Womozilla!!

16th November,2015

It was a sunny day, a bright one! I had just come travelling 800kms from my home, all for this one event something that i had planned after discussion with Rashmi Shrivastav. Within days of joining Mozilla she had started contributing and after weeks she was in top 10 of sumo. She had this vision that the girls of her hostel should also be part of one of the biggest revolutions that were going around the globe. She asked for my help and being the club lead of Jnct firefox club i said yes. But i wanted the event to be much more than a introduction so i told her that apart from the intro session we will have small demos of projects that they can work or contribute on, and for this she readily agreed.

Four Things:
1.) Sumo
2.)Localizations
3.)Geo Stumbler
4.) App Developement

These were my main center of interest when it came down to such a event. I started with the basic description Of what Mozilla was all about, how things worked, what was the Firefox Student Ambassador Program and how they can initiate it in their respective colleges.

 Explaining Stuff!

Once I was done with the introduction part we had Rashmi Shrivastav and Simran Singh who explained the enthusiasts about SuMo(Support Mozilla) and how with simple tweets they can serve alot of users all over the world.

They were immediately ready to register with the FSA program and we got around 15-20 womoz registered to it on spot. Then they all made their persona account and registered as volunteers on Support Mozilla and for next few minutes we had some really intresting tweets that were written and answered by these womoz.

Next We had Localization Where Sukesh Chaudhary and Alisha Jose took the charge as Sukesh works on hindi localization whereas Alisha does southern localizations they both explained how people can spend few minutes and their knowledge in order to make life of billions insanely cool!

The part of geo stumbler was explained by Shrey Soni and Shivani Pandey who are leading contributors in the geo stumbling app.

 In the end me and Piyush Singhal taught girls about some basic html tags through which they can create simple but impactful applications and also upload it to firefox marketplace.

Overall the impact was great as we now had 20 womoz ready with the mission to make the web open , free and more lovable to use in short be a part of the great Mozillian community. In th eend we also distributed swags to ones who showed great potential with their queries and work, we also took a group picture of th ewomoz which is here...

Jnct MozAware And MozWelcome

5th November,2015

This is the day i have been waiting for the last two years of my Engineering. The "Mega Event" as i named it happened in the auditorium of Jai Narain College Of Technology. The reason why we had it was we had a mission to make Mozilla a class-hold name in our college. Every once in a while a revolution comes along, there are three types of people involved, the first who cause the revolution,the second who are part of the revolution and the third and final one who ignore the revolution. Luckily this event had a neglegible amount of third type! And in total we had 350+ students of 5 braches of just first year, and trust me you could sense the momentum in the air.

Now in this event we talked about various stuff, but the key thing was to make it as simple as possible so that the students could feel a connection. We had following topics on which my team spoke on:

1.)Introduction & History of Mozilla
2.)Products Of Mozilla :
                                    A.) Firefox Browser
                                    B.)Webmaker
                                    C.)Thinderbird Mailing Client
                                    D.)Firefox OS
                                    E.) Marketplace

3.) Introduction To Firefox Friends
4.)Introduction To Firefox Students Ambassador Program
5.)Benefits And Recognitions in FSA
6.)How To Contribute In Mozilla

 As the event started i began with the introduction of Mozilla, its community and its history. It felt insanely amazing to witness such a reception from students who were new to this revolution. The introduction was delivered in such a way that they can understand what Mozilla is all about. Then i invited Shubham Shrivastava to introduce webmaker to the students

As the event proceeded Shubham explained how webmaker helps people with absolutley no knowledge of coding to create something amazing,how Mozilla helps to bring the right tools at the right places possible. Within few seconds one can build a easy to use applications that makes life worth living.

We then had brief descriptions of Appmaker given by Shivani Pandey who is a wonderful womoz app developer in Jnct Firefox Club.

Its always good to see girls coming forward in such events this is not only brings and inspires others but always makes an everlasting impact on the audience.

Then we had two other brief descriptions of Firefox developers browser and  geo stumbler by Himanshu Goswami and Piyush Singhal.

What astonished me was the students actually wanted to have the apps installed on their phones, and we even have some downloads on spot!

Then it was my turn again to introduce the most important thing..

The Mozilla Firefox Student Ambassador Program, i was a bit nervous as this was the first time students were getting exposed to something of this level.So I introduced Firefox Friends first so that people get to know about social networks in a completely new manner.

