Workshops

Hi everyone, here is Report of our events.

Last semester we had two Mozilla Workshops, “OpenSource & OpenWeb Workshop” (April 19, 2013) & “Familiarizing Open Source Workshop” (May 17, 2013)

This semester we have organized a series of three workshops

• Open Source : Oct 17, 2013
• Web Dev (HTML5) : Oct 20, 2013
• App Dev (Firefox OS Apps) : Oct 22, 2013

On 17th October 2013 at 04.30 pm., for the Workshop1 we met at A13 Hall.

Ashish Bansal and Vikas Pachori opened the Workshop and welcomed the participants. In their remarks, they indicated that the Workshop is part of the continuing joint efforts of OSOC and MCA toward strengthening capabilities of the students involved. He added that this meeting was an initiative to inculcate interest amongst the participants towards learning something different from academics. They expressed gratitude towards Dr. B. Janet for her guidance throughout this journey. They also thanked Dr. S. Nicolas for his undying support towards the success of the worshop.

He stressed that even though the importance of Open Source is widely recognized, progress in its development has been very slow. They wished the participants success in their deliberations and wits towards OSOC.

At the first session, the work programme was discussed and adopted with slight modifications. Introduction to Open Source and basics of Linux were demonstrated. Participants also came to know about Mozilla, its mission, its products etc.

On 20th October 2013 at 10:00 pm., Sweekriti Smith along with Sunil Hirole and Mayuri Jain, welcomed the participants to Dept lab for workshop2 session.

They highlighted the work accomplished so far and the improvement expected from the newcomers of MCA. They added that this workshop is an important output of the intensive planning and dedication of OSOC MCA individuals. It was indicated that the workshop had three immediate objectives:

• To inculcate a purpose to strengthen OSOC
• To receive inputs from newcomers for prompt improvement
• To identify future members of OSOC

At the 2nd session, the previously assigned task was checked and recognized. HTML5 and CSS3 basics were uncovered.

Oct 22, 2013 was the day of last workshop

Most interesting part of this workshop was Introduction to Firefox OS. Students came to know a lot of new things about Web. They were introduced with full story of birth of Mozilla foundation. They also came to know how Mozilla is helping in keeping web open and safe. Students came to know about components of Firefox OS and many other things.

App Development session was taken by AppDev team. It was very interesting to know that App Development for Firefox Market is really very easy. Sample apps were demonstrated to students, few students tried to create their own apps. Ram Dayal Vaishnav told how one can contribute to Mozilla. Lots of goodies were distributed to all those who were active during the workshop.

We are expecting more apps from OSOC in future also. We had around 100 participants in these workshops. All workshops were a great success 🙂