31st Oct 2015

31^st Oct 2015

31^st 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.   

Firefox for Desktop [Marathi] Campaign at Wadia College

Firefox for Desktop [Marathi] Pilot Campaign

Date : 20^th October 2015
Time : 11 am to 1 pm
Venue : Wadia Diploma College

An event dedicated to the Grow Firefox Marathi Pilot Campaign was organized at Wadia College (Diploma Stream) on 20^th Oct 2015. The event was planned in coordination with Prof. A. A. Jambhale, the Head of the Dept of Computer Sciences. The event was a 2 hours event which was basically aimed in creating an awareness about Firefox in Marathi. 

The number of attendees for this event was approx. 57. Since the idea of Open Source was new to the attendees, the speakers for the event Prathamesh Chavan and Aniket Deshpande started with an introduction to Open Source and Mozilla. They also spoke about the ways to contribute to various Mozilla projects and the FSA program as a whole. Localisation module and Marathi Localisation was discussed in a deeper sense by Aniket.

The participants were then asked to download the Firefox browser in Marathi and start experiencing the same. While the downloading was in progress, the speakers also talked about Privacy over the internet and demonstrated Lightbeam add-on.

The overall event was a success as the pre-defined metrics were fulfilled. We thank Chandrakant Sir for his encouragement and heling us in all possible ways.   

Engineer's Day Celebration

Engineer’s Day 2015 celebration at Firefox Club STES

Date : 15^th September, 2015
Venue : Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune
Event format : Full-day event

The Firefox Club STES had organized the HTML/CSS coding competition using Mozilla Thimble tool and a Graphics Designing workshop for the Engineering students on the occasion of Engineer’s Day.

The events which were organized were divided into 2 phases. In the first phase, the HTML/CSS competition was conducted using Mozilla Thimble. Over 50 new Webmaker accounts were opened and the same number of makes were received. The competition was divided into 3 categories : Second Year Engg, Third Year Engg and Final Year Engg; and a winner from each category was drawn depending on his/her make.

The Graphics Designing workshop was a hands-on workshop which was conducted in the second phase. For this workshop, we were privileged to have Akshay Chitwar, Owner of Mozilla Pune Creative Task Force, as the Guest Speaker. The Engineer’s day poster was created using Corel Draw tool.  The participants were then asked to come up with their own creativity and create an awesome graphic based on the Engineer’s Day theme. The number of participants who attended this event was 115.

I thank Akshay for such a fantastic workshop and the volunteers of the Club for such an amazing event management.


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