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Mozilla L10n Hindi, Marathi, Gujrati and Angika Community Meetup 2018

2018-09-30T08:37:00.001-07:00

Mozilla L10n Hindi, Marathi, Gujrati and Angika Community Meetup 2018

1-2 September 2018, Pune

“जहां चाह है, वहां राह है"

“Where there's a will there's a Way”

"If you are determined, you can find a way to achieve whatever you want, even if it is very difficult."

I would love to start this Blog with above saying which is the perfect match of what we have achieved as outcome of the L10n meetup held in Pune during 1-2, September 2018.

It was an honor for me to get an invite to participate in the meetup and give a talk on ‘How to bring Impact on Mozilla mission through localization and QA’.

With the objective of not to miss any moment or any session of the meetup, I started from Kolkata on 31^st August 2018 and landed Pune at late evening on the same day.

Without wasting any time, I rushed to the hotel to see some of the participants before they go to sleep. Yes, my plan was successful, I manged to meet and kill some of the time of Prathamesh and Aniket :P

Accommodation was arranged for all the participants in Hotel Novotel, which is a world class International 5 Star hotel in Pune.

As expected, I was suppose to share room with Umesh who already checked in the hotel on same evening. We discussed about plan of the meetup scheduled next morning. I then had my dinner ‘Veg Biryani’ in the hotel room itself. Next morning, i.e on 1^st September, we all assembled in hotel lobby at around 8:00 AM. We quickly finished breakfast and left for the venue of the meetup. Complimentary breakfast at the hotel was an awesome combination of South India, North India and regional dishes.

Highlights of Day-1

Umesh started ‘Day-1’ with interactive discussion and introduction of all the participants. He also took their views, feedback and exception with the two days meetup. The bold statement of the session was: “Don’t hesitate to ask any questions.” After having introductory session, we moved on various sessions as follows.

Session-1 ‘Ice- breakdown -- Warm up session’ by Umesh Agarwal

Before kicking start with the agenda, Umesh has quickly announced the agenda for the day. Participants of the meetup mutually decided the hash-tag of the meetup as, #MozINL10n18

Session-2: “How to bring Impact on Mozilla Mission through Localization and QA” by Shahid Ali Farooqui

I divided my session in to following there parts.

1. Languages
2. Bringing impact in regional community through localization and QA
3. Bringing Impact on Mozilla Mission through Localization and QA

I mostly tried to motivate participants toward focusing on quality and consistent contribution in localization.

Session-3: Understand the Individual's Role - Eg. Manger, Translator, Reviewer and Product Tester by Umesh Agarwal

Session-4: Pontoon Tool Overview Tips and Tricks by Dhiraj Kumar Singh and Mahtab Alam

Session-5: Firefox for Mobile Quality Check and Terminology Consistency by Ravi Kumbhkar

Session-6: Firefox for Android Quality Check and Terminology Consistency (Individual team breakout)

Lunch Break: We all enjoyed Domino’s Pizza

Session-7: Introduction to Bugzilla and Bug Filing, Access Rights, Mozilla L10n Blog by Gujarati Team

Session-8: Individual Team Feedback (General Comment by all ‘A Productive Day’)

Day-1 end-up with Cake Cutting, Swag distribution, group photo and then grand dinner

Highlights of Day-2

We all assembled at hotel lobby at around 8:30 AM to have breakfast and to leave for the venue of the meetup. Like Day-1, complimentary breakfast at the hotel was an awesome combination of South India, North India and regional dishes.

Day-2 started with the recap of day-1, individual team work of day-1 and planning to complete the task in day-2.

All the team completed the localization of products under the supervision of their locale leaders.

Lunch Break: We all enjoyed the lunch from KFC.

After the lunch, following session were conducted.

Session-1: Training session for new members -- How to do it? Let’s discuss by Chandrakant and Shahid

Session-2: SUMO Pages translation process and Quality Check by Mahtab Alam

Session-3: Agile Methodology by Umesh Agarwal

Session-4: Feedback from participants

Champ of the Year 2018 for each locale are recognizer with a special gift.

Angika: Kumar Ritu Raj

Gujarati: Hariom Panchal

Hindi: Mahtab Alam

Marathi: Narendra Petkar and Nilima Chavan

Day-2 end-up with a group photograph, grand dinner and saying bye-bye with a commitment to meet again with same enthusiasm and passion.

