Featured Reps
This is an archive of all past "Reps of the Month". This special recognition is given each month by the Mozilla Reps Council to a Rep who has gone above and beyond to help push the Mozilla project forward in his/her region.
Rep Name | Featured text | Date featured |
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Mehul Patel |
Mehul is an highly motivated Rep from India supporting and enabling many Mozillians in the region of Pune, Nashik and Gujrat. He is also a campus club advisory board member helping shaping the new activities for students. His recent activities include conducting the first phase of the Rain of Rust campaign which mobilized Mozillians around Rust across various parts of India. |
30-06-2017 |
Vaibhav Bajaj |
Vaibhav is a Reps Mentor from Bhopal, India. He has been contributing as a Mozilla Rep since October 2014. During the past few months, Vaibhav has organized a WebVR Camp in Bhopal, and attended the WebVR Camp in Indore. Additionally he took part in the Hindi & Marathi localization community meetup and participated in the A-Frame Hack Night India which had the goal to create training material about WebVR. To help increase the Nightly usage in India, he is also part of the India uses Firefox Nightly initiative. |
29-05-2017 |
Rizki Kelimutu |
Kiki is an awesome Rep from Indonesia based in Jakarta. You might have met her in Bugzilla since her daily job is handling seamlessly all the Reps budget and swag requests. But Kiki is restless! So after the endless hours of Bugzilla she volunteers her time on building and developing the community in Indonesia. During the past few months Kiki has worked on expanding the Aurora community and organizing SUMO days. She has also been advocating to local audiences about online privacy. Further, she has been advocating for Mozilla and has been building a community in Kopdar. Lately she has also represented Mozilla along with other volunteers Mozilla in WikuFest. Kiki has also recently joined the Tech Speakers program, expanding her skills even further. And she has done all this while being one of the space wrangles of the amazing Jakarta space. |
03-03-2017 |
Siddhartha Rao Vishal Chavan |
Siddhartha is a Computer Engineering major from New York, he is also a technology leader with rich experience in Security, Web Development and Data Privacy Evangelism. He started with his Mozilla contribution by leading the Firefox Club and Cyber Cell for a year at his university. Sid was a speaker and Data Privacy Ingeniouses at the Glassroom initiative by Tactical Tech and Mozilla. He contributed to the strata of data privacy in browser metadata, mobile devices and social networks and took the responsibility to delve deep in the topics and spread awareness about the same at the Data Detox Bar. He also is an important part of the privacy month campaign in the New York community. Creating quality content for the campaign, Sid was responsible for putting together the social media content for Twitter and Facebook posts and ensuring timely delivery of graphics to global teams for localization. Vishal is a web entrepreneur and a champion Mozilla contributor since April 2013. He started his Mozilla journey by organizing sessions focused on teaching the web to school and university students. He then became a part of Mozilla Foundation when assigned the role of a Regional Coordinator for Mozilla Clubs. One of the key roles he played as a contributor was being a core team member who started the January Privacy Month Campaign. A campaign which, as of 2017, has proven to be a global success for the third year in a row. In the last six months, Vishal has contributed as a Regional Coordinator, has helped set up and mentor many new Mozilla Clubs in and around India. He has been an integral part of campaigns to spread privacy awareness in India. Involved in the planning and the flow of the privacy month campaig, Vishal was responsible for assigning roles, mobilizing contributors and encouraging participation in India and in global communities. He also mentors at the Maker-Fest in India. |
01-02-2017 |
Petras Slekys |
Petras is an IT specialist and entrepreneur, who started at an extremely young age to build up a company and to develop his Project Manager skills. Nowadays he has a track record of working with or even heading a number of world class IT projects and companies. During the last few months he organized and participated in many events giving talks to thousand of people in various topics, including Privacy and Advocacy and the EU Copyright Reform. He adds his PM knowledge to the program by building up proposals for different projects. He managed to mobilize our community of volunteers, showing great leadership and communication skills. |
01-01-2017 |
Srushtika Neelakantam |
