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MozCoffee Warangal

2015-08-18T02:16:00.006-07:00

Hello Everyone!

How are you all ? Hope you are doing good. This Post is about the recent Meetup "MozCoffee Warangal" Organized on August 9th 2015.

: MozCoffee Warangal Badge

MozCoffee Warangal is a gathering of mozillians from Warangal to discuss about the future plans of the Mozilla Warangal Community with the existing contributors. Recruiting FSA's mozillians and Firefox Clubs will be the main goal of this meet apart from the maker party event.

Event Link : https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozcoffee-warangal/

Venue : Jagruthi e Learning Center, 2nd Floor, GMR & GS Complex, Kishanpura, Hanamkonda, Warangal, Telangana, India.

The Meetup Started at 2:00 PM with eight attendees. 3 of them were very new and it was their first meetup. I started introducing myself and then introducing the attendees to everyone. We all had a quick intro session. After the intro, i introduced the Open Source, Mozilla, its Mission, Projects and Products.

Ajay Speaking on Open Source, Mozilla and its mission, Projects and Products

Later, i spoke on the FSA Project and told them about forming a Firefox Club and how to organize activities in their club. Three attendees from KITSW Fox Club are already doing a great job and they have organized an event named KitZilla'15 in their Campus.

: Tracy from KITS Fox Club Speaking on the Next Plans of their Club

They were also connected with an Open Source Community Swecha and are planning for an event in their College to spread the Openness, firefox projects in the entire city.

: Nipun, Sharing his experience with Mozilla Firefox Browser and his designing Contribution towards Community.

So, we have discussed about what are the things can be done in the event and Sessions on Maker Party, TeachTheWeb, FirefoxOS and developing apps for it.
Finally, we had a MozQuiz, where we asked them to speak on their favorite topic of today's meet. We gave some Swag as an encouragement to all the attendees.

: Tracy and Pavan, FSA's from KITSW Firefox Club

The new guys were very much excited about the next things in their college.
Outcome :
3 Active Contributors
3 New Contributors
2 Firefox Club Launch (to be done)
We also got an awesome Contributor Nipun Dumpala, who have been helping in making logos, badges and designs for the Mozilla Warangal Community. Thanks Nipun.
Nipun's Work can viewed here
And Finally, we had a selfie :D

: A Selfie with Mozillians

Flickr Link : Click here for Photos

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Mozilla Representative,
https://reps.mozilla.org/u/AjayKumarJogawath/

Amazon.in Widgets

Contributing to Mozilla Stumbler

2015-06-10T00:34:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!

Its been a long time i am writing a blog, this time it is about my contribution towards Mozilla Location Services. I have attended Mozilla India Task Force Team Meetup organized between May 9-10 2015 in Bangalore and was super excited to be a part of Mozilla Geolocation Task Force Team.

Contributing to MLS ( Mozilla Location Services) is very easy. What you need to do is just go to Play Store (or Google Play) , search with "mozilla stumbler", download the app and install it.

Now, that you have downloaded the app, just open the app and keep it running when you move to any place. This app will automatically get different reports of the locations like MLS Location, Cell Networks, WiFi reports.

Guys, if you are interested and want to learn more about this, you can go to MLS and once you start sending the reports, you can see your name on the Leaderboard

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Mozilla Representative
https://reps.mozilla.org/u/AjayKumarJogawath/
Geolocation Task Force Team

Maker Party SVCE

2014-11-02T04:28:00.001-08:00

Maker Party SVCE is organized on Oct 18th 2014, at Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Bangalore. An enthusiastic Mozillian "Nishchal Gautam" from SVCE college reached me to organize a maker party in their college. Then we made a plan to organize this maker party.

Event Name : Maker Party SVCE

Event Link on Reps Portal : https://reps.mozilla.org/e/maker-party-svce/

Venue : Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka.

Event Poster

I Started with my fellow mozillians Hemanth and Bhargav in the morning and reached the venue by 10:00 AM . The Organizers came to receive us and accompanied till the Auditorium.

#MozSelfie ;) (Right to Left- Ajay, Bhargav, Hemanth)

We also met Head of the Department of Computer Science in their college and we got a lot of support from them in organizing this event and future events as well.

We also met an open source enthusiast and a member of FSMK (Free Software Movement Karnataka) Mr.Vijay and he also joined us in spreading the word as an open source as he does always.

Initially, an introduction of speakers to the audience was given by me to everyone and gave a clear picture of the agenda that we had planned for them on that day.

Vijay started with Introduction to Open Source by relating with the real time examples of the open source products which included funny examples too, where the audience became more excited!!!

Thus, it was my chance now to make their excitement reach to the peak by introducing them to the Mozilla by the Mozilla Story and then the Mission of the mozilla.

I continued with the Products of the mozilla and then showing them the newly designed page of Get Involved page of Mozilla, which tells how to contribute and what to contribute depending upon their interest.

Showing about the different kinds of projects to them, we moved on to the Webmaker Project and told them about the amazing tools using which they can create, remix, design webpages and create videos using popcorn maker and apps using appmaker.

Initially, we told them to register on the webmaker portal by signing in using persona. Also told them what is persona? and how it works. They were really excited about the persona login. They have created their user profiles on webmaker portal. Since, it was Lunch time, we gave a break for the lunch and informed to come back after lunch.

Post-Lunch, it was really surprising that the attendees are already present and started using the tools. We gave demos on the each tool and then told them to remix the Webpages, create the videos and hack the pages using x-ray goggles. Due to time constraint, we couldn't move on appmaker. We gave them some time and them to remix the webpages and submit in google form.

It was surprising that we got plenty of makes from them. Moving on, i spoke on the Maker Party and how it is organized globally with number of mozillians through out the world. I have displayed the Maker Party Video which i had with me.

List of Makes can be found here : Webmaker Profiles and makes

Later, i continued with FSA Program, introduced them to the FSA Program, like what is this and how it works and the structure, activities, benefits being an FSA. The thimble make by TJLee was very useful to me in explaning them. Thanks to TJLee.

FSA Beginners Guide

Then, we had an Q&A session, where we gave them swag for them who answered the questions and later collected the feedback from them. Distributed Swags to all the attendees and they were very happy to see the Laptop Stickers and Badges. The Feedback Video can be seen here .

Moving on, we had a Photo Session with the participants and it was really fun meeting them and sharing the knowledge with them. The Organizers and the FSA team were very happy for organizing this and wants to organize more such events from Mozilla.

Then we bid a good-bye to them by saying "Bye-Bye Mozillians".

More Images can be found on Flickr here

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Mozilla Reps

Firefox OS App Days at VIT University - Vellore

2014-10-28T10:58:00.000-07:00

Hola Amigos!!

This Blogpost is about sharing my experiences of Firefox OS App Days organized by Mozilla India Community in VIT University, Vellore,India on Sep 27-28 2014.

