tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49404719521573721672024-03-06T00:02:19.564-08:00ViewPoint - The Irregular oneUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12260275848570984746noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940471952157372167.post-31334616568243425332014-03-31T02:45:00.000-07:002014-04-25T05:02:11.144-07:00Lessons learnt from the past events.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It was time to board the flight to Vishakhapatnam for hosting the next Firefox OS Appdays at GITAM Vizag. The event wasn't as rosy as my other reps friends at the event Kaustav or Jai expected it to be. These challenges made us think on what would really help organize quality events. A few things we believed would be of great help were:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As Kaustav points on on his <a href="http://kaustavdm.in/2014/01/lessons-last-two-appdays-mdn-sprints.html" target="_blank">blog post</a> , most of the speakers evangelizing at Mozilla India are either full time students enrolled in their respective undergraduate courses or professionals who are free on the week days and dedicate their time for working and sharing the vision of Mozilla.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is one of the primary reasons why we organize events on weekends and travel on Friday nights to reach the venue and return back on Sunday nights. That takes away the weekends, which our classmates or colleagues get to relax or catch up with their study and work. Yes, it is hectic, but we enjoy every moment of it! So long as we get an eager crowd to cater our knowledge to.<br />Given this type of schedule, our calendars are totally blocked on weekdays and we rarely get to do anything outside our current schedule. For most of the events, we are not able to stay in touch with the local organizers and ensure they organize everything according to our requirements.<br />This results in huge gap between what we expect from the organizers and what the organizers expect from us. For instance, at Vizag, we had no idea that we will end up with such less number of participants than originally promised by the local organizer. This was primarily because the University hosting the event was on holiday and students had gone back home, which we were not informed before we reached the venue.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 27px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A dedicated fast internet connection is what is required to make events like these a success. There was no proper internet connection and at the same time a few things like tables, chairs, proper lighting, projector facilities and projector cables. Maybe it'd be a great thing to have a speaker kit consisting of a VGA convertor and an internet dongle for the speakers.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 27px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Make it a point to <b>clearly specify the infrastructure requirements</b> of the speaker to the event organizer.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">From the next event, It'd be a great thing for the speakers to just specify the infrastructure requirements they need for them to be able to make their talk. This is a small thing to add in into the planning pads but surely will have a much more pleasurable event experience.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">The event was attended by 15 developers, 7 of them being beginners who were just getting started to web development and the rest of them were slightly more advanced who could understand a few internal details of Firefox OS like the way Gaia, Gonk etc.., work. At the same time 2 of them showcased their interest in developing for Firefox. The metrics though haven't been completely accomplished as per expectations, the ones who have turned out to be developing apps and are still in contact with us as an unofficial mentoring. </span></span></div>
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Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12260275848570984746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940471952157372167.post-83190092056836525862013-12-31T05:34:00.001-08:002013-12-31T05:35:08.416-08:00A plan to accomplish. Mozilla Warangal.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was 28th of December 2013, a great year was coming to an end, but then it was time to work to make things better this 2014. Bringing the Warangal community together to formulate the action plan for 2014 was important and the discussion on that day was fruitful.</div>
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The community of Mozillians and Reps at Warangal has been increasing and this meet up witnessed two new contributors who are just getting started with contributing to Mozilla. The discussion started at Bits and Bytes, venue organized by Hemanth.</div>
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What started off with discussions on existing problems faced by the community and a theme of "Strengthen the community" has resulted in the formation of an amazing action plan being drafted by the Warangal community. The event was attended by 10 people.</div>
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After the fruitful discussions here's the brief metrics and timelines we wish to accomplish in the coming new year, 2014.</div>
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Getting started to open source and the extensive documentation to read before setting up one's developer environment was pointed to be a main problem by the new contributors who were just getting started with their contribution to Mozilla.</div>
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To tackle this problem we realized that the community had to be internally broken up into specific teams with each rep or Mozillian taking care of a specific contribution sector. The initially unorganized community format was now getting a re-vamp. This has resulted in the formation of what we called as the #introduction team whose main objectives are described as follows.</div>
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This then resulted in the formation of the Publicity team for both online social media publicity and spreading awareness about the open web and why the web has to be open.</div>