Once it was done I decided to shoot the last arrow left in my armoury...The One More Thing.. Womoz!

And Girls like Riya Gupta, Rashmi Shrivastav are one of the best we have so they took the job quite professionally as they hold the audience still for each moment they were there!

Finally we ended the event with some questions and swag distributions!

Some random moments from our event..

And finally the team picture with professors and head of department!!

Firefox Hindi Download Campaign

28th October 

Jnct Bhopal

Firefox is now available in hindi!

As i read this script on my screen i took a deep breath.. What the hell was firefox thinking when they took this step..i mean this is the most historic step for me as far as Firefox is considered, not only this meant more number of downloads but also a great way to connect more people to the web something that has been the motive of Mozilla since the very beginning. So as we got the confirmation that we had a campaign for firefox Hindi download i took this vision to my college and proposed to authorities that we can conduct a small session telling students the reason for this step, its uses and how this is the product that has the potential to become a household name in India.

Firstly my team went to different classes and we had great energy, the queries were yhe most amazing part of this introduction session and then we headed to labs where managed to get 35-50 downloads we could get more but due to inappropriate internet and less number of attendies we were restricted to this. Here are some pictures:

The Student looks at the download window!

Amazing how the download was localized into something thatvis most spoken language in India.

Womoz helping first year students to download Mozilla Firefox Hindi

The event proceeds ... With more and more people indulging 

Explaining people before and during download that how Mozilla Firefox Hindi is the best localized browser available on teh internet today.

We had a great team who actively participated in this campaign including me,Sukesh Kumar,Priyanka Mehre,Simran Singh,Shrey Soni,Shubham Shrivastav,Yash Sonune and Sapna Mishra.

Also later on we had swag distribution for the best queries asked and also for the enthusiasm of students 

Overall it's been a great event the response was brilliant and we hope to bring such innovations to the general public!

Thanks

The Road So Far...

Its been two months since I introduced Mozilla to my college Jai Narain College Of Technology, and the results have been phenominal.

From being alone in my college in this program now i lead the team of 14 awesome mates..Firstly the Womoz

Rashmi,Riya,Simran,Shivani,Priyanka,Sapna,Alisha,Ankita and then the Bromoz Me,Piyush,Sukesh,Shubham,Shrey And Yash. Not only did we got to know each other on a completely different level but we also got the chance to connect with people, the splendid community that we became a part of and ofcourse grow!

Firstly we started with basic contributions 

As Sumo(Support Mozilla) in Aoa(Army of Awesome) . We all were below 150 at that time but our constant efforts paid off in the end.

We had 

Rashmi at 3

Simran at 13 

Me at 14

Piyush at 24

And the rest under 50 within 2 weeks of joining!

Then the ones who had android device joined geo stumbler and provided markable reports. We have Yash, Shubham,Sapna and Priyanka who are continuously exploring the uncharted territories just to make the experience of other users better each day.

Then came localizations where we had Sukesh, Riya and Alisha who all are doing the jobs they were told to do as we can see we have 

Sukesh at rank 8th 

Riya at rank 12th in all over India for Hindi localization and also we had Alisha who is contributing in southern languages.

Thats the talk of works now lets move to app development section of the club

We have Shivani, Piyush and myself who are learning and implementing our knowledge to develop applications for the fxos marketplace . As the time passes by we are trying to provide the user the ease of access and the charm of compatibility when it comes to apps.

We Have great evangelists Like Rashmi and myself who are trying to spread awareness about Mozilla , its products and also teaching people how the mission of openness, innovation and opportunity can make a difference in lives of other people.

Rashmi and Alisha also had chance to visit S.A.T.I institute in Vidhisha(M.P) along with the team of Rahul Talreja,Satyadeep,Kushagra,Aditya and Vidit to gain the exeperience of a big event.They also gave a small session on Womoz and how women are great contributors in the technological feild.

Me,Shivani and Priyanka also visited Shri Satya Sai College in Bhopal(M.P) where we had a introduction to Html for girls and it was great and new exeperience.

Last but not the least i would like to mention all the influential people that keep us connected and guide us through the right paths whenever needed. First of all Faisal Aziz sir, Who is hell of a mentor for new joinees! Then Shafique sir, Vaibhav Sir, Rahul Sir And Also Vinisha Mam Who though aint from Mozilla MP but still helps me whenever i ask her to. Thanks to all for providing us this opportunity hope we keep up to your expectations!

