Sunday 22 November 2015

Mozilla Awareness Day

Mozilla Awareness Day 



Date : 10th Oct 2015
Venue : College of Engineering, Pune

Event agenda :
* Mozilla and Mozilla Mission
* Mozilla Projects, whatcanidoformozilla.org
* Privacy and Security
* Localization and Firefox for Desktop [Marathi] awareness

A Mozilla Awareness Day was organized at COEP during its annual MindSpark Festival. The main motive behind organizing this event was to initiate Mozilla presence in the campus and awareness about Firefox in Marathi.

The session started with Ankit speaking about Mozilla and Mozilla Mission. Ankit also spoke about the various foundation ideas behind idea and Mozilla's continuous efforts for making the web open and easily accessible.

Ankit's session was followed by Contribution opportunities in Mozilla which was taken up by me. My talk was basically aimed at making people aware about the various fields in which they can contribute.



Siddharth Rao was quick in explaining the Privacy and Security aspects over the internet. He and Ankit demonstrated tools like Lightbeam and Firefox helps to make web browsing secure.

Chandrakant Dhutadmal, who is one of the lead contributors in Marathi Localization, talked about the Localization field in detail. He was able to grasp the attention of the audience with the help of some wonderful examples. He also showcased the Marathi version of Firefox and asked the audience to download and use the same. The unaware audience was very excited after using Marathi version of Firefox and showed their willingness in contributions towards Localization.


Hack over chat



Hack over chat



Date : 4th Nov 2015
Location : Span Marketing, Pune

Hack over Chat was an event organized by Yadni Chavan at Span Marketing. Span Marketing is a wholesale distribution agency which is into Games and Toys distribution across Pune.  Yadni contacted the owner Mr. Pramod and organized the event. The event was organized during the agency’s Tea break. It was attended by 9 employees. She spoke about Firefox in Marathi and also conducted the hands-on. Most of them were smartphone users. She asked them to download Firefox in their smartphone and also spoke about its privacy and security features. They were so impressed with Firefox that they decided to make Firefox as their primary internet browser. At the end of this event, Mr. Pramod and the agency staff thanked Yadni for a great and informative session. 


 Mr. Pramod, Owner of Span Marketing

Firefox in Marathi awareness at Hire Highschool



Firefox in Marathi awareness at Hire Highschool



Date : 31st Oct 2015
Location : Hire Highschool, Pune


A Firefox in Marathi awareness event was organized at Hire Highschool by Mrs. K. Jagtap for the staff members. The main idea of the event was to adopt Firefox browser as the primary internet browser in Android smartphones. This event was attended by 8 staff members. Mrs. Jagtap, who is a Teacher at Hire Highschool, encouraged her colleagues to move towards a more secure web browser and asked them to download Firefox for Android in their Android smartphones. She also made them aware about the fact that Firefox browser available for Desktop can also be used in Marathi. 

Monday 2 November 2015

31st Oct 2015



31st Oct 2015



31st Oct was one of the big days for the entire Pune Community. The day witnessed 3 back to back events which involved a lot of attendees joining in to attend the introductory talks on Open Source, Mozilla and the ways in which one can start contributing. The events for that day were :
- Club Launch at College of Engineering Pune
- Freshmen orientation at Cummins College of Engineering
- MozCafe October


The first event which was the club launch event at COEP saw an audience presence of 45 (approx.). My talk was focused on the idea of Open Source and Mozilla and a detail overview of whatcanidoformozilla.org . The other modules which were discussed were Mozilla Developers Network by Priyanka Nag, Privacy and Security by Siddhartha Rao and Ankit Mehta. I later spoke about the L10n module within Mozilla as a part of the discussion. The Marathi version of Firefox was demonstrated to the audience and this part was the one which the audience felt was more cooler and amazing.




The next event was the freshmen orientation at Cummins College. The audience belonged to the first year of their engineering course and thus was very excited for this event. I initially started with the definitions of Open Source and the contribution pathways in it. I also included the Mozilla mission and contribution opportunities in this module. Priyanka Nag then spoke about the documentation module in which she briefly covered the difference between the technical writer and content writer, Mozilla Developers Network and how to start in the documentation area. Shagufta Methwani then spoke about the Webmaker mobile application. Sourabh Chivate and I then spoke about the Mozilla Location Service and how to use the Mozilla Stumbler application. We also did a hands-on on the Mozilla Stumbler application and got as many as 54 female MLS contributors on board.








Mozcafe October was the final event for that day. In this Mozcafe, the Pune Community discussed about the various important events which are going to be conducted in the period between December to February and came with new plans and ideas to present the same.