SummerCodeParty @MozFestPune July 7 2012

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Submitted by faisalaziz4ever on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 00:54

 

HI Fellas,
I am Faisal Aziz REMO from Pune, On 7 July 2012 we had a great event here at Allana Institute of Management Sciences Pune India. We celebrated it as Mozilla Festival Pune(MozFestPune).Event has a number of educative and interactive activates. With around 80-100 participants and with a cool team of remos from pune,we organized it as one of the rocking event of Pune.We did interactive quizes,handson and presentations. We had participants from other colleges also.
 
A well said quote "First Impression is the Last impression" ,yeah i am talking about one of the very awesome showcase of the event. MozFestTeam had created two giant Mozilla Firefox Logo and Mozilla Summer Code party logo in the college hub. The logos are created with India's traditional "Rangoli" colors. The logos are created to spread awareness about Mozilla and Its Mission.
 
Event had started with the introduction of Remos by Sara khan, she introduced the speakers to the crowd. We conducted following activities throughout the day.
 
•Mozilla Summer Code Party:
The session handed over to Sayak, Sayak made the audience familiar with summer code party. He explained about webmaker tools like thimble, X-ray goggles and popcorn.
 
•Rock with Firefox HandsOn
After sayak’s session, I took the session in my hand and started a Fascinating hands "Rock with Firefox". I explained how to use awesome features of Latest Firefox like personas, add-ons, private browsing.
 
•We want URDU Firefox:
After me Rajesh Ranjan and Aman got the crowd for localization sprint. They both showed about localization process. They motivated participants to come forward URDU Firefox Localization. We got a team for localization of Urdu language.
 
Meanwhile quizzes were asked from participants, this excited the participants and made the event more interactive.
 
Lunch Session:
 All of the attendees enjoyed the delicious food and got their energy back for some more Mozilla Action.
 
•Hands-On URDU Localization:
Rajesh and Aman took a very interactive hands-on on how to localize Firefox. They explained about POOTLE tools and how to set your machine for your regional language. They guide attendees to translate in URDU language.
 
•Mozilla, FOSS and Awesome Softwares for NewBies..
Ankit Gadgil in his session beautifully explained the Mozilla story and Awesome Foss Softwares available in market like Latex. Participants enjoyed his session.
 
•Fennec:
 
We got Soumya Deb(Debloper), he got the crowd's attention and introduces the all new Fennec browser for android. He list out some of the exciting features of Fennec to audience. 
 
•Wear X-Ray Goggles and Play With Thimble Hands-on:
 
 Party Time, Summer Code party started by Sayak and Me. Sayak and me described the new tools of web maker to audiences, Participants learned how to use X-ray, Thimble and popcorn. Participants had created very beautiful and creative Remixes. we also had a competition for Best Remix, we declared three best remixes as winner and they got Firefox t-shirts and other swags.
Participants loved the tools and experiments.
 
•Joomla:-New generation CMS:
 
Saurabh shah gave us his time from his busy schedule. He showed audience how to install and configure Joomla. He showed how to create a cool blog and website in just few clicks.Participants enjoyed he Hands On.
 
Quizes and How to Get Involved:
 
Farhanaaz and Sara Khan conducted a very informative quiz for participants. Participants enjoyed the quiz and enhanced their knowledge.
 
Last but not least I explained how to get involved with Mozilla. We got a number of student representatives from Allana Inst of mgmt Sciences who pledged to contribute in Mozilla.
 
At end of the event participants were full of Mozilla Spirit, enthusiasm and zeal for learning more about Mozilla Community and spreading the words about Mozilla and Its Mission.
They left with lots of good memories, fun and knowledge.
 
Event Schedule:
 
 Event links:
 Twitter Hashtag :#mozfestpune
 
 
 Presentations:
 
Sourabh Shah:
 
Video Links:
A Mozilla Story
 
Personas:
 
Gary Korvacs Tracking the trackers:
 
 Pictures: At Flickr
 
BlogPost:
 
Etherpad Links:
 
 

 

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