MozCoffee: MozMeetBhopal

Venue : Wonder Bread : A Ca`ffe`

Date :    23/11/2014

Hi All,

here is my blog for the MozCoffee, we have planned it all of a sudden and i looked for a new venue b'coz there is free wifi available there. All Mozillians Met at noon and we were very exited to meet Faisal Aziz who recently settled down back in Bhopal. This meet is actually to discuss all the difficulties that are coming in the path of local volunteers in between the contribution and what  So we started with the Areas like Banners, Venue, Private Transport Reimbursement etc.

Then three new Womoz joined us from My college Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology and Mgmt
they are the product of Womaniya. They are already know about Mozilla Mission vision and Contribution. But they are lack of knowledge how to contribte in different areas like SUMO L10n AOA , Webmaker etc. So Arpit started to teach them Webmaker tools.

Mean While we started the TechTheTrainee Session, in that we discussed each other expertize and shared it with others. In this way every one learned a new thing.

This was an awesome meetup in that we have target so many things and hit the agenda. Also the newbie got new area for contribution.
We had snacks with our own contribution. And atlast we Enjoyed our Sunday ! :)

When Firefox turns 10 :) :D

Hello All,

Firefox 10th B'day Celebration @ Bhopal  #fx10

 Date : 9/11/2014


This blog post is for the special occasions of Mozilla Firfox 10th Birthday which was celebrated on 10 November 2014. Mozilla Community Bhopal has been always doing its best when it comes to such occasion and we followed same series this year.

    

Me along with all my community member gathered for a MozCoffee and than we did a small celebration where we asked few people to share their experience with their favorite browser and all of them belong to all different categories including school students, college students and entrepreneur.
The idea of Video is given by Rahul and we all community members helped him to make success and also it was an awesome experience for all of us to do so.

Video link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wegvP8qdeSc

Editing Done by Rahul and shot by Mozilla Community Bhopal Team

Event Pics :  http://goo.gl/j7Mg42

MakerParty @ JNCT

Hello Folks,

Date : 20 September 2014

Venue : JNCT, Bhopal

Etherpad and Submission of Makes...

After few weeks, we are back for MakerParty in Bhopal, This time we have some one who made us, who found the Mozilla Community in Bhopal. Yes, He is Faisal Aziz who is my Mentor and i learned alot of things from him.

So finally the day of event came and we all gathered at college to take session, We found that we have to take session in two different labs, because department HOD insisted us for that so that good number of students will be covered. Somehow we managed all the things in a good manner and also we have number of speakers. Also we have special Mozillian Mrinal Jain came from Indore to involve with Teach and make Fun

On the first, Faisal Aziz started the session in one lab explaining the Mozilla and its Mission along with Divya and Anju gave the Womoz session as we have good number of girls attendee and parallel to that in other lab I (Vaibhav Bajaj) took session on HTML5 and thimble then we started X-Ray Goggle by Arpit Singhal and Shiva Goyal , they both expalined the tool nicely  and then after the break of 20 minutes Rahul and Chandan took session on Appmaker which was very new to some Mozillians and obviously Students.

We also created their Persona Account and guided them how to use also we have enjoyed alot this time. Special Thanks to Sharique, Mrinal and Prateek Agrawal. And Thanks to Komal Gandhi to provide Banners on time. Also our event is Featured on College website [http://www.jnct.in]
  Check Photos here...

 

Feedback by an attendee

Exclusive !! 

 

KidzMakerParty @ ITARSI

Venue: Excellent Public School, Itarsi                                                                       Date: 03/08/2014

Hi Friends !

Here i am with the success story of our First Maker Party 2014 in guidance with Faisal Aziz, held at Itarsi (city near Bhopal approx 100km), all arrangements done by Anju Chandel, as she belongs to Itarsi. She planned to organize an event on this awesome day for students i.e. FRIENDSHIP day.

