Sunday, 4 October 2015

Official Launch of WoMoz UP

Being a MADster, I always thought of having a Web Literacy event with the girls of Leelavati Shelter home, Charbagh, who do not even get to see a computer. I talked about this with the whole Mozilla UP Community and things were decided. As this event was being done, in association with Make A Difference, a lot of formalities has to be done too, in which The City Team Lead of MAD, Payal, helped alot. The whole planning was done, and the event date, 4th of October'2015 was fixed.


It was the first ever WoMoz event of MozUP and even The WoMoz UP Community was officially launched on this day. The event was a web literacy event in which we made all the girls aware of the uses of Computer and Internet. The event aimed at creating awareness about the Web, Mozilla and its mission.

The event started with a small icebreaker in which all were asked to introduce themselves with their name and aim in life. The great thing was to know their aims, from doctor to engineer, from singer to model, every girl was unique in her own way. This ice breaker made them more comfortable with us.


After the intro part, Vnisha showed them a picture of computer and its part, asking for a volunteer who can come forth and demonstrate all the parts of the computer. A girl excitedly came forward and explained everything perfectly. Vnisha, explained it again to all, to make them understand it in an even better way. Thereafter we divided all the 25 girls in a group of 5, and personally showed them the working of a laptop.

This activity actually took time as all the girls got engaged in typing on MS Word, making a slide, or drawing on Paint. Meanwhile, we distributed swags to all of them while Jyotsna was busy in capturing these beautiful memories.

At the end, we had a Logo designing activity, in which all the girls showed their creativity by designing logos of FSA, WoMoz, Firefox OS, Webmaker and Firefox Browser.

It was indeed a mass participation and the output was obviously tremendous. All the girls were so happy after learning so much and even asked us to come back again with such events. 


Tuesday, 22 September 2015

FSA orientation @ MozUP


It all started when all the enthusiastic members of MozUP planned to organize an orientation session for all the new FSAs, so that they can get familiar with each other as well as get to know how they can contribute to Mozilla in their own field of interest. The FSA orientation had been planned on 19th of September,2015. All the new members were invited, and an event had been created.

On 19th, we all gathered at Cafe Coffee Day, Hazratganj, Lucknow, the venue fixed for the meeting, at around 12 PM. The orientation started smoothly, with an ice breaker suggested by Vnisha, the MozUP Community Liaison. The ice breaker actually was quite funny as every person has to remember the former one's intro, but at the end, we all got to know each other well.


After finishing up with the intro round, the main agenda for the day started, which was explaining to all the newbies about Mozilla,  Mozilla Uttar Pradesh community, FSA program, WoMoz, MLS and Webmaker.

Vnisha started, by making us all aware about Mozilla, its mission, and how one can contribute to it. Every member of MozUP shared their experience with this community and their journey till now. Ashish, one of the core members of the community, enlightened us about the various areas in Mozilla where we can show our active contribution like coding, quality assurance, documentation and much more.


Jyotsna made us all aware about the Firefox OS and its App Development, the FSA program, and how one can form a Firefox club in one's college. Vnisha also told us about the Webmaker and Mozilla's products. Rajat shared his experience with Localisation and how one can contribute in that particular area.


While concluding the meeting, the feedback of all the new members were requested.
All in all, this orientation was a huge success. we got to learn a lot from all of them. Thrilled to be a part of this community.

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A Proud Mozillian.