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MozCamp Asia 2012 Singapore
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Hi Fellas,
This year’s “Mozcamp Asia 2012″ was a smashing HIT. I am running out of words to describe the awesomeness of the event.
i only give it as “WOW”. Well my
mozillians fellows already knew my topic of discussion so for my other friends i’d like to introduce you about Mozcamps.
What is Mozcamp?
MozCamps are intensive, multiple-day gatherings that occur in strategic locations around the world. Over the course of two days, MozCamps includes keynote speeches by Mozilla leadership, workshops and breakout sessions (lead by paid and un-paid staff), and fun social outings. The final MozCamp of 2012, MozCamp Asia, will take
place in Singapore from November 16th to 18th, 2012 The theme of this MozCamp is Mobilize Mozilla!
So as it was my first ever visit to abroad i was so excited about everything. We arrived early morning at Changi airport, and i wasspeechless about beauty and infra at airport. We got Mozilla volunteers at changi airport.They guided 
us for the way to Lavender station. We also got a cool MRT pass,(which i like most) ,so we boarded MRT from changi and started goind deep towards lavender.
We alighted at Tanah-Mirah MRT station and interchanged the train to Lavender. at last we finally reached to our Hotel V-Lavender.
Hotel was pretty awesome, I checked in and got my key for the room. A giant “Jhoomar” was welcoming us to hotel. A pleasant fragnance and awesome people around to hangup.
After a bot refreshment i moved to community building and leadership meet @HUB at National Youth Council.
Day 1:Community Building and Leadership Meet:
At HUB @ NYC, first time i saw Mozilla Staff , It was really good to interact with them. Met with ARKY, and other Mozillians came from different countries. We discussed how to build a power community. William and pierros nice demonstrated factors for growing Mozilla in our country and region .
Welcome Drinks in evening:
Finally, the fun was begun!!!!!! A cool Mozilla Welcome drinks party in the evening to welcome all Mozillians around the world.
There was also a country fair held by various communities of participating countries. Some of them were in cultural costume,some brought their traditional and cultural specialities like food and stuff.
and last but not the least “A GANGNAM stylr dance with FOX”;
DAY2:AT SCAPE Warehouse :
So, After a quick breakfast we all gathered in HUB. the m
oment came reality when the chief Lizard Wrangler of Mozilla, Mitchell Baker thrill audience with her lightning and motivating addressing to all mozillians. She said that every mozillian should believe in himself,believe in his community so we all can move forward with taking hands in hands and achieve Mozilla’s Mission of Openness and protecting Web.
Day 3:Scape Warehouse, Orchard Road.
The third day starts with breakfast at Warehouse.Got to know how Mobile Market is booming around the world
as Mozilla is taking so much efforts in Mobile and web apps development. Mozilla Marketplace is now flourishing with lots of apps from various contributors around the world. Mozilla staff was motivating all the mozillians to come forwards for Mobile and web apps developement. they also explained how Mozilla Market place is different from other Marketplaces like google play.
The most interesting things i got was a sneak-Peek of Mozilla’s upcoming revolution,FIREFOX OS. and believe me that was really awesome.
Localization session by Jeff and Axel Hicht:
A Brainstorming session was taken by Jeff and Axel on How to localize the things and understanding Mercurial Repositories.
Its really great to know that how Mercurial repositories work. I also learn some of the basic command to update,commit and search on Mercurial moreover how mercurial is better than GIT Repos.
Planning ahead with Mission Partner:
It was really great to meet my mission partner Miss. Huda Sarfaraz from Pakistan. We had a lunch together at Food republic and discussed various aspects of localization. I got to know about how communities from India and Pakistan can work together to spread words using Urdu language.
Closing Ceremony:
At Last we had a great finish!!! With GANGNAM style rocking on stage and Rep Rep Song by Rosana. This event was a fantastic alliance of remos from all around the world. I thanks Mozilla and staff for inviting me this wonderful event .
Cheeers Mozilla
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Celebrations at Mozilla Carnival Pune
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Hi Fellas,
I want to share my awesome experience regarding one of the awesome event held in Pune city, yeah That’s Mozilla Carnival which was rocked at symbiosis institute of computer science and research on 15 sep 2012. The theme of event was Mozilla Summercode party and Software Freedom Day.
The event was well organized and full of entertainment and learning sessions.Event was organized by Sayak Sarkar and Ankit Gadgil who are ambitious Mozilla Representatives and Team of enthusiastic volunteers.
Event started at 10 Am with keynotes session by Sayak Sarkar. He nicely introduced the Mozilla Mission and Webmaker project to attendees.
Followed by another awesome session was taken by Ankit Gadgil on Mozilla and FOSS. He showed a nice presentation over various open source tools available. He also explained how newbie can start using open source tools.
Carnival continue to rock with a educative and exciting hands on session by GauthamRaj Elango on webmaker tools.