So the day came and we were there with the students of class 9th and 10th. There are 70 Students including Girls and that too on day SUNDAY with friendship day. They were super exited to see Mozilla Banner at there School Campus. And we Started with the Introduction of Mozilla which was given by Me(Vaibhav Bajaj) and Rahul  , After that we asked some internet related questions to students and gave swags for the right answers, The students were very eager for there luck to give answers.Out of all one girl was good at drawing so we gave Firefox Sticker to her to make a sketch on board with the help of chalk.

 

 After the Questioning and Introduction session, Chandan Started the session of HTML and teach the basic HTML tags to them. He taught very nicely to all students and then he asked few Questions related to Browser and its working. After that Anju and Divya gave the session on WoMoz. Then Arpit Singhal took the dice and gave a working demo on Popcorn Remixing tool, As the students are not good at HTML so We gave demo on Thimble and explained its working, Created table and created hyperlinks.  Also we show the working of Goggle X-ray how we hack a web page and remix it according to us. We have also shared important Links with them. 

At last we captured lots of pictures with students and had snacks with all Mozillians Together !

For more photos : Click here to see

MozCafe@DB

                                                                                                               Venue : Snow Vision i-tech

Hello All !                    

We successfully organized the event-cum-meetup in guidance with the Rep Faisal Aziz "MozCafe@DB" actually we planned to organized in the Mall named "Dainik Bhaskar" thats why it is named as DB but we were unable to organized there then, Anju told us to organize it in her Office. We updated the place and created the page on FB.

 

Explaining some Topics

 On the Day. All enthusiastic Mozillians and new volunteers who are eager to know about the Mozilla and Mozilla Mission came to the place as per the time decided 1pm - 3pm. I felt good by there punctuality, we were already there from 12:30 for some arrangements of snacks and cold drinks.

;)

Me, Rahul and Shiva already divided part  on which we have to speak or give Demo.

At First, I started with the warm welcome to new Mozillians, I appreciated there enthusiasm, and asked the Question What is Mozilla and how Firefox is related with it ? Very few gave correct answer then i explained them all. After a short Intro i put forward the today's agenda, Why we are here? 

After this, we gave them knowledge about FSA, how we have to do 5 activities , how can we create a FSA club at college, And after that I gave a brief about Mozilla Products and Projects like Localization, SuMo, FxOS Apps, etc.

 

Rahul with a pack of Snacks

 Then Rahul take the Stand and explained the SuMo and AoA in detail, Students got excited and want to know more, Then Shiva explained them about Contribution on localization. After this we asked them, if they have any doubt or want to ask anything about Mozilla if, it is in your mind.. !

They asked few Questions like How and from when they can start ?

Mozilla Bhopal

 Then I took the stand and explained them about Persona Account, Mozillian profile and tell them to create the account at home and then give presentation on Webmaker tools, how thimble works, Goggle X-ray works and what is the advantages of using popcorn. Then, it was time to winding up event-cum-meetup, we discussed about the upcoming events in the city at different colleges. 

WoMoz

 Also there is a plan for a session to the children who are in government schools and are NULL in computer field. 

We also talked with some NGO to give us sometime for the session for the children of age more than 12 years.

At last we distributed snacks, cold drinks and some Swags.

Ether Pad link.

Meet up @ WoManiya :)

          Hello Mozillians ! 

          Today, I want to share about the meetup held at Frespresso Cafe   Dated : 19/01/2014.

   
          After the discussion on ether pad we decided to fix a meet up so that everyone can put on his/her views and we also got different ideas for the event.

Till Now :

We planned how we will utilize two days and created Agenda also we have discussed roles and work areas.

Today: 

We have to think about the other things which are not big but a part of our event

Like : Food, Sound, Internet connectivity, projector, Flex design, poster design, social awareness  and I-card design also.

Out of these issues/topics/remaining things, we had discussed mainly for the Designing part and no. of registration for students because these are the basic and priority things for an event.

Designing Part: 

For this work we have a designing star Prince, and designing mentor JafarMuhammed who is capable of designing each and everything and know how to play with pictures and graphics.
He also has skills to guide other volunteers (e.g. Saket Jain) to make help him in that work.

