Maker Party @ Gangadevipally

An amazing experience which i felt this week was the "MozRide" to a village i.e., Gangadevipally. Here, me along with Meraj Imran ( Mozilla Reps ) and Hitesh Kumar ( Mozillian) planned to organize an event Maker Party in a Villlage which is one of the best villages in India and it has been awarded as the Model Village. There is 90% of literacy, no alcohol consumption, 100% children going schools, no child labor, purified drinking water at a very low price etc.

 This was actually a 2 day event with a train the trainers event where the mozillians were trained how to host a maker party and how they can be a part of mozilla by contributing to different projects.

                                               MozRide to a Village - Gangadevipally
                        

Me, Imran and Hitesh have trained the new people who joined the program upon Importance of Open Source and the Open Web, Mission of Mozilla and Web Maker Project, different ways to contribute to Mozilla, How to host Maker Parties, Web Maker tools, event guides to plan and host Maker Parties themselves. First day was very productive. All the newbie’s who joined us Day 1 are now in a stage to host Maker Parties on their own. All are satisfied with the training.

                                  You can see the foxes are ready to host maker parties
           

Second day was the Maker Party. We all were set and were very excited to host the event. Gram Sarpanch (A head of the village) has inaugurated the program. Many people of the village have joined us in the event. Children, farmers, Bank Officials, teachers, House wives were all the part of Maker Party. 

First Imran have given a brief Introduction to all the people about who we are, what we do as part of Mozilla and how we do. We have made four different stalls where our awesome mozillians were present to give awareness on Open Source, Internet, Open Web, Net Neutrality and Mozilla to the people and the rest of the event was showing them live about what Internet is, how to use the web using Firefox Browser.

Ofcourse, it was a village and we cannot find the internet over there and what we did is?  we used paper prototypes – we made a prototype to describe about internet, we used charts to describe about html tags. The second day of the event was also a great success.

 

                                                                                                                                                                      

Finally we took feedback from the villagers and gave a momento on behalf of Mozilla Warangal. People felt so happy for sharing the knowledge with them.

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Mozilla Reps
Webmaker Super Mentor

 

Womoz Warangal'14

Womoz Warangal’14

28^th July 2014,

Jayamukhi Institute of Technological Sciences, Warangal.

Hola Amigos, 

Mozilla Club Warangal in association with Mozilla India  have organized a special and a much awaited event named Womoz Warangal'14 on July 28th 2014. This event was Especially organized for girls to increase the female contribution in Open Source Communities. The Event have been planned on August 9th 2014,but a shocking news made us to change the date of the event and the shocking news was Hema Bhanu got the Date of Joining on July 31^st , so the date was Preponed.

 

It was cool and rainy day on 28th July 2014, the participants started coming to the venue. After allotting the seats to them, we were waiting for the Chief Guest. Within few minutes after registration, Our Chief Guest Dr.B.Rama Garu, Chair Person, Board of Studies, Kakatiya University, Warangal reached the Venue and now the inaugural function Started.

 

  

Inaugural Function started with lighting the Lamp followed by Prayer song. Hema Bhanu gave a report of all the Mozilla Club Warangal Activities from the past 2 years and importance of this event being organized only for girls.

Our Staff Co-coordinator, G.Jose Mary, Associate Professor, JITS congratulated the club members for organizing such a big event especially for the women. Also congratulated Ajay and Bhargav for receiving the Firefox OS Tablets.

Dr.Rangaiah , Director of Jayamukhi Group of Institutions felt very happy that many of the women participants not only registered but also came to attend the event and he in his speech said that 

 “ Upload Talents, Download Future “. 

Later, Dr.T.V.R.NReddy, Joint Secretary and A.O., Jayamukhi Group of Institutions and G.Srihari, Principal also encouraged the participants to involve more in Open Source Communities which makes an individual acquire leadership skills.

Dr.B.Rama, the Chief Guest said women’s contribution in IT Sector is very less compare to men even though equal opportunity is provided to men as well as women. Woman drop-outs are more after their graduation and gave SECURITY as a reason for this issue.

Later, after felicitating the chief Guest, the session started by Hema Bhanu (Mozilla Reps) on FOSS, Womoz and later JavaScript session was continued. The participants felt this as a great opportunity for them contributing to an open source company being a student.