One of the student rep from symbiosis Anwesh took an awesome session on tweaking Mozilla Firefox. He nicely explained various tips and tricks to enhance firefox user experience.
Now Deploper’s turn. yes i am talking about Soumya (Deploper). He took a techie session over Url & routing Logic. His session benefited not only new users as well as advance users.
we Had a delicious lunch between and got regain energy for some more actions in Mozilla Carnival.
we had our favorite..yes Reps council member of India, Vineel reddy pindy. He showed some very coool winning videos of Firefox Flicks contestants. Videos charmingly motivated audience to come forward for Mission Mozilla.
Nest Session was taken by Me(Faisal Aziz, Rajesh Ranjan and Aman).
As a remo and localizer for Mozilla Firefox , i introduced the audience that how should they start with localization under Mozilla L10n community.i have also explained how to use pootle server for simplified and easy localization.Rajesh and Aman explained the Bug filing process in localization of Firefox in regional language.
Side by Side in another track Sayak was taking session for open badges.
next the steering was in hand of womoz(Mozilla Women) . Priyanka Naag and her mate beautifully explained the contribution of women in FOSS and Mozilla. With various statical figures they motivated women to come forward for Mozilla and Its Mission.
At the end of closure all reps have their introduction along with their area of working under Mozilla.
Event had a good union of reps from all over india i.e
Vineel Reddy Pindy (Mozilla Reps Council Member and Mentor),Sayak Sarkar( Mozilla Reps,Pune), Faisal Aziz( Mozilla Reps,Pune), Ankit Gadgil( Mozilla Reps,Pune), Soumya Deb( Mozilla Reps,Pune), Sourabh Shah( Mozilla Reps,Pune), Sara Khan( Mozilla Reps,Pune), Komal Gandhi(Mozilla Rep, Bhopal), Ashish Namdev(Mozilla Rep Bhopal), Rajesh Ranjan( Mozilla Reps and Redhat language maintainer,Pune),Gautham Raj Elango( Mozilla Rep,Erode).
Event was really awesome and people enjoyed to the fullest. Most of them are eager to getting involved with Mission Mozilla.
Below this you’ll find my presentations and it is free to download:
http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14374775
If you have any queried regarding Mozilla L10n and webmakers please drop me a mail at faisalaziz4ever@gmail.com
Thanks
Faisal Aziz
Mozilla Represenative, Pune
India
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MozConnect Bhopal
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-= Audience and size =-
We got a good audience support. The event was conducted in two sessions. First session had around 20-30 number of attendees and in second session we have 40-50 number of attendies.Overall around 100 individuals attended the event.
-= Our participation =-
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. For the second session we had a Guest Speaker Mr.Umar Farooque,Admin and developer of chirkutonorkut.com, and many brazillian websites. Ashish Namdev REMO from bhopal and his team memebers Anoop and Bhaskar joined me to make this event really happening. I start the session by introducing Mozilla and Its Mission, I explained them our community heirarchy in contributions,I explained them how they can be a student rep,or a REMO. This talk make them excited and they eagerly want to be involved with us in the Mission. Ashish Namdev get the steering in his hands and explained very nicely about Latest Firefox features.He also showed a video of mr.Gary Korvacs on “Do not track Me”. After that our guest Mr.Omar Farooque got in action and he expresses his views about open web,He conducted a very innovative and educative HANDS ON on creation of websites using JOOMLA,WORDPRESS,DRUPAL using FIREBUG plugin.The practical approach really worked and audience were very happy to do hand on exercises. Now i took the command back to me and explained some hand ons on using Xray goggles. I called some students from the audience,they hv done very nice hacks on websites.
-= Audience reactions =-
Our goal was mainly to connect people of Bhopal to Mozilla and its mission. Cybercafé owners invited to our event were very excited about the event. They agreed to install Mozilla Firefox as their default browser in internet café’s. The student of NIIT was very enthusiastic in event. They have shown their zeal to learn the open web. They participated in various activities, very interactive and supportive. Awesome support for Mozilla Student rep, we have got 4 student reps among all and rests of them were told to join army of awesome.They enjoyed learning X ray goggles,HTML5,Joomla,and many more handons.
-= Evening event =-
After the conference there was a organized meetup where the speakers and attendees could mingle, discuss more and exchange experiences. It was a down-to-earth context and a good way to talk more.
-= Materials =-
Slides are created using Mozilla Wiki and videos of Mr.Gary Kovacs about TED do not track me.
Event Video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrPlovFUO3A
-= Other presentations =-
- How to buid websites? A modern approach by Mr.Umar Farooque,
- joomla,
- firebug and x-ray goggles.
-= Direct competition =-
Firefox quiz was organized based on which we got our student reps. Winners are selected as Mozilla Students reps.