Firefox For Windows 10 Campaign ...Localisation..Recognitions!

Bhopal,
20th Sep 2015

What makes a team even better is the communication it has, the transparency it shares and the beliefs it works upon. The Mozilla Madhya Pradesh is a living example of what a team is supposed to be like.There are Reps, Mentors &  Fsa's who are coming together sharing their knowledge working on passion about the same dream...to satisfy the end Mozilla user. He might be using the firefox browser, the thunderbird or even the freshly introduced Firefox os but he should be happy about the product he uses.

The meet basically had few major agendas:
1.) Contributions Of Fsa's in various sectors.
2.) Localisation
3.)  Firefox For Windows 10 Campaign
4.)Recognition

Rahul Talreja who is also one of the Mozilla Representatives started the meet at "Grills & More" Bhopal(M.P). As discussed above the first thing he talked about was the ways and sectors through which a Fsa(Firefox Students Ambassador) can contribute. He discussed the various levels of recognition in FSA.

 

Then we were joined by Vaibhav Bajaj who is also a Mozilla representative. He told us how to localise mozilla browser i.e how to translate the firefox web browser into our local language which can be hindi,urdu,punjabi etc. Now the question arises how can this help the end user?

As we know that in India majority of people speak hindi or their respective language thus, with this initiative Mozilla wants to make a home like environment for its users which is a innovative thinking to be said.

Then we had all the reps and fsa and we learnt how to make the Mozilla Firefox Browser the default web browser for Windows 10. Through this we are introduced to  Firefox For Windows 10 campaign Where we try to open ourselves to the firefox environment instead of being encaged to the walled gardens.



Finally came the part where all the worthy and top contributors were awarded :

Satyadeep Bhardwaj  Receiving swags and Tshirt For being Number 1 For more than a month in SuMO(Army OF Awesome)

The top contributors from womoz(Women In Mozilla) with the swags. They have been performing exceptionally well in areas like GeoLocation Stumbler..SuMo(Support Mozilla) etc..Its good to see how passion can bring people together and how a team can perform exceptionally well!

                                    Jnct Firefox Club winning swags  for their performance!

101 Tweets..From 33 To 8!

SuMo(Support Mozilla)
Bhopal Diaries..

Sumo- Support Mozilla is a wing in the hood of mozilla that helps customers by getting a interaction directly with the volunteers of Mozillian Community. The users tweet or ask questions in the forums while the volunteers are supposed to answer them or reply them in order to make their experience better with firefox. The users on one hand get their problems solved whereas the contributors on the other hand gain experience of dealing with people, marketting a specific product or or even gaining more and more knowledge about the products of mozilla and problems faced by a general user.

After this short info I want to share my exeperience with SuMo. Its been a month since i attended moz meet given by Rahul Talreja  and I was so much intrested in Mozilla that i immediately came into action.Though there were many things that he told us but of all i liked SuMo the most, as it not only provided me with an option to show my contributions but also get a chance to be part of something really big and actually awesome.

So that very day i logged into Mozilla Support and joined Army Of Awesome. Each day i gave half an hour to this and believe me this experience was something i had experienced never before, new people..solving their doubts! The irony is today i posted my 101th tweet in Mozilla Support(Army Of Awesome) and then i saw the list of top contributors and i was ranked 8th! I feel really great and thankful towards Mozilla and Rahul for believing me..having faith in me and trusting me when it was needed.
Thanks Alot!

My Ranking In Sumo Top Contributors

pushonit: Dont wait for time to create opportunities, Create opportunities and make the time as you want!

One Step At A time

So after starting the Jnct Firefox Club the next thing to focus was contributions by fellow fsa's, but how could we work together? I mean a chat app cant provide with the level of connection that is actually required in such stuff. The queries were increasing each day as we had new joinees. So finally i thought to have the first official meet of the club and the venue was choosen to be Db Mall Bhopal.

Usually people prepare lines and quotes and what not to motivate the team but somewhere deep down i knew that this team doesn't needs motivation all they need is guidance and the rest would be legend to be told in coming years.