My Observation about the Meetup: This meetup was part of the Mozilla L10n community events in 2018. The meetup was of very high standard, productive and end up with great success metrics. Approximately twenty leaders of four regional languages traveled from various parts of the country to participate in the meetup.

Acknowledgements: My special thanks to Umesh for taking initiative and hosting such a productive meetup of year 2018. My sincere thanks to Prathamesh, Aniket, Chandrakant Ji and Umesh for such an outstanding logistics arrangement and their tiring efforts to make the meetup successful and productive. Last but not the least, I thanks all the participants for all their contributions, sparing valuable time and traveling all the way from their place to Pune to participate in the meetup.

My Takeaway: Good to see community heading in right directions with full of strength!

Discussion over tea: I thanks Chandrakant ji and his wife for offering me an awesome tea at their home.

Photo of the Meetup:

Useful Resource:

Meetup Wiki Page for more details: Click Here

Photos of Day-1: Click Here

Photos of Day-2: Click Here

A Journey from Shahid to Mozilla Uncle

2014-02-14T12:54:00.001-08:00

Webmaker Kitchen Party, Allahabad

12 January 2014

I am delighted to share my experience of very first Webmaker event at Allahabad. It was an amazing experience to have lots of FUN with kids.

I hosted Webmaker Kitchen Party for Kids at Allahabad on 12th January 2014. Initially this event was planned to be hosted in a school at Allahabad. But due to sudden fall in temperature, city administration announced holidays for school kids for a week. As a result, I have changed the venue of the event from school to my home. I invited some 30 kids, few engineering students and some house wives from my locality for the event, I wanted to invite even more kids but due to space constraint I could not do it. There was a mixed crowd of class 3rd to class 12th, engineering students, house wives etc.

The kids were so excited to attend the event and gathered at my home well before the event's time.

The event was also attended by following Mozillians.

1. Rahul Ranjan, RMA FSA, IIIT Allahabad
2. Raid Ahmad, RMA FSA, MIT Meerut
3. Charul Agarwal, FSA, IIIT Allahabad
4. AdityaChaturvedi, FSA IIIT Allahabad
5. Jatin Mehta, FSA IIIT Allahabad
6. Tayyab Isfahani, Mozillian, Kanpur

Since It was a very first Mozilla event for most of the RMA and FSAs, we all sat together and had a brief discussion about various Mozilla products like Webmaker, Firefox OS, Firefox Browser, Persona, Firebug, Localization, MDN, FSA Program, WoMoz, FOSS etc. I found this event as a good platform to meet and interact with RMAs and FSAs of my region, I am glad to meet them for the first time.

The event started with my very basic introductory talk about Mozilla, Mozilla Products, Mozilla Projects, Webmaker and various Webmaker tools.

Then Rahul Ranjan, RMA talked about FSA Program, kids of 12th standard looked very interested in the FSA Program.

Then Rais Ahmad, RMA MIT Meerut briefed about Webmaker and gave demo on its various tools.

Then FSAs, Charul, Jatin and Aditya gave a basic talk on 'What is a computer and how to protect it', 'What is an E-Mail ID and how it works' and 'What is a search engine and how to search information on Google'.

Now, we have reached to "Teaching and Learning" session for kids. We formed various groups, each group was consist of maximum 3 kids. We then made the pair of groups. Pair of groups asked to teach at least one topic (what ever they want) to each another. Volunteers were helping them in making the groups, selecting the topic to teach and learn etc. We allowed 20 minutes for this session. At last, we invited one member from each group to tell all the attendees about what they have taught or learnt. Kids enjoyed a lot this session and they learnt 'how to prepare maggi', 'rules in badminton, rules in cricket etc.

Now It was a time for drawing and design competition for Kids. We asked kids to design and color the Firefox and Webmaker logo.

One can see the enthusiasm and dedication of kids in following photo.

Here is some of the kid's creations.

We selected two best drawings and announced as winner. Winners got Webmaker T-shirt and Firefox Bag :)

We distributed color box and drawing pad to all the kids as a token of participation and consolation prize . Kids were so happy to get these goodies.

At last Kids were so happy to attend the event, it was a very different experience for them. They were happy to get color box, drawing pad and a very delicious snack pack :). Many kids are now calling me as MOZILLA UNCLE, I am simply loving it. :) :) :)

Now Its a time for group and individual clicks with Firefox vertical banner.

