Mozilla Kerala Community Meetup 2.0

So after a long span of four months Mozillians around Kerala have come together for the second meetup of the Mozilla Kerala Community with a strong motive of taking the Mozilla initiative a step forward. After the Meetup 1.0 there has been a very good progress whether it is in the case of events, getting contributors or marketing. The event took place at BTH Hotel, Ernakulam South Kerala on January 19th from 10:00 to 1700 hours. We had received over sixty registrations and from that about thirty seven people were short-listed to attend the event.
We had kick started the event at around 10am with a grand opening talk by Abid Aboobaker. He had informally welcomed and introduced the mozillians who had been with community since the last meetup and before that. After that we had the ice breaking session similar to the one we had in the last meetup. Then Anush listed out the past events done by the community. This was followed up with Saurabh, going through each event and analysing and coming up with revisions wherever needed. After that we had altogether turned to group activity for that each of members were grouped into groups of four/five. All the mozillians were requested to come up with new ideas and suggestions for conducting event and working structure. We had brainstormed for quite a good time and have come with a handful of suggestions/ideas. We had lunch after the brainstorming session. The afternoon session was concentrated in forming Working groups for the community like design working group,Web development, Evangelism, System admin etc. Also new community members were introduced to bugzilla, irc and etherpad so that they can effectively work. Again each veteran members of community were assigned to each new member to follow up. We were very glad that we got five awesome womens to our team so that we could push WoMoz to some extent. It was really awesome to get together with lots of Mozillians and storming ideas for shaping the future of the community. I thank all the people who made this event sucessfull

The full set of pics can be found here http://bit.ly/Kz1ZIi

#MozSummit

"What is Mozilla Summit?"
Mozilla Summit is the gathering of Mozillians from around the world to discuss where Mozilla is heading and make plans for the future. Moreover to celebrate the years of awesomeness. This year it held simultaneously at three different locations Brussels, Santa Clara and Toronto from October 4 2013 to October 6 2013.

My Summit location was Santa Clara and here's my brief account of it. Seriously its very brief.

"3 Days of Awesomeness"
The first day was kicked of by Triston Nitot with his Welcome Speech.  Then came the Keynote from Chairperson of Mozilla Foundation Mitchell Baker. The talk dealt with the topic "What makes Mozilla "Mozilla". This talk was a live feed from since she was tat the Summit @ Brussels. Then there was a small presentation and speech from Brendan. After a short break there was world fair. Every country represented themselves quite well at their stalls with food, dresses, coins, custom swags etc. There were many open sessions post lunch. The day ended with Firefox OS dinner and party.
The second day as usual was started by Triston Nilot. Then came Harvey Anderson with a report on the health of the web. This was quite informative and gave insights of threats been faced. Also there was demo of some of the upcoming products by Brendan. Post break there was Innovation Fair followed by open sessions. The day came to an end with World Fair Dinner.
The third day started also had the same start. The Mozillians were divided into small groups and was asked to brainstorm and come up with action plans. The activity went for a long time and people coming with lots of cool plans. All these were recorded and was asked to be filled in a form so that these plans can be put to action. Then there was the usual open sessions and the day came to an end with awesome dance party.

"Extras"
It was such a spectacular event and i was glad to be the part of it. Among all, the most memorable part of the Summit was the time spent with Slovenian Community Thanks to Rok, Gasper, Goran and Matyaz and with Support Mozilla Team(SUMO) Thanks to Rosana and Madalina. Apart from these i was able to meet lots and lots of cool mozillians and share talks. The social events were also cool, notable mention Great America amusement park. It was a great feeling altogether. Thanks Mozilla :) Keep it coming.

Mozilla Kerala Meetup 1.0

Pre Event
It was time to call a meetup for the Kerala locale and after the meetup we felt that we organized it at the very right time. Me and Saurabh planned for a meetup involving a total 20 people including us. The registration for the event was opened about one month prior to the event and we picked up most active members from it.

Event
The event took place at Gokulam park Kochi, Kerala on 8th September 2013. We started at about 10am. An ice breaking session was conducted at first when the participants were asked to select a pair and talk about him/her. After that we had fully focussed community building agenda. There were brainstorming, discussions, arguments etc which were pooled together for implementing. We also had some presentations from the particpants. They are as follows:- 

• CSS3 selectors by Anush Anilkumar
• Firefox OS development by Nikhil John
• Web RTC Peer CDN by Jithin Sha
• Robot Programming using Javascript by Praveen Sridhar
• Introduction to Drupal and Freedom on the Web by Abid Aboobaker

We finished the event by having a group photo and we separated with the belief that we have set up now something in motion which will take new dimensions in the coming days.

Post Event
The event got great publicity and since then there were many events and activities been going on. The official blog and website was setup. We got busy :).
Event Pics :- http://www.flickr.com/photos/96450907@N03/sets/72157635439440022/with/9699704185/

Blog/Website        http://blog.mozillakerala.org/ www.mozillakerala.org
Facebook group   www.facebook.com/groups/MozillaKerala
Facebook page    www.facebook.com/MozillaKerala
Twitter                  @mozillakerala

Firefox OS Mini App Days – Rajagiri College Of Engineering, Kochi.

