Monday 18 January 2016

Firefox OS Midnight Appathon@BITS Hyderbad

Hello guys…..
We are here with an amazing Mozilla event happened in the city aiming at developing Webapps for Firefox OS. We conducted Firefox OS Midnight Appathon at BITS Hyderbad which is one of the top most Engineering colleges in India.The event is a part of the atmos'15 fest.

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.Organizers have actively participated in taking the event forward. Around 120 enthusiastic participants who were very really interested in developing applications attended the event. The Event started with the Introduction to Mozilla and Various Mozilla Products and about the open web by the Akshay.

 Later followed by the Introduction to Firefox OS and the Marketplace by Sumanth where he showed the a demo app with the execution . Later followed by a small discussion to develop new app and the discussion went great with the involvement of people and the discussions went friendly and in a learning way.

 Later Vineel shared his volunteered experience with Mozilla and clarified the doubts and the talk went for nearly 45 min followed by lunch break. After the lunch break Hand son App Development is started where we the Volunteering team helped the participants in giving out the suggestions to develop the app.


Many of  participants showed their energy great levels through out the entire night in developing the apps and using web activities and some developed apps using the Apache cordova for the Firefox OS. Finally the event ended up with the presentation of the apps developed by the participant teams followed by the prize distribution to the top 3 teams.