Event Name : Firefox OS App Days at VIT University - Vellore

Event Link : https://reps.mozilla.org/e/firefox-os-app-days-at-vit-university-vellore-1/

Event Venue : Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

It was Sep 27th , i started my journey in the morning via bus to reach the awesome venue VIT University. When i reached the venue, the awesome mozillians Santosh, Rishav, Harsha, Asrith were already came and were waiting for me. Since the event as per the plan should be started in the afternoon. We had our lunch and went to the Auditorium where our audience were waiting for us for the 24 hour hackathon.

Harsha, started his session by introducing the mozilla, its mission, projects and products to the audience. Also shown the videos related to mozilla and one of the video was " I am a Mozillian" which was the summary of Summit 2013, i shared my experiences of Mozilla Summit as i was one of the attendee of it.

Later, the awesome Webmaker+Appmaker tools are introduced by Rishav and Santosh. All the attendees had signed up and started using tools of webmaker and then Rishav shown the demo on the appmaker to them and then we gave them 1 hour time to create makes using Appmaker tool. After completion of Appmaker

After Appmaker, we gave a tea break which was for around 45 min and since it was a techno cutlural fest, we moved to different stalls and watched all the innovative stuff over there.

After the break, we had an ice breaking session and then moved with Firefox OS Session by Rishav and Santosh.
Later, a session on HTML and CSS by me and Rishav was followed in the night and Javascript session after it. Rishav was very enthusiastic even though it was midnight.

And even the audience were interested in developing apps and they sat whole night and till morning 6 am they developed apps.

Few Clicks of the night

Then, we gave a break to the students to have some refreshments, breakfast. After 1 and half hour we again Again we gave time to them to complete their apps till lunch and we helped them to complete their apps by using API's .
We told them to complete apps before lunch and then showcase their apps by giving a demo on the app they built.

After completion of their demos, it was very tough for us to decide and choose the winners of the appdays and finally we selected three best apps of the event and gave them the Firefox OS Phones to them.

"Winners of the 24 hours hackathon"

After completion of the event, we had a feedback session and the feedback we got was really awesome from them. Many Students were the beginners and they learnt a lot in very less span of time.

The Speakers including me, Santosh, Rishav and Harsha were honoured with token of appreciation.
I have the bus just after the completion of event and left back to home. It was really a big experience for me as well as the complete AppDays Team and it was great working with the Developer Engagement Team. Kudos to Santosh, Harsha and Rishav :)

Flickr : https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajayjogawath/sets/72157648606094178/

Best Regards
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Mozilla Reps

Developer Bootcamp Indore

2014-09-17T07:32:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!!

I am here to share my experiences of the event where i was invited as a speaker to give talk on Mozilla's mission, projects, products and Firefox OS.

Event Name : Developer Bootcamp Indore

Event Date : Sep 6th 2014,

Event Venue : Indore Institute of Science and Technology, Indore, M.P.

Event Poster

This event was well planned by Santosh Viswanatham, Kumar Rishav and Mayur Patil, but unfortunately due to some reasons, Mayur and Santosh couldn't make for this event.

Event on Reps Portal : https://reps.mozilla.org/e/developer-bootcamp-indore/

As Santosh and Mayur cannot make to this event, Santosh asked me if i am available on that particular date to speak on Mozilla's Mission, Projects and Firefox OS. As a mozillian, i always love to speak on mozilla's mission, openness and projects. I accepted this invitation from Santosh and Planned to speak on Mozilla at Indore Institute of Science and Technology, Indore. I am thankful to Santosh, Mayur and Rishav for giving me chance to speak there on behalf of Mozilla.

Santosh connected me to the local Organizer Shubham Geete who helped me for the next tasks for the event.

It was Sep 5 2014, my tickets got booked and i started in the morning at 5:00 A.M. to the Bangalore Airport. It took almost 10-12 hours of journey to reach the awesome place Indore. I was really feeling refreshed when i stepped out of the Indore Airport. Then, in no time, i reached hotel, got fresh and met Shubham in the evening. We have sorted out the plan and proceedings of the event and checked whether if anything is missing in the event.

Sep 6 2014 - Indore Institute of Science and Technology

I reached the venue with shubham, who was the local mozillian and whole and sole responsible for the event. Kumar Rishav, Speaker on Firefox OS also reached the Venue and then the event started.

The Event Started with introduction of Speakers and i am glad to be a speaker and sitting on the Stage with the college management.

On Stage with College Management and Kumar Rishav

Then, it moved with lighting of lamp and then started with the sessions.

Lighting of Lamp

Then, i started with Introduction of Mozilla, clearly explaining on What is Open Source? What is Open Web? What is Mozilla ? Getting Involved with Mozilla. It was a huge crowd and amazing audience who were very co-operative and enthusiastic to answer the Questions when asked to them.

Amazing Audience

My Session

Me ( Ajay ) in Action

Meanwhile, Shafique, a local mozillian, community leader from Indore and Rahul Talreja, a mozillian from Bhopal Community and an awesome speaker on Appmaker joined us.

Later, introduced Shafique and Rahul to the Audience. Shafique, who is well known to the Indore Community, introduced himself in the regional language making the audience more comfortable with the speakers.

Shafique Patni, Indore Community Leader

Interacted with the audience and asked few questions to them and gave swag to the one who answered correctly.

Now, its time to switch to Firefox OS, Bugzilla, Firefox Apps and Appmaker, so we shifted to the Lab and started with hands-on session. Now,it was Rishav's turn to make the audience feel the Power of Firefox OS.

He Started with Bugzilla and shown them a hands-on how a bug works, how its created and how it helps.

Kumar Rishav's awesome session attracted the developer audience and this made the session very interactive.

Later, started a session on App Development and finally we made them to make their first ever app. "A Firefox App"

Later, we had our Lunch with the awesome mozillians and the organizing team.

Later, we moved back to the lab after the "MozLunch" , there was a session on Appmaker by Rahul Talreja and he made the session so awesome with his live examples and the audience were successful in developing apps using appmaker.

After the appmaker session, we have cleared the queries that the audience had and finally had the closing ceremony by the College management. All the Speaker were honoured with Memento, an award of appreciation from the college, and we were happy to receive it from them.

Later, we had a group pic with all the participants, organizers and all the mozillians.

Finally, i would like to thank some of the awesome people without whom this event cannot be a success.
[1] Santosh, Mayur and Rishav for Planning the event.
[2] Shubham for taking the complete responsibility
[3] College Management for their Support
[4] Shafique and Rahul for their Sessions and Support
[5] And Yes, the awesome audience without whom this event couldn't happen.

Flickr Link : https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajayjogawath/sets/72157647111660609/

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath,
Mozilla Representative,
Mozilla India

Mozilla Warangal Community Meetup

2014-08-31T12:55:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!!!

This time, i have organized a Community Meetup with Warangal Mozillians, where are all the active and core contributors are invited to make the future planning of Mozilla Warangal.

First we have an introductory session, where all the attendees have introduced to everyone. Later, i gave the clear idea of the reason why we all have gathered.

The Main aim of this meetup was to boost up all the existing mozillians in the community as well as recruiting new contributors. From the past events going on in Jayamukhi Firefox Clubs and Mozilla Club BIES, students from other colleges have been requesting us to inaugurate Firefox Clubs in their colleges. So,but there is no particular team and everyone is contributing in random projects. So, i have made four teams and assigned one mentor for each team so that the mentor will be guiding the new contributors in the particular project.