My event report/blog is incomplete without paying my hearty thanks to Gauthamraj (MozRaj) for his help and ideas to make this event successful.

I am very thankful to Rahul, Charul, Jatin and Rais for writing nice blogs to share their experience about the event.

Event Page Link: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/webmaker-kitchen-party-2/

Photos of the Event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/75353564@N07/12524406113/in/photostream/

Blog written by Rahul: https://medium.com/p/92284813e09f

Blog written by Rais: http://mozillianrais.blogspot.in/

Blog written by Charul: https://honeycoding.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/fun-with-kids-at-webmakers-kitchen-party/

Blog written by Jatin: https://medium.com/p/7773eab71d58

Great Learning Experience, Lots of Fun and Volunteering at Mozilla Summit 2013

2013-11-17T11:32:00.003-08:00

It was an experience while attending and volunteering (Summit Host) at Mozilla Summit 2013. About 700 Mozillians from 95 countries participated in the summit. About fifty Mozillians from India has also participated and gained the opportunity of best learning and networking experience.

Following blog on Mozilla Summit 2013 is written by Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of the Mozilla

Foundation: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2013/03/31/mozilla-summit/

It was a Three Days Summit hosted at Santa Clara, Brussels and Toronto simultaneously. I attended the Summit at Santa Clara, US.

Day 1 of the Summit started with Welcome Note by Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe. The Keynote talk on “What makes Mozilla 'Mozilla'” was by Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation. I really loved her idea of “Know More, Do More and Do Better”.

Mitchell's talk followed by another talk on Envisioned Future State by Brendan Eich which was a presentation about their long term, project wide, stretch goals. The next was Our World Fair, which was a way for participants to showcase where they come from and/or what they are doing and for others to connect and build bridges to learn more. About 20-30 countries including India participated in World Fair.

The other topics of subsequent talks were Building a Web Literate World by Sandraghassen Subbaraya Pillai, Ankit Gadgil, Vineel Reddy Pindi, Benny Chandra, Faye Tandog, Christos Bacharakis, Lawrence Kisuuki, What does "Mozillian" mean by Sujith Reddy, Alex Lakatos, and, Firefox OS in 2014 and beyond By Sandip Kamat, Christian Heilmann.

Then we gathered outside the hotel for a group photo, It was really an awesome moment to assemble for the group photo.. The day1 was concluded with the dinner and karaoke. Food throughout the event was just awesome.

Day 2 started with welcome note by Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe. There were various talks followed by the Innovation Fair. The Innovation Fair is a way for participants to showcase what they are working on. The focus is on products and technology, current or future. Like the World Fair, the Innovation Fair is a way to connect with other Mozillians who may be interested in getting involved with your project.

Among the talks that followed thence were One and Done by Parul Mathur, Level Up with Firefox Student Ambassadors! by Vineel Reddy Pindi, and Strategies of industry players and competing effectively by Irina Sandu, Sandip Kamat. Before th end of the day2, some of site hosts got an opportunity to visit the Mozilla Foundation headquarter at Mountain View, I was one of them. It was then time for World Fare Dinner, a sit-down, buffet dinner featuring chef's choice of foods from around the world.

Mozilla Summit 2013 Day 3 started with a welcome note. Among the talks that followed were Turning Ideas into Action by Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe, Designing your project for participation by Benjamin Kerensa, Soumya Deb, Product Opportunities in the Cloud by Toby Elliott, Vishy Krishnamoorthy, Mozilla Reps: How to be more awesome Community Builders by Vineel Reddy Pindi, Galaxy Kadiyala, Amir Aharoni, Culture Pulse: Values Action Plan by Dino Anderson, Plato's Cave: Data At Mozilla by Saptarshi Guha, David Zeber, Economic Justice, Mozilla, and the Trans Pacific Partnership by Eitan Isaacson, Diversity Identity Core Engagement by Dino Anderson, Mozilla IT by Ashish Vijayaram, Security Tools by Patil Kailas Ravsaheb, and Waartaa by Ratnadeep Debnath.

Enthusiasm @ MozCamp Allahabad

2013-04-28T08:26:00.003-07:00

We hosted a Mozilla event "MozCampAllahabad" at Allahabad on 20th April 2013.

