Mozilla Workshop & Hackathon At JNTU-Kakinada

It was a dream to give a talk in Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, were many colleges are associated with[including my college]. We traveled around 1000+ K.M [To the Event and From the Event] but we were all ready and energetic for the Big Event named Mozilla Workshop and Hackathon which was divided perfectly as day1 would be workshop on Mozilla and later Day2 was hackathon.

Ill try to keep all it simple and easy to refer :)


Day 1 :  Pleasant Morning Sunshine, people were slowly gathered in the Hall by the time we reach. We sticked to our plan and schedule to be done for the day. Everything went well and the crowd was very interactive with questions. We wrapped-up the day1 with rules and requirements for Hackathon on Day2.

Schedule was:

• Who is Mozilla? What are products of Mozilla? 
• Benefits of Contributions? Areas of Contributions?
• Privacy on Web and Web RTC
• Webmaker
• Introduction to HTML and CSS
• Firefox OS App Development
• Game Development for Firefox OS using Construct2

Day 2: The people are gathering the hall with there laptops and to start of building many wonderful applications for Firefox OS which may be useful to others. Later hours the hackathon was getting into peak level and people were nervous and started off with lots of queries about building there apps [finally it looked like personal hands-on- sessions] but was fun to learn new logic's while building them. Soon after few hours from lunch, people are getting ready to show-off there applications to public . After Demo session we have given Ending Key notes with a wonderful Mozilla Video.

Schedule was:

• Hackathon 
• Networking and Hands-on for freshers
• Mozilla Videos
  

Link to Event Images: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8o1IdFGsMfVT2pGdGE0dnVoOHc&usp=drive_web

Metrics:

1. Web Literacy
2. Firefox OS App Development
3. Privacy on Web 
4. Remixes and Appmaker Apps
5. First to start Mozilla Awareness in Kakinada and surrounding Regions
6. New interested people who want to start off contributions as FSA's 

Credits:

Vineel Reddy Pindi: Motivation and Support for the Event, Swag too.
Faisal Aziz [My Mentor]: Helped me in getting Budget on Time.

Speakers: 

Rep: Sai Charan, Harsha  
Mozillians: Akhilesh Reddy, U.M.K. Dikshit, Deepak

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Inaguration Of Firefox Club at St Marys Engineering College

It was a pleasant morning with a decent sunshine!!! Ready for Club Inauguration in a college which is 150 k.m far from my place. After 1 hour and 15 minutes of journey, we finally reached college and Thanks to Adil[ Firefox Club Lead to his college] for great receiving!! Soon later we had discussions with Principle and Head Of the Department about the agenda.

 The number of participants in the hall are filled completely and they were around 200+ members in the hall. Event started, I started up with Mozilla and its mission and went out upto 25 min and Introduction ended  with a Cray Question by one of the Student in the crowd-"Why Firefox and Why not Chrome" and justified the answer by saying "We do not tract the Users Data"!!!

Soon Later session on Firefox OS is taken up by Harsha which went on for 45 min by showing various videos related to Firefox OS and simple Hello World demo on how to build a Firefox OS applications from scratch!!!

Now the club lead of his college is ready to talk about FSA Program!!!  Adil took this session for 30 min and this session went on interactions. Other Mozillians in the mean while clarified the queries of the participants on Benefits of Contributions and Technical quires.  

With few questions and interactions with participants, we needed our event with our Mozilla working space [Collab House] at Hyderabad and invited the interested people to learn/know more about Mozilla and its Awesomeness.

Inauguration at Malla Reddy Engineering College with Appdays and Maker Party

One week of preparations for this BIG day which contains Inauguration with Appdays and Maker Party [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/MRLClubLaunch] and the day has come like a lighting bolt.

Everything was planned perfectly and we started to the Venue. Here comes a twist, the college people were expecting around 180-200 participants but the magic is we got 650 registrations for the event and interesting part is many students came from other near by colleges and from Other states too[ SRM, VITS, and few more]. We got a grand welcome by 21 volunteers from the college and the Welcome sign was Awesome!!!![ you can see it below. I guess they used 10kg of salt to Welcome us!! :D ]

After a small discussion with the director, we started the event after Traditional Lighting!!! Introduction to Mozilla and Mozilla Mission was handled by Akhilesh, which went on with many interactions from participants and speaker too. Later Different Products in Mozilla was handled my Harsha, were participants showed very interest in Firefox OS. Soon Later, it was my turn and I [Sai Charan Reddy] took up Areas of Contributions in Mozilla and benefits in Contribution to Mozilla. Continuously, I started to explain briefly about Webmaker and it tools!!! Later, Harsha spoke briefly about developing Firefox OS Apps from scratch and We all ended the half days session with many Mozilla Videos!!!

After lunch we had Hands On Sessions!!! They divided people on there interest accordingly, It was 55% showed interest in App Days and 45% took Webmaker. Accordingly we divided among our selves in 3 teams and assembled in three different labs!!! I with help of Akhilesh, Varun and Sai Teja took Webmaker sessions in two halls and Harsha, Akhil and Hitesh were taking App development sessions simultaneously.

As I was in Maker Party sesion, I kick started with teaching basics of HTML and Varun in CSS. Later after an hour of hands on, we moved to to Webmaker tools and explained about the different tools in it. The Very Highlight of the sessions are X-Ray Goggles which made them easy to create webpages in minutes and which made them feel lot easier then coding it from scratch and one more tool they felt interesting is Appmaker, which helped them to create apps in minutes by few clicks on bricks. I can see lots of faces smiling after they used these tools!!! :D

            

After the second of session we had interactions with participants and in that mean time The College Dean and Principle handed over Momentous to all the Mozillians and FSA's and ended with a group picture.