Let The Code Flow @ JIET, Jodhpur.

Jodhpur, as we know is a developing city in terms of Tech communities and Tech events.
Regarding this, Tech enthusiasts are constantly organising interactive tech events in city to make people more informative and curious about new and cool technologies.

A Glimpse of  #LTCF

Keeping this in mind, JIET Firefox Club organised LTCF, i.e, Let the Code flow at JIET Jodhpur.
The aim was to introduce students to Web API's and Github so that they can kickstart their contributions in the world.

Event Details:-

Organizer/Coordinator:  Rashya Sharma (Webmaker SIG mentor and Lead, JIET Firefox Club)

Speakers:  Ashwin Devarajan  (Codebase SIG mentor )
                   Md Shahbaz Alam (App-Dev SIG mentor )
                   Rashya Sharma (Webmaker SIG mentor )

Date : 12-13 Feb.

Twitter Hashtag : #LTCF

Event Poster

Event Started on 13 Feb, with the agenda of Covering Introduction pf MCR, Mozilla Verticles, Web-apps and Web-API's. It started with Ice breaking session by Ashwin, which later on turned into Introduction session. The Interaction between the speakers and students proved to be good.

I, Rashya Sharma, Ashwin Devarajan and Shahbaz Alam Introduced ourselves to the students.
Students from all years took part in the event with great enthusiasm.
We introduced students to the MCR, SIG Program and All the Mozilla verticles in which they can contribute, in a brief manner.

Introduction To Web API's and Web Apps.

Shahbaz started the session with introduction of Web Apps and WEB API's . Without Mainstreaming the talk , we allowed students to ask offstream questions so that their knowledge can be enriched.
With Updation of firefox in a lot of systems we  installed the WEB IDE so as to start designing Apps.
We Created a Etherpad so that students can write their ideas and it was awesome to see 50+ students working on a single etherpad.

The Colourful etherpad was growing , by every idea by the students. We finalized Some ideas and we allotted every idea to a group of students.
An innovative approach this time, used by the speakers on arrival of every query was " Hey! Firstly DuckDuckGo it ". This prevented the spoonfeeding concepts and increased student involvement.

Students Used many API's to make some very basic apps like geolocation calculator, etc.

Session on Web-apps and Web API's

We , The Speakers.

At the end we concluded the day with distribution of swags to the students who proposed some very good ideas for web-apps.


Next Day being a regional holiday Because of a government exam , decreased the student numbers because of the lack of accomodation . Still students were present in good numbers to learn new things.

Introduction to Github.

The second day of LTCF, was completely dedicated on learning Git  so that students can start working in a Open Source Environment. Due to availability of windows oriented computers, we installed bash shells so that students can have a taste on working on Command Line.

Git session

As Expected , it was new for all the students and Many questions and queries were there in the mind of students , but all of them were patiently solved by Ashwin and Shahbaz . I coordinated with all the students , so that noone lags behind and synchronization is maintained.

Students enjoyed working on git and command line. They learned every git command taught to them by heart and implemented it with full enthusiasm.
gid add , commit , push  and then finally merge was on the mouth of every attendee. Each PR request boosted their own self-confidence.

Git Session by Ashwin and Shahbaz

So the second day and the event concluded with a promise of keep learning more about git and many more open souce technologies.

I got Some awesome informal feedbacks out of which one is by Harshul Mathur  which can be seen below.

Feedback :D

All and All it was an awesome event where students learned a lot.
JIET Firefox Club is thankful to all the Speakers for sharing such great knowledge.

Swags

MCR Wingdings 2 @ LNMIIT , Jaipur.

MCR Wingdings 2

What an Awesome Journey it has been.

I sharply remember the date 25th January 2015 , when I Attended my first event conducted by Mozilla Community Rajasthan. Everywhere I saw, it was a new face.

I learned a lot at that event and promised myself that will continue to contribute at my best. 

And Now it was 25th January 2016 , the second birthday of Mozilla Community Rajasthan. Last year , I was an attendee and this year I was one of the Host. So Coincidentally Its Not Just MCR's B'day , its also My Anniversary of being a member of this awesome community.

MCR Wingdings 2

Coming back to MCR Wingdings 2 Now. MCR Wingdings was celebrated in one of the most renowned Institutions of Rajasthan, LNMIIT Jaipur. It was the best time to celebrate it , as their annual techfest "PLINTH" was also at its full pace.

Initially, we reached LNMIIT through their college bus which picked up at Ajmeri Gate. As soon As we reached the college, we were welcomed by the college volunteers and were taken to the Alotted LT. LT's were well equipped with projectors, mikes and good internet connectivity.

We , at LNMIIT.