MozCamp Allahabad was an effort to build a Mozilla and FOSS community in Uttar Pradesh which is one of the largest state in northern region of our country. Allahabad is known as educational hub of Uttar Pradesh (UP). One of the major objective of this event was to make people aware about the opportunities available to get involve in Mozilla and other FOSS initiatives.

MozCamp Allahabad held at S N Ghosh Auditorium, J K Institute of Applied Physics and Technology, University of Allahabad, on Saturday 20th April 2013.

The event started at sharp 10:30 AM with the inauguration by the Chief Guest, Prof. R R Tiwari , Head of the Dept., Dept. of Electronics & Communication, J K Institute of Applied Physics and Technology, University of Allahabad.

We were amaze to witness the enthusiastic participation of about 300 B Tech, MCA and BCA students of University of Allahabad and other institutions in Allahabad. The entire auditorium was packed at 10:30 AM

Schedule of the event:

10:30 AM    Inauguration by Prof. R R Tiwari

10:35 AM Saraswati Puja

10:45 AM    Inaugural talk by Prof. R R Tiwari

11:00 AM Tea Break

11:15 AM    Talk by Shahid Farooqui, Mozilla Reps, India

01:00 PM    Lunch Break

02:00 PM    Talk by Biraj Karmakar, Mozilla Reps, India

03:00 PM    Talk on Skype by Ankit Bahuguna, Mozilla Reps, India

03:30 PM    Quiz on Mozilla products and projects + Other FOSS

04:30 PM    Vote of Thanks and Prize Distribution by Prof. R. R Tiwari

05:00 PM    High Tea + Open Session + Networking etc

09:30 PM    Dinner for Speakers and Volunteers at "Restaurant Samira" Allahabad

Shahid Farooqui's Talk:

Introduction to Mozilla and its initiatives
How to contribute in Mozilla Projects.
WebFWD for Entrepreneurs
FOSS initiatives in India and across the world.
Introduction to Firefox OS

Biraj Karmakar's Talk:

Getting started with Webmaker.
A hands-on session for Localization (workshop)

Ankit Bahuguna's Talk:

Making HTML5 work with FirefoxOS

We distributed Firefox striker, Button and bracelet to all the participants and distributed Firefox striker, Button and bracelet, T-shirt and bag to volunteers.

About the Quiz

Quiz was based on FOSS, Mozilla Products and Project. There were 32 students participated in Quiz. We divided them into 8 groups (group A to H), ie. 4 students in each group.

Group 'C' was declared as winner, all the 4 students of this group were happy to get Firefox T-shirt.

Group 'E' was declared as runner, all the 4 students of this group got Firefox Bag.

MozCamp Allahabad coverage in Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/Workshop-for-university-students-on-free-and-open-source-software/articleshow/19655594.cms?intenttarget=no

Reps Event Web Page

https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozcampallahabad/

MozCamp Allahabad Photos on Flicker

http://www.flickr.com/groups/2212810@N21/pool/with/8690037180/lightbox/

Blog Link

http://www.shahidfarooqui.in/2013/04/enthusiasm-mozcamp-allahabad.html

Acknowledgement and Thanks:

I thanks to Prof. R R Tiwari for his support and giving permission to host the event at University of Allahabad.

I thanks to Biraj and Ankit for their wonderful and informative sessions.

I thanks to Rahul Mishra for all his help and logistics supports right from the planning of the event.

I thanks to volunteers Korak Mukhopadhyaya, Gopi Bhattacharya, Nilanjan Bhattacharya, and Viabhav Maini, for their support during the whole event.

I thanks Gopi Bhattacharya and Shweta Srivastava for their dedicated scoring during the Quiz.

I also thanks to Sania, Youngest Mozallian of Allahabad, for her presence in the event.

@ShahidFarooqui

An effort to Connect People: MozConnect Durgapur

2013-04-14T12:27:00.002-07:00

MozConnect Durgapur

Date: 13th April 2013

Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Venue: Evelyn, Vidhan Nagar, Durgapur (WB)

We hosted an event "MozConnect-Durgapur" on Saturday, 13 April 2013 at Evelyn, Bidhan Nagar, Durgapur, West Bengal.

Please have a look on following link for the event page and planning pad.