After the completion of session, it was time for lunch and we had a yummy lunch and back to the Lab for sessions.  We divided the 200 Participants into two tracks

[1] Localization

[2] Webmaker

First 100 were sent to Localization lab and remaining 100 were sent to Webmaker Lab. Hema Bhanu handled the Localization Session along with the support crew Bhargav and Maniraj.

In the other track, it was Webmaker Session and it was handled by me (Ajay Kumar Jogawath, a Webmaker Mentor) with the Support Crew of Bala, Vijay and Sonu.  I started by asking how to create webpages, Videos and how to hack or remix a website or webpage. Many answered that using HTML, CSS and JS and yes they were right. Now I introduced the tools of Webmaker to them

[1] Thimble

[2] Popcorn Maker

[3] X-ray Goggles

[4] Appmaker

 The audience were happy that using simple Webmaker tools they can create webpages by checking the output on one side and source code on other side. Creating a Web Video inserting the popping of the text, images and animations. Remixing the webpages using the X-ray goggles and creating apps for Firefox OS using Appmaker tool. 

Hemanth Vidyamari, a Webmaker Mentor have showed them demos on each of the tool to everyone.

Later, I said them to create a Webmaker profile by signing into the Webmaker Portal using persona and then start remixing the webpages from the gallery section of Webmaker Portal.

Here is the etherpad of the Webmaker Signups : https://etherpad.mozilla.org/womoz14

 

Then, I spoke on the most important topic Maker Party which is organized globally throughout the world and how they can be a part of Maker Party by attending, organizing and collaborating with the events. 

After Completion of the Parallel tracks of Localization and Webmaker, it was time for Firefox OS App Development. I (Ajay KumarJogawath) along with HemanthVidyamari in one track and SantoshViswanatham (Mozilla Reps) from Hyderabad and Bhargav Gupta (FSA) from Warangal in another track delivered session on Firefox OS, followed by App Development.

After the completion of Sessions, we had a Feedback Session where different attendees gave a positive feedback saying that “Learnt New things just within few hours”, “Creating Webpages using simple tools”, “Developing Apps is never so easy” and many more.

Feedback was followed by distribution of Certificates and then the closing ceremony with a dance on a song from Himmatwala “Naino Mein sapna sapno Mein sajna, sajna pe dil aagaya, ha sajna pe dil aagaya” and all the participants, organizers, staff and everyone made steps with one another on this song. I got a chance to make few steps with the Director of the College Prof. P. Rangaiah.

  

Now, it was time for the Photo Session where we had a Group Photo with all the participants, Volunteers, Organizers, Staff and everyone.

Atlast, we waved hands to everyone saying “Good Bye!! See You Again”.

 Finally, I would like to thank Mozilla for giving us a chance to organize this event.  I would like to thank the College Management JITS for being so supportive in each and every aspect and making this event a huge success. I would like to thank all the Volunteers and organizers who helped in successful running of the event. I would like to thank the Photographer Samarpan Raj for wide coverage of the event. I also thank the media for covering the event on News. 

Flickr Link : https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajayjogawath/sets/72157646066686232/


Cheers!!!
Ajay Kumar Jogawath,
Webmaker Mentor,
Telugu L10n Reviewer,
SUMO Contributor,
Mozilla India

Inauguration of Firefox Club - KITS Firefox Club (KFC)

Hello Everyone!!!


This Blogpost is about my experience during the inauguration of Firefox Club at Kakatiya Institute of Technological Sciences. This was the output of the meetup Mozilla Meetup with KITS Students Where new mozillians like Pujith, Spoorthy, Keerthi, Indraneel, Anusha and Satheesh took the initiative of Starting a Firefox Club in their College.

This Inauguration Started with the Speech of  Head of Department, Dr. P. Niranjan. The talk was amazing made us get inspired.

After Inuaguration, it was Hema Bhanu's turn to speak about Open Source, FOSS and its importance and then started about mozilla and its projects. Later talked about WoMoz.

Girls became enthusiastic by listening to WoMoz Session and that happens everywhere.

After Hema, Sudheesh grabbed a white board and started explaining all the geeky stuff. From data structures to projects available in Mozilla everything was covered by him. The best part was that he helped the students to relate what they have learnt so far to the needs of the industry. His talk on firefox and bugzilla was definitely a piece of cake.

Then it was my turn to speak about the Firefox Student Ambassador Program. I told about the activities that an FSA should do and the projects that they can get involved as an FSA.

