Coding for Firefox

Event Name: Coding for Firefox, VIIT Pune
Time: 11:00 am to 6:00 pm
Date:  24th Feb 2015
Venue: VIIT, Pune
Hashtags: #firefoxcodepune, #firefoxstudents, #viitfirefoxclub

The VIIT Firefox Club organized an event "Coding for Firefox" on 24th February in Internet Lab (System Dept) VIIT.   Total 40 Computer Engineering students attended the event.

Our Goals:
A] Introduction and contributing to Mozilla
B] Getting ready for development,
C] Building Firefox,
D] Getting ready to work on your first bug,
E] Using online tools to help productivity,
F] Front end Firefox development tools


Output of the Event:
1) 18 New Mozillians recruited.
2) All participants became member of VIIT Firefox Club
3) All participants registered for the FSA.

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= Was it worth it? =-
According to my knowledge, Yes. The audience was satisfied with the content of the event.

-= Should we go again? =-
Yes. I feel its worth the investment.

Remix Hackathon

Event Name: Remix Hackathon, VIIT Pune
Time: 09:00 am to 6:00 pm
Date:  21st Feb 2015
Venue: VIIT, Pune
Hashtags: #viitremixhackathon, #firefoxstudents, #viitfirefoxclub


The VIIT Firefox Club organized an event "Remix Hackthon" on 21st and 22nd February in Internet Lab (System Dept) VIIT.

The event started at 09: 00am. Dyvik and I conducted sessions during the event on following topics:

* SUMO
* WEBMAKER
  ** THIMBLE
  ** POPCORN
  ** X-RAY GOGGLES
* APPMAKER
* LOCALIZATION
* FIREFOX OS
* ONE AND DONE
* Bugzilla

This event created an open platform for technologists and also people from Non-technical branches to state that anything that is modified on web is called a hack. Exactly to say it was not an appday but we allowed people to build applications upon their interest. In this hackathon we teaught all about contributing to localization, Webmaker, MDN, App development, Helping on
support.mozilla.org, filing bugs,testing and many more ways to contribute.

Event Name: Firefox OS Apps Day (App Day in a Box (ADIAB)), Pune
Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Date:  24th August 2014
Venue: VIIT, Pune
Hashtags: #apphackdaypune, #firefoxstudents

-= Audience and size =-
There were 20 people who attended the event. All participants were Third Year and Final Year(B.E) engineering students of Information Technology and Computer Engineering in VIIT Engg College, Pune. Overall, they seemed to have good knowledge of web technologies ( HTML, JavaScript) and interested in open source contributions.

-= Our Goals =-

1. Educate and inspire developers to work on HTML5 apps and submit them to the Firefox Marketplace
2. Create opportunities for local developers to showcase their apps
3. Raise awareness of Firefox OS and the developer ecosystem
4. Brainstorm app ideas