As per todays discussion, the teams and the team mentors are

[1] Localization - Santhosh Mediga
[2] SUMO - Bala Subramaniyam
[3] Webmaker - Sai Sharan Amaravadhi
[4] Firefox Apps - Nithin Reddy Ganji

The Selection has been made based on their past contributions and their knowledge on the particular project. These Guys will be helping the existing as well as the new contributors for their involvement and contribution in the particular Project.

Later, discussed about the IRC Meetings, and the mentor is responsible for organizing an IRC meeting atleast once in a month to encourage new contributors as well as helping the existing contributors. Since we have four projects, every week , we will have one IRC meeting on one topic.

Also fixed some issues on club activties, vouching profiles and swag & budget requests for small events. Looking forward for qualitative contributions from the new Crew :)

More news can be seen on etherpad : https://etherpad.mozilla.org/WarangalFSAMeetup

Pictures can be seen on Flickr here : https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajayjogawath/sets/72157647011568246/

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Mozilla Representative

Maker Party @ Gangadevipally

2014-08-18T14:23:00.000-07:00

An amazing experience which i felt this week was the "MozRide" to a village i.e., Gangadevipally. Here, me along with Meraj Imran ( Mozilla Reps ) and Hitesh Kumar ( Mozillian) planned to organize an event Maker Party in a Villlage which is one of the best villages in India and it has been awarded as the Model Village. There is 90% of literacy, no alcohol consumption, 100% children going schools, no child labor, purified drinking water at a very low price etc.

This was actually a 2 day event with a train the trainers event where the mozillians were trained how to host a maker party and how they can be a part of mozilla by contributing to different projects.

MozRide to a Village - Gangadevipally

Me, Imran and Hitesh have trained the new people who joined the program upon Importance of Open Source and the Open Web, Mission of Mozilla and Web Maker Project, different ways to contribute to Mozilla, How to host Maker Parties, Web Maker tools, event guides to plan and host Maker Parties themselves. First day was very productive. All the newbie’s who joined us Day 1 are now in a stage to host Maker Parties on their own. All are satisfied with the training.

You can see the foxes are ready to host maker parties

Second day was the Maker Party. We all were set and were very excited to host the event. Gram Sarpanch (A head of the village) has inaugurated the program. Many people of the village have joined us in the event. Children, farmers, Bank Officials, teachers, House wives were all the part of Maker Party.

First Imran have given a brief Introduction to all the people about who we are, what we do as part of Mozilla and how we do. We have made four different stalls where our awesome mozillians were present to give awareness on Open Source, Internet, Open Web, Net Neutrality and Mozilla to the people and the rest of the event was showing them live about what Internet is, how to use the web using Firefox Browser.

Ofcourse, it was a village and we cannot find the internet over there and what we did is? we used paper prototypes – we made a prototype to describe about internet, we used charts to describe about html tags. The second day of the event was also a great success.

Finally we took feedback from the villagers and gave a momento on behalf of Mozilla Warangal. People felt so happy for sharing the knowledge with them.

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Mozilla Reps
Webmaker Super Mentor

MozCoffee V 1.0

2014-08-18T13:44:00.002-07:00

Hello Everyone!!!!

After Joining the Mozilla Reps Program, i was feeling very much excited and enthusiastic and wanted to know like how many mozillians from the community " Mozilla Club Warangal" are active and contributing to mozilla. So, i thought of organizing a MozCoffee and named it as
" MozCoffee V 1.0 " [1].

Dyvik Chenna, a Mozilla Reps from Hyderabad was also in warangal and he also joined the MozCoffee. The day before MozCoffee i was with Dyvik and Bhargav ( Mozillian ) and we were discussing about the communities and sharing the works we do in our communities.

Later, we discussed about the problems faced by the community members in general for being active only during event and then disappear. All our ideas were included in the Etherpad [2].

So, MozCoffee started with around 20 members and started with introduction from attendees.

Dyvik Started by introducing himself and then asked the mozillians to introduce themselves.

Dyvik Started with the Agenda that we have planned. The topics included were
1) Community
2)Development
3)Event Marketing
4)Firefox OS
5)Localization
6)Womoz
7)Webmaker

Dyvik spoke on each of the topic and made them clearly understand to them that how a community works and the kind of projects different people work depending upon their interests. I was documenting the views of mozillians who are not able to contribute to mozilla even they know it from the past 1+ year.

After Dyvik, i started focussing on divide and conquer rule. Like, the one who wants to work for localization form a team, similar with Firefox Apps, Webmaker, SUMO and other projects.They felt this as the best idea. We also had 8 womoz from the Mozilla Warangal now, who are ready to speak and contribute to mozilla,open source. This was the result of Womoz Warangal'14 organized 2 weeks back. Later, concluded by saying that we will have regular offline and online meetups to make the community members more and more involved in different projects of mozilla.

[1] Event Link on Reps Portal : https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozcoffee-v-1-0/

[2] Etherpad Link : https://etherpad.mozilla.org/warangalplanning

[3] Flickr Link : https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajayjogawath/sets/72157646190281038/

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath,
Mozilla Reps

Indian Independence Make Day

2014-08-15T06:10:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!!!
Firstly Wishing you a very very independence to you all :)

Event Name : Indian Independence Make Day
Reps Portal Link : https://reps.mozilla.org/e/indian-independence-make-day/
Webmaker Portal Link : https://events.webmaker.org/#!/events/4935
Date : 15th August 2014
Venue : Mozilla IRC - #WebmakerIndia

Theme of this Event :

Mozilla India came with an idea of hosting an online maker party to make, learn, teach and share about our Indian culture, history, diversity and every thing that we are proud of.

The Event started at 3:00 PM in the afternoon and i could see many the enthusiasm of many mozillians in creating the makes about the independence day themes.Mozillians collaborated using together.js to create the makes on independence day.

I have collaborated with Hemanth Vidyamari, a Webmaker Mentor from Mozilla Club Warangal and remixed an existing make using together.js. Its really fun collaborating with it. This are the makes we did.

[1] https://vidyamarihemanth.makes.org/thimble/Mzg3NTgwMTYw/love-mozilla_ajh
[2] https://vidyamarihemanth.makes.org/thimble/NDIxMTM0NTky/great-indian-scientists

I thank Mozilla India and Ankit Gadgil for organizing these IRC Maker Parties which are really helpful in learning how to create and remix makes in less time.

Flick Link : https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajayjogawath/sets/72157646492994495/

Cheers!!
Ajay Kumar Jogawath,
Mozilla Reps < https://reps.mozilla.org/u/AjayKumarJogawath/ >
Webmaker Super Mentor < https://webmaker.org/user/ajay-jogawath >

Womoz Warangal'14

2014-07-31T07:15:00.005-07:00

Womoz Warangal’14

28^th July 2014,

Jayamukhi Institute of Technological Sciences, Warangal.

