MozCafe at California Pizza - Karachi FSAs Meetup

14
SEP 2014
Sunday
15:00
18:00

Category Addons, Apps, Campus, Code Contributions, Developer Tools, Firefox Mobile, Firefox OS, Identity, Labs, Localization, Marketing, Mozilla Leadership Network, Open Badges, People, Quality Assurance, Recruiting, Services, User Support (SUMO), Web Development

Hashtag #FSAKarachi #FSAKhi #MozCafe #FirefoxStudents

Description All Firefox Student Ambassadors from Karachi, Pakistan were invited to attend the meetup on a beautiful Sunday afternoon to freely talk about Mozilla products, projects, initiatives, contribution areas and whatever came to mind regarding Mozilla :) The event was originally thought to be for a duration of 1.5 - 2 hours but the interest of FSAs to find ways to contribute to Mozilla turned the event into a 3 hour information session.

Venue California Pizza

City Karachi

Area Sindh

Country or Region Pakistan

The event was an awareness session with FSAs of 5 different Firefox Clubs of 5 different universities from Karachi.

Following is the Agenda:

  • Mozilla Mission and Mozilla Manifesto

  • Firefox release channels (Release, Beta, Aurora, Nightly)

  • Firefox features - New Tab look, New Customization mode, updating plugins, some unknown features like Firefox Profiles, how to submit feedback, etc.

  • Firefox OS - Video of "The Journey of Firefox OS", Mozilla's $25 smartphone initiative, Demo of Geeksphone Keon, Firefox Marketplace, App Development, etc.

  • Firefox Student Ambassador program - Signup, Club Lead Training, how to perform activities which includes App of the Month Contest, Localizing Snippets, Webmaking, etc.

  • Webmaker - Thimble (demo), Popcorn maker (demo), X Ray Goggles (demo), Appmaker (demo video)

  • Mozilla Open Badges - FSA Badges, Club Lead Badges, etc.

  • Mozilla Persona

  • Firefox Affiliates

  • Contribution Areas & How to Get Involved - Localization (demo), Firefox Support Forum (SUMO), App Development for Firefox OS platform, Firefox Addon Development, Mozilla QA, Educating through Webmaker, Mozilla Location Services, etc.

  • Introduction of Mozilla Contribution websites:
    1) https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/
    2) http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/

  • Introduction of some Mozilla websites - Mozilla Hacks Blog, Mozilla Developer Network, Air Mozilla, etc.

  • Upcoming Mozilla features/products/projects/initiatives - WebRTC, Shumway, Electrolysis (e10s), MozJPEG

Relevant Links

  • Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1473175206277690
  • Event on Webmaker events portal: https://events.webmaker.org/events/6600
  • Event Report using Webmaker Event Reporter template: https://mhasan.makes.org/thimble/MjEwMzMxMjY0MA==/maker-party-event-reporter