Srushtika is an undergraduate student in her final year. She describes herself as "Tech-Speaker at Mozilla that loves speaking and advocating new technologies that could change the way we spend our lives." But she is so much more than that. During the last few months she has been working along with Ram on building the local Indian WebVR community. She has also created MozActivate best practices while she is also working on an intro guide for newbies in WebVR events based on Rust guides. Moreover, she is heavily involved on shaping the Campus program and suggesting activities for campus students. All the above gained her a mention on the VR/AR inspirations of 2016 blogpost. When she is not studying or contributing to VR, Srushtika is helping the privacy month team from India on advocating about privacy in social media. Check them out on #privacymonth. Congratulations Srushtika, you're a true inspiration to all of us. Keep on rocking! |
01-12-2016 |
Ram Dayal Vaishnav |
November's gone but our lovely Reps made sure to leave a footprint of it behind with amazing activities. One that stood out was Ram Dayal Vaishnav, a Rep for almost three years now. He is always up to speed and engaged in the newest things mozilla engages in, so it is no surprise he is one of the volunteers leading WebVR activities in India. Check his latest reports from the VR Camp Hyderabad about the A-Frame framework. Also, if you need an inspiration on how to organize a VR Day be sure to look over "A Day of Virtual Reality". He attended the Mozilla Festival in London and is teaching the Learning WebVR development using A-Frame framework. Thanks Ram for the amazing work done! Congratulations! |
01-11-2016 |
Geraldo Barros Hossain Al Ikram |
Hossain al Ikram is a passionate contributor from Bangladesh community. He is frontrunner for QA community from past two years and has been setting examples of remarkable leadership and value contribution under several functional areas. Ikram has shown great potential and he is proving his mettle at every instance. He is actively mentoring people from different countries for QA initiative, He recently helped Indian community in setting up QA team. He also organized MozActivate campaign in Bangladesh. Geraldo has been one of the most active members in Brazilian community over the last 3 months. Helping to coordinate Mozilla presence at FISL (one of the biggest OpenSource events in Brazil), engaging with the community, running events like Sao Paulo workday , or Latinoware , and even assisting to MozFest! He is a very engaged mozillian, that also helps run events for Webcompat and SUMO hackatons. |
01-10-2016 |
Prathamesh Chavan |
Prathamesh is an extremely active and super energetic Mozillian of the Indian community. He has successfully led several different events and shown unbelievable leadership skills. One of the most recent examples of his untiring energy was the Mozilla India Community meetup 2016. His skills at managing all the logistical work for such a huge event was a pleasant surprise for all the organizers and senior members of the community. Prathamesh is famous of going around with a viral smile. If ever asked to do some work, he does it with a smile and also makes sure that the smile virus is perfectly passed on to you...leaving you smiling as well. Prathamesh is a strong supporter of the Open Web and believes that everyone deserves to have access to it. With this thought in mind, Prathamesh also initiated the MILE project here in the Indian community. The purpose of the MILE project is to teach the basics of web to the less fortunate section of our society. Congratulations and thanks for all the contributions made! |
06-08-2016 |
Christophe Villeneuve |
Christophe Villeneuve has been a Rep for more than 9 months now and has reported more than 100 activities in the program. From talks on security to writing articles and organizing events, Christophe is active in many different areas. Did we already mention that he also bakes Firefox cookies? His energy and drive to promote the Open Web and web security is astonishing. Even if sometimes external factors intervene and some of the activities get blockers he neither gets disappointed nor quits, he looks for the next possibility out there. He truly is an open source believer contributing to other open source communities (like Drupal) as well and he tries to combine those activities for bigger audiences. |
27-07-2016 |
Alex Lakatos |
Alex is a Mozilla Rep based in London, Great Britain, originally from Romania. He is also a Mozilla TechSpeaker, giving talks all around Europe. In the last 2 months Alex held several technical talks all over Europe (CodeCamp Cluj, OSCAL in Albania, DevTalks in Bucharest and DevSum in Sweden just to name a few) to promote Mozilla's mission and the Open Web. With his enthusiasm in tech he is a crucial force to promote our mission and educate developers all around Europe about new Web technologies. He covered both the transition we are doing shifting from Firefox OS to a more innovative area with Connected Devices but also changes in Firefox and why you should consider the improvements made on the DevTools side. |
01-06-2016 |
Konstantina Papadea |
Konstantina is a long-time Mozilla Reps from Greece. Additionally she is also responsible for the budget and swag requests in the Reps program. In the past months Konstantina has helped out with organizing and chairing the Reps weekly call together with Ioana. That means that they are weekly in contact with many mozillians to find new interesting topics and prepare the agenda and the notifications. Further she is helping the Council with the formation of the Review Team we are implementing. This was already announce here and will give Council more time to spend on mission and strategy. She became a mentor and will help inspire the new people applying for the program. |
