#Fx10 Bus in Hyderabad ||10/11/2014

Hi Friends,
First of all let me wish Firefox a Happy B’Day! And to celebrate this, we – Mozilla Hyderabad – organized and toured Hyderabad on behalf of Mozilla India. We gathered at our community space at 7:00 A.M. and immediately declared our Independent Choice yet again. After that, we started packing all the things that were to be taken with us. At 8:00 A.M., we headed for our breakfast at a nearby hotel. After coming back, we started discussing on some key points to be kept in mind while interacting with other people, interviewing the people, answering people’s questions, and much more. After all the discussions, it was time for some real fun. We all danced on Gangnam Style, Hakim Shake, I like to move it and many more. We had a lot of other fun activities too!
This continued till 1:00 P.M. when the bus arrived. As soon as the bus arrived, we went to a nearby restaurant and had our lunch quickly and started off for the tour. We went to places like Golconda Fort – one of the most historic forts of India, Hitech City – The techy part of the city, Hussain Sagar Lake – One of the tourist attractions, and many more places. We took interviews of people at various locations and had photos of them with them declaring their Independent Choice.
This took place till 7:00 P.M. after which we went to Eat Street – A place to gather and have parties – where we had a cake cutting. We had a small child over there who sang the birthday song to wish Firefox on it’s 10th birthday! Then we continued on our trip and went to IMAX – the best film theater in Hyderabad and a very famous tourist attraction. Here, we had a few photos of people declaring their independent choice and then we had our dinner from McDonalds there B| Then we started for our homes.
The next day, again we gathered in our community space at 6:30 A.M. We continued our #fx10 bus tour as we went to Charminar – The pearl place of the city and one of the 7 wonders of India! from where we took photos of declaring Independent Choice and headed to Mecca Masjid – the oldest mosque in Hyderabad And one of the largest Mosques in India where we did the same activities. We then had a cup of tea and then started back at around 8:45 A.M.
P.S. The celebration of Firefox completing 10 years was at it’s best in India and especially in Hyderabad. It was filled with fun and interactions with people from different backgrounds. The tour helped us understand the power of Mozilla Firefox in Hyderabad as many people came forward to declare their Independent Choice.

Regards,
Sudarshan

Firefox OS stall @ IGR | Day 3

And Here comes the final day of IGR. As expected, we turned up too early to witness what we had experienced in the previous 2 days.The Stall was still filled with lots of excitement and Happiness about the final day. We already started to think about the post-IGR Plans and also rejoicing the moments of those 3 amazing days.

                          

As this was the last day of IGR, there was a huge tsunami of people who turned up. We were all ready to showcase Firefox OS to all the attendees. Like the 1st and 2nd day, we kept a lot of chocolates, swags, and had our Foxy roaming around the venue to attract more people.People really Loved it. I personally enjoyed a lot of cute and amazing moments when a few kids come and say hello to the foxy while a few kids gets scared and try to hide behind their Mom’s. Kids these days know everything about the Smartphones more then what Their Dad Knows.I Had a few adorable moments when kids start to pour in and ask if Firefox OS got their favorite 2048 Game and apps like Facebook,Twitter etc and I proudly answer them with a “Yes”. That Yes Moment,I Still Remember.

                                             

The Day went on with tons and tons of people and also a lot of Indian celebrities.It Reflected the Sunday Fever at the Gadget Rush.In addition to the Gadget rush I found the Food So delicious during this time.Either the Cook might be a great one or may be the Hunger and Late Evening Lunches made me to like the food.
Finally, we packed everything up and wrapped up the event after some Foxy dance and Entertainment.It is like Indians Never end anything without the Actual Celebrations.
P.S. It was the first stall set up by Mozilla Hyderabad and this helped us realize our true capability in organizing these type of events. Our stall saw a prodigious number of attendees of about 30,000 people.
I Know it might seem a bit of Disturbance to see many P.S in this blog cz I didnt get how to end Narrating each day of Awesomeness.
Thanks a lot to the whole team who helped in all the ways and made it amazing

Few Pics: flickr (We had around 2000+ pictures but it was very hard to select.. Hence we posted few of them )
Articles and news programs in media :

• News India Express paper : http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/International-Gadget-Rush-Commences/2014/11/01/article2502533.ece

• TV5 News : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XokQCvcV14w

99news : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmGcc3G2ObI&feature=player_detailpage&list=PLhuD9z-lQ85Vc2DSRTa6jJEaJfsrCHa97#t=377

Firefox OS stall @ IGR | Day 2

Hi friends,

Update on the 2nd day of Firefox OS stall at IGR set up by Mozilla Hyderabad. We, the Mozillians, reached the venue at 9:00 A.M. i.e. even before the venue opened as we were super excited to witness the same thing that happened on day 1. i.e. get the maximum number of attendees!
 