Publicity Mediums :

We had a great discussion over this topic everyone was giving their points. At the end we conclude that we can :-

•    Go to different colleges (in Bhopal there are 130 engineering colleges and 20 Degree colleges) and talk to the head of IT/CS about the event, give them a short intro of the Mozilla & its Mission.

•  Opt press as an option to publish our news in their media (if they agree for free).

•  Flex on college buses.

• Posters in College notice board.

• Blogs and pages on social networking sites.

• Post the event news or posters frequently so that students talk about it thoroughly.

• Approach to coaching Institutes like T.I.M.E. and others.

This was the discussion in which we enjoyed and discussed a lot of things for the event

“ Womaniya “ 

At the Last, we saw the contribution of each Mozillians throughout the week! This is the link which shows the contribution of Mozillians, They made awesome Webmaker Makes

You can check it here.

Maker Party !

Hello dear Mozillians !
I am again here to share another success Story with you.
So this time we went to my college as I am a student of Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology & Management (GGITM) Affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, Pursuing BE in Final year in the IT stream. As I shared the invitation of MozSummit 2013 with my HOD,
they asked eagerly "why they invited you? " then it took approx 40-50mins. to share all about Mozilla and its Mission and what i did for Mozilla with HOD.

In between the conversation, I took the permission for Mozilla Event in GGITM. And we got it! Then we (Mozilla Bhopal) arranged meetup and decided the schedule on the day of the event and planned in a better way as learnt from previous events.

Finally the day came and we reached the campus by 10:00am, all things are settled prior we arrive in the Lab. And we started with the word "Mozilla"     \m/...........\o/

Start Up

Firstly, our ReMo  Ms. Komal_ji_Gandhi took the mic and started the event with the Question "What is Mozilla? and What is Firefox?" She gave all details about Mozilla and its Mission, also she gave idea about FSA program and then over to me I gave the detail about FSA program(Who are we/What we do/How to Join) as I am one of FSA from Bhopal and then I started the live session on Webmaker tools as Thimble and Hackasauras! After learning the working of tools students are eager to use them so we gave task to them with time limit to build makes.

Applying the Knowledge in Computer Lab

All students created awesome makes by using respective tools. We can check All makes by click here...

After submitting all links of makes by student on Ether pad. I explained them the use of Ether pad and then Komal_ji Talked about "Special space for Girls in Mozilla : Womoz"
that session was great as student liked this very much as they never listened about special space for females in any kind of FOSS community.

Mozilla Bhopal with Student Coordinators for event

With some participants

Vaibhav Bajaj

#KitchenTable 25/07/13

Hi all, I am very Excited to share my experience of my first #KitchenTable with all of you. And sorry for sharing late. From when Maker Party is announced, a person is continuously motivating me to take a session in school or plan for a kitchen table and prepared me for that is no one but Komal_ji_Gandhi, yes she is the person who is always there to support me. Now without wasting time I would like to come to the point as said above, I had decided and planed a #KitchenTable to #teachtheweb. In this kitchen table the participants are my colony mates(students between 7th standard to 12th standard) they are five in numbers. I used to play outdoor games with them.

 On the day I shared my plan of Kitchen Table with them, they are very excited to know more about Mozilla and presurised me to take the event in a week. I arranged the #KitchenTable for them and then i started explaining about Mozilla, Its Products, What is Web?, What is the meaning of Open Source?, How we can Use the Web?, And Finally The #Webmaker tools Thimble, Hackasaurus and Popcorn.

While teaching them I looked at them, all are curious of what's happening and want to know the web better.After 30mins of knowledge sharing by me, they combined prepared a post card and a Popcorn by capturing a video of neighbor's empty house.


Here is the link of Flickr :-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64132560@N07/


Here is the link of make made by mates (with my account and a little help) :-

https://vabajaj.makes.org/thimble/postcard-for-a-friend
https://vabajaj.makes.org/popcorn/17vx

 MozConnect '13

 

Date: 06/07/13
Speakers: Faisal Aziz, Ashish Namdev, Sara Khan and Komal Gandhi

 

Hello everyone!
                             Again i came up with a new event summary held at Indore (Malwa Institute of Science & Technology(MIST) which is one of the best college in Indore city.We got the opportunity to take a session on Mozilla and its Mission,Products and Tools. There were a great number of students came to attend the session also there were Girls attendees too. There faces are like they want to learn and listen from us.

