Opensource and Mozilla Enthusiasts Meetup - I

Hello Friends,

This time I am here with Mozilla Bhopal Community Meetup story. This Meetup is really a great and awesome Meetup yet in all of the community meetups, because in this Meetup there were 21 attendees, they all are passionate, geeky peoples and much Interested to know more about Mozilla. It’s like a surprised thing for me, that community suddenly grows up. 

This Meetup is for to collect all mozillians from the city. This Meetup is intended to collaborate all mozillians and non mozillians (who are interested) and inaugurate Mozilla Community Bhopal.

I started to make contact with all FSA group in Bhopal. I found 3-4 FSA groups here in my city – ‘NRI Mozillians’, ‘Arduous Club Bhopal’, ‘Bansal Firefox Club’ and SAM Firefox Club. Unfortunately, I could not make contact with Bansal and SAM club. Well, now it’s time for planning to create an agenda….

Check it out here:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/remo-makerparty-and-mozilla-community-building-workshop

I have discussed to my dear mentor ‘William Duyck’ and took help from my friend and  mozillian ‘Jafar Muhammed’.

Basically, I have decided 4 metrics for this meetup. Let see how much I fulfilled them.

Metric #1 Education

Success scenario #1 Volunteer Students learn ways to involve contributors in their projects

Result: - 90%

Metric #2 Strengthen community bonding

Success scenario #2 Connect mozillians, FSA, WoMoz and other contributors.

Result: - 101%

  

Metric #3 Summit discussion

Success scenario #3 Those who attended the summit, will share their summit experiences and also what we learn from the summit.

Result: - Lack of timing we could not shared Summit experience.

Metric #4 Tech - learn - Hack

Success scenario #4 Introduce to mozillians with mozilla’s new tools like Appmaker, Mozilla Brick, Togetherjs.

Result: - 98%

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Me and my mozillian friend ‘Anju Chandel’ we decided to keep some useful/fruitful contest for all attendees. ;) I kept 3 tasks - 1) Badge Designing 2) Poster designing and 3) Webmaker makes.
 

Before 2 days of the event I had contact with Webmaker GURU and My Dost – “GauthamRaj” to be judge cum mentor on the day of my meetup to select best makes and designing. He did really great job and selected 1 badge design for us.

It was NRI Mozillians group Bhopal, who won the Mozilla swag.

For poster designing, I had divided to attendees into 2 groups and gave them all required stationary and 1 hour to use their creativity. After 1 hour,
 

What I saw?.. :O
It was really amazing and superb!...

They guys did amazing creativity, 1 group made new Mozilla Community logo. Well, this contest became die because both are creations were awesome. ;)

Finally, we inaugurated our Community Bhopal, with these 21 passionate and geeky guys to cut the cake. ;) It was yummy!... :P :P

I would like to say thanks to GGITM, SIRT and NRI Mozillians group to made this meetup successful and usher in community Bhopal..

Finally, I like to mention my all community members name here, who are attended this awesome community meetup, and made this awesome!.. 

Palak Jain, Anju Chandel, Amarpal Singh Rajput, Vaibhav Bajaj, Jitendra Khasdev, Jai Sharma, Aarthish Kumar, Chandan Kuar Baba, Avinash Seth, Arpit Singhal, Saket Jain, Sumbul Afroz ali,  Smriti Jain, Divya Thakre, Parag Jain, Nayan Jain, Prince Shankushal, Bharat Jain..

Thank you

Komal Gandhi

Opensource and Mozilla Enthusiasts Meetup

Hello Friends,

Here I am to introduce my community meetup planning with you all... :)

The Community Team and Mozilla Remo will be working together to host the first team correlating workshop at the Snow vision iTech. This  workshop is intended to teach and learn various Mozilla projects and  improve their projects by adding community to the mix and learning how other teams have been successful doing so. Also we will Inaugurate Official Mozilla Club Bhopal. Androus Firefox Club Bhopal also will be there for further planning.

I and my Mozillian friend decided to inaugurate Mozilla club Bhopal, because  we had done many events and meetups here, so its time to connect all volunteer and collaborate all.
Well, here is snow vision iTech institute supporting us, and providing resource for this meetup to make successful. For that I am really thankful to Institute owner 'Anju Chandel'.
So, we have decided agenda of this meetup.

Planning Dashboard

We have planned before a month actually. So that everything gonna be good and proper on time.



(We will discuss on these topics)

1) Mozilla Mission
2) What Mozillians do?
3) Work Distribution in Community

• Documentation
• Planning
• Event Managing
• Further Activities in Community

4) Tech, Learn and Hack

• AppMaker
• OS App.
• Popcorn
• Safari Books Online
• Badge Design

5) Inauguration of Community Bhopal
6) Discuss about upcoming project (womaniya)

For more information:
Complete Agenda

Making Agenda

I specially thanks to my some mozillian friends (Sujith Reddy and Jafar Muhammed) who giving online support and suggested me an idea to create a meetup and manage community-building for community Bhopal. :)


-Komal Gandhi
WoMoz Mentor

Mozilla Summit : A glance from my sight

Hello My Dear Friends,

Here I am to share my first Summit Experience!....

First Week of the month more than thousands of Mozillians Came from global proportions (contributors and staff) across three different countries: USA (Santa Clara), Canada (Toronto), and Belgium (Brussels) to help build and discuss about the future of the open web. This was #MozSummit 2013. It was a great experiment. Summit was everything. I had hoped for and much more there were moments as a site host that were challenging but as an attendee there were moments that were exciting, fun and powerful.