Event Link: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozconnect-durgapur/

Planning Pad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/remo-mozconnect-durgapur

Agenda:

Introduction of all the participants

Review of the previous MozCafe

Monthly Meetup

Identifying contributors in various projects

To organize a Mozilla camp in NIT Durgapur

Discussion on Offline translation tools and manual testing

Presentation of Rajesh Ranjan paper on Context in technical Translation: concept and guidelines.

The objective of this event was to review of work done by the Durgapur community in last two months and open discussion with the potential contributors identified in MozCafe held in Durgapur on 13th February 2013. We discussed on community building, identifying more contributors for various Mozilla projects etc. The another major objective of this event was to connect potential contributors with Mozilla Reps and other volunteers.

We started our discussion at 1:30 PM.

We discussed with all the participants one by one and talked about their involvement in Mozilla and their plan in coming days. Following is the list of few participants along with their area of interest and willingness to join Mozilla projects.

Bodhiswattwa Tewari: Working on Linux mint help and SUMO, Interested in Mozilla WebFWD

Souradaab: Working on Bugzilla and mozmail.

Apoorv Ashutosh: Interested in Web Development

Chandan: Working on Localization and Firefox

Umesh: Working on Mozilla Design, Flicks, Interested in Mozilla WebFWD

Biraj: Mozilla Reps, Working in Localization, Interested in WebFWD

Abhishek Kumar: Working on SUMO, localization and design

Niraj Kumar Singh: Working on Localization, NeMo & SUMO localization, Java Script, HTML5, PHP, MySQL, Java, Interested in Web framework and WebFWD

Amit Kumar Thakur: Working on SUMO, Localization and OpenWeb tool,

Shantanu & Avinash: Working on Mozilla design and flicks along with Umesh

Shubendu: Working on Localization in Bangla

Saurav : Working on Localization in Hindi, HTML5 & CSS, willing to contribute in Firefox OS dev and Web Dev.

Shahid: Mozilla Reps, Working on Localization, Django, Event Management, SUMO, NeMO, Coordination in South Asia, WebFWD

Gaurav – Working on Localization, FOSS, HTML5, Interested in WebDev, Firefox OS Dev, and WebFWD

Mrityunjay – Working on Localization, HTML5, Interested in Firefox OS Dev and Mozilla WebFWD

The Growing Mozilla Community at Durgapur

Following are the links of blogs written by the MozConnect Dugrapur event.

http://ciypro.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/durgapur-mozconnect-a-review-path-for-mozilla-durgapur/

http://birajkarmakar.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/mozconnectdurgapur/

http://desouradeep.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/mozconnect-durgapur/

Mozilla 15th Celebration

2013-04-03T11:54:00.003-07:00

Mozilla 15th Celebrations at Allahabad on 31st March 2013

A long back, I have planned to celebrate Mozilla 15th Anniversary at Allahabad. Following is the URL of the event page.

Event Page: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozcelebs15/

There were several objectives/reasons to host this event at Allahabad. The major objectives behind it to host this event at Allahabad are to "Spread Mission and Objectives of various Mozilla Projects", "Building a Mozilla community", "Starting activities at least in 5 colleges of the city", and "Recruitment of new contributors and volunteers".

It was a great occasion to celebrate 15th year of Mozilla in my home town Allahabad.

We hosted our event in a restaurant "Friends Forever" in Civil Lines which is situated in most posh area of the city. About 30 attendees turned up to celebrate the event. We started our event at 11:30 AM sharp with a brief introduction about Mozilla and its initiatives. I have given a talk on Mozilla Mission and its products like Firefox OS, Firefox browser, Thunderbird etc. I also thrown light on other projects like localization, NeMo, SUMO and Webmaker etc. I also talked about WebFWD project for entrepreneur. Attendees were enthusiastic and keen to know "How to contribute in Mozilla projects" and How to become part of such an awesome community. Attendees enjoyed delicious snacks and cold coffee during the talk

Chocolate Cake: Mozilla 15th Cake :)

The Cake was cut by our chief guest of the event 'Ms. Sania' who is the youngest Mozillian of Allahabad community :)

We hosted a Quiz competition right after cutting the cake. In quiz, the questions were asked on FOSS and related to Mozilla which includes identification of various logos. Eleven attendees participated in the quiz, top five attendees got the Firefox OS T-Shirt.

The winners are Ravi Kumar, Mushahid, Shahid Akhtar, Rahul Mishra, and Chandan

We planned for the regular community meetup in Allahabad and how to start contribution in several Mozilla projects.