Hola Amigos,

Mozilla Club Warangal in association with Mozilla India have organized a special and a much awaited event named Womoz Warangal'14 on July 28th 2014. This event was Especially organized for girls to increase the female contribution in Open Source Communities. The Event have been planned on August 9th 2014,but a shocking news made us to change the date of the event and the shocking news was Hema Bhanu got the Date of Joining on July 31^st , so the date was Preponed.

It was cool and rainy day on 28th July 2014, the participants started coming to the venue. After allotting the seats to them, we were waiting for the Chief Guest. Within few minutes after registration, Our Chief Guest Dr.B.Rama Garu, Chair Person, Board of Studies, Kakatiya University, Warangal reached the Venue and now the inaugural function Started.

Inaugural Function started with lighting the Lamp followed by Prayer song. Hema Bhanu gave a report of all the Mozilla Club Warangal Activities from the past 2 years and importance of this event being organized only for girls.

Our Staff Co-coordinator, G.Jose Mary, Associate Professor, JITS congratulated the club members for organizing such a big event especially for the women. Also congratulated Ajay and Bhargav for receiving the Firefox OS Tablets.

Dr.Rangaiah , Director of Jayamukhi Group of Institutions felt very happy that many of the women participants not only registered but also came to attend the event and he in his speech said that

“ Upload Talents, Download Future “.

Later, Dr.T.V.R.NReddy, Joint Secretary and A.O., Jayamukhi Group of Institutions and G.Srihari, Principal also encouraged the participants to involve more in Open Source Communities which makes an individual acquire leadership skills.

Dr.B.Rama, the Chief Guest said women’s contribution in IT Sector is very less compare to men even though equal opportunity is provided to men as well as women. Woman drop-outs are more after their graduation and gave SECURITY as a reason for this issue.

Later, after felicitating the chief Guest, the session started by Hema Bhanu (Mozilla Reps) on FOSS, Womoz and later JavaScript session was continued. The participants felt this as a great opportunity for them contributing to an open source company being a student.

After the completion of session, it was time for lunch and we had a yummy lunch and back to the Lab for sessions. We divided the 200 Participants into two tracks

[1] Localization

[2] Webmaker

First 100 were sent to Localization lab and remaining 100 were sent to Webmaker Lab. Hema Bhanu handled the Localization Session along with the support crew Bhargav and Maniraj.

In the other track, it was Webmaker Session and it was handled by me (Ajay Kumar Jogawath, a Webmaker Mentor) with the Support Crew of Bala, Vijay and Sonu. I started by asking how to create webpages, Videos and how to hack or remix a website or webpage. Many answered that using HTML, CSS and JS and yes they were right. Now I introduced the tools of Webmaker to them

[1] Thimble

[2] Popcorn Maker

[3] X-ray Goggles

[4] Appmaker

The audience were happy that using simple Webmaker tools they can create webpages by checking the output on one side and source code on other side. Creating a Web Video inserting the popping of the text, images and animations. Remixing the webpages using the X-ray goggles and creating apps for Firefox OS using Appmaker tool.

Hemanth Vidyamari, a Webmaker Mentor have showed them demos on each of the tool to everyone.

Later, I said them to create a Webmaker profile by signing into the Webmaker Portal using persona and then start remixing the webpages from the gallery section of Webmaker Portal.

Here is the etherpad of the Webmaker Signups : https://etherpad.mozilla.org/womoz14

Then, I spoke on the most important topic Maker Party which is organized globally throughout the world and how they can be a part of Maker Party by attending, organizing and collaborating with the events.

After Completion of the Parallel tracks of Localization and Webmaker, it was time for Firefox OS App Development. I (Ajay KumarJogawath) along with HemanthVidyamari in one track and SantoshViswanatham (Mozilla Reps) from Hyderabad and Bhargav Gupta (FSA) from Warangal in another track delivered session on Firefox OS, followed by App Development.

After the completion of Sessions, we had a Feedback Session where different attendees gave a positive feedback saying that “Learnt New things just within few hours”, “Creating Webpages using simple tools”, “Developing Apps is never so easy” and many more.

Feedback was followed by distribution of Certificates and then the closing ceremony with a dance on a song from Himmatwala “Naino Mein sapna sapno Mein sajna, sajna pe dil aagaya, ha sajna pe dil aagaya” and all the participants, organizers, staff and everyone made steps with one another on this song. I got a chance to make few steps with the Director of the College Prof. P. Rangaiah.

Now, it was time for the Photo Session where we had a Group Photo with all the participants, Volunteers, Organizers, Staff and everyone.

Atlast, we waved hands to everyone saying “Good Bye!! See You Again”.

Finally, I would like to thank Mozilla for giving us a chance to organize this event. I would like to thank the College Management JITS for being so supportive in each and every aspect and making this event a huge success. I would like to thank all the Volunteers and organizers who helped in successful running of the event. I would like to thank the Photographer Samarpan Raj for wide coverage of the event. I also thank the media for covering the event on News.

Flickr Link : https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajayjogawath/sets/72157646066686232/

Cheers!!!
Ajay Kumar Jogawath,
Webmaker Mentor,
Telugu L10n Reviewer,
SUMO Contributor,
Mozilla India

Foxconn Infocus Firefox OS Tablet

2014-07-05T04:06:00.004-07:00

Hello everyone!!!!

Todays new coverage what i have seen is really made me "happy"!!!

Few months back i got to know about Tablet Contribution Program and i felt very happy and wanted to join in this program. I immediately filled the application form and it was told that after one month the results will be announced and i was waiting

April 1st 2014 2:56 PM

An email popped in my inbox and it said that :

"Congratulations Ajay Kumar Jogawath,

Welcome to the Firefox OS Tablet Contribution Program! Our team has carefully reviewed of all the applicants and we are excited to have you join us. We will be sending you one of the tablet devices in the coming weeks. We'll also be sending you at least one further email to keep you updated.

The tablet will enable you to join us in this exciting project to shape the future of the open web in tablet form factors. With your help we will be able to greatly improve the quality of Firefox OS on tablet experience to be as good as that on phones. We think you will have a lot of fun and look forward to working with you."

Now, this email made me very much excited and i was really waiting for the tablet to come and start my contribution in TCP Program. After 3 months on July 1st i received the Foxconn Infocus Firefox OS Tablet.

Receiving this from mozilla really made me proud and my college management thanked me for involving in many projects like Localization, Webmaker, SUMO, Firefox OS, Firefox Student Ambassador and leading the Club "Jayamukhi Firefox Club" in my college. All this i could do because of the support that i got from my Team Hemanth Vidyamri, Kodakandla Bhargav,Hema Bhanu,Meraj Imran, Maniraj,Anil Kumar Who have constantly supporting me from the initial stage.

I thank Asa Dotzler, Sammy Tuman and the TCP Team. Thank you . Thank You So Much!!! Happy to be a part of contributions.

