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I woke up quite late today, and as usual found myself in the flood of device-notifications. Swimming through, I couldn't help but notice that there's one recurrent theme against many of those conversations - actively, or passively; which is, me being termed as the "Co-founder of Mozilla India" in my FOSDEM talk's introduction. Some congratulations, some giving justifications, some asking for justifications, some efforts to clarify the situations, some smug comments & inquiries etc. And I realized, the issue is not as innocent as it first appeared, and something is needed to be done to fix it. For what it's worth, I am not the one who scripted the introduction. I've had very little to do with it. Clarista is such a nice person, it seemed rude to stop her on stage. I made a little hand gesture, "Please, let it go... I'm not that guy." but anyway, that message didn't pass through. I've been anonymously volunteering for Mozil...

Foreword For last 2 years, I've been trying to attend FOSDEM, and yet each time found myself to be too late in the process to do anything about it. Missed the last year's Firefox OS awesomeness badly, and thus had my reminder set to wake me up when September October ends. Facts & Figures The Campus Map of ULB, along with the Dev-Rooms FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting) is a developer-centric event, hosted at ULB (loosely translated, Open/Free University of Brussels ) that brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. There were quite a few keynotes, main-tracks, and along with that 33 Dev-Rooms - that is project specific focus groups, each diving deep into their topics in separate auditoriums. The entry is walk-in, until/unless the room is full. The event in itself is free of any registration, or other charges. Mozilla had the Dev-Room UD2.218A on Saturday, and there were 16 awesome talks in total . You can get...

The Event The Mobile Developers' Summit is an annual event hosted by Saltmarch. This year it was at Bangalore, last 10-11th of October, 2013 at the NIMHANS Convention centre. I was invited to speak on behalf of Mozilla about the "Firefox OS and the power of HTML5". [ Slide Deck ] The Talk The talk revolved around the idea, how Internet as a Platform changes the game, what myths do we have around it and pointers to what changes in direction we can already see. To some extent, it compared the capabilities of Native vs. Web applications - with little brief on how easy it is to make web applications to be device-compatible, and how the market ecosystem is different & more meaningful than the rest. Showed a couple of demos, insights about the platform & gave some contexts of WebApp development.  In the end, tried to demonstrate the world map, where Firefox OS has already launched, and the opportunities of Indian Freelancers & Startups in the glob...

Albeit two entirely different kind of events, for me, the MozFest and MozCamp 2012 were more like a two-lap circuit, with a couple of hours' pitstop at my work-town. But still, I think each of the event needs a separate post, because they are quite of a context switch, and difficult to narrate on same pitch. So, my MozFest post went on ahead , and here's the post about the MozCamp 2012. Oh, bytheway - here's the not-so-organized Flickr set for the impatients: http://www.flickr.com/photos/im-phreak/sets/72157633063798684/

MozTI @ BESU: Organizers From left: Subhasish Kundu, Soumya Deb, Sayak Sarkar, Priyanka Nag, Shambo Bishnu, Amrita Roychowdhury, Gaurab Patra, Ramit Das, Avik Pal, Sankha Narayan Guria, Kaustav Das, Swarnava Sengupta & Arijita Das

Event Links: Talk Slide : code.debs.io/talks/RestartlessAddons GitHub Gist : gist.github.com/3844059 Live Example : addons.mozilla.org/addon/about-pages Tour Summary : twitter.com/Debloper/status/257049363661086720 Code Walkthrough : thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/making-of-restartless-firefox-add-ons Event Venues: Mozilla Mania, Chennai 6th Oct, 2012 