The event started with some cool introductory videos that witnessed the achievements of Mozilla Community Rajasthan in the past 2 years.

As it was Privacy Month, The event started with the session on " Privacy and Security on Internet " which was taken by AppDev Mentor Md Shahbaz Alam.

After that, Dipesh Monga sir took a session on " Internet of Things "  and introduced us to Arduino and Raspberry pi concluding with some cool demonstrations of Frequency hacking and Quadcopter. 

IOT Session

Session on Privacy

Then we all had a small Lunch break but before we had a small fun session where we played an awesome game of Alibaba and Chalis Chor suggested by Ashwin. Here is a Glimpse of it.

The FUN Session.

After Lunch, the attendees were given a basic introduction of all the verticles such as Webmaker, AppDev, Codebase, L10, IoT, etc by the SIG ( Special Interest Group ) Mentors. Then people were divided into groups according to their interest.

Webmaker session was taken by Rashya Sharma (that's me :p ) and Adit Bharadwaj.Session based on Introduction of Github was Taken by Md Shahbaz Alam. Detailed session of Github was Taken by Sagar Chand Agarwal. Namrata Jain  managed all the things and kept everything on track.

Attendees

The event Concluded nicely with a promise of keep contributing so that our own MCR reaches new milestones and achieve Greater heights. Swags created specifically for the event were distributed among the atendees and the attendees photographed themselves in the privacy window,

At last we All took some group photos and groupfies too.

Groupfie !

On next day we mentors met at Indian Coffee House and discussed future plans regarding more events and community building. We also celebrated MCR's Aniversary by cutting the cake .

At Indian Coffee House !

MCR Anniversary Cake

Once Again, Happy Bday MCR . Congratulations..;.. " WE ARE GROWING ". :D

GDG Jodhpur : Be a Translator - Let's Contribute !

A Campaign to Support Digital Literacy  

Starting from 26th - 31st Jan, 2016

"In order to support & contribute the Digital Literacy in India, Google Developer Group Jodhpur, a technical community will be organizing a campaign "Be A Translator". Together we can stand strong & promote Indian languages globally. We can directly translate any given language into any other language using Google Translator Service. Currently Indian languages such as Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telgu  etc. are available to use. Half of the work has been done by Google for us & now it's our turn to make this language translation service mature by making corrections & suggestions while using it. Our community will be rewarding top contributors. Come & be a part of the campaign & support the cause."

How to contribute - Tutorial Video

The registrations of the Be A Translator will be start soon and is free to participate, interested participants can register by filling up the form below from 26th January 2016 :

Come Join Us 

• With Official Google Developers Community by clicking on I'm Member here : https://goo.gl/vpLNxb
• By Adding us in G+ circle: www.google.com/+GDGJodhpurOrg1.
• On Twitter : www.twitter.com/@GDGJodhpur.
• Like us on Facebook : www.facebook.com/GDGJodhpur.
• Community Leader : Aaditya Maheshwari and Nausheen Khilji

PRIVACY MATTERS @ JODHPUR

PRIVACY MATTERS @ JODHPUR

Privacy Month is an initiative by Mozilla which is celebrated in the Month of January which aims to spread literacy about Internet Privacy and How we can keep ourselves away from the dark aspects of data theft.

Similar to the real world, The Internet world is also filled with thieves that steal our data and use it for different  purposes. But we Don't have any Lock in the world of internet to be safe from the thieves.

So we can use some Precaution measures to protect our privacy while accessing the internet.

Taking this as the primary goal, I, Rashya sharma , a Fsa Trainee and Club Lead conducted a small session based on Internet Privacy in my College to enrich the knowledge base of my fellow mates. 

I started the event by describing the attendees how they are tracked on the internet and how their  private data is used to make money.I described them how we , the , consumers are now turned into products that make profit.

Then moving on to privacy , I interacted with them asking what do they understand by data privacy and security.

I then suggested them to use DuckDuckgo Instead of ... umm(Big Names, Lets say X) X , to get maximum privacy and without the fear of being tracked.

Then a Question arouse from the attendies , " How can we Know who is tracking is? "

And I was Having The perfect answer for it :D..  " Use LIGHTBEAM ".I described them about Lightbeam and showed them its interactive and easy to use UI.

They were Very happy to see their trackers in such a graphical way.

We also had a discussion about TELEGRAM Messenger and its advantages.Answering each of the question was equally fun.The session was very interactive and educative.

It was equally appraised by the students as well as faculties.