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath,
Webmaker Mentor,
Club Lead and FSA @Jayamukhi Firefox Club
Website: http://ajay-jogawath.blogspot.in/

Webmaker India IRC Meet July 4 2014

2014-07-04T10:52:00.004-07:00

Hola Amigos,

Today i would like to share my experiences regarding the IRC meet that was organized by Dyvik.
This meet was really productive and nearly 25 mozillians(reps,FSA's and Webmaker contributors) have participated in the IRC Meet.

Link to the Etherpad : https://webmakerindia.etherpad.mozilla.org/1

WebmakerIndia IRC Meet is an IRC Meeting where the mission is to spread about the mozilla webmaker project and organize the maker parties throughout India. Maker Parties are events which help us to learn, teach, share and make innovative things using the Webmaker tools like Thimble, Popcorn and X-ray goggles.This is a 6-day IRC meet where we will be solving the issues faced by newbies and those who wants to host maker parties in their region.

The main mission of this IRC Meeting is to make awareness regarding the Webmaker Project throughout the India (29 States and 600 districts ) and organize the maker parties which is going to be kick-off from July 15- Sep 15 2014

Many newbies have attended this and we were successful in answering the queries like how to join webmaker, how to organise a webmaker event. how to host maker parties,etc..,.

Dyvik said about how webmaker is different from other projects

A remix button for everything
A Gallery of makes
Common Publishing
User Accounts
Unique URL's and hosting

Also, the concept of Womoz evolved because there are very few womoz in our country and we are planning for the Womoz Webmaker Parties too and that will be updated soon in the above etherpad.

Etherpad Link : https://etherpad.mozilla.org/womoztg

Finally, i thank Dyvik for organizing and all other mozillians, reps and webmaker mentors and newbies who have participated in the IRC Meet and made this meet very productive.

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Webmaker Mentor

Webmaker Session @ JITS

2014-03-28T11:38:00.001-07:00

Hello Everyone!!

I am here to share the experience regarding the Webmaker event in my college. An enthusiastic Mozillian , Sai Sharan who have been contributing to Mozilla from the past few months as an FSA was very much excited to speak regarding the Webmaker tools with his fellow students.

On 20th of March, Jayamukhi Firefox Club, had organized an event in JITS. we had a kick-off start with Sai Sharan who is very enthusiastic in sharing his experiences as an FSA.

He Started with the FSA program and then with the Webmaker Project explaining about the thimble, popcorn and hackasaurus tools. Later, it was my turn to make the session interactive.

I just asked them to share,what they learnt from the previous session, a girl stood and spoke about the tools, and said its really very awesome to create webpages. The students who attended were from 2nd year and they were listening to HTML and CSS for the first time and they felt like "Ooh is it so easy to create webpages?? " I said yes!!!

Then, i started with some normal questions, so what you want to do for mozilla ?? how u want to contribute to mozilla?? they were all silent, thats what they were lacking "Awareness"

So, i just started with the basic thing,,,What Mozilla is ?? What is Open Source?? How we can start contributing to open source?? What are the benefits if they work for open source commmunities??So,all these questions, i put them on Board and started explaining one by one.

Later, i started speaking about various projects in mozilla like the Localization,Add-on Development, Web Development, Webmaker and many more. Here comes, the webmaker again. So, i asked again so now u know what the projects are and how u can be a part of them.

Now, i can see the enthusiasm in their faces,i could see the girls count more and so i decided to speak about the womoz project to them, So,i started with the Womoz Session, by encouraging them to come out of the fear,myths and all that they cant do this or that. After speaking about Womoz, i told them to come on the dais and speak about something or just share your experiences,again i can see no one is coming forward to speak. Then, i said, this is what the thing that stops you coming forward. Suddenly, they realized and started coming to dais and started speaking about their experience of the session.

First girl to come forward and speak

Now, we can see one by one coming on to the dais and sharing their experience.

I was really very happy if girls were encouraged, then can do anything!! They were happy to be a part of this session and they want to learn more in the future.

Then, i gave the urls for getting updated with the social networking sites, told them to add them in Official Facebook Group Mozilla India and Mozilla Club Warangal and also told them to follow on Google+ and Twitter.

Next, we are planning for an hands-on session, so that they can create,remix and hack the webpages and also create videos using the popcorn maker.

Apart from that Jayamukhi Firefox Club is planning for

1) Localization Day - Which we will be focussing on Localization Project

2) SUMO Day- We will be focussing on SUMO Projects

3) Firefox OS App Day- for making aware of firefox os apps and make them develop apps.

Finally, after the discussion, we concluded with a group snap.

Finally i was very happy for seeing the interest in the students, hope we will get more contributors in different projects.

Photos can be found here

Cheers!!
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
FSA and Club Lead @ Jayamukhi Firefox Club
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jayamukhi_Firefox_Club

FSA's Maker Party - Bits and Bytes Institute, Warangal

2014-03-11T11:39:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!!!

Now, i came with another successful event i.e., FSA's Maker Party.

This event was planned on March 9th 2014.

Reps Portal Link : https://reps.mozilla.org/e/fsas-makerparty/

Webmaker Event Link : https://webmaker.org/events/3200

Facebook Event Page Link : https://www.facebook.com/events/790138061014869/

As recently, we had inaugurated a Firefox Club in Balaji Institute of Engineering Sciences, the mozilla fever was on, and students of BIES club were enthusiastic in learning more about the mozilla. The event started at 10:00 am when Mozilla Reps Hema Bhanu Started with a Kickoff session including the topics like how to get involved in mozilla, then FSA and then womoz for girls.

Then it was time to start with the webmaker session, as many of them just know that webmaker is a project of mozilla to create webpages, videos and hack webpages, but they did not have hands on experience with them. So, i started giving Demo's on Thimble , Popcorn and x-ray goggles one after the other.

After showing the demo's on Webmaker tools i asked them to form a group of 4-5 members as we dont have laptops with everyone and then we told them to create their own webpages or remix the templates present in the Website www.webmaker.org

Later, they started creating makes by forming group.

BIES Club Team

KU Firefox Club and Team

Sai Sharan and Vijay Martha

Bala and Team

We gave them half an hour time after the completion of demo and then we closed the entries of the makes in the etherpad.

The following are the makes which we got in this event.

1)https://swapna.makes.org/thimble/bies

2)https://mithra.makes.org/thimble/zealots

3)https://saisharansai.makes.org/popcorn/1s60

4)https://venkat534.makes.org/thimble/mozilla-webmaker

5)https://balasubramaniyan.makes.org/thimble/vintage-newspaper

I really felt very happy that the maker party turned out to be a productive one with lots of makes with creative thoughts. Later Nikhil from Sathyabhama Firefox Club told about their Kidzilla Project. Some FSA's from Jayamukhi Firefox Club already do some activities by going to school and teach the students of the School, so they asked Nikhil how they can be helpful to join in Kidzilla Project as they are already aware of the school children's understanding towards the technology and the web.

After completion of Kidzilla Project, then we selected the best three makes and awarded them with webmaker tees, also we have some stickers of webmaker and distributed them to all the attendees of the Event.

Students receiving the mozilla webmaker tee.

Sangamithra receiving the webmaker tee from the hands of Institute owner Mr.Sadashiva.

