met him. He asked me the reason to visit Mumbai. I told him about the purpose of attending Wiki Summit Pune. He then immediately said, me and my friends are very curious to know about various initiatives of Mozilla foundation and how to start contribution. He said to me that, my friends may even come now (at 10:30 pm), he immediately called his 7-8 friends at IIT Mumbai and our meeting fixed at 11 pm. I named this meeting as MozCafe IITB -:)

Summary of MOZILLA CARNIVAL 2012
Pune, India
September 15

Background:
To celebrate the success of all the Summer Code Party events in India, Mozilla Carnival was hosted as one big closure event(pan India), the idea was initiated by the community members from Pune. Over the past few months the community members from across the country hosted several code party events, got together, made things, played with the Webmaker projects, and learned a lot. These include MozParty Pune,  BVP Delhi,  IIT Delhi,  Anthiyur,  Erode and many other. Mozilla Carnival was celebrated along with the Software Freedom Day on 15 September at SICSR, Pune.  

On Saturday, 23rd June 2012 we organized MozParty Pune at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, as a kickoff event for Mozilla Summer Code Party. We had a good mix of college students and working professionals as attendees for the event. There were around 75-90 attendees in total for the event. We had talk sessions as well as hands-on sessions and workshops.

The day started with an Introduction to Mozilla Summer Code Party by me, where I talked about what exactly Mozilla's Summer Code Party is, and to how to spread awareness about the open web. The audience seemed quite interested in the idea, and looked quite excited to find out about the various ways by which they can do so.

The next session was conducted by Soumya Deb (better known as Debloper), on How Websites Work. For this session he showed the audience Google's Story of Send, and another video on How the DNS works. The animated videos were a great hit among the audience.

Next up, it was Ankit and Faisal who took the stage one after the other. Ankit had prepared a lovely presentation in Latex about the Mozilla Story where talked about how Mozilla became what it currently is, including the various technologies from Mozilla. Faisal talked about the various Add-ons, personas other cool stuff that users can use to brighten up their Firefox experience and also about the various security aspects of Firefox.