And then a girl asked we as electronics student, how can we contribute to Mozilla, then i answered by starting with Webmaker Project because we need not to know any programming language for this.
Because Webmaker provides basic templates where everything is very easily documented so that even school children can understand the basic tags in html. The, told about the Webmaker tools i.e., Thimble,Popcorn and x-ray goggles using which we can make some cool stuff. It was nice interating with the students.

After completion of sessions, we had a feedback session where all the students spoke positive about the sessions, that made us very happy.  Later we have distributed swags by asking some questions regarding the session.
After Swag Distribution, we then had a group picture.

After group photo, everyone left and then we had the group photo with the organizing team of event and the new mozillians and my fellow Mozillians Hemanth , Bhargav and Hema 
 

Now,students from various colleges are requesting us to come to their college and inaugurate a club. This is really one of the best moments when we are requested to come to their college as a mozilla representative and told to speak about mozilla. This year has been very good to me because from right from January when we made the Action Plan 2014, and i am happy that we are moving as per the Mozilla Action Plan 2014 by getting more and more contributors from engineering colleges all over the city. Thanks Sai Kiran , Sudheesh , Meraj Imran and Hema Bhanu for always supporting me and Hemanth and Bhargav for always being with me.

Awaiting for the Inauguration of Firefox Club in Balaji Institute of Engineering Sciences on March 4th 2014. Yahoo!!!

Images of Flickr : Flickr Photos

Best Regards,
Ajay Kumar Jogawath,
Club Lead, Jayamukhi Firefox Club,
Proud to be a Mozillian.

Mozilla Meetup - A Pre-inaugural Meetup for KITS Fox Club

Hello Everyone,

I am here to share you all about the meetup held on February 11th 2014. Today, we had an informal meetup with mozillians of KITS Warangal. So, the mozillians wanted to inaugurate the Firefox Club i.e., KITS Fox Club Offcially. So, they had many questions about the mozilla and all stuff.

So, Mozilla Reps Hema Bhanu spoke about Open Source, Open Web and made them know about Open Source. Then it was my turn to speak, introduced about the open source project i.e., Mozilla to them, I spoke about What is Mozilla, its mission and projects of mozilla, they were very much interested and excited to start their contribution in mozilla.

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It was really a great interaction with all the enthusiasts of mozilla. We had Pujith, Spoorthy, Keerthi, Indraneel, Anusha and Satheesh and they were like very much interested to contribute in mozilla. we wished them for getting into open source and we are planning a inauguration of their club in college. Eagerly waiting for that event. Then we had a group photo at the end of meetup. 

Thanks Hemanth and Bhargav for always being support for me and Hema Bhanu (Mozilla Reps) for motivating the new mozillians.

Other Blogs related to this are: 



1)  http://mozmeet.blogspot.in/
2) http://mozillameet.blogspot.in/
3) http://kitswfox.blogspot.in/2014/02/final-countdown.html

 
Flick Link : Images of Meetup

Cheers!!
Ajay Kumar Jogawath 
Firefox Student Ambassador,
Club Lead,
Jayamukhi Firefox Club
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jayamukhi_Firefox_Club>

My Experiences as a Firefox Student Ambassador

Hola Amigos!!!

I am Ajay Kumar Jogawath, a mozillian and now a "Firefox Student Ambassador" too. I got to know about the Firefox Student Ambassador few months ago and got registered for it. Recently When the complete program was restructured as the first five activities of FSA(Firefox Student Ambassadors) , i got a clarity about the program and started with the first activity

I got to introduced to mozilla with a
1) Mozilla Story
2) Mozilla Manifesto 
3)Projects in Mozilla
4)Webmaker Project
5)Support Mozilla

Then i did a thimble page of my biodata nothing about introduction about myself.
Here is the Thimble Page  https://ajay-jogawath.makes.org/thimble/my-biodata

Later, i made myself social by liking the facebook page of Firefox Student Ambassadors , following FSA on Twitter @mozstudents and the Google+ Community.

 I have attended Firefox OS App Days and have interacted with the FSA's of Other Cities and discussed about what activities are exactly happening in their Firefox Club and many of them didn't do anything till now and were asking what is the very first thing that need to be done. The Best Part of this event was i met Vineel sir who guided us on our questions and queries. Thanks a lot to Vineel Sir.

When i checked the FSA Directory for a Firefox Club, i can see that a club is already registered with a name called "Jayamukhi Firefox Club". Then i joined in that club as a member.