BIES Team also made an awesome make and got a Webmaker tee

Later, Sai Sharan, who was an active FSA from Jayamukhi Firefox Club as well as mozilla club warangal did a popcorn video and awarded with webmaker tee. After, this we had a feedback session, where we got really an awesome response from all the students.

Some said " I never utilized the weekend, this is for the first time, i have gained much knowledge in short time"

One more girl said " She never knew that making webpages and creating Videos with pop-ups is such easy "

and we also got many feedbacks and i was really feeling very happ for this.

An interactive feedback session with the attendees, which was very positive and now the webmaker events are live and we have an awesome venue with systems and internet too, so we will be back with more awesome maker parties. Its time for webmakers to rock.

And Yea!!! now, time for a group photo with a success event.

I thank Mr. Sadashiva sir for giving permission to do this event in their premises and my friends Hemanth, Bhargav, Hema for their continuous support for organizing this events.

I thank Namu Srikanth, Mozilla Rep and Nikhil Patel for giving a session on Kidzilla.

Finally, thanks everyone, i am very happy to be a part of webmaker project.

More Images can be found on Flickr here

Cheers!!!

Ajay Kumar Jogawath,

FSA, Club Lead,

Jayamukhi Firefox Club,

Webmaker, L10n, SUMO

Proud to be a Mozillian

Inauguration of Firefox Club - KITS Firefox Club (KFC)

2014-03-02T07:15:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone!!!

This Blogpost is about my experience during the inauguration of Firefox Club at Kakatiya Institute of Technological Sciences. This was the output of the meetup Mozilla Meetup with KITS Students Where new mozillians like Pujith, Spoorthy, Keerthi, Indraneel, Anusha and Satheesh took the initiative of Starting a Firefox Club in their College.

This Inauguration Started with the Speech of Head of Department, Dr. P. Niranjan. The talk was amazing made us get inspired.

After Inuaguration, it was Hema Bhanu's turn to speak about Open Source, FOSS and its importance and then started about mozilla and its projects. Later talked about WoMoz.

Girls became enthusiastic by listening to WoMoz Session and that happens everywhere.

After Hema, Sudheesh grabbed a white board and started explaining all the geeky stuff. From data structures to projects available in Mozilla everything was covered by him. The best part was that he helped the students to relate what they have learnt so far to the needs of the industry. His talk on firefox and bugzilla was definitely a piece of cake.

Then it was my turn to speak about the Firefox Student Ambassador Program. I told about the activities that an FSA should do and the projects that they can get involved as an FSA.

And then a girl asked we as electronics student, how can we contribute to Mozilla, then i answered by starting with Webmaker Project because we need not to know any programming language for this.
Because Webmaker provides basic templates where everything is very easily documented so that even school children can understand the basic tags in html. The, told about the Webmaker tools i.e., Thimble,Popcorn and x-ray goggles using which we can make some cool stuff. It was nice interating with the students.

After completion of sessions, we had a feedback session where all the students spoke positive about the sessions, that made us very happy. Later we have distributed swags by asking some questions regarding the session.
After Swag Distribution, we then had a group picture.

After group photo, everyone left and then we had the group photo with the organizing team of event and the new mozillians and my fellow Mozillians Hemanth , Bhargav and Hema

Now,students from various colleges are requesting us to come to their college and inaugurate a club. This is really one of the best moments when we are requested to come to their college as a mozilla representative and told to speak about mozilla. This year has been very good to me because from right from January when we made the Action Plan 2014, and i am happy that we are moving as per the Mozilla Action Plan 2014 by getting more and more contributors from engineering colleges all over the city. Thanks Sai Kiran , Sudheesh , Meraj Imran and Hema Bhanu for always supporting me and Hemanth and Bhargav for always being with me.

Awaiting for the Inauguration of Firefox Club in Balaji Institute of Engineering Sciences on March 4th 2014. Yahoo!!!

Images of Flickr : Flickr Photos

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath,
Club Lead, Jayamukhi Firefox Club,
Proud to be a Mozillian.

Mozilla Meetup - A Pre-inaugural Meetup for KITS Fox Club

2014-02-23T10:54:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

I am here to share you all about the meetup held on February 11th 2014. Today, we had an informal meetup with mozillians of KITS Warangal. So, the mozillians wanted to inaugurate the Firefox Club i.e., KITS Fox Club Offcially. So, they had many questions about the mozilla and all stuff.

So, Mozilla Reps Hema Bhanu spoke about Open Source, Open Web and made them know about Open Source. Then it was my turn to speak, introduced about the open source project i.e., Mozilla to them, I spoke about What is Mozilla, its mission and projects of mozilla, they were very much interested and excited to start their contribution in mozilla.

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It was really a great interaction with all the enthusiasts of mozilla. We had Pujith, Spoorthy, Keerthi, Indraneel, Anusha and Satheesh and they were like very much interested to contribute in mozilla. we wished them for getting into open source and we are planning a inauguration of their club in college. Eagerly waiting for that event. Then we had a group photo at the end of meetup.

Thanks Hemanth and Bhargav for always being support for me and Hema Bhanu (Mozilla Reps) for motivating the new mozillians.

Other Blogs related to this are:

1) http://mozmeet.blogspot.in/
2) http://mozillameet.blogspot.in/
3) http://kitswfox.blogspot.in/2014/02/final-countdown.html

Flick Link : Images of Meetup

Cheers!!
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Firefox Student Ambassador,
Club Lead,
Jayamukhi Firefox Club
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jayamukhi_Firefox_Club>

Mozilla Club BIES Enthusiasts Meetup

2014-02-23T09:15:00.003-08:00

Hello Everyone!!

I am here to share my experience about the meetup that was organized today in Asian Mall,Warangal.

The Students( also FSA's -Firefox Student Ambassadors) Wanted to start a club in their college. So they want to inaugurate the club officially in their college.

So, they contacted me and asked to arrange a meet in which they get to know more about the Open Source, mozilla , its projects and how to get involved in projects of mozilla.

So, i (ajay) along with Hemanth and Bhargav, organized this meetup so that they can know more about the mozilla, how to start a club, how the FSA Program going in in other cities, states and countries. Then the activities like Webmaker, localization, app of the month contest were discussed one by one. We also told them about the recent apps that we made in this month "App of the Month" Contest.

Here are the links of the apps, which we told to them.

Valentine Destinations - https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/valentine-destinations/

Valentine App - https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/valantine_hh/

Dream Facts - https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/dream-facts/

Then,i shared about how a club is formed and how to share the responsibilites of a club by involving in different club roles.

Then, they asked some questions like how to organize a big event in their college, if so whom to contact for organizing an event and some few questions, which was like a queries session, me hemanth and bhargav answered to their questions and then planned about the event i.e., Inauguration of Firefox Club in their college and the sessions we are planning on that and then we winded the meetup.

And then Yay!! We had a group Photo with all enthusiastic mozillians.Here it is

For more images, Click here Flickr Images

Waiting for Feb 25th to inaugurate the club in their college, and getting more contributors from Mozilla Club BIES. I thank Sonu Sandeep, Bala Subrahmanyam, Vijay Martha, Sai Sharan for their interest in mozilla, and Hemanth and Bhargav always being at the back of me by supporting always. Thank You all.