          Firefox OS Mini App Days[Kerala] are a series of events hosted as a continuation to the Firefox OS App Days in Kochi,Kerala. These are mainly aimed at institutions were students are encouraged to develop there own apps in groups or a individuals and submit to firefox marketplace.

          We have officially started our events in Rajagiri College of Engineering. It was a one day event with about 70+ students. There were also attendees from nearby colleges. The registration started at about 8:30 am and was closed by 9:30am. The event started at sharp 10:00am. The agenda mainly included General Mozilla talk/Introduction to FFOS , App Development, Hands on Developer session :

> General Mozilla talk/Introduction to FFOS- Mainly discussed mission and activities of Mozilla. About the FFOS,its benefits and how it is gonna change the way people see the mobile world.

> App Development – FFOS architecture,how to simulate the app and validate the manifest.

> Hands on Developer Session – Students were working on to build apps for the marketplace.

         After the above sessions the students were made to demo their app and talk about it.

The apps demoed are as follows :-

> Simple converter – it does simple conversions like metre to centimetre etc

> Bounce game – In this game we have to keep the ball bouncing

> Scientific Calculator – It does scientific calculations

> Timer – In it we could measure time intervals

> Touch Puzzle - A picture is cut into different pieces and is in a scrambled state we have to rearrange to finish the puzzle.

> Clock – A simple digital clock

> Horoscope – By typing in our DOB we could get our sign details for example Gemini,Libra etc

> Hangman – Same old hangman game

> Love calculator – Getting percentage of love between two lovers

> Tic Tac Toe – a strategic game

> Stone Paper Scissors – Traditional game played with hands by the students

> Minesweeper – traditional windows game

Almost 12 apps and apart from the above some unfinished ones were also demoed.

Metrics:-

Metric #1   Recruiting contributors Success scenario #1   Not less than 5

We got some very enthusiastic contributors with many FF Student ambassador sign-ups

Metric #2   Apps demos Success scenario #2   Atleast 2 - 3

We got nearly 12 apps :)

Metric #3   New requests for Hackathons Success scenario #3   1-2

Couple of colleges nearby who came for the session requested to conduct similar ones in their college.

Metric #4   Creating a Student Ambassador Club Success scenario #4   Identifying the potential contributors and following up with their works.

There was already a FF ambassador in the college who helped us in coordinating the event and he has said that Club activities gonna start quite soon with official inauguration and follow up activities.

The event was quite a sucess and my special thanks to Saurabh(:jsx), Naresh

Firefox App Days Kerala

Firefox App Days[Kerala] was the first major event by Mozilla in the Kerala locale(India). The event took place on June 22nd at Startup Village Kochi. The event venue was special since it was the first place in India to have 1Gbps connection. This event made a thorough imprint for Mozilla Mission in Kerala.

A little about the event...
      The event witnessed a participation of nearly 65 people of which 9 were Mozillian/Rep Attendees who helped organize the event. The event kicked off after the breakfast with an introduction of Firefox OS and Marketplace. After that we had the most exciting higlight of the event which was none other than the remote session from Nick Desaulniers(JavaScript Mind Reader Jedi at Mozilla). Then there was a small session on WebFwd which got nice response from the audience. Again the event got into the App Development Session. Then after the lunch hackathon session followed when participants became busy with app development. This was followed by the demos of the app by the developers and the team who made the best app were given the opportunity to cut the cake celebrating 15 years of Mozilla. Then firefox app day tee shirts were given away. The event concluded with grand style.
Apps developed at the event are as follows :-
    > an HTML5 implementation of a Japanese flower arrangement game
    > a snake and ladder game
    > a hangman game
    > a wallet utility thingy
    > a game for identifying similar items with pictures and sounds for
autistic kids
    > an app that would let us add a new note every time a call is received
(by the Sony people)
    > BMI calculator
    > news readed for hacker news
    > language translator
    > Unit converter
    > Event management programme
    > Love percentage calculator

A little more about the event...
     The event got featured in national as well as the local newspaper creating a massive publicity for Firefox OS and Mozilla Mission. We had two official Sony professionals who were working on Firefox OS Team at Sony. The event has set out momentum for more app days in the locale, as a result of it 2-3 mini app days have been confirmed in engineering colleges. Finally we believe that this event created enough foundation for Mozilla in Kerala locale so as to move forward in confidence.

I am done a little more...

Nick's presentation    

http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/firefoxOSPresentation/#/initial

Press coverage bits    

http://i.imgur.com/wly1MAq.jpg(Malayalam)

http://i.imgur.com/XH1KYdh.jpg (Malayalam)
http://i.imgur.com/aSpxzeQ.png (English)

   

Random pic                 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNbAE0eCMAAQ5G2.jpg

Link to full set of pics :-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/98095128@N03/sets/72157634357896718/
https://plus.google.com/photos/109578479795240778075/albums/5894213640774392385?banner=pwa