We all then gathered for a group photograph which is the witness of Mozilla 15th celebration and very first community meetup at Allahabad.

Thanks to Mozilla and all attendees for a wonderful organization of such a very successful event.

I thanks and wish to all the committed contributors identified in this event.

Thanks & Regards

Shahid Farooqui

MozReps

Story behind I turned as Mozillian :)

2013-04-02T12:18:00.002-07:00

Being a FOSS activist, I am very much into various FOSS activities in our country.

I was attending the Wiki India Conference in November 2011 in Mumbai.

While participating in Hackathan session during the above conference, one person walked

to the stage and called participants to help him in Localisation in Urdu, Arabic and

other languages.

He was Aamir Aharoni, Mozilla Reps from Israel. I spent about 2-3 hours with him and

contributed for localisation in Urdu language.

Aamir introduced me several Mozilla initiatives and Mozilla Reps program.

I joined Mozilla Reps program on 13th December 2011 and turned as Mozillian :)

I thanks Aamir for introducing me such a wonderful and amazing program. -:)

MozCamp Durgapur – A success story of enthusiasm and outstanding event management skills

2013-02-24T11:11:00.002-08:00

MozCamp Durgapur – A success story of enthusiasm and outstanding event management skills.

https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozcamp-durgapur/

The first MozCamp of Durgapur , West Bengal is held on 13th February 2013. I was witness of an awesome organization of the event and the level of enthusiasm which I have seen in students of Dr. B. C. Roy college of Engineering, Durgapur, West Bengal. They wanted me to join the event and encourage them. Althogh It was a working day for me but I could not stop my self to take off for a day and join them.

The on spot registration started at 10:00 AM. Most of the participants were from Dr. B. C. Roy college of Engineering, Durgapur and few students from NIT Durgapur are also participated in the event. The event was divided into two parts, one is talk sessions and another one is hands-on session.

There were following talks in the event.

“Introduction to Mozilla and its products” taken by Chandan Kumar.

“A short introduction to Mozilla Design” taken by Umesh Agarwal.

“Localization” taken by Biraj Karmakar.

“HTML and Webmaker” taken by Sayan Chowdhury.

I talked on “Mozilla Mission and initiatives, How to get involve, GSoc, FOSS initiatives in Indian and across the Globe.”

You may get an idea about the level of enthusiasm of participants by going through the following blogs written by them.

http://ciypro.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/mozcafebcrec-durgapur-a-great-success/

http://youthsm.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/the-first-season-of-mozcafebcrec/

http://fosswithumesh.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/mozcafebcrecdurgapur/

http://pkseetechie.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/mozcafebcrec-horizon-2k13/

http://birajkarmakar.wordpress.com/tag/mozcafebcrec/

I have seen the level of outstanding enthusiasm in these students who are really very passionate, dynamic, potential to contribute and hunger to learn new technologies. They just want proper guidance to move forward.

.....Shahid

Sprint Session for Firefox OS localization in Hindi

2013-02-24T07:29:00.000-08:00

We hosted a virtual event “Sprint Session of Firefox OS Localization in Hindi” on 24th February 2013 (Today). It was a fantastic experience for me to host my first virtual event. Following is the link for our event.

https://reps.mozilla.org/e/firefox-os-in-hindi/

It was a very successful event in terms of achieving our goals.

We have completed the Firefox OS localization in Hindi. About 4000 submissions in a day :) is an amazing statistics.

We have planned this event about 15 days ago, We have provided the link of resources well in advance in order to ensure expected out come of the event. Planning pad can be seen at following link.

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/remo-firefox-os-in-hindi

We started at 10:00 AM (IST) sharp and completed the localization of Firefox OS in Hindi by 7:00 PM

Following was the sequence of different modules submissions:

1. Rajesh Ranjan - Emails

2. Shahid Farooqui - Homescreen

3. Chandan Kumar - Settings

4. Keshav & Amit - Communications

5. Umesh Agarwal - Systems

6. Gunjan Kumar - Music + Cost Control

7. Ashish Namdev - Cost Control

The event was a collaborative efforts of all participants. The entire team worked with full of dedication and enthusiasm., the credit of this successful event goes to the whole team. :)

A special thanks to Rajesh Ranjan Ji and Chandan Kumar.

