Join hands with Firefox
Mozilla Foundation is coming to India. If you are interested in Firefox, are a contributor, or want to contribute, you must grab this opportunity!
Seth Bindernagel (Community Program Manager) and JT Batson (Head, International Marketing Efforts) of Mozilla Foundation are coming to India in mid July. The purpose of the trip is build further community involvement and start to find people who can help localizer drive the adoption of Firefox 3. This includes both supporting current volunteers in contributing more and providing resources.
Magnet did most of the localization for Firefox and other open source tools for Gujarati. Continuing our endeavors, we are organizing a one day event at our office to promote and support Firefox on 21st July 2007. Seth and JT will speak about community, localization, Firefox 3 and also promotion!
Note: The event will not be on 14th July now, since Mozilla will be attending the open source conference in Ahmedabad on 13th and 14th July. We will have it on 21st July now.
Here is the plan for the day:
- 10.30AM – Registration (it’s free!)
- 11AM – Introduction & Welcome
- 11.30AM – The State of Mozilla
- 12.00AM – Do we need an EN_IN version of Firefox? Local English, local search providers, certain spellings and other India specific items. Brainstorming, and team formation.
- 1.00PM – Lunch break
- 2.00PM – Brainstorming on promoting Firefox in India (Spread Firefox.in?)
- 3.00PM – How to localize Firefox? How did we localize for Gujarati? – small workshop
- 4.00PM – Firefox 3 – what’s up the sleeve?
- 5.00PM – Completion
The day is going to be exciting. It’s going to be mix of development, community and brainstorming sessions.
Who should attend?
- Everyone who’s helped in localization of Firefox / other Mozilla Software
- Students and Open Source evangelists who want to promote Mozilla / Firefox
- Community organizers & marketing enthusiasts
- Anyone who’s interested in Mozilla / Firefox
Location:
Many thanks to HBCSE for hosting this event. Directions here.
RSVP:
Please add your name to wiki (link below), if you wish (you should!) to attend the event:
http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Upcoming_meet_RSVPs
We plan to have a Mumbai GNU/Linux Users Group meeting in the evening with a talk on Ruby on Rails. The plan on that will be announced on the mailing list soon.
Participants
- Seth Bindernagel
- JT Batson
- Chris Hofmann
- Venky Hariharan
- Kartik Mistry
- Nirav Mehta
- Dibya Prakash
- Vipul Mathur
- Barkha Khatri
- Dilip Khanolkar
- Mehul
- Osric Xavier Fernandes
- Mitul Lambani
- Easwar Hariharan
- Joel
- Gaurav Chaturvedi
- Anurag
- Mohan S N
- Sanjay Bhangar
- R. K. Rajeev
- V K Bharadwaj
- J. T. D’souza
- Prashant Shah
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I will try hard to be there.
Vipul
30 Jun 07 at 7:14 am
Update: The event will happen on 21st July 2007. Not 14th July.
Nirav
30 Jun 07 at 10:12 am
O, most esteemed one!
I shall be there for the first half of the 14th. Will be great to catch up with you again!
Venky
venky
3 Jul 07 at 11:37 am
Hey Venky:
Will be great to meet up with you after a while! The event is going to be on 21st July.
:Nirav
Nirav
3 Jul 07 at 3:22 pm
Is 21st Final?
Kartik Mistry
4 Jul 07 at 12:13 pm
Yes, 21st is final!
Nirav
6 Jul 07 at 6:15 pm
Good News
Seth just told me:
Chris Hofmann will also attend our July 21 event. He is the Mozilla Director of Special Projects and has been a member of the Mozilla team since the early days at Netscape. He has a lot of knowledge of localization efforts and is one of the long time contributors. He should be able to speak about a lot regarding Mozilla at our event.
Nirav
7 Jul 07 at 11:25 am
I’m there too
Joel
8 Jul 07 at 10:45 pm
I am there too!My name is absent!
Easwar Hariharan
12 Jul 07 at 1:14 pm
I have updated ILUG BOM Wiki page:
http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Upcoming_meet_RSVPs
Kartik Mistry
12 Jul 07 at 11:06 pm
Hi Nirav,
I m willing to attend the firefox meet. Can you add me??
Kunal
14 Jul 07 at 9:13 am
Wish to discuss about “printing frames as laid out on the screen” and the unification of the Display and Print Layouts.
K Vinod Kumar
17 Jul 07 at 2:51 pm
The event will be at HBCSE Mankhurd on 21st July. That’s this Saturday!
Nirav
17 Jul 07 at 4:37 pm
i’ll also be comin
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