One Year of Mozilla Community Space Bangalore

Introduction:

This post highlights the happenings at Mozilla Space Bangalore from 2014 to 2015. These happenings sheds light on the efforts the community has put up to build an active Mozilla community to contribute perpetually. The aim was to empower new contributors to choose their path of contribution and to create a significant impact through various projects of Mozilla. To achieve this, we created various opportunities for local Mozillians to participate and contribute to the project.

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Open Practices:

As our Mozilla Mission emphasizes on openness of the web, we followed open practices to build the community around the Mozilla space.

Our practices are inclusive of Strategic initiatives, Impact filled events, local campaigns, transparent documentation and communication. Enabling Open Communities and Progressive measures of various projects in terms of their quality and quantity.

Partnerships:

Mozilla Space Bangalore has engaged with various Open communities aiming at promoting Mozilla mission further:

Bachao project
Wikimedia women
Design Evenings
Bangalore IoT & Makerspace Community
CoderDojo
3D printing & hardware
Hive Bangalore
Funstore

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Impact:

Representing Mozilla India Community, Bangalore space has been the hub of activity for most of the key Mozilla Meetings and Events. Particularly over the last one year we have engaged more than 2400 people in 80 Events covering the domains predominantly L10n, Webmaker, Location Services, Community Building, Women Empowerment, Cloud Services, Dev, FirefoxOS, & Hive Network.

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Apart from the local community activities, several Mozilla Staff has visited Bangalore space to participate in various high-level Community building activities including:

Firefox OS Intensive workshop
Community Space & Community Health meetup
L10n meetup
Dietrich work trip to Bangalore

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Reach:

The activity of Bangalore Mozilla Community has been consistent over the past 1 year. Mozilla Space Bangalore has played a significant role in spreading Mozilla mission and empower local contributors.

Mozilla Space Bangalore has hosted more than 80+ events in around its one year of functioning.

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Apart from the physical activity the community is active online through blog and Social Media

Website: http://mozillabangalore.github.io/blog/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mozillabangalore | 951 Likes
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MozSpaceBLR | 192 Followers with 1900 impressions per month
Google+: http://bit.ly/1csuJQR | 49 followers & 4978 views
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/mozillabangalore/

Mozilla community space Bangalore has been a collective effort from the community. We’d like to specially thank Vineel R. Pindi, Kaustav Das, Priyanka Nag, Ankit Gadgil, Soumya Deb, Sayak Sarkar, Abhiram Ravikumar, Jafar Mohammed and Gauthamraj Elango for their efforts in building the community.

This wouldn’t have been possible without the support from William Quiviger, Rosana Ardila, and Michelle Thorne.

Thrilled to see what we could do in 2016!