Firefox OS in Hindi is ready for testing. Congrats All :)

A Day of Happenings: Firefox OS App Day

2013-02-02T11:40:00.002-08:00

A Day of Happenings: Firefox OS App Day in Bangalore, India

26th January 2013

Shahid Ali Farooqui, ReMo, India

A full day of fun, joy, networking, sharing, and learning “Firefox OS App Day is kicked off on January 26, 2013 at ThoughtWorks, Kormangala, Bangalore, India.

Firefox OS App Days happened in at least 25 locations across the world during the January 2013. The concept of this event was to bring Mozilla Contributors, Reps, Developers, Technologist, Evangelist at one platform and to collaborate on this program.

The objective of the Firefox OS App Day is to Educate and inspire developers to work on HTML5 Apps and submit them to the Firefox Marketplace, Amplify and inspire grassroots developer momentum worldwide, Create opportunities for local developers to showcase their apps, and Raise awareness of Firefox OS and the developer ecosystem.

The day started early for us volunteers to do the final preparations to make the event smooth for the attending developers. I was having my bed tea at 5:30 AM, Vineel called us just to make sure that we are awake :) Soumya was a step ahead, he visited each and every room and rang the bell :).

Attendees started coming as per the scheduled time, most of the attendees were from Bangalore, but there were also people from across the country. Matt Basta and Arun Ganeshan from Mozilla Corporation and at least 25 Mozilla Reps from across the country attended this event. The conference hall was over packed with the participants during the entire sessions.

Since 26th January is the Republic Day of our contry, the event started with our National Anthem “Jana Gana Mana” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jana_Gana_Mana).

After the Nationa Anthem, Matt Basta from Mozilla Corporation gave a very enlightening talk entitled “Introduction to Firefox OS & Apps Marketplace”. It was a good overview about the Firefox OS and why developers should consider creating Apps for Firefox OS. After a very inspiring and enlightening talk, now It was a time for a Q/A session. Matt Basta and Arun Ganeshan replied more than 100 queries at the moment and off-line. Q/A session was the witness of excitement of the hall packed attendees.

Right time to take lunch break :)

After having a delicious meal, every one was excited for the most awaited session, Yes “Hacking Session”. The developers spent the rest of the afternoon session in creating and testing Apps for Firefox OS. Around 5:30 PM we have started demos of Apps developed by the developers. About 50 Apps were presented and at least 20 Apps were in pipeline/progress.

The organizers identified 10 best Apps of the day and winners awarded with awesome Firefox OS mobile device.

Apart of hacking, attendees also enjoyed delicious food and lots of swag like T-Shirt, Bag, Notepad and a beautiful Pen Drive. :)

Finally the event concluded with a great learning experience, lots of fun and joy. This made possible with a collaborative community efforts and outstanding leadership of Vineel, Soumaya and Galaxy.

More pics of the event can be seen at following link.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mozillaindia/sets/72157632656050905/

Thanks & Regards

Shahid Ali Farooqui

ReMo, India

Represented Mozilla India in “Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013” held in Pune between 12-13 January 2013

2013-01-19T07:36:00.002-08:00

I represented Mozilla India in “Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013” held in Pune between 12-13 January 2013.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Summit_India

Before updating about the Wikipedia Summit, I would love to share about an awesome event which was organized in just 30 minutes of short notice. Since there is no direct flight from Kolkata to Pune, I decided to take flight for Mumbai and then traveled from Mumbai to Pune by train. I took halt at Mumbai for few hours. I called one of my friend at IIT Mumbai and asked him to meet. I reached IIT Mumbai at 10:00 PM and met him. He asked me the reason to visit Mumbai. I told him about the purpose of attending Wiki Summit Pune. He then immediately said, me and my friends are very curious to know about various initiatives of Mozilla foundation and how to start contribution. He said to me that, my friends may even come now (at 10:30 pm), he immediately called his 7-8 friends at IIT Mumbai and our meeting fixed at 11 pm. I named this meeting as MozCafe IITB -:)

I showed them a 20 min. presentation and mainly covered Mozilla Mission and projects. They were glad to know about the initiatives and keen to contribute in B2G and Localization.