                                             

The venue opened at 11:00 A.M. and the people started pouring in immediately. We got our stall ready as quickly as in 5 minutes. Keeping all the points that was discussed on Day 1 about the improvements required, we started explaining about Firefox OS. This time, it was much  more efficient as more and more people started asking us to sell our phones immediately.
We all were too much involved into this that we forgot about our lunch.
Finally it was Foxy time…!! People were very excited. Almost each and every individual got attracted by Foxy. And Foxy took some selfie’s too..

Finally it was Foxy time…!! People were very excited. Almost each and every individual got attracted by Foxy. And Foxy took some selfie’s too..

                                     

                                      
                                     

P.S. Once again our stall stood out as the most popular stall in the whole event due to our continuous planning and follow-up.
flickr

Firefox OS stall @ IGR | Day 1

Hey all,
Yaayyyyy… the first day of Firefox OS Stall @ International Gadget Rush was mind blowing… :D. 
                          
                                            
                                         
                                            

10 Mozillians for Mozilla Hyderabad reached the venue by 8:00 A.M fully charged and excited. And it was time to make our plans into  reality. The event was scheduled to start by 11:00 A.M. with the inauguration of the event by a renowned Telugu actress – Samantha.
The audience started pouring in after 11:00am. Many of them visited Firefox OS stall because of the Foxy and also to have Hands-On with the cheapest phone ever with the smartphone experience which were the main center of attraction.
                                                
                                

                                                                                                  
                                           
                                                 
               
                                                 

(Foxy enjoying with the attendees at IGR and lot of selfie’s and GAMES too.. :P)
 The event was widely covered by various news channels and other Press.

                   

Then something amazing happened..!! “Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh” “Mr.Sri K.E.Krishna Murthy” visited our stall. He saw smart phones for less price just 2,000 bucks, the first only word he spoke was “Woow..!!” he was quite surprised after seeing the phone. He gave us best wishes to continue our passion and also to the Mozilla Hyderabad Community to achieve the Mozilla’s Mission. At last he said time for a selfie..!

                                            

A lot of renowned actors, producers, directors also visited our stall and stood amazed with the features and Price of the phone.

                                    

Everyone who visited our stall were shocked as they never thought that a smart phone could be purchased for a price below Rs.2,000! They all had a hands-on with the phone and asked a lot of exciting questions and also gave valuable feedbacks.

                                 

We gave a lot of swags to the people who showed a lot of interest at the stall to make them more amazed which in turn made them happier. Many people were ready to pay and take home the Firefox OS Phones.
Finally the first day ended at 9:30 P.M.
P.S. Our stall was the most crowded stall among all other stalls which had many internationally famous brands. Our Stall was visited by more than 600 people on the first day!
Few Pics: flickr

Club Launch @St Peters||20-09-14

   It has been a long time since I wrote a blogpost.Yeah,I miss my writing and Finally I am here to Tell you People about an Amazing Firefox Club Launch which was held at St Peters Engineering College,Hyderabad,India about a day ago

                                           
                                               

It all started in the morning and we reached the venue on time.We were very well received by the Concerned FSA’s of that Particular college and their Team in the morning.I was expecting around 70 People for the Launch and as soon as I reached the Auditorium I was surprised to see about 150+ Students and 20 Professors waiting for the Club Launch Party to start. As always it started in the Indian Traditional way with a Welcome song and Lamp Lightening in the presence of all the college Dignitaries,Professors and the fellow audience.

Later it started with some awesome 2min speeches from the concerned dignitaries regarding advancement in Technologies and the role of Engineers in its development.It encouraged the audience a lot. We Had about 19 fantastic FSA’s From that particular college and each of them were very much excited to learn more about Open source and Mozilla.

