July 2014 ~ Finding Mozilla Pakistan

Monday 21 July 2014

Infect them while they're young !

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Plan9 Summer Camp 2014 – a three week camp offering development of skills including computer programming, animation, photography, writing, public speaking and graphic designing – kicked off on 16th July 2014.

I saw this as an opportunity to teach these kids about the open web and Mozilla. Therefore, along with Muhammad Mehmood Ali, I took up the task to teach basics of web programming in this camp. We used the Webmaker tools to demonstrate how to make and remix webpages.

This workshop proved to be really fruitful since these kids understood what the open web really means. We showed them the code of any website that they wanted using the the 'inspect element' option. They were also asked to make a single page website representing Pakistan's culture and since it wasn't a pure maker-party, we gave them the liberty to use the editor of their choice. There were also videos queued up like 'The Mozilla Story", "The Web We Want", "I Am a Mozillian", etc, which were showed during these sessions to keep them motivated and informed. A lot of these kids switched to Firefox and promised to spread the word amongst their friends and family.

Contributing to Mozilla @ Superior University

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On 10^th of June 2014, along with the collaboration of Superior Connections (sister company of Superior University), I organized an introductory Mozilla session for the students there. The session included introducing the local Mozilla community to the students and helping them setup a Firefox Club at the University. Moreover, the students were given an overview of some cutting edge technologies and products by Mozilla e.g. Firefox OS, Webmaker, Appmaker, etc. There were also demos of the latest Firefox, developer preview versions of Firefox OS devices, and alpha version of the Urdu Firefox (a work in progress by Mozilla Pakistan). The attendance from Mozilla Pakistan included Muhammad Mehmood Ali (who also gave a talk on Firefox OS during the event), Talaal Burny (who played the role of a host), and Ma’am Huda Sarfraz (she provided us with swag, Mozilla standees, and presented the closing note). These introductory sessions are proving to be really effective as more and more people are joining the local community (as a result of these) to contribute to different Mozilla projects.