Next day in the morning, I met with Prof. Kannan Moudgalya who is mentor of Akaash tablet project at IIT Mumbai. I updated him about the Firefox OS and App Days to be held in Bangalore on 26th January 2013. Ubuntu 12.04 is successfully ported on Akaash2 tablet. About 1 million tablet with Ubuntu 12.04 loaded will be available for students very soon. I discussed with Prof. Kannan about the possibilities of porting Firefox OS on Akaash2. But It will be too early to take a decision at this point of time when we do not have enough Apps. Lets contribute more and more Apps for Firefox OS platform. -:) . Akaash team is interested to give demo If we may give them a session in Firefox OS App Days to be held on 26th January 2013.

Lets now talk about “Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013” held in Pune between 12-13 January 2012 in which I represented Mozilla India. The Wikipedia Summit India 2013 was two days event organized by Wikipedia Club Pune to promote Wikipedia as an effective means of education, to empower and reach out to India. About 150 participants of speaking 10 different regional languages were participated in this summit. I planed to represent Mozilla India in this event and get more contributors for localization. The idea was that, since this event was to bring people from different regions who speaks different regional languages, we may get some potential contributors for localization project. Since there was a huge gathering of FOSS enthusiast in this event, I discussed and pushed for Firefox OS among the FOSS enthusiast.

I did not get chance to host a sessions but I very much interacted with the participants during the breaks, before and after the sessions. I presented my slides in group of 3-4 people and showed them few videos as well.

I am happy to say that, I got at-least 7-10 very potential and dynamic faces to take forward Localization, Webmaker and B2G project. They were seems to be very hunger to know more and more, but it was not possible to interact each of them seperately. I contacted all the students and FOSS enthusiast right after I came back to Kolkata. We are in constant touch and will start contributions in various projects very soon. I would love to mention some of the names here, Zulekha, Nikhil, Salman, Sankoswal, Anjali, Jay and Manan. I would also like to introduce following two very potential contributors.

Nikita Belavete, Executive Committee Member at Wikipedia India
Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge at Center for Internet & Society

This blog is also available at: http://mozillaindia.org/node/693

Stanford Online Study - Win an iPad2

2011-12-30T10:00:00.000-08:00

Participate in a simple online study for a chance to win an iPad2. Click 'Share' for more raffle tickets.

Stanford Online Study - Win an iPad2

Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox

2011-12-20T22:04:00.000-08:00

“Under this multi-year agreement, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox users around the world,” said Gary Kovacs, CEO, Mozilla.

“Mozilla has been a valuable partner to Google over the years and we look forward to continuing this great partnership in the years to come,” said Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Search, Google.

The specific terms of this commercial agreement are subject to traditional confidentiality requirements, and we’re not at liberty to disclose them.

Training on Intalio|BPMS

2011-12-20T12:14:00.000-08:00

Successfully completed the training course on BPM and SOA : Modeling, Designing and Executing with Intalio|BPMS organised at Hotel Hilton International Airport Mumbai during the 13-16 December 2011.

Intalio|BPMS is the world's most widely deployed Business Process Management System (BPMS). Designed around the open source Eclipse BPMN Modeler, Apache ODE BPEL engine, and Tempo WS-Human Task service developed by Intalio, it can support any processes, small or large.

SciPy India Conference at IIT Bombay during 4-7 December 2011

2010-07-22T07:13:00.000-07:00

We organised SciPy India Conference at IIT Bombay during 4-7 December 2011

Python for Education and Scientific Computing

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, open source, extensible programming language. It combines clarity and readability, making it an extremely powerful language that can be used for various applications and problems.

Python is simple and easy to learn and apply. It offers an interactive environment in which to explore procedural, functional and object oriented approaches to problem solving. Its high level data structures, extensive documentation and clear syntax make it an ideal first language, while the large number of existing libraries make it suitable to tackle almost any programming tasks. Its simplicity makes it easy to adapt to multiple educational domains.

http://scipy.in/scipyin/2011/

Drupal Camp Mumbai at IIT Bombay

2010-07-22T02:51:00.000-07:00

We Organised Drupal Camp Mumbai at VMCC, IIT Bombay during 9-10 November, 2011.

Drupal Camp Mumbai was a two-day, community organized event for the people who want to know all about Drupal. There will be various sessions covering topics from the basic introduction to Drupal, to the more complex site building, with plenty other interesting stuff in between.

Keynote speaker: Dries Buytaert

Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. Buytaert serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish.
He is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal. Dries is also a co-founder of Mollom, a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop website spam.