Special Thanks to Mozilla Reps Hema Bhanu

Cheers!!

Ajay Kumar Jogawath

Firefox Student Ambassador,

Club Lead, Jayamukhi Firefox Club,

Webmaker, SUMO,L10N

Proud to be a Mozillian

Jayamukhi Firefox Club - FSA Meetup

2014-02-07T09:06:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone!!!

I am Ajay Kumar Jogawath, Firefox Club Lead - "Jayamukhi Firefox Club" hosted the FSA Meetup on Feb 04,2014 in the College Canteen.

This was an informal meetup of the students who have registered for the Firefox Student Ambassadors and not yet started with any activities as everyone was unaware of the wiki page.
In this meet, i started with my introduction as the Club Lead for Jayamukhi Firefox Club and told about the projects that i am contributing. Then i asked them to introduce everyone.
Everyone started introducing themselves and then i started with the Introduction of Mozilla, because i directly cannot go into the FSA Program.

So, i gave a glance about Open Source, Mozilla, its Projects and Products. Then i told them about the Firefox Student Ambassadors Program. Only few were registered for the FSA Program, so i told them first to get register for the FSA Program by going through the above link

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/studentambassadors/join/
Firefox Student Ambassador Application Form

Then i told them to complete the first five activities that an FSA should do after getting registered .

https://wiki.mozilla.org/StudentAmbassadors/Activities/Startup_Guide
Startup_Guide
I gave it as a Start-up guide to all the FSA's.

Then i talked about the recognition that they get as an FSA by explaining the above link
Recognition to FSA

Later on, i have shown them the cool videos of Mozilla,the first one was the Mozilla Story Video, and everyone was very much excited by watching the video and one of them Aravind asked about how we can get involved into the Mozilla Projects and actually what projects that mozilla has??

Here comes the actual question and then i explained them about the Get Involved Page of Mozilla

Get Involved (link for the projects of mozilla)

Many of them were very much interested in Webmaker may be because of the demo that i have showed them, they got excited by the thimble webpages and the x-ray goggles.

Later a small brief about the projects from SUMO i.e., Army of Awesome, Support Forum and the Localization (KB )

And Finally, i concluded with the I am a Mozillian video of Mozilla Summit, they were feeling happy by seeing Indian Mozillians saying I am so and so and i am a mozillian.

Finally, at the end of the meetup, everyone said their name and "from now i am a mozillian too".
I really felt very happy because of this meetup was a successful one because we have planned it just half-an-hour back. Now, that we have a good number of contributors and FSA's are asking more about Mozilla, i am planning for my next meetup very soon.

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath,
Firefox Club Lead,
Jayamukhi Firefox Club,
Proud to be a Mozillian

My Experiences as a Firefox Student Ambassador

2014-01-21T10:22:00.001-08:00

Hola Amigos!!!

I am Ajay Kumar Jogawath, a mozillian and now a "Firefox Student Ambassador" too. I got to know about the Firefox Student Ambassador few months ago and got registered for it. Recently When the complete program was restructured as the first five activities of FSA(Firefox Student Ambassadors) , i got a clarity about the program and started with the first activity

I got to introduced to mozilla with a
1) Mozilla Story
2) Mozilla Manifesto
3)Projects in Mozilla
4)Webmaker Project
5)Support Mozilla

Then i did a thimble page of my biodata nothing about introduction about myself.
Here is the Thimble Page https://ajay-jogawath.makes.org/thimble/my-biodata

Later, i made myself social by liking the facebook page of Firefox Student Ambassadors , following FSA on Twitter @mozstudents and the Google+ Community.

I have attended Firefox OS App Days and have interacted with the FSA's of Other Cities and discussed about what activities are exactly happening in their Firefox Club and many of them didn't do anything till now and were asking what is the very first thing that need to be done. The Best Part of this event was i met Vineel sir who guided us on our questions and queries. Thanks a lot to Vineel Sir.

When i checked the FSA Directory for a Firefox Club, i can see that a club is already registered with a name called "Jayamukhi Firefox Club". Then i joined in that club as a member.

After doing these five activities i claimed for an open badge and then got a cool open badge for FSA

Firefox Student Ambassador Badge

Thanks Kate for sending such an awesome badge. Completed my next activity too and this short story will reward me a Certificate of Identification . Thanks Mozilla

Cheers!!
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Firefox Student Ambassador
Proud Mozillian
India

Firefox OS App Days @ Firefox Club SNIST

2014-01-18T04:34:00.000-08:00

It was Jan 18th and Firefox OS App Days in Hyderabad. I with my fellow FSA Bhargav started from Warangal to Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad. We reached there prior to the start of the event. There i met Vineel Reddy , Srikar Ananthula , Srikanth Namu (Mozilla Reps) and Santosh, FSA from Sreenidhi Institute.

As usual the inauguration started by littting the candle and then Dignitaries from college gave talks on the appdays and then Vineel Sir spoke on the Mozilla Community and then Srikar addressed the gathering.

Later, as per the agenda

Srikar started with Introduction to Mozilla and then introduction to HTML5 session by Raghu and then Introduction to Firefox OS by Jay Kashyap

During the Lunch Session Vineel Sir and all FSA's had a small gathering in which all FSA's in and around hyderabad have introduced themselves and asked queries they have regarding the FSA Program.

Later we had the lunch and then the coding fun has started everyone started discussing about the app and then started developing apps.

One Student was very much excited to know about the FSA club and its activities and he interacted with me for half an hour about how to get into Mozilla Projects and then how to grow a local community

I explained him about the structure of the FSA Program which is listed on the Mozilla Wiki Page.
Then it was the time for Firefox Dinner and we all had a north + south Indian dinner With Roti,Sabji and Biryani.

This was the #FirefoxDinner Moment where all the Organising team of SNIST Firefox Club along with Mozillians from Hyderabad and Warangal were having the dinner.

After dinner, inorder to continue the interest we played some TED talks and some interesting games were played inorder to make everyone awake and do coding for their firefox apps.

In the morning, the apps came as a surprise!!! There were 16 apps which were given demos by 16 teams and were uploaded into Firefox MarketPlace and it was time for distributing the goodies (#swag)
Later a cake was ordered previously and we got it at the exact time after completion of event. Then everyone had cake and then had some quick group photos with Organizing team ICC(pronounced as Team IC Square) and with the head of College and all the participants. Finally the event was a great success. Congrats to Firefox Club SNIST.
Here we have
Facebook Event Page

You can view the images on Flickr

Cheers!!
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Proud Mozillian

Jayamukhi: SECOND ROUND SELECTED CANDIDATES for Semantic Space

2014-01-08T22:49:00.001-08:00

Jayamukhi:
SECOND ROUND SELECTED CANDIDATES Semantic Space L...: SECOND ROUND SELECTED CANDIDATES Semantic Space LIST 9848460531 Ajay Kumar Jogawath ajayjogawath@hotmail.com Jayamukhi Institute of Technological Sciences

Mozilla Community Meetup and Action Plan 2014

2013-12-31T01:53:00.002-08:00

Hola Amigos,

This blog is regarding the Mozilla community meetup which was held on Dec 28th 2013 at Bits & Bytes Institute, Hanamkonda, Warangal.
Facebook Event Page: Mozilla Meetup Warangal

Many Mozillians turned up to the meet and started with introduction of everyone. We introduced each other with our past experiences with Mozilla,and our contribution in various projects. Even the new mozillians who turned up for the meet introduced themselves and shared their passion in Mozilla.