                                                                         

                                     
                                            

   Our Regional Head Samtosh had taken the session and he had given an awesome session to a Mixed crowd from 2nd,3rd and 4th Years of Engineering and Most of them are from Computers Background.We had about 170+ Attendees Including Professors of that Particular College who Stayed throughout my Talk and finally got an Amazing Feedback from them Regarding the Firefox Student Ambassador(FSA) Program and they just Loved the Way Mozilla is Encouraging Students with these Kinds of Programs. He Started of my talk with OpenSource and Open Source Culture on Internet Followed by Mozilla and its Introduction Various Products of Mozilla,Firefox OS and the reason why it is Built, A short Intro of SuMo and AOA.

 

Later I Gave them a Clear view about Firefox Student Ambassador Program,Various activities and Benifits from the Program etc. I was able to see About two Third of the Crowd were Women and Thus I Quickly added Womoz to my Presentation and Speak about the Womoz Program. And Next comes my favourite Track of Webmaker Project. I Spoke about What is Webmaker Project and Why Webmaker Project. Later My Team Sumanth,Sanjay and Harsha Spoke about Each Webmaker Tool and Gave a demo to the audience by making Super Awesome Stuff with X-Ray Goggles,Popcorn Maker and Thimble.



In the Meanwhile I Had a Discussion with the FSA Team of that Particular College During Lunch Explaining them about various Projects,Products and Programs that were running out in Mozilla and Answering their questions about the FSA Program.

After Lunch We had a Complete Hands on Appmaker Session and this was the best part throughout the day. We faced few Network issues for 20 mins and in the Mean while we had a Spectogram.We enjoyed a lot in Spectogram debating with the students and Finally making them to agree with one answer. The following three questions were asked in our Spectogram
*Do You want websites to track your data?
*Is Practical teaching Encouraged in Colleges?
*Do you think Opensource is Helpful?

                                       
                                           

                               
                                           

At the end of the day We got the following amazing metrics:

*20+ FSA’s were recruited.
*100+ Webmaker.org Accounts were Created.
*80+ Apps were made using Appmaker.
*120+ Web literates
*Lots of Fun and Interactions.

News Paper article : http://epaper.sakshi.com/apnews/Ranga_Reddy/20092014/Details.aspx?id=2462660&boxid=26620392

FireFox OS AppDays @ CVSR (HYD)

Hello all,
     
 AppDays held  in CVSR on 23 Aug,2014 where  I represented +Mozilla Club Hyderabad as developer trainer . It an awesome event  with quite amazing Apps into the Marketplace.Participants made the  day  to show their coding skills  and  made the Apps with Passion which  result Awesome apps leading into the basket of Firefox OS.

Inaugaraution:

The day started with the Inaugraution by college heads and  Santosh Viswanatham (Mozilla Rep) followed by Introduction to opensource and Mozilla.

On a cool Morning with great Introduction to OPEN SOURCE and Mozilla:

Large number of participants from various colleges  assembled in the Seminar Hall eagerly waiting to know more about Mozilla and how to  develop Apps for Firefox marketplace.And after the Inaugaraution  Santosh Viswanatham has given the introduction to Open source with awesome examples and he also given a little talk about Firefox OS and platforms used to Build Apps for Firefox OS .Later Vikas Burri explained the various ways to contribute to Mozilla and to be a part of it.

         

App Development for Firefox OS :

Akshay has given a quick introduction to App-Manager and  Firefox OS boiler plate followed by a pratical implementation by an attendee and later  Santosh Viswanatham  explained about Manifest file followed by Hands-on event.

Time to put Thoughts  into Execution:

Here lies the actual coding part of the session. Participants started coding with a great zeal and started executing their Ideas.RedBull enhanced energy levels among participants and has given them  wings  to go deep into the code and to develop Apps. And as developer trainer I guided and also clarified the queries the attendees had along with Sumanth,Sanjay,Ganesh,Harsha.Many awesome videos are displayed during hands-on session to bring awareness and also make the Hands-on session intresting.

Apps like Fruit Ninja,logo buster,Discount calculator and many great apps were developed by participants in the session.

Finally the day ended up with distribution of prizes for the best Apps followed a few valuable words of CSE HOD of CVSR .They also presented us a memento for spending  with them and also making event a grant success followed by a group Picture with Participants.

              

WEBMAKER INDIA IRC Meet Up:

 Hello Everyone,

                            Here goes my blog about  Web Maker India IRC MeetUp ..........!!

