Mozilla Contribution Day at STES

Mozilla Contribution Day at STES

Date : 8^th March 2016 Tuesday

Venue : Dept. of IT, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering

The Firefox Club STES had organized a contribution day event on 8^th March on the occasion of Women’s Day. The aim of this event was to keep up with the Super March initiative of Mozilla Pune community. The agenda was inclined with the women-centric topics as well as with the Super March goals and included the following points :
- Mozilla L10n
- Mozilla Developers Network
- WoMoz
Accordingly, there were talks as well as hands-ons activities for the generic participants who wished to contribute towards various Mozilla projects.

The event started with 2 parallel tracks : Mozilla L10n and Mozilla Developers Network.

Mozilla L10n was a handson activity in which about 29 participants had enrolled. It also covered a general introduction to Mozilla contribution areas and whatcanidoformozilla.org. The participants were given a detailed info about L10n in general and how to localize strings. This track saw many string submissions in many Indian languages. Prathamesh Chavan, Tanmayee Khadilkar and Saurabh Chivate mentored this track. 

Mozilla Developers Network was taken up by Tejas Kale, Shivraj Kadam and Dhanashri Kadu. The main points which were covered in this track were introduction to MDN, how useful it is to developers and how to make use of it in active learning.

 

The next session was based on WoMoz. Since it was the Women’s Day, the club’s leading women presented some aspiring stories of women in Mozilla and urged all the female participants to step up and come forward to contribute in various projects. Swati Hulyalkar, Meghali Rane and Soni Kriplani were the elites of this session.

After the lunch break, there were various lightening talks on new technologies and happenings in open source were organized. Many participants looked excited after attending this session. A post event feedback session was also organized in which the participants and the speakers got a frank time to interact with each other.

Looking at the satisfied audience, the event was a great success.