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Mozilla Warangal has organized brilliant events in 2013 and this will continue, the meet up has resulted in the formation of an amazing timeline of events that will be organized by the warangal community in 2014. The event timeline stands as follows.</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">A plan to cover publicity and get new contributors from 12 colleges. Right now the community has a major chunk of contributors from just 3 colleges, expanding it to 12 over the year will be a 400% increase in the number of contributors the community is trying to rope in, into open source and the vision and mission of Mozilla.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">25th January : Vaagdevi College of Engineering.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">22nd February : KITS and Kakatiya University.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">22nd March : A big Training event in March.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">12th April : BITS School of Technology.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">7th June : WoMoz Impact , Sumati Reddy College of Engineering.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">22nd June : WoMoz Impact , Jaya College of Engineering for Women.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">12th July : Major WoMoz Event for bringing in more women and girls to open source.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">9th August : Talla Padmavati College of Engineering.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">23rd August : Ramappa College of Engineering.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">13th - 14th September : Code Sprint, OpenHack, App Days - NIT - Warangal.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">4rth October : Ganapati College of Engineering and Sciences.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">8th Novemeber : Kamala College of Engineering.</li>
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Other major things that were discussed were Regional mentors for New Mozillians within Warangal and nearby regions. An outreach team along with Publicity team to work on promoting awareness and reaching out to more people in the region. A discussion on retaining contributors to long terms, resulting in a contributor relationship team which makes sure to keep in touch with potential contributors after events so that the new contributors don't lose interest with the problem of `tough` documentation to follow as they put it.</div>
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The following are the teams formed for Mozilla Warangal and the person of contact for this event. It should be easy for new contributors from the region to directly contact the following according to their interest for faster and much better head start into diving into the open web. The point of contacts for those willing to start contribution in any of the following sectors are as follows :</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Localization - Maniraj Thripuradhi.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Marketing - Meraj Imran.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">WoMoz Women in Mozilla - Hema Bhanu</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Webmaker Project - Ajay Kumar Jogawath.</li>
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That brought us to the wrap of the discussion and filled it the community with the determination and enthusiasm to push the limits even harder and do better.</div>
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Looks like this new year is going to start with a bang ! Happy New Year 2014.</div>
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Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12260275848570984746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940471952157372167.post-80524605967851624982013-05-10T03:31:00.003-07:002013-12-12T11:22:23.491-08:00A Localization journey - A Farmer's tale - A Delightful Experience<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It was on my way back in a cramped out bus, travelling researching about language changes and variations within the state of Andhra Pradesh, that I sat next to a man, quite old. Sitting next to each other talking about nothing, I whipped out my book on Image Processing that I was carrying along and started reading it and eventually the ice broke with him asking me to close the window a bit. I did and eventually the interaction started. He started asking me where I was studying and slowly the conversation went from him talking about farmlands, politics and then over to his son's children who were giving their ISEET exam for entry to NITs and IITs. When I asked him, how he speaks to his son who lives in Delhi, he said, "Internet". Yes you read it right, "Internet". The thought of how he uses the internet kind of got me excited.<br />
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The conversation that followed is as below : (Translated)<br />
<b>Me </b> : What do you use in the internet? How do you talk to your son?<br />
<b>The man</b> : I go to Rajat's Net Cafe nearby by house and then talk from there on Google (meant Google+)<br />
<b>Me </b> : Do you know how to read English and understand which button to click and so on?<br />
<b>The man</b> : Oh, i don't know English, but i use it in Telugu. The shop guy Rajat has seen me since he was small, so after my son went to Delhi, he separately bought a Telugu keyboard so that i can be using the keyboard.<br />
<b>Me </b> : Okay, but then how do you read the information on the computer screen? Isn't that in English?<br />
<b>The man</b> : (Laughs) Don't you know, there is this software something called Firefox, it is in Telugu.<br />
<b>Me </b> : Really? Can you tell me how the software looks?<br />
<b>The man</b> : You should know more, you're an engineering student but if you ask i'll tell you, its a small thing like this earth picture but a small cat , orange in colour is holding it.<br />
<b>Me </b> : (smiling crazily) You know how to use it in Telugu?<br />
The man : Yeah, its not hard, I know how to read Telugu and also know how to use mouse, so clicking gets me the job done.<br />
<b>Me </b> : (laughs) and then .... (he changes the topic)<br />
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The actual live example where Localization has had its impact, a farmers life, it has helped him get in touch with his family even without knowing the general language of the computer display - English. A localized Firefox software has helped this farmer and kept the smiles going. The power of localization cannot be ever undermined and its one of the greatest contributions given by the <a href="https://mozillians.org/en-US/group/l10n-te/" target="_blank">Mozilla Telugu Localization team</a>. The outreach of Firefox has grown leaps and bounds in India. This is just one encounter with a person who uses localized software, there are many more. The idea of making every person access and enjoy the fruits of the internet has been a major reason for this. I am really proud of being a part of the l10n:te, this team which has made it happen for people like the old man, who knows how many more are there and what tales they have to offer.<br />
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The way he described Firefox's simplicity in usage just made me wonder ... How many more need to know computers? How much further in society will computers penetrate? How will localized software make its impact on the people and get more people connected? What more should be done to make computers reach out to every single person in the country and how to make it easy for them to be productive using them? These are some questions worth spending time thinking upon.<br />
