#MInM16

It was the biggest Mozilla India event that I have attended ever before.It was the first time I was going to meet Mozillians all over from India. Also I was very much excited to meet new big contributors from other parts of the country. With loads of anxiety and happiness I departed form Bhopal along with Faisal Sir Rahul Sir Vaibhav Sir Kushagra Raj Rishabh Satyadeep Pune on 26th afternoon.

We reached the Hotel Holiday Pune .For the dinner, we were asked to come in our traditional wear, there was a whole lot of people , wearing traditional dress. And the entire room was looking awesome!

Groupie!!!

Then we had a couple of activities. There was also a debrief about the event as whole.

Day 1

The first day of the meetup was started with the overview of the meetup.It was followed by George's session about Mozilla's goals. At the end of the session I had a very clear idea about the importance of Mozilla India's role as an active community for Mozilla.

Then the members were split into groups based on the colour of a sticker which they stick into our tags. I got into the session of Web Literacy

I was able to grab the Internet issues which people/governement face these days.Educating the people about Internet5 and the open web.

Then there was this "Personal leadership development session". It was very useful for me , I understood many things regarding the leadership qualitites

Next there was another breakout session. This was based on the functional areas. I chose "Mozilla Campus Club ".

At the end of the day, we had the important session of all - The new structure of Mozilla India community. Every one received a booklet containing proposed restructure of Mozilla India community

Then the structure was explained by Deb, Kaustav and George.

Day 2

The second day started off with Bradley explaining the Developer marketing and brand awareness.

Then we had a session on Team performance and Mobilizing

This session was full of fun. The activities which we made helped me understand how a leader must be and also how people should respect other's ideas and proposals.

Then our breakout session started. I chose "Web compatability" track.

The web compatibility session was handled by Bradley. Everyone knows Mozilla, which supports the notion that web must be open for all, also it helps the web developers to develop websites. During this session , I came to know that it has taken a step more,through web compatibility, Mozilla tries to help the developers in making websites cross-browser compatable. I was very much impressed by Mozilla's mission for this web.

And finally, The most awaited part of the meetup started. The new structure of Mozilla India was released and the modifications from the previous version was discussed. It was an amazingly new structure which I personally think, is flexible enough to maintain such a huge community.

It was a great experience for me and I have met many new friends

Thanks Mozilla India for giving me such an everlasting memory. I will surely be a part of the making Mozilla India stronger in the days to come.

#MinM2016

Hello Mozillians

So this blog is about my journey in Mozilla till now from December 2014 when I joined the community the Mozilla Madhya Pradesh Community after the session of Hour of Code 2014 conducted in Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Rahul Talreja Sir told us about such a community which works to makes the web a safe and better place to live , the non-profit organisation which works with a mission to promote choice, innovation and participation on the internet.

We were eager to learn more so joined the mission where thousands of volunteers join hands to make the web safe and a better place to live.I was informed by Rahul Sir that there will be a meetup where the community members would be meeting to stay in touch and discuss about the further plans.So I attended the meetup with some of my colleagues of my college where I witnessed the awesomeness of the Mozilla Community. I was pleased to meet there Faisal Sir the God Father of Mozilla India community a person with great knowledge and Vaibhav Bajaj Sir the Mozilla Rep a person very kind with a great intelligence and other passionate volunteers of the community.Here I was acknowledged that what is Mozilla all about what is its mission.

Then I became an FSA the official firefox student ambassador by following what I was directed by my mentor.Then in my second meeting with Rahul Sir where I went with one of my friend Abhishek , I was informed about Mozilla and its functions in detail thereafter we planned about Foxwave Bhopal I took permission in my college and hosted the event there with his guidance and support where we initiated a club BSSS Firefox Club with some folks who were keenly interested to work with us , I gave a Club Lead Test and became the same for my club.Where I met some newbies and made them know about Mozilla and its mission and products the same way as I was known about it.

Then later on I attended further meetups of the community with my other club members and one day some of them were interested to learn about l10n and Sumo contributing areas so I planned a meetup with Vaibhav Sir who with keen interest took his time and made us know about the products and several projects of Mozilla.

I am currently in the 3rd rank in Army of Awesome with two badges of 2015 and 2016.

So further moving on in the journey I planned and hosted The Hour of Code 2016 in Bhopal with my friend Aditya Shah a Mozillian and MSP. In two schools in Bhopal with some passionate volunteers we went to teach the younger generation about the web literacy ,privacy on internet, Mozilla and its mission.We were pleased after the session because those two schools didn't teach the children about Computer Science with quality but we went and made them know about the reality and career opportunities further.

So I end up my blog with this and I promise to work for the nation and all the globe to make the web safe and a better place to live.

Hello,

This blog post is about the Hour of Code conducted in Bhopal during December 7^th to 13^th, 2015.We organized the session jointly . a group of passionate volunteers The Mozillians and Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) of our community. It was all started after my ( Robin Koshy – Mozillian ) telephonic conversation with Aditya Shah a Mozillian  and MSP. Where we discussed about organizing the Hour Of Code-2015.Then we moved a step further deciding a place to choose for the session to be conducted .Thereafter I went to few schools in the town to discuss about the same.

I went to some government as well as private schools but the response I was getting was not good because due to exams ,preparation leave and winter vacation  in schools the event was not permitted even after the authority and Principal’s were interested for the session.But somehow managed convincing them and at last getting two schools Jawahar Public School, Kolar Road,Bhopal and Vikramaditya school,Piplani,Bhopal for the Hour of Code 2015 to be conducted.

The session was to be started by 9am on 10^th Decamber 2015 at Jawahar Public School. The volunteers arrived  to the destination by their own conveyance .We tried to arrange a computer lab but there were only 6 computers and students were more than 75.So managed to get a Projector room for the session but the time was delayed due to the issue stated above .After arranging  the room for the session,preparing  and planning how to move on with the session we invited The Principal Chetna Jarulia Ma’am , teachers and students into the room.

After everyone settled I started the session by welcoming them and thanking them for giving the team an opportunity to teach the students about Computer Science  then the general  introduction of Mozilla and Code.org and the team who were volunteering for the session to make students learn and know about Computer Science and technology.

1.   Aditya Shah

1.   Vidit Sharma

2.   Satyadeep Bharadwaj

3.   Raj Nilayam

4.   Mukesh Pathak

5.   Mayank Singh

Then after the introduction the session was started by Vidit Sharma and followed by others we taught about HTML,CSS,Java Script. It was an interactive session where students were keenly interested to learn about computer science and technology.

Unfortunately at the last moment there was an electric cut so we need to change our plan we had got 3 different classes with the students and green board so we (Aditya shah, Vidit Sharma, Raj Nilayam) devided. As we could not take the students to the labs and let them know about minecraft hour of code (code.org/mc) but we were on a mission to give them computer science education so we delivered the best possible knowledge about computer science and technology also i made them aware about the need of coding and made some basic programs of c++ and java. The session got interactive with the doubts of the students over there.

At last i declared the time as a doubt session where they asked me about websites like how to develop and host websites, about cyber security (W told them about how they can make their online identity more secure). We gave them swags from Mozilla who were interactive and answered our questions.

Finally i would like to say it was great to be there with the school kids. I felt so awesome that we could give an amount of my knowledge to the future of India.  Also I would like to thank my friend Aditya Shah who managed to organize the Hour of code 2015. Also I would like to thank my entire team for supporting me to make the event a success.