It was awesome. It was exhausting, fun, informative, interesting, inspiring, sometimes awkward, sometimes over the top. A big thank you is due to the organizers. They did a fantastic job on an event of this size, everything was well planned and went smoothly and there was a nice balance of talks, free time, etc. That is really hard to get right, so kudos.
it was for me the occasion to meet fellow Mozillians for the first in face to face, and to meet other I had never interacted with.

It was great to meet with lots of Mozillians outside the rendering team. That was probably the best thing about the time. Many of the technical sessions were really interesting too.
I found that we have a very friendly and vibrant community, spread across the globe, people passionate about the web, passionate about the users and the future of the web, from developers, designers, artists, translators to evangelist, marketing and administrative support. The full spectrum was represented.

For me, events like the Mozilla Summit are much more about getting to know new people and building rapport. Even given my focus on that there’s lots of interesting and random things that made an impact on me over the past week

All the face to face time – both with the people I talk with daily and with those I barely know – is very useful. I got new perspective on people I’ve known for a long time, built rapport, and was able to thank a lot of people for things they’ve helped me with over the years. I also learned a lot of things I wouldn’t have otherwise by talking with people I’ve never met. For this reason alone I hope we can find ways to have larger Mozilla events more often (that is, larger than a team’s work week but smaller than a full Summit).
Well, it is not the end of my Summit experience #MozillaSummit. It is a glance about Mozilla summit2013 from my sight. Still I have lots of things to share My experience, Summit in my view, what summit gave me? and many more.....  

I will update and publish soon my next blog post.....

-Komal Gandhi

MakerParty @ GGITM, Bhopal

Hello My Friends,

Again I am here with my new success story of the Event!... 

This event is about 2nd Mozilla Webmaker Party in Bhopal organized by me. 

The web gives us all the chance to be creators, makers and inventors. Maker Party is about joining thousands of people across the globe to make something amazing, teach each other new skills, and have a great time doing it.”
– Mark Surman, Mozilla’s Executive Director

Mozilla Team Bhopal

On June 15, Mozilla kicked off Maker Party — our flagship Webmaker event and a three-month long global celebration of making and learning on the web. Buoyed by the success of last year’s Summer Code party, we tried hard to make this year’s global celebration of webmaking even bigger and better. And thanks to the incredible work of Mozillians and party hosts around the world, it was!

Webmaking is fun but teaching others to make the web is even more fun!....

I started the session to familiar the students with the 'Open Source', and my interesting topics - 'About Mozilla', and 'How Mozilla different', 'Ways of getting involved with Mozilla' and the 'Different Mozilla products'.
I showed some Mozilla videos as well. Then I told them about the Firefox Student Ambassador program.
 

Giving Talk on Mozilla and FSA Program

After, I got a chance to talk on my favorite topic WoMoz. Girls attendees looking excited when I was told about How girls can Contribute in a Community and come forward like a leader. I Gave them my example. ;) 

Give Talk on WoMoz

Suddenly, A girl name 'Monika Sharma' asked me common but important Question. - 

'Can I make my career in women mozilla'?. 

Then, I explained her with examples of 'Mitchell Baker' and also showed some videos how can she improve her skills and knowledge and make career secure and bright with getting involved in Mozilla.
After, my explanation I can see that satisfaction, curiosity and happiness on their faces. 

Satisfaction, Curiosity and Happiness

Now it was time for most interesting part that is Mozilla Quiz.
I hosted the quiz with my mozillian friend Vaibhav and I was like a learning session with lots of fun. Question were easy and interactive most of them was set by Vaibhav Bajaj and I added a few of my crazy questions. We distributed some mozilla swags to participants.

Then, I told them to students about the Mozilla Maker Party. I told them about What is webmaker party? and Why we are celebrating? After it, Vaibhav gave a demonstration of webmaker tools, Thimble and popcorn. Then, Anju (Mozillian) told them about the theme/topic of the day which was "My Favorite browser", and we gave them 1:30 hours to make makes. 

GGITM Students making their Makes

All the participants actually did a great job. All the awesome makes can be found here.

This is amazing how at every Webmaker event, I kind of find it difficult to end the event. We always go beyond the scheduled time and the participants never want to stop! Thimble is that addictive!

But, unfortunately, every good thing need to come to an end, so did our event. Some goodies were distributed to the candidates who made some awesome remixes and also to the volunteers whose help and untiring efforts made the event a grand success.
 

We heard over and over how much fun people had at this year’s Maker Party. Collaboratively exploring coding and learning to make and share things on the web proved to be an engaging, joyful process for people across the globe, regardless of their skill levels.

Distributing Swags

“At the end of this session, I asked an attendee what he thought of learning collaboratively 

and he said “I spent half the session teaching that other guy in CSS, and it was so much fun.”” — Maker Party in Bhopal, India.

Please stop by, make some art and hang it on our walls. Knock down some of our walls and help us build new ones. Tell us what you love, tell us what you need, tell us how we can make Webmaker even better. We’ll be hosting our “open house” for the next couple months, so come on in.

Mozilla Bhopal team with GGITM Students

 Many event hosts were not formal educators. By connecting with other web enthusiasts eager to share skills, Maker Parties were a great way to gain experience and form networks.

“During my first class, I was kind of nervous, but my students were awesome. They really loved the innovation experience that we shared together. I really felt it was a learning and teaching experience for all of us.” — Komal Gandhi, Mozilla Representative, Student Coordinator, Bhopal India