Later, we started with the Action Plan of 2014

"Action Plan 2014"

1.Get more code contributors
2.Increase the number of Reps to improve proper mentorship
3.Improve the global outreach to mozillians blog and MCW Facebook Group
4.Increase the number of people literate about the web and higher number of open source contributions
5.Increase the number of big events to be held to at least 4 a year
6.Application level milestones
7.Increase the number of users of Dev Tools and Firefox
8.Increasing contributors in the field of Publicity and marketing
9.Involve more people into Mozilla’s vision and mission
10.Firefox App Dev Rockstars

We also divided the projects into teams and any of the mozillian who is experienced with the project gonna lead that project so that it will be easy for the newbies to get into their interested project. Here is the image of the teams we made.

After discussing about the action plan we started with the problems faced regularly by the community and started noting them on the board and the list was as follows

1) How to get started
2) Publicity & Team
3) No of events
4) Outreach
5) Expansion of Community
6) Social Media
7) Communal Mentor for newbies
8) FSA Program
9) Retain Contributors
10) community mailing list
11) Specific Points of Contact
12) Mozilla.org
13) Content Management System (CMS)
14) womoz
15) Stars/Icons
16) Event Managing
17) Firefox OS Apps
18) Web dev Team l10
19) Own Budget

After noting the problems we started resolving each problem by knowing each other views that what has to be done to improve the community.
Then we discussed about retaining the contributors.Reasons for not having regular meetups and low attendance in meetups, discussed about that.

Finally we discussed about the 4 big events which MCW is planning this year which includes a big outreach program for all the colleges in Warangal though we planned to conduct outreach program in every college in every month(min 2 colleges). Next we planned for another big event,a WoMoZ event which includes app development and guest lectures and then App-days and a training event for all the FSA's. We planned during which months we need to organize these and we also have dates fixed in the dairy. Then we had a group photo of all attendees.

Images of Meetup

This meetup was very much useful because we could finally make the road map for the community and execute it as per the plan we made. Thanks to all for attending the meet and making it a worthful meet and special thanks to hemanth for the Venue because we were badly in need of venue, Thanks Hemanth!!!!!! and yea finally Happy Prosperous New Year to all :) :)

Best Regards
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Proud Mozillian

Mozilla Awareness Program @ Gram Panchayat

2013-07-30T06:14:00.000-07:00

Hola Amigos,

This post is regarding my experience when I came for Live Telecasting of Election duty from my college (JITS Warangal) and did an awareness program on Mozilla.

I went to a near by Zilla Parishat (जिला परिषद्) School for my duty. Along with me I have Anil (my classmate ) and 14 students from SR Engineering College. We were there for Live Telecasting of Election duty.

After lunch I started interacting with all the students and while introducing myself, I said - I am Ajay Kumar Jogawath from Jayamukhi Institute of Technological Sciences, and as well I am Mozilla Student Representative from Warangal Community, and I explained about my work role, about 'volunteering work', to make curiosity then I briefly explained about some interactive live projects like browser testing, solving bugs, helping peoples, Localizing, MozCamp. ;)

Now, the actual discussion started About Mozilla
Then I started explaining them about Mozilla and Open source. and then I gave explanation on Mozilla Projects which are on the get involved page of Mozilla. Here is the link http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/

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Then I said about the club which we have in our college and the events we did in the past year.

Later the discussion went to a technical one. A student from SR asked how this is useful for technical Students. Then I gave the answer with the Mozilla Webmaker Projects.
I explained about the webmaker tools which are thimble,hackasaurus and popcorn.

Anil explaining about the thimble by how to create a webpage using a thimble.

After the completion of Webmaker, anil dealed with NEMO projects and spoke about the Localisation Projects. It was a great experience to me seeing all the young enthusiastic students at one corner.

Finally I thanked all of them for their interest in attending this session.
Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Proud to be a Mozillian

Moz Cafe @ Warangal

2013-07-27T00:02:00.000-07:00

Warangal is city near to hyderabad, being with one of the most interested students for open source, and interested in Mozilla.

I am Ajay Kumar Jogawath MSR (Mozilla Student representative) from Warangal organized the MozCafe event at warangal on 13th January 2013, as my first Mozcafe Meetup. I could do this with another MSR Mani Raj who helped me in organizing this. About Six members from different Colleges attended this and We gave a session on the above topics.

This MozCafe meetup was intended to knowing about:

Mozilla

About Mozilla

Firefox

Projects and Getting Started

Mozilla student Representative(MSR)

Support and Rewards.

Finally We felt very happy after organizing this and We feel proud to take further meetups regarding Mozilla. we'll be hosting more events shortly. Thank you.

"Maker Party" with My Students

2013-07-10T11:18:00.000-07:00

Hola Amigos,

This Blog is about sharing my experience of my event Maker Party with My Students. The Maker Party Started at 6:00 P.M. The Maker Party was with the students whom I teach daily School Subjects. But this day was for Mozilla. I explained about What Mozilla is and its browser and also the projects and products of Mozilla.
https://www.facebook.com/events/543311392401747/
Later I started explaining about Webmaker Project and tools(thimble , hackasaurus and popcorn).
The Attendees were
1) Harish
2) Arun
3) Ramu
4) Aditya
5) Kamal
6) Sai
7) Akash
8) Prem

I started showing the example of how to create a make by signing into a persona account. Then after showing aditya was very much excited to create a webpage. But he was stucked and asked me on what topic shall I create webpage.

Students asking to me about mozilla

Aditya said lets start now itself I want to create a webpage now. We started creating the webpage by adding the image of firefox os logo and some information regarding the firefox os we collected and created webpage. After seeing the output, he was very happy and started shouting "Yahoo!!! I Created Webpage , I created webpage for the first time ". I can see lots of excitement in him.

Student, Aditya creating webpage using thimble

He was surprised to see how can easily make webpage here, and webpage preview show simultaneously.

webpage created by him

Since it was raining here, there was a power cut, i couldn't continue the session, but students were very much excited about this Maker Party and they want more parties to be conducted so that they can also create webpages on their own.

Successfully done web maker party

Students Experiences:

Ramu said " Webmaker projects and tools are really amazing"
Harish said that " i want to work for Mozilla by involving in webmaker projects"
Arun said " I am waiting for the Firefox Operating System launch in India"

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Finally the event was a kickoff with schools students. Thanks Mozilla #MozillaFirefox #TeachTheWeb #MakerParty #MozillaClubWarangal

-Ajay Kumar Jogawath

Proud Mozillian