B2G Community Tour

Thursday
Sunday

URL https://etherpad.mozilla.org/remo-b2g-community-to...

Hashtag #FirefoxOS #B2GTour

Description This event will be a tour of the B2G device to neighbouring Mozilla communities in Mombasa and Kampala. The device is currently being hacked on by Mozilla contributors in Nairobi who will be in a position to share gained knowledge.

Venue East Africa

City Mombasa, Kampala

Area EMEA

Country or Region Kenya

FirefoxOS and WebApps will be the main theme of this event. However, we'll also take the opportunity to dive into more structural talks of Growing the Mozilla commuities in Mombasa and Kampala as well as touchbase on various Mozilla Contribute initiatives leaving people who'll take the intiative to further such activities.

In Kampala, we'll also take this opportunity to attend the one year anniversary of the Mozilla Uganda Community

Kampala

Media Presence

At least four media houses will cover this event in Kampala

Friday Schedule:

Radio/TV Interviews (morning) We are to be interviewed about Mozilla's activities in Africa and in General and local Radio and TV Stations. The message we'll pass reflects on the press release here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/remo-b2g-community-tour-kampala-press-release

Hack sessions (afternoon)
Using Bugzilla on various contribute areas
Mozilla QA
FirefoxOS and the Mozilla Marketplace (brief) - Lead by Alex and Hezron

Saturday Schedule

Mozilla Uganda Anniversary: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozcomug-anniversary/ FirefoxOS and the Mozilla Marketplace (conclusive) - Lead by Alex and Hezron

Mombasa

Saturday

Discuss the future of the Mombasa IT Community and how Mozilla can help
FirefoxOS and the Mozilla Marketplace
Using Bugzilla on for various Mozilla contribute areas Focus on the QA contribute area Focus on Webmaker

Aftermath

Blogs and Pics

http://www.mozilla-kenya.org/blog/31-kampala-b2g-tour
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.435474683183684.99969.206051646125990&type=1
http://www.techpost.ug/2012/10/mozilla-uganda-and-dream-of-localized.html
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.364266303663471.84779.173150682775035&type=1
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.435885733142579.100078.206051646125990&type=1

Metrics

30+ likes on our fb page
Mozilla to be part of a formation of a club in the KU university Mombasa campus
Acquiring space to host events in Mombasa (MEWA IT Center)
fb likes and student reps registrations from jkuat university
Talks with Camara to get a Webmaker curricular to teach their volunteers with
20 contributor sign-ups in Mombasa Tech Community also interested in contributing to Mozilla, following up on 3 html5 devs from Kampala as well
A game developer in Mombasa interested trying out html5 plus has already joined the community
Tv interviews on Firefox Os in Kampala