#MCRprivacy #privacymonth #Advocate4privacy

Reps Portal Link : https://reps.mozilla.org/e/privacy-matters-jodhpur/

Localization Sprint @ Jodhpur

                                 | Localization Sprint |

                                                         | Jodhpur , Rajasthan |

Organizer : Rashya Sharma
Speaker : Rashya Sharma and Meghraj Suthar ( MozRep)
Volunteer : Ridhi Bafna
Attendees : Students of 3 rd Year Btech.



MCR , Mozilla Community Rajasthan is flourishing day by day ,Jaipur region has been the centre of all the Mozilla-related activities.But it's now Jodhpur whose making its spot on the Mozilla map.
Now it was time to gain some information on those sectors of mozilla in which contributions are easy and worth.

Event Preparations Completed.

Localization Sprint @ Jodhpur  started on 29th of November, with the agenda of covering Localization and testing sector at RK Children Academy School.All the preparations were done and sitting arrangements were made till 12 PM and event was expected to start at 1 PM.

Meghraj Suthar explaining SUMO.

As , the event was about the Introduction to localization and knowing about testing,we shared some information about the resources provided by Mozilla to start contributions.The hands-on Sessions were also given from the SUMO account of Meghraj Suthar.

Overall objective of the event:

• To motivate the students about using open source technologies.
• Introduction to localization and testing sectors.
• How to kick start contributions .

Attendees 

Meghraj Suthar discussed many other verticles and topics  such as AOA , Github and introduced us to Pootle, Moztrap and oneanddone platforms.

He told us about his journey from being a small contributor to a Mozilla representative.

Overall the event was full of knowledge exchanges and surely it will encourage newbies to step forward and start small but worthy contributions.

We all thank Meghraj Suthar for sharing some precious knowledge with us all.

FSA Portal

MCR Meetup @ Jaipur ( 25 th October 2015)

                                               MCR Meetup @ Jaipur ( 25 th October 2015)

Mozilla Community Rajasthan.

Mozilla Community Rajasthan is a constatly progressing community.
Recently , It launched an awesome program of SIG , ie , Special interest Groups.

On 25 th OCTOBER 2015 a meet up was organized by Reps of the MCR community, Mr. Trishul Goel and Mr. Osho Parth.  The sole purpose of this meet up was to discuss the future goals and targets to be achieved by the Mozilla Community Rajasthan.

Introduction session proved very helpful in calculating the present state of the community.

Many different Points were dicussed and lot of suggestions were proposed. 

 The following points were discussed:

•      Getting a common forum for interaction among the FSAs of various colleges, prime focus on using the hackpad and etherpad for communication. 
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•       Activities involving coding should be the prime focus.
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•      A sub mentor from each college under each verticle should be allotted.
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•          More events should be conducted at school level.
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•          Promotion of the participation for FSA program from other educational institutes.
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•      Creation of Individual college etherpads.

The meetup was concluded by snacks and then a small photo taking session.All and all it was a very good meetup and hope that everybody in MCR will work in a more coordinated manner.

Maker Party Mogra , Event Report.

Maker Party Mogra , Event Report.

Makerparty@Mogra,Jodhpur

#‎KidZstar‬.
‪#‎EducatedMOGRAMission2020‬ : Event organized for sharing basic Knowledge of computers and Internet.
#Venue : Modern Public School Upper primary School Mogra Kalan .

Schedule Date : 18-9-2015


About Event Hosts:
‪#‎RashyaSharma‬ : Webmaker SIG Mentor (Speaker)
‪#‎NareshPrajapatMogra‬ :Active Volunteer (Speaker)
— with Rashya Sharma.



#EducatedMOGRAMission2020


After Jodhpur , it was the time of its neighbouring villages to know what mozilla is all about.
For this We organised a small makerparty at MOGRA KALAN , JODHPUR.


The makerparty started with basic introduction of computers and other pheripherals .
Children started to show interest as tis was quite a new experience for them.

The Target Audience was the children of Class 5 and 6 , but I was Told to take a small session of class 4  also.I started Interacting the children of class 5 and 6 merged in a hall. They Seem Quite Interested in Knowing more aboutWeb and its Uses.

Be the Future

Harware Pheripherals

I delivered content on What is web and how it is Useful.

I briefed them about what sort of Things they can do on web that can make their life easier including basic things like ticket booking , banking , recharges , shopping , etc. This session turned interesting when students started to put questions on how things are done and I was quite happy to teach them.

THE TEAM.

Naresh Prajapat 

Rashya Sharma 

Distribution of Swags

Awesome Audience

My fellowmate Naresh prajapat also taught some useful things about hardware and scurity essentials.

We concluded the session by a small quiz and corrct answers were rewarded by swags.

Id Cards Designed by Rashya Sharma

I hope we will organize more events like this in the coming future.

#teachtheweb

#mozilla