It is very important to have a culture of contribution to Open Source Community in a Technical College. Thus, to build up a good community to contribute to Mozilla, IIT Kharagpur Firefox Club organized it’s first Event ‘MozSetup@IIT KGP’ on 29th and 30th March.
It was a two day event, with sessions on :
- Introduction to Mozilla
- Firefox Student Ambassador
- Webmaker
- Localizer
- SuMo
- Firefox OS App Development
- Bugzilla
The first day had a great participation, it included the introductory sessions. Some of the pics of the first day are :-
The session on first day included :-
- Introduction to FSA and IIT KGP Firefox Club by FSA Devavrat
- Introduction to Mozilla by Gautham Raj
- How to be a part of Mozilla and contribute to it – by Saurabh
- Session on Webmaker by Gautham Raj
- Session on Localizer by Biraj
- Session about Mozilla Code base by Saurabh
- Session about Firefox OS App development by Biraj and Sumantro
The next day was focused on bugzilla and hands on for localizer and Webmaker. On the Second day Manish, Saurabh, Sankha, Sayak, Soumya, Sumantro, Biraj and Umesh interacted with the participants guiding them on how to start contributing to mozilla. Some of second day’s pics are :
The top contributors were recognized with Mozilla Swags and T-Shirts.
We were able to submit 6 patchers on the second day, details of which can be found here. We also had community lunch with the speakers, FSA’s and the participants. Some of the pics are:
And so ended our first event at IIT Kharagpur, which brought opportunity not only to learn a lot but also to meet a lot of new and awesome people. I would like to thank all the Speakers and FSA’s without whose efforts it would have not been possible. 😀
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