Therefore we didn't wasted their precious time and started the session with the Welcome of Mr.Faisal Aziz as a senior Volunteer among us. He talked about "What is Mozilla", "Mozilla Products and Its Mission" through this all attendees come to know what actually Foss world is.
They cleared their doubts also about the myths of Mozilla and Foss world. This session was the most interactive one.







 Before leaving the mic Mr.Faisal Aziz had invite Mr. Ashish Namdev to take a session on "Testing" When he started the session the faces (students)  are looking like they are very exited for what Ashish sir is going to deliver them. The session was very knowledge giving for all including us.

"Now, we are inviting Ms. Sara Khan on the stage", After this line by Ashish sir, Sara Khan took a great and fruitful session on "Womoz". As there were many girls Attendee  so the response was great, this session was very interesting for them and she also talked about the different opportunities for Womoz in Mozilla.

After this enthusiastic session of Testing, its time to say Wooooooo...........to "Womoz".
 



  
After a short break every body gets back to their seats with same no. of attendees (as in break most of the time students bunks the onward session).
Now it was a time to make something amazing and together! Ms. Komal Gandhi took a session on "Firefox Flicks" and ask the students to participate in the Contest also she gave the details of the Contest, How they can make a short film, How to Submit, What the theme is This Time. Then she played some winning videos in-front of attendees to encourage them.

 

 After this, Sara Khan and Komal  Gandhi took the hands-on session  on "Web-maker" they both done a great job by explaining the all web-making tools. As this is a live session every student was enjoying the Popcorn/Thimble/Hackasaurus. Also some students got success in making videos and templates with the tools.







 After this session, l10n was carried forward by Faisal Aziz and Sara Khan. They talked about  how they can work and contribute on different localized projects. Also they made them familiar about the Nemo Project.



At last we introduce all the Students with the Brand New Firefox Mobile OS. We deliver the news about launching and the most awesome thing is we gave the Keon devices in there hands to feel the awesomeness of Firefox OS by themselves.

Showing the Keon Device

Interacting with students and showing Keon

And as we always do, we distribute the SWAG among the students. The event was a grand success.There were around 100 attendees(approx.)

You can find more photos related to this event here:
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My starting with Mozilla

Hello Mozillians!!

I want to share "How was my starting with Mozilla Community"

I had invited by REMO Komal Gandhi as a attendee at MozCafe@VIM
 and the speaker was Mozilla Reps Faisal Aziz. Here, I was confused about Mozilla rumors and myths, that was cleared by both above mentioned.

They described me about Mozilla, How Mozilla works?, How can i contribute?, What will i have to do? Then only i came to my decision to join the Community. I started to support Mozilla on SUMO project and i felt good from the bottom of my soul. I am also Contributing in NEMO project of Mozilla, to writing article. By the way I am using Mozilla firefox browser from a couple of year ago it is really a Secure browser .

Later on after attending two MozCafes i.e. MozCafe@CCD and MozCafe@DB at Bhopal those are organize by Komal Gandhi (Mozilla REMO) Bhopal. She recruited me as MSR in Mozilla Community Bhopal. She gave me some Mozilla Swag like a Cool Moz tee, some cool Mozilla stickers, and Mozilla bag.

After attending MozCafe@VIM Event which is organized by Komal Gandhi and Faisal Aziz. I am so excited to organize same event at my college. I had discussed on it in next meetup MozCafe@CCD with Komal gandhi and Faisal Aziz. In Last MeetUp MozCafe@DB Now, we have a Team. and we are finally preparing for the Event: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/MozBhopal

And  5-6 days ago I heard about GNUnify Event at Pune. I saw this event's agenda. So, I was so excited to join this. I told about it to Komal. Komal had Made a request for me to Vineel sir and Finally he approved me to join this event. I felt just " Wow!! " now I am so excited to join this I am going Pune to attend GNUnify'13.