Womoz Warangal’14

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

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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

MozCoffee V 1.0

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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

Mozilla Warangal Community Meetup

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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

Developer Bootcamp Indore

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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.

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Best Regards,

Ajay Kumar Jogawath,

Mozilla Representative,

Mozilla India

Firefox OS App Days @ VIT University

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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 🙂

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Best Regards

Ajay Kumar Jogawath

Mozilla Reps

Maker Party SVCE

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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.