After doing these five activities i claimed for an open badge and then got a cool open badge for FSA

Firefox Student Ambassador Badge

 


Thanks Kate for sending such an awesome badge. Completed my next activity too and this short story will reward me a Certificate of Identification . Thanks Mozilla



Cheers!!
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Firefox Student Ambassador
Proud Mozillian
India

Firefox OS App Days @ Firefox Club SNIST

It was Jan 18th and Firefox OS App Days in Hyderabad. I with my fellow FSA Bhargav started from Warangal to Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad. We reached there prior to the start of the event. There i met Vineel Reddy , Srikar Ananthula , Srikanth Namu (Mozilla Reps) and Santosh, FSA from Sreenidhi Institute.

As usual the inauguration started by littting the candle and then Dignitaries from college gave talks on the appdays and then Vineel Sir spoke on the Mozilla Community and then Srikar addressed the gathering.

Later, as per the agenda

Srikar started with Introduction to Mozilla and then introduction to HTML5 session by Raghu and then Introduction to Firefox OS by Jay Kashyap

During the Lunch Session Vineel Sir and all FSA's had a small gathering in which all FSA's in and around hyderabad have introduced themselves and asked queries they have regarding the FSA Program.

Later we had the lunch and then the coding fun has started everyone started discussing about the app and then started developing apps.


One Student was very much excited to know about the FSA club and its activities and he interacted with me for half an hour about how to get into Mozilla Projects and then how to grow a local community

I explained him about the structure of the FSA Program which is listed on the Mozilla Wiki Page.
Then it was the time for Firefox Dinner and we all had a north + south Indian dinner With Roti,Sabji and Biryani.

This was the #FirefoxDinner Moment where all the Organising team of SNIST Firefox Club along with Mozillians from Hyderabad and Warangal were having the dinner.


After dinner, inorder to continue the interest we played some TED talks and some interesting games were played inorder to make everyone awake and do coding for their firefox apps.

In the morning, the apps came as a surprise!!! There were 16 apps which were given demos by 16 teams and were uploaded into Firefox MarketPlace and it was time for distributing the goodies (#swag)
Later a cake was ordered previously and we got it at the exact time after completion of event. Then everyone had cake and then had some quick group photos with Organizing team ICC(pronounced as Team IC Square) and with the head of College and all the participants. Finally the event was a great success. Congrats to Firefox Club SNIST.
Here we have
Facebook Event Page  

You can view the images on Flickr



Cheers!!
Ajay Kumar Jogawath
Proud Mozillian

"Maker Party" with My Students

Hola Amigos,

This Blog is about  sharing my experience  of my event Maker Party with My Students. The Maker Party Started at 6:00 P.M. The Maker Party was with the students whom I teach daily School Subjects. But this day was for Mozilla. I explained about What Mozilla is and its browser and also the projects and products of Mozilla.
https://www.facebook.com/events/543311392401747/
Later I started explaining about Webmaker Project and tools(thimble , hackasaurus and popcorn).
The Attendees were
1) Harish
2) Arun
3) Ramu
4) Aditya
5) Kamal
6) Sai
7) Akash
8) Prem

I started showing the example of how to create a make by signing into a persona account. Then after showing aditya was very much excited to create a webpage. But he was stucked and asked me on what topic shall I create webpage.

Students asking to me about mozilla

 Aditya said lets start now itself I want to create a webpage now. We started creating the webpage by adding the image of firefox os logo and some information regarding the firefox os we collected and created webpage. After seeing the output, he was very happy and started shouting "Yahoo!!! I Created Webpage , I created webpage for the first time ". I can see lots of excitement in him.

Student, Aditya creating webpage using thimble

He was surprised to see how can easily make webpage here, and webpage preview show simultaneously.

webpage created by him

Since it was raining here, there was a power cut, i couldn't continue the session, but students were very much excited about this Maker Party and they want more parties to be conducted so that they can also create webpages on their own.

Successfully done web maker party

 Students Experiences:

•      Ramu said " Webmaker projects and tools are really amazing"
•      Harish said that " i want to work for Mozilla by involving in webmaker projects"
•      Arun said " I am waiting for the Firefox Operating System launch in India" 

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Finally the event was a kickoff with schools students. Thanks Mozilla #MozillaFirefox #TeachTheWeb  #MakerParty #MozillaClubWarangal

-Ajay Kumar Jogawath

Proud Mozillian