-= Organization =-
This was the first event conducted by Mozilla Team in NIIT. They eagerly cooperated and supported us for the event by providing accommodation and resources.All went vey good and according to expectation.
-= Overall feel =-
Audience enjoyed the event because it was filled with very interactive questions, discussion and feedbacks. They enjoyed the practical handons and much more.
-= Leads =- Created different Firefox clubs in colleges of Bhopal. Created a channel of communication over Facebook to enhance the interaction between all of them.
-= Was it worth it? =- I think so. They were very excited and enthusiastic about Mozilla.
-= Should we go again? =- Bhopal is capital of Madhya Pradesh having around 2500 computer science student studying in the vicinity of City. So it’s a very nice and wonderful opportunity for us to invest our efforts in this city to create a Mozilla Community Bhopal.
Event MozCoffee Bhopal as Mozilla’s presence organizer
A Meetup of All Mozillians of Bhopal,India as Mozilla Reps , Student Reps , Volunteers and other indivisuals who are eager to know about Mozilla and its Mission. along with the Introduction about WebMaker. so expecting for more Attendies than only a MozCoffee Event will be focused about the planning of making more contributors and supporter from Bhopal , India. Bhopal Having many of the mozillians ans supporters so all will come together in this meetup for making the planing for next month
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Summer Code Party@MozFestPune 7 July 2012
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On 7 July 2012 we had a great event here at Allana Institute of Management Sciences Pune India. We celebrated it as Mozilla Festival Pune(MozFestPune).Event has a number of educative and interactive activates. With around 80-100 participants and with a cool team of remos from pune,we organized it as one of the rocking event of Pune.We did interactive quizes,handson and presentations. We had participants from other colleges also.
A well said quote “First Impression is the Last impression” ,yeah i am talking about one of the very awesome showcase of the event. MozFestTeam had created two giant Mozilla Firefox Logo and Mozilla Summer Code party logo in the college hub. The logos are created with India’s traditional “Rangoli” colors. The logos are created to spread awareness about Mozilla and Its Mission.
Event had started with the introduction of Remos by Sara khan, she introduced the speakers to the crowd. We conducted following activities throughout the day.
•Mozilla Summer Code Party:
The session handed over to Sayak, Sayak made the audience familiar with summer code party. He explained about webmaker tools like thimble, X-ray goggles and popcorn.
•Rock with Firefox HandsOn
After sayak’s session, I took the session in my hand and started a Fascinating hands “Rock with Firefox”. I explained how to use awesome features of Latest Firefox like personas, add-ons, private browsing.
•We want URDU Firefox:
After me Rajesh Ranjan and Aman got the crowd for localization sprint. They both showed about localization process. They motivated participants to come forward URDU Firefox Localization. We got a team for localization of Urdu language.
Meanwhile quizzes were asked from participants, this excited the participants and made the event more interactive.
Lunch Session:
All of the attendees enjoyed the delicious food and got their energy back for some more Mozilla Action.
•Hands-On URDU Localization:
Rajesh and Aman took a very interactive hands-on on how to localize Firefox. They explained about POOTLE tools and how to set your machine for your regional language. They guide attendees to translate in URDU language.
•Mozilla, FOSS and Awesome Softwares for NewBies..
Ankit Gadgil in his session beautifully explained the Mozilla story and Awesome Foss Softwares available in market like Latex. Participants enjoyed his session.
•Fennec:
We got Soumya Deb(Debloper), he got the crowd’s attention and introduces the all new Fennec browser for android. He list out some of the exciting features of Fennec to audience.
•Wear X-Ray Goggles and Play With Thimble Hands-on:
Party Time, Summer Code party started by Sayak and Me. Sayak and me described the new tools of web maker to audiences, Participants learned how to use X-ray, Thimble and popcorn. Participants had created very beautiful and creative Remixes. we also had a competition for Best Remix, we declared three best remixes as winner and they got Firefox t-shirts and other swags.
Participants loved the tools and experiments.
•Joomla:-New generation CMS:
Saurabh shah gave us his time from his busy schedule. He showed audience how to install and configure Joomla. He showed how to create a cool blog and website in just few clicks.Participants enjoyed he Hands On.
Quizes and How to Get Involved:
Farhanaaz and Sara Khan conducted a very informative quiz for participants. Participants enjoyed the quiz and enhanced their knowledge.
Last but not least I explained how to get involved with Mozilla. We got a number of student representatives from Allana Inst of mgmt Sciences who pledged to contribute in Mozilla.
At end of the event participants were full of Mozilla Spirit, enthusiasm and zeal for learning more about Mozilla Community and spreading the words about Mozilla and Its Mission.
They left with lots of good memories, fun and knowledge.
Event Schedule:
Event links:
Twitter Hashtag :#mozfestpune
Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/events/313778335373733/?ref=ts
Pictures: At Flicker
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