App Days in a box at SATI vidisha

Why is it that every good thing ends.

It was 26th Sept 2015 I slept late the night before since I was creating a presentation for the event but the morning was early, I woke up early by the wake-up call from our Rep Rahul Talreja "Get Up Guys". It was supposed to be a long day since we had to travel for 2 hours on the not so very well maintained roads for the first time for the the Moz-event. I was Super Excited. And finally the moment came when i stepped into the cab I was relieved to see the familiar faces of my teammates. We left bhopal at around 7 o'clock and reached the Vidisha just before it was 9 o'clock we were received by the warm welcome at the Samrat Ashoka Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha, MP, India.

we were then welcomed by tilak and then we had a light breakfast and setup the lab for the workshop by installing simulator (add on needed for app testing – virtual device). We had 2 labs in total where we accommodated around 150-180 students

we finally began the workshop at 10 am, where we started with Tilak ceremony and a grand welcome by volunteers. We were amazed to see a rangoli of firefox made by them on college entrance as a sign of welcoming Mozilla to their institute.

Shubham Dantare the in house volunteer introduced us with the entire audience and than Rahul was handed the mike and he started with introduction of our team. During the event we were team of 7 people.

• Rahul Talreja (General Introduction & Geo Location)
• Rashmi Shrivastava (Womoz)
• Alsiha Jose (Womoz)
• Satyadeep Bharadwaj (SuMo)
• Aditya Shah (FSA)
• Kushagrh Varade (Fx-OS App dev)
• Vidit Sharma (me) (Localisation)

The session Started with our Rep formally introducing us then he started with the breif intoduction to Mozilla and firefox, He Then discussed about the open web and Firefox OS and other Mozilla products after a nice follow through he aksed student some questions and gave cool swags to the students for answering them correct

Then he handed over the mike To Aditya Shah after his session for explaining about Firefox Student Ambassador program, Aditya leaded his session by giving a brief intro on FSA program, explaining structure and levels in programs, etc; we did on spot recruitment also. We got a huge response from their end (join request on fb community groups, some of them also approached us personally after event and we shared our contact details to guide them personally).



After this finally My session begin I was supposed to teach the attendees to help localize Mozilla and products into their native language (Hindi for most of them) through Locamotion and Verbatim. It was a nice session I saw people localize very easily and they were excited to do so.

 And then next sesion was taken by our WoMoz RASHMI SRIVASTAVA and ALISHA JOSE about:

• womoz
• why be a womoz?
• motivations
• awarenss
• how to be a leader?
• to be confident and skills development.
• womoz empowerment

Then came the section the students were most eager for the App Dev. On stage came our App master Kushagrh Varade, the skills he has got to demonstrate the app structure are unbeatable and thus people who never coded before were all clear with concepts of app development. He taught them with such an ease that even I was fascinated by his lecture.

Lunch Time

After this by 2 PM we did our lunch and planned to resume back at 2:30. The best part was in the next half we had 100% attendance …thanks to our awesome team mates that we were successful in creating that level of enthusiasm in attendees which got them back to the labs.

We then began with app sprint, since due to shortage of time students were not able to complete apps but few among them had some awesome ideas which they started implementing in the finest way possible. We collected all raw incomplete apps and promised students to help them in near future to make their apps fine and finished ones. After this we taught them how to submit app on market place such that later after workshop when they are done with final product they can also upload on market place and get rewarded for their work.

After this,it was the chance of the second major theme of event to be completed. We were assigned task to promote Hindi and other localized version of Firefox Browser and bring more and more contributors in project, 

Thereafter we were able to get 80-100 downloads of Hindi version of Firefox during the event.

After That Rep Rahul Talreja again took the stage and talked about the Geo Stumbler and demonstrated the app to the students with the details of campaign currently running.

