Remo

Hey all ,

            I am excited to share my experience of my first Mozilla sponsored event held last Sunday (July – 1 – 2012 ). It is also the first ever Mozilla community Meetup in Erode , on the same day we also inaugurated Mozilla Erode Community.

            It was a beautiful Sunday , I expected participant count around 13 but the turn up was not bad there were about 10 participants among which majority are student reps. Program scheduled to kick off by 11 AM due to few late arrival of participants , we are   forced to start the program by 20 min late.

            I started with the Introduction on FOSS and Mozilla , not even I expanded the term FOSS but the participants already started to shootout their questions.After clarifying their doubts and I proceed with my introduction session. Participants kept on asking questions and hence I ended the Introduction session by 12.30. Next we had a break to have a drink to refresh our self.

            Next we , inaugurated and welcomed Mozilla Erode Community with a cut on the cake. We made a little girl ( next generation Web Maker ) to cut the cake and we all had a taste of it.

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.

HII Friends,

I am Faisal Aziz, REMO from Pune region.I want to share my experience for the coolest event MozConnect Bhopal.

MozConnect Bhopal is one of the best  Mozilla Event held @NIIT Center 1 Bhopal. Students of NIIT participated with full spirit to learn and explore the open web. The aim of the event was to spread awareness about open web,Mozilla and its mission.

Due to Accomodation problem the event was conducted in two sessions:

First Session:

In the first session we had around 25 people from NIIT as well as some of the Internet Cafe administrators from local regions.The session was awesome having lots of interactive talks about issues of Firefox. One of the Cafe Admin asked about creating a special help page for Cafe Admins so that they can utilize full features of  Mozilla Firefox.

I started my first session with introduction to Mozilla Foundation,Familiarizing Mozilla to audience. They were very excited to know about the features of Mozilla Firefox. I hv explained them about various programs of Mozilla in which they can contribute like SUMO,Localization,Add-on Development,test pilot and Army of Awesome.

Then we had very intresting and educative quiz,Winners got cool stuff from Mozilla.

They were very happy to learn the things !

Second Session:

Excitement of the first session was yet on the top. Its second session for the MozConnect.

Hi all,

This summer Mozilla launching a web maker program as a part of “MOZILLA SUMMER CODE PARTY”.Mozilla Summer Code Party and Web Maker program mainly focus on the goal of making “WEB CONSUMERS into WEB MAKERS” through various types of events like Hack jam , Kitchen Table , Pop Up. To know more about Mozilla Summer Code Party click here .To learn about Mozilla Web Maker program click here.

I am one of the ReMo from Tamilnadu and one and only ReMo from Erode. There is not much exposure about Mozilla and FOSS in my Region. So, it’s time to take things seriously. I planned for Mozilla Summer Code Party in Erode starting on June 23 and goes on till Aug 30.