Firefox Apps Day Pune (App Day in a Box (ADIAB))

Event Name: Firefox Apps Day Pune (App Day in a Box (ADIAB))

Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Date: 15th March 2014

Venue: VIIT Pune (Kondhwa)

Hashtags: #ViitFirefoxClub, #firefoxstudents 

-= Audience and size =-
There were 22 students who attended the App-hack-in-day one day workshop event. One of the participants came from the Bangalore city to attend the event. 

Remaining were Final Year (B.E) engineering students of Information Technology in VIIT Engg College, Pune. Overall, they seemed to have good knowledge of web technologies ( HTML, JavaScript) and interested in open source contributions.

-= Our participation =-

Among the four sessions, Qaidjohar (FSA, VIIT Firefox Club)  gave presentations in two sessions and I and Vedant (FSA, VIIT Firefox Club) gave one presentation each.  Vedant was the first out talking about Firefox OS and gave an introduction of Firefox OS to the audience. In addition, he also explained the audience How to "Setup For Firefox OS App Development Environment", "How to Installing the Firefox OS Simulator" and demonstrated how to invoke Firefox OS Simulator. Then I gave presentation on WebAPIs, introducing the audience to WebAPI and how to use them. Finally, Qaidjohar conducted two practical sessions to explain Firefox OS app development. He demonstrated a simple "Hello World!" FirefoxOS app to the audience with the help of JQuery and CSS style sheets. Then in the fourth session, he demonstrated basic building blocks in the FirefoxOS app such as slider, checkbox, radio buttons, etc. 

-= Audience reactions =-

My goal was mainly to make people aware about Firefox OS Apps and App development. From the oral feedback from the audience, it seems like it went well. We got positive feedback the audience provided us their email addresses to inform them about future events on Firefox OS in VIIT. 

From talking to audiences, they were very happy with this workshop. 

-= Materials =-

1. Introduction Slides [Download (PPTX)]

2. FirefoxOS App Development Environment [Download (PDF)] [Note: These slides are taken from hacks.mozilla.org blog] 

3. WebAPIs for FirefoxOS App Development  [Download (PDF)] [Note: These slides are taken from hacks.mozilla.org blog] 

-= Swags =-

Some people from the audience asked about the Firefox Stickers. Unfortunately, we didn't get any swags for this event.

-= Organization =-

To the best of my knowledge, this was the first time Firefox OS app development workshop was arranged in VIIT, Pune, and I think it all worked well. Everything was in place.

-= Overall feel =-

Good interest from the audience in Firefox OS and its app. They feel confident to develop apps for Firefox OS.

-= Was it worth it? =-

According to my knowledge, Yes. The audience was satisfied with the content of the workshop.

-= Should we go again? =-

Yes. I feel its worth the investment.

-=Photos of the Event =-

-= Success Metric of the Event =-
In the event we developed two apps "Building Blocks" and "Battery Status". These two apps will be released very soon on the Mozilla Marketplace.  The "Building Blocks" FirefoxOS App teaches how to use basic UI components in the app such as radio buttons, checkbox, slider, navigator tabs, etc.  The "Battery Status" Firefox OS app shows information about battery and its charging levels with different colors.