Mozilla India

Mozilla Webmaker is an unique event of its kind. Bringing people together and spreading the awareness about the open web and how to make stuff for the web is an amazing idea. Here at 19th August, 2012 in IIT Rajasthan, we organised a Mozilla Webmaker Hackjam.

It was the a different experience all together. As this was the first Mozilla event I was organising inspired by the rest of the Mozilla Reps in the country. Things went very well.

We started of with the basics of HTML/CSS and then moved on to the usage of Firefox Developer Tools for building webpages. To make things interesting a major part of the session was dedicated to JavaScript and libraries like jQuery, so people can learn to build modern websites. Concepts of AJAX and JSON were also talked about with each of the attendees and building it with their own hands. After all nothing is better than the first hand experience! Finally to demonstrate the usefulness of these technologies, a Twitter search application was made by the usage of Twitter APIs and JavaScript entirely.

The detailed blog post on the event with a few photographs can be found at http://thelimbeck.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/a-night-of-hacking-on-the-web/.

On 15th September 2012, Mozilla India celebrated the Mozilla Carnival , Pune to mark the closure of the Mozilla Summer code party events.

With the Mozilla Pune community organizing successful summer code party events earlier, Mozilla Carnival was BIG, au courant and more fun.

The event was attendeed by 150+ audience and Mozilla Reps from all over India. Mozilla Volunteers from Warangal, Andra Pradesh also participated.

There were sessions by ReMos included Mozilla Summer code party by  Sayak Sarkar, FOSS and Mozilla by Ankit Gadgil, Webmaker hands on by Gautamraj Elango, Fireflicks by Vineel Reddy Pindy, L10N by Rajesh Ranjan,Aman Alam and Faisal Aziz, URL routing by Soumya Deb, about:config by Anwesh Mishra and WoMoz by Priyanka Nag and Hema Bhanu.

A Quiz on Mozilla and open web was also conducted, winners Diwanshi Pandey and Subhadra T. were awarded exclusive Firefox flicks Goodies.

Mozilla Community Warangal has celebrated end of Mozilla summer Code Party at SURABHI BAKERS KU, Warangal.  I got inspired by the reps and  by Mozilla Carnival Pune, finally hosted one. The event was great successful one. This is my first open event in Warangal.  12 Students have attended from different corners of the city. I started the party by the introduction of open source, I told the history and facts of Mozilla Firefox. I’ve explained them Mozilla’s mission, its products and projects. Then I moved my discussion towards localization in which all the students would like to contribute, finally introduced them Mozilla web maker projects and tools of Mozilla like thimble. Then hacked many WebPages through x-ray goggles and enjoyed a lot.

I ordered a cake last night of Mozilla summer code party’s logo, after hacking and enjoying we cut cake, had yummy snacks and finally had many snapshots.

I would like to thank Specially to Gautham Raj who has guided me all the way, I also thank faisal sir to share ankit’s  ppt on open source and Mozilla and I thank hema for making all the arrangements for the party and I thank all the students who have participated in the party and making it a great successful one.

Here is the ether pad link:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mozpartywarangal

Here is facebook album link:

MOZ PARTY @ Warangal is being celebrated as end of the mozilla summer code party campaign. This event mainly concentrates on mozilla's mission, it's products and it web maker projects. Most Importantly I'm going to introduce mozilla localisation project to all the students to build a good army for l10n:te

“Software Freedom Day” is a worldwide celebration to create awareness on GNU/Linux and other various Free Open Source Software to the public.

Indian Linux Users Group – Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] and Free Software Foundation TamilNadu [ http://fsftn.org ] organised Software Freedom Day on September 15, 2012 in collaboration with Department of Computer Science, DG vaishnav College, Arumbakkam, Chennai at SRG auditorium, in the college premises.

I (Karthik) represented Mozilla Org. in this SFD 2012 event by putting up the Mozilla stall and explained to the visitors more about Mozilla and its products. It was very great since this was my first event where I have interacted with the public representing Mozilla INDIA. Moreover,

Around 1200 students from various colleges visited the stalls. Faculties from other departments of DG vaishnav College and faculties from colleges like Anna adharsh, SDNB Vaishnav College, Chrompet visited the stalls.

30 stalls on various topics including (My stall about Mozilla) were there...

Stalls :

1. Mozilla and its Products

2. Android Application Development

3. Screencasting