Mozilla India

Background:
At the Mozilla India community meetup at Pune, from the discussion that we had with the attendees, it is clear that building a fully functional regional website that caters the needs of the regional community and users in India, should be our top priority.

As of now, mozillaindia.org is developed and maintained by one of our active contributor, a Mozilla Rep(former student rep), Abhishek Nagar of Kashipur Networks for the past one year. We are very thankful to him for keep it running. :) So far, the regional website is proved to be helpul and serving the purpose with its various functionalities(profile creation, community map, events calender, blog, in-built chat, links to Mozilla projetcs and other documentation). we managed to accomplish several things using the website.

Hello all,I am AnanthulaSrikar,Student Rep from Hyderabad.Saikiran(Student Rep,Warangal),Namu Srikanth(REMO from Karimnagar) & Myself had put a stall at KITS Warangal in the Fest Sristi12.There are almost 700 students from various colleges who participated in the fest.We explained them regarding the firefox and mozilla community ,projects of mozilla etcWe had fantastic interation with the students,distributed lots of goodies for many students for answering qes regarding open source,andriod,mozilla firefox.It was very good tym we had with the students.These are some of the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/ananthulasrikar/show/

You can say, one of the reasons why Mozilla has been hugely successful in its marketing, is because of Localization –Making software products available in local languages. Not many of them are good at English. And Localization gives a chance for people to use the software with local flavor and taste.

Sadly though, in a country like India, with many languages, there hasn’t been a very active contribution towards localization of Mozilla’s products.  So, in an attempt to bring in more contributors, Mozilla is organizing a series of L10N sprints across the country in various cities.  One such event happened in Pune last Sunday as a part of GNUnify’12 and Mozilla India Meet up.  Coming weekend, events are scheduled to take place, one in Bangalore (Saturday) and in Chennai (Sunday).

Brainchild behind this is, Rakesh ‘Arky’ Ambati, Mozilla’s Localization Community Manager, who will be visiting the cities and leading the events. Also expected are contributors from various local Linux Users’ Groups. Going by the way things happened at Pune, I can assure you that this is going to be really exciting!  Apart from people who are already into localization, this will be a great opportunity for budding enthusiasts and students who would like to contribute and get involved with Mozilla.