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Lets keep Firefox rocking. Proud of being a part of Team Firefox and Team Firefox:Telugu. Hats off to all the people who have kept it running strong and to people like Rajat who think of welfare of the fellow neighbours, You're the hero.</div>
Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12260275848570984746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940471952157372167.post-14481501391308087442013-04-27T05:28:00.002-07:002013-12-12T11:22:42.991-08:00The Reaches of Open Source.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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see their parents. My time had come too.</span></div>
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games, sometimes I play Farmville on Facebook”, that quite got me startled that
these kids who barely were 8-10 years old had their Facebook accounts active
and play Farmville on it, but well thats not why i have this blogpost, also maybe the credit goes to the developers of
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So then I went ahead and asked them, what do you use to see
the websites like Facebook and miniclip and two of them pointed to my shirt with
the Firefox logo <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>and told me this button is there on my
papa’s laptop and I click it, while the others at the same time struggled to
describe the logo of their browser I figured it to be internet explorer since
one of them said that it has a golden ring around it. I was really happy that
the kids were using Firefox, so I removed the goodies bag of Firefox given to me by <a href="http://merajimran.blogspot.in/" target="_blank">Meraj Imran</a> and told
them while showing the stickers, "this is the best in the world, next time go to Google and search for Firefox and download that". I had 3 stickers left and a
few wrist bands, I put them ahead and they took it and proudly as a sense of
achievement showed it to their parents. I was happy to see them smile and at
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acting as a bridge to bring them their game content.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Firefox has been doing a great job in bringing it to the
people of all age groups, and at the same time keeping it simple to use as shown by these kids. Love
you Mozilla. Proud to be a part of the Mozilla team. Got a few Firefox badges
and wrist bands to give away, let’s hope I have my next encounter to publicize Firefox soon. </span></div>
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Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12260275848570984746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940471952157372167.post-67755886407325743132013-04-07T05:30:00.000-07:002013-12-12T11:22:59.469-08:00First Post ! and Let it be Open Source . MozMantra 2013.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It all started off with Mozilla's mission and vision statements, Open Source, Open Source and Open Source all the way. Since the 1st time i met up with a Mozilla representative Meraj Imran during Mozilla Mania, the desire to give back to my community of geeks and bring in more techsavvy people to contribute to the mission has become a passion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 15th birthday of Mozilla at Mozilla Warangal was held not with a grand party ..... well actually it was even better than that. A party only gets the involved ones together but an awareness session on that day brought in more people into light about Open Source and how they could easily contribute to its vision with each one giving their bit.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mozilla Club Warangal has successfully hosted MozMantra'13 as the celebration of 15 years of mozilla on 30th March, 2013 and committed to host it every year. The total number of attendees who attended the event this year are more than a hundred.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The event started with an introductory session on open source and openweb by Meraj Imran. As per the schedule Hema has given the session on products of Mozilla which made the audience to get to know about the products as most of the people associate Mozilla with only Firefox (because of less time she couldn't show the demo of each product). Later Imran just gave an introduction on mailing list, irc then after he gave brief introduction on all the projects present in getting involved page of Mozilla.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rest of the events well with lots of interest shown by students in contributing and excitement about the open source projects. Some students who were really inspired came up to the speakers and asked them how they could do more and told them that they would like to work more in the fields specific to B2G Firefox OS and one student wanted to really make the video and compete the Firefox flicks contest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Being more of a web developer and designer with a core passion for teaching the web technologies and making people more web literate, i took to the stage to give my keynote on HTML5 , JS and CSS3. Meraj Imran commended on his blog that it had brought a beauty to the event MozMantra 2013. Thank you very much for that. After the events a few students walked up to me when i was heading back and enquired how they could learn more and how they could contribute more to an open web. I had an informal discussion with the students at Coffee Day Xpress and they were inspired and promised to learn more and contribute in making an open web.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Quoting from Meraj Imran's <a href="http://merajimran.blogspot.in/" target="_blank">blogpost</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">We asked the participants to give the feedback on the stage, a student of JITS 'Ravula Rajesh' said that this is the first event in my life which I ever attended and listened till the end, thanx to the team members of MozMantra'13 foe bringing Mozilla awareness among us. A Student from NIT W 'Devendra Kumar Dora' said that: "MozMantra'13 has given good knowledge on getting involved with mozilla and I'm interested in coding, I will surely contribute my part in it". Another student from Vaagdevi Engineering College said that: "He got an awareness on firefox os and want to develop apps for it". Finally we distributed the goodies to each and every participant.</span></blockquote>
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The event overall was a grand success and resulted in 100 more people knowing about Mozilla, its products and how they could contribute irrespective of discipline of study.</div>
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