The bromoz consited of me,Piyush Singhal,Yash Sonune,Shubham Shrivastav,Sukesh Kumar and Shrey Soni while the womoz had Riya Gupta,Shivani Pandey,Rashmi Shrivastav and Priyanka Mehre.

The meeting began at somewhere around 1:30pm and continued till 3:00 pm. Topics like Fsa registration, Roles of Fsa, Contributions and how to show them,Arrival of windows 10, posts in the club and club's future plans were discussed.

The coding team Yash,Shubham,Shivani and Piyush also shared their vision of building firefox apps and also enriched us with basic Html and Css.

The club now has:

Campaign Lead- Rashmi,Priyanka And Shubham

Event Lead- Pushkar

Code Lead- Yash, Shubham, Shivani and Piyush

Content Lead- Riya,Sukesh,Shrey

Design/Creativity Leads- Pushkar,Sukesh and Himanshu

Photography Leads- Shrey

The club plans to hold a workshop on Mozilla Awareness and Fsa in Jnct Soon

Fingers Crossed!

Battle of the best browsers: Edge vs. Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs. Opera vs. IE

The era when Google Chrome was head and shoulders above the competition has ended. Today’s popular browsers compete on a level playing field. Internet Explorer 11 — the oft overlooked Microsoft standby — is being replaced by Edge, a lean browser for Windows 10. Mozilla Firefox and Opera continue to ramp up their version numbers, and Safari tenaciously scuttles along as the under-appreciated byproduct of Apple’s quest for global domination.

Installation, updates, and compatibility

Installation across the five browsers is basically the same. Users can download them from their respective websites if they aren’t built into your operating system already (i.e. Safari comes preinstalled on Mac OS X, Edge on Windows 10, And IE on all previous versions of Windows), and each will typically download in under 30 seconds depending on your Internet connection.

Below is a list of browser compatibility:

• Google Chrome: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• Mozilla Firefox : Windows, Mac OS X , and Linux
• Internet Explorer (32 and 64-bit): Windows
• Safari: Mac OS X, Windows (no longer updated)
• Opera: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• Edge: Available with Windows 10

When it comes to updates, Opera, Firefox, and Chrome have the advantage. They install silently, quickly, and transparently download updates in the background and automatically apply the new software when you relaunch the programs. What’s more, the third-party browsers update most frequently, every few weeks, so any major problems are likely to be fixed quicker than with IE and Safari. It’s too soon to say how frequently Microsoft will update Edge.

Users can also manually install updates on Firefox if they would like to have greater control over the browser or prefer to use an older version for whatever reason. Keep in mind that turning off automatic updates is more likely to put your computer at risk, though, since each browser is continuously adding security fixes and other key stability updates.

Google Chrome: Chrome has a lean address bar configuration, stripping everything down into a simple tab layout and address bar configuration that also doubles as a search bar Google calls the “Omnibox.” Like most browsers, the window can get incredibly cramped with 15+ tabs open, but it still does a fantastic job of delivering content whether you have the browser fully expanded or slightly minimized for the sake of space.

Adjacent to the omnibox is Chrome’s simple standard navigational features (i.e. back, forward, refresh, home) by default, but you can easily slim down the window by customizing the toolbar and deleting any buttons you deem pointless. Chrome’s single-click bookmarking method, done by simply clicking the star located on the right side of the address bar, also makes bookmarking your favorite webpages a breeze and hassle-free experience.

Mozilla Firefox: This browser features a similar, yet more useful layout when compared to its competitors, placing the tab bar above the address bar. Despite reaching version 40 of the software (it skipped versions 18 and 11 through 16, apparently), it still feels like the bulky predecessors of the software, refusing to unite the address and search bars in a single unified field like all of its peers.

However, this is more of an aesthetic issue than a functional one — you can search within the address bar or the accompanying search bar to its right. The browser offers the same kind of single-click bookmarking that Chrome does — all you have to do is click the star located to the right of the search bar — but there isn’t much else that separates it from the rest of the pack. The settings menu is accessible in a similar fashion to that of Google Chrome, allowing you to access various options by clicking a simple button depicting three horizontal bars located in the upper-right corner of the window. Unfortunately, it also takes up a bit of space that could otherwise be used by the tab bar.