Last but not the least we inaugurated the club and helped members to understand how to complete all the pre-requisites (CLT Process etc) and by mutual decision Shubham Dantare was elected as a lead from their club. Shubham assured us he will take full care of his members and his club and will also make sure club remains active and more and more people Contribute to Mozilla from his club.

MozRangoli

After that the Head of Computer Science Department expressed his thanks on behalf of entire institution to the entire team and Mozilla for the awesome event. After this we had a group photo and we winded up with the event!!

The event managed by Shubham was extremely appreciable. I thank him to give me this pleasure also i would like to thank my mentor, Mr. Rahul Talreja (Rep)  who took me to the great event.

Reps Portal Link: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/app-days-in-a-box-cum-maker-party-at-sati-vidisha-mp/

Flickr link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/136587284@N04/albums/72157659190566695

MozMeet_20Sept

The Mozilla community Mozilla Madhya Pradesh is a what a community is supposed to be like. We support, we teach, we learn, we share Ideas, we share ideologies and most importantly we share one mission Mozilla's Mission.There are Reps, Mentors &  FSA  sharing their knowledge and working with passion for the same dream... to satisfy the Mozilla Mission. 

It was really a great day as I was eager to resume my FSA duties, there was a meetup at Grills and More in c-sector, Indrapuri, Bhopal, for the "firefox for windows 10 campaign" there were various new faces and many familiar faces too we had with us dignitaries - MozRep Vaibhav Bajaj, MozRep Rahul Talreja.

The meetup started with a general introduction of all the FSA. Then MozRep Rahul Talreja gave me an opportunity to share my experiences with the fellow FSA about my campus placements where my being a Mozillian helped me a lot.

Then after a brief introduction of the attendees thee was a discussion about the day's agendas
which basically were:

1.) Contributions Of Mozillians in various sectors.

2.) Localisation

3.) Windows 10 Campaign

4.)Recognition

5.) WoMoz appreciation.


MozRep Rahul Talreja the conductor and the head of the meetup further discussed about thewas the ways and sectors through which a Fsa(Firefox Students Ambassador) can contribute.He discussed the various levels of recognition in FSA.

Then we were joined by Vaibhav Bajaj sir who is a senior Mozilla representative. He told us localization & L10 was the main topic of discussion he taught us about the locamotion which is the translation of Firefox and other Mozilla products into our local language which can be hindi,urdu,punjabi etc. Now the question arises how can this help the end user?

As we know that in India majority of people speak hindi or their respective language thus, with this initiative Mozilla wants to make a home like environment for its users which is a innovative thinking to be said.

I with the other FSA then helped the students in making the firefox browser the default web browser for windows 10. We also explained them about the advantages of using Firefox browser. Mozilla is providing such a wide platform where anyone can become a well recognized person. It will not only boost up one's academic skills but also will help them to emerge as an independent renowned personality in their surrounding. 





Finally then the worthy and top contributors were awarded :

Top performer in Army Of Awesome(AoA) since last one month Satyadeep Bharadwaj being awarded.

I was fortuitous that I got such an opportunity to have a interaction with them.I would like to bestow for Mozilla by my innovative skills and talents so that I may able to create  a benchmark for others. It was fabulous meeting and it inspired me a lot. I also want to contribute for Mozilla with my skills.

WoMoz

Among the fabulous MozRep and fantastic FSAs there were also the pretty WoMoz who are contributing in the field as much as BroMoz if not greater than them. To mark their presence and appreciate their efforts MozRep and FSA awarded the WoMoz with not just respect but also the swags.

Hard work can never be forgotten nor it can remain unnoticed and it always pays so to appreciate the efforts of the team and their team JNCT Firefox Club was awarded 

                                    

Mozilla is providing the finest opportunity for newbies to grow their talents and providing them the right direction and platform to inculcate and sprout up which will help them a lot in their future and will be definitely furnishing their knowledge and talents.

And with a firm decision to start a club at my college campus i returned from the meetup driving home with MozRep Rahul Talreja enjoying the cool breeze and  is auspicious presence 

signoff.

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