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

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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.

MozMaker @ Oriental University Indore

Hello Folks!

This time I am going to tell you about the event “MozMakers"

Venue: Oriental University Indore

Date: 29/05/2014

It is Couple of week ago, Shafique Invited me Indore. So me(Vaibhav Bajaj) and Rahul Talreja both from Bhopal planned to go Indore. We were little late at the event.

Firstly, Shafique Patni took the deice and gave the Introduction of Mozilla, Explained the Mozilla Mission, Contribution Areas. Students listened to him very nicely and also they interacted with some question pop up in their mind. He also explained the benefits of contributing in Mozilla. After this, He explained the Web maker Project and its mission to make people web Literate with its three tools: Thimble, Popcorn and Goggle X-ray. Out of these three he took session on Popcorn and X-ray Goggle. The students enjoyed a lot by learning the Web maker tools.

 After that he called up Deep Raj for Thimble session and Explain the FSA. What FSA is? What FSA do? FSA activities. Deep Raj took the Thimble session so nicely also he explained some tags of HTML5.

 After his part he called me (Vaibhav Bajaj) to tell them about a small but amazing tool of Mozilla “Etherpad” or “MoPad”. Students are very surprised and exited after learning about MoPad. I asked them its Uses, They answered me: for planning, for meeting, for discussion and for chatting :D

  

After the MoPad, I tell them a little about how the websites track us, what we should do for that, what losses we have. I told them to go in Tools => Options => Privacy => “Tell sites that I don’t want to be tracked”

And after me again Shafique took a small session on Light Beam explaining students with the demo that how you are tracked by third party sites and how you can stop them using Light Beam and other browser settings. He called some new Mozillians which are doing awesome. And asked them about the contribution area and explained it students:

 Rahul Talreja gave Demo on Army of Awesome, How to reply tweets, how we got ranked on right side of AoA page Worldwide.

One more Mozillian, Shubham Geete also gave demo how to contribute in Localization project. How can we convert the lines into our own language.

After this we distributed Swags and meet to the Director, captured photos with students and Mozillians. This is how the event was. And all the things in detail and at the best of my memory! I enjoyed the snacks with Mozillians of Community Indore. It was a very good opportunity to interact with the students of Indore.

Thanks ! 

Click Here for more Photos.

 

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.

My Story till the date:

Hello Mozillians!! Its more than a year to work with Mozilla Community.

                                                              A year ago a boy with no knowledge and no communication skills was recruited by Komal_ji in community Bhopal. As you can check out my First Blog : "My starting with Mozilla ". I was new to this culture - A culture of Open source, A culture of work together ! A culture of Mozillians! 

I Learnt a lot of things here in Mozilla via different events. Especially from Faizal Sir and Komal_ji. GNUnify Pune event was my first ever event, which I attended in PUNE It is was my first ever event, where I got invited with the help of Mozilla Bhopal REMO and my best friend Komal_ji_Gandhi. I have attended 3-4 events in Bhopal, after it i have made plan with Komal_ji to organise an event in my College GGITM,Bhopal I took Webmaker event there. Also I was the organiser of SIRT event, Bhopal. I vanished my stage-fear from Mozilla events and I increased my confidence level in some areas like Webmaker and Firefox OS App.

I got proudly invited in the Maker Party : Bangalore 2013 Hive India (Pop-up Event), there in maker party I amazed to saw the working 3D printer and an awesome hack-space Jaaga and many more new creative and amazing things.

                        After that i got the chance to Attended Mozilla Summit 2013 in Santa Clara,CA,USA. This was my unforgettable and mind blowing experience with Mozillians all over the World! I Learnt a ton of things. Also i enjoyed a lot...! Now, My name is also in the Mozilla contributor list about:credit page.                                                                                                                                                                              Love You Mozilla ! You give me a lot... I will always with you and spread the open source to the world.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

 

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