Mozilla India

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.

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.