Internet Explorer: Technically, IE 11 is the most minimal Internet device of the four, with less “chrome” than Chrome. IE 11 features a single bar that simultaneously functions as the browser’s address and search bar. The space at the top places your open tabs to the right of the address-search bar, making it somewhat more cluttered than some of our other picks given the amount of space the search field takes up, but it typically isn’t worrisome unless you’re really stacking up a high volume of tabs. Other notable design features include the single-click bookmarking star now widely adopted by almost all other prominent browsers.

The two decade old browser is being phased out to make way for Microsoft’s newest browser, Edge. IE is still available in Windows 10, but is not the default and will not receive new features.

Safari:  The browser that has traditionally attracted criticism is now a serious competitor to the likes of Google and Firefox. The newest version of Apple’s browser is fairly minimalist in design, but retains enough familiarity for old users of the browser to feel at home. Like its peers, Safari offers the address-search bar hybrid. Updates to Safari 8 include a share icon embedded to the right of the search field. The sharing feature serves as a way to bookmark pages, post to social networks, and share via native Apple platforms (iMessage, Mail). The updated Safari is worth a shot for any OS X users. Mac users running the most recent operating system can even launch the browser in full-screen mode, essentially expanding the window and for the ultimate viewing experience.

Opera: This browser embraces Google’s chromium Web engine while retaining signature features that distinguish the browser from the rest. Opera has a single hybrid address-search bar like Chrome, but the alternative browser also sports Opera’s signature features, stash and speed dial. Speed dial allows for easy bookmarking and functions like “the most visited page” on Safari. Stash is similar to Pocket, allowing you to quickly store pages for future browsing. The bottom line, it’s a clean design with innovative features that holds its own against the rest of the competition.

Edge: Edge resembles IE 11, though with even smaller borders, fewer icons, and a streamlined toolbar designed to take up more real estate on your display than IE 11. A solitary, address-search bar will also run the width of the page, as well as a trio of headline features that include markups, reading view, and Microsoft’s equivalent to Siri (aka Cortana). It is the standard web browser for Windows 10, and has integration with many of the OS’s features and apps, including Cortana and Outlook.


pushonit: My take on  this competion is...as far as the customers are staisfied it doesnt really matter which browsers you call best as each of them have loyal fan base.

The Revolution...The Resolution..The Reincarnation

This was it...25/08/15 Jnct Bhopal

I couldn't have got a better chance to introduce my classmates with Mozilla.

A presentation would be the best platform i said to myself a eve before the day. So then it all started..the research, the slides..

It was a pleasant morning and all i had in my mind was to make the impact on their minds. I began with greetings and the anticipation was unexplainable on their faces. The logo appeared on the screen as my heart skipped a beat, should it be formal or should it be inspiring? As i kept pressing the enter button and new slides appeared I felt more relived then ever! 

The purpose was to make them aware about mozilla , what it really means to be part of a community, why it offers source codes and how a fsa can contribute. The people were interested to know more and more as the clock ticked. It was as if they were mesmerized by what i was showing them! I have examples, showed images and also told them the areas where they can contribute.

I also had "One More Thing" left!

The newest revolution among the community was about womoz(women working for mozilla) and i was very keen to have more womoz in my team and as it turned out more girls were ready to experience a thrill that only womoz wing in mozilla could provide! So by the time the day ended i had already enrolled new Fsa's in my team along with the most needed womoz!

From the bottom of my heart i would like to thank Rahul Talreja the guy who is a great mentor to me and would also like to welcome new fsa and womoz to my club!

Moz Community Meet

Venue- Near Hotel 4 Seasons

Fine morning of a marvellous sunday. Took off from my house to the venue. To be honest i was clueless as what will happen in this moz meet. It was my first hence was super excited too! The meet started at around 12:45pm with about 15-20 attenders. We had Moz Rep Mr. Rahul Talreja and he started with introducing us to the world of mozilla. From browsers to apps to the newly introduces firefox os. 

After the introduction we had knowledge about Mozilla being much more than just a browser icon on our screens. We were told about different levels in which the community works, why Mozilla has kept its softwares as open source and why it wants more and more people to connect.

Connecting more Fsa's was one of the major agendas and was pretty well discussed, he also shared with us the motive behind the WoMoz which was a initiative by mozilla to add more and more women tech entusiasts to the community. We were also told about the different roles that we can play in Mozilla community how it will benefit us and others.

I simply loved this meet and hope would be part of many more to come, special thanks  to Rahul for giving us his time and such in depth knowledge.

Thanks