Tuesday 29 August 2017

The ADD-ON Workshop29th August 2017  
 





 
 
This blog post is about “The Add-On workshop” for Firefox conducted on 29th
  August 2017 at Bombay Street CafĂ© Bhopal. This was to share our knowledge  
 that Add-ons provide a safe, simple, and powerful way to personalize
 your browsing experience. This was my first event organized after becoming 
a Mozilla Representative.
 It was a great experience interacting and giving a platform 
to the attendees to learn development under this awesome 
MozActivate initiative.Starting with, we reached the venue at 3:00PM IST 
and arranged the setup and interacted with all the attendees
 who more than we expected and more importantly keen to learn 
add-on development.I started with the introduction of   
Mozilla & its mission for the betterment of web .
Also talking about the MozActivate initiative 
that why it was introduced to currently focus on specific 
areas like Nightly,Testing,Add-Ons,WebVR etc. 
After the introduction moving forward with the main topic ,
I shared my knowledge that with Web Extensions APIs,
 it’s easier than ever to create extensions that can be
 easily ported to Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Opera. 
Through this activity you’ll help connect new developers 
with an opportunity to create add-ons to solve real problems
 and make their lives and the web better. Then Mukesh introduced the 
attendees about the basic environment for add-ons development , 
Manifest.jason and other related stuffs. 
Some of the students were already a developer and had some 
queries so we helped them with the same. 
We then shared with them few extensions API examples
 to make them comfortable about its structure and
 environment. Now moving to the hands on session we ask them 
to do the basic preparation. And then we tried them 
like “Borderify” , “Beastify” and other basic things.
The students were interested in more such workshops 
so looking forward for next advance workshop to develop some 
 add-ons using our creativity.And with this 
we concluded the workshop taking their feedback,
 pictures and snacks.

We’re very thankful to our mentors and our community for being a great support.

Friday 25 August 2017




SO this event is about the Add-ons Day Delhi held on 19th August 2017 at NIEC College,New Delhi.


I started my journey along with Mukesh Pathak from Bhopal on 18th evening and reached the destination in the morning of 19th.


Reaching the venue and too see enough amount of passionate students are getting ready to learn making add-ons, so is the team of Trishul Goel , Pushpita Dey , Tushar Arora and other members ready to share their knowledge on Add-ons for Firefox.
                 
Now Pushpita opened the session introducing about Mozilla its products and its mission and the MozActivate initiative recently introduced, later Trishul took the stage to begin his session on add-ons.
He started with an introduction to Add-ons (Web Extensions). Telling about its basics the environment needed to be built to start with and proceeded for a hands on session.  
          
During the hands on session, the attendees developed two Addons for Firefox Browser and tested them.
WE helped the volunteers to make their add-ons solving their queries.And at last the event was concluded the Q&A session,and pictures.
 
Looking forward for more such events.