Firefox OS

Below is the brief summary of the Mozilla activities that took place during GNUnify'13 over a course of 3 days(February 15-17th) at SICSR, Pune. The idea was to target 3 major events at a time.

1. Friday, February 15: Firefox OS App Day Hackathon at GNUnify’13

2. Saturday, February 16: Mozilla participation at GNUnify’13

3. Saturday & Sunday, February 16-17: Mozilla India community meet-up at SICSR Campus.

I’m so very excited to share my experience on the mini-hackathon style programme that I and Naresh had managed to conduct at Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Chennai. The event scale was pretty small – a college symposium that had called for app developers and enthusiasts around Chennai to participate, hack on something that they found entertaining. There was no restriction as such on what they need to work on. Rules were like, “You either make a Firefox add-on, else try to create a Firefox OS mobile app or forget everything…! If you come up with ‘something-Mozilla-development’, we’re as much pleased to support you in your initiative. So please, come hack, share and teach us!” (Listen! This wasn’t the official statement that they had put out on their website. Just for your understanding sake. Well, obvious! Of course they wouldn’t put it up. Isn’t it? :-P)

We didn’t do mass campaigning and promotions for it.  We had sent out an email though, via Community India mailing list. Surprisingly enough, there was this guy Keshav, who had come to the event via mailing list referral. I had never seen such a thing happen before and for the first time, I was happy that people are starting to take mailing lists seriously.

A series of Firefox OS App Days will take place over the course of approx one week in January 2013 in ~20 locations around the world. Mozilla Contributor Engagement & Tech Evangelism will collaborate on this program. The events themselves will be organized and coordinated through the Mozilla community.

We are thrilled to annouce that one of the Firefox OS App Day Hackathon will take place at Banaglore. Please join us at Bangalore on Saturday January 26, to learn, hack and celebrate the Firefox OS, Mozilla's open source operating system for the mobile web.

If you're a web developer, you’ll be right at home coding apps in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS for the Firefox OS. We’ll help you with everything else, including how to access mobile Web APIs and how to use the Firefox OS Simulator in your desktop browser to view and test your mobile apps.

Technology leaders from Mozilla will present new technology built to extend and support the new platform.

This past November, we did a 'Firefox Flicks 2013' session at MozCamp Asia, Singapore. MozCamps are intensive, multiple-day gatherings that occur in strategic locations around the world. More than 200 passionate Mozillians from all over Asia Pacific and the Middle East who are contributors to all areas of the Mozilla project took part in MozCamp Asia.

The 'Firefox Flicks 2013' session was hosted by Galaxy and Vineel(myself) on behalf of Tobias Leingruber, works on the Flicks project. We started the session with talking about the background of Firefox Flicks, highlights from Flicks 2012, the awesome Hollywood judges, the amazing community events across the world, screening of winning videos from 2006 and 2012, followed by brief update on Flicks 2013 - the objectives, timeline, how to get involved and gathering ideas.