01-05-2016 |
Daniele Scasciafratte |
Daniele is a Mozilla Rep from Italy. He is helping to build the Italian community, coordinating it and also gives talks in Italy. Apart from that he is active in localization from English to Italian and loves coding. When he has time for it, he is improving the Reps portal contributing patches to it. Recently he also started a discussion to improve the Reps portal on a more general level. Daniele has been involved in the RepsNext Working Groups since the beginning. With all his enthusiasm he was part of a lot of working groups (Alignment, Meta, Leadership), joining meetings every week and giving his valuable input. Without him it would have been way harder to grasp the need of Reps during the important phases. You can find out more about his recent Reps activities on his Reps profile where he reported a lot of activities which enables us to see all his great contributions. |
01-04-2016 |
Rahul Talreja |
Rahul Talreja is one of the most active Reps and a senior FSA of his community. He started as a FSA in 2013 and since day one he has been doing great work in building the local community and his personal contribution towards Mozilla. He has mentored a lot of people. Aligned with Mozilla's new strategy towards Connected Devices, Rahul recently organised an IoT/Connected Device workshop "Web of Things @ Footprints Baroda" in February 2016. That was the first of its scale in India and it helped not only him but the entire community to learn from what he did in that event. The workshop was undoubtedly a great success, which can be seen in Rahul's blog post about the event. |
01-03-2016 |
Abdelrahman Samy |
Abdelrahman Samy started his journey as a Firefox Student Ambassador in Egypt. As Club lead of the AAST club, he is involved in the day to day awareness raising of Mozilla's mission at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport. He is also engaged in localization and helped with l10n for Firefox OS. Further he is one of the most active Core members of the Egypt community. Recently he coordinated Club launches in Egypt (MIS Club for example). With his enthusiasm there are two more Club launches he is coordinating at the end of April / start of May. |
01-02-2016 |
Dian Ina Mahendra |
Dian Ina is one of the core contributors from Indonesia. Art Manager in the day enthusiastic Mozillian by night, Ina contributed heavily on building her community's roadmap for 2016. She is also contributing on Firefox Social media materials and is helping along with the rest of the Indonesian's community on creating their community space in Jakarta. One of her biggest work was building the budget plan for her community's activities for 2016. and taking the accountable role for her community along with Andi. If you want to know more about Ina, check her latest activities on her Reps profile. |
01-01-2016 |
Szmozsanszky Istvan |
István Szmozsánszky is one of the most active Reps from 2015 - as a whole year! He shown leadership and commitment by taking the role of a mentor but also promoting Firefos OS and WebRTC being one of the MozTechSpeakers! He is currently mentoring people both in Reps program but also local students as he is organizing a semester long course on developing apps. If you follow along his twitter profile you will see he loves sharing #mozlove and he is a conference addict ( in a positive way) promoting as much as possible all things Mozilla related. In December both before and after Mozlando he was attending tech conferences and evangelizing people into Mozilla. Thank you so much Flaki for all your hard work! You are truly an inspiring person and I super proud to mozwork with you! |
14-12-2015 |
Dorothee Danedjo Fouba |
Dorothee has shown amazing leadership in Cameroon - growing that community from zero to over fifty in just one year. By organizing of a series of events and empowering emerging leaders, Dorothee has shown great talent for bringing people together to learn and understand the potential of Mozilla to improve their world. As Tech Women alumni Dorothee also speaks to , and inspires other women technical leaders in their goals for building Mozilla communities across the world. |
02-11-2015 |
Hossain Al Ikram Wissam Alazzam |
Hossain is the awesome leader of QA community Bangladesh. He created an awesome team of QA BugHunters in Bangladesh, organize regular Community calls to mentor new people and did the QA Marathon Dhaka. Wissam is one of the most active Reps in middle East, located in Jordan, a mozillian with great ideas, someone who is eager to help the other fellow Reps and Mozillians. |
28-09-2015 |
Mohamed Hafez |
Mohamed Hafez is an incredible Rep with great capabilities from Egypt, he has being part of the big Mozilla tour in Egypt to spread the Mozilla love and mission all over his region. His latest big event was Mozilla Egypt Iftar (Arabic: إفطار )in which they talked about Firefox OS and ways to get involved with Mozilla and also a formal Mozilla Egypt meeting. Additionally, he is involved in the coordination of the local launch campaign for Firefox OS in Egypt. |
03-08-2015 |