    

       It's really a great and awesome chat and it  went in a friendly way where we all discussed about the ways how one can contribute in Mozilla Webmaker..!!It's again a great one with above 40+ participants.. It's Dyvik Chenna  Who guided through out the chat and clarified the doubts that newbies had n also he has also given suggestions how one can  do it in a better way..!!

                                   

   

                                     

                            He clarified the Newbies how one can  make new Makes using Webmaker tools and also how to create or Host an WebMaker Event and the ways how one can teach the web in innoative ways and he has also given the tips how to turn the one from using the web to making the web with the webmaker tools..He explained it in a nice way n also he clarified the doubts of many contributers and newbies who would like to contribute more....He seems like he has injected a Fuel that ignites and burns with spirit into the minds of newbies and also created a hope in newbies..!! 

                           

                                     

                            

                        Later the discussions went around How to be a mentor and How donate to webmaker and How one can guide others and where one can get the resources and many shared the thimble pages and makes they did n showed to newbies And i think those makes will really helpful for the one who wanna do either Remix or do a make from the scratch ..!! The make named MOZILLA COMMUNITY TREE  madeby Damarla Sumanth was really awesome one and it's really a great work..

                                       

                      We also had a little discussion about Mozilla Developer Network(MDN) and also about localisation and it went really in a awesome way where we head a discussion about the difference in translating articles into Support Mozilla and Transifex ..It went in a such a way that as the time passess we get involved in chatting in such a way that even we didn't notice the time n went on  and on..!!Finally the Chat ended up with the App Maker and Dyvik Chenna explained it in an awesome way to the newbies when they shooted a question Is web maker is for creating the Apps or Understanding the Nature of Apps ? 

  

                                       

                   Here goes the Etherpad link where u can  find more information about the Event:  https://webmakerindia.etherpad.mozilla.org/1

               

               I thank Dyvik Chenna and other members who all participated for making it great one and enjoyed alot with u all ...!! I would also thank Mozilla India for providing these type of oppurtunities ..!!

WEB-MAKER PARTY @SNIST

Hello All,
   

• Here comes  my experience in making the Web Maker session a huge success in SNIST. It went really funny as the participants get involved in playing with the Web-Maker  tools !! Rohit-Raj has given a brief introduction about Open source and Mozilla and its various activities...I have given a quick introduction to Web Maker tools of Mozilla  and how they made the web easy to change the content!!Followed by hands on session on these tools!!

•   Participants used  the X Ray Googles tool just as a simple hacking tool to edit the website   contents and they enjoyed a lot hacking content of the websites and sharing with other participants    how they hacked the content thus by waking up the hidden hackers lying in them.

     It was a great experience for me mentoring these participants  along with SaiReddy Harsha  and Upender!!

•  Do more in less time or no time !!This is what I learned from the Thimble!!Participants went crazy in playing with it and Designing movie posters,invitation cards,Cover pages,greetings and many more with it!!Harry poter movie poster made by Satya-Shree is outstanding and marvellous!!

•   Popcorn Maker !! "Once they experience how to use it they can't quit it that easily" these are the words I said to the participants before they had a Hand-son session on it!!And finally, my words came true after seeing the involvement the participants showed to make the videos and edit the already existing YouTube videos.

              Experienced a lot of pleasure and fun with Damarla Sumanth and Veera Manikanta.

•    Finally, the sessions concludes with the distribution of swag among the participants  by Sai Ganesh!!

             I thank Santosh Viswanatham for giving this great oppurtunity and guidance for making WebMaker party a huge success..

   Here are the links to some of the makes done by participants:

• https://sathya.makes.org/thimble/LTE0NjQ1OTg1Mjg=/hp
• https://sreeshma.makes.org/thimble/MTg3NDEzMjk5Mg==/greeting
• https://sindhuja.makes.org/thimble/LTE1MzE3MDczOTI=/postcard
• https://sajida.makes.org/popcorn/1wwg 
• https://ranjithkumar953.makes.org/thimble/LTE1ODIwMzkwNDA=/movie-poster
• http://shivam_velagapudi.makes.org/goggles/shivam_velagapudis-remix-of-gmail  
• https://opendesign.makes.org/thimble/MTY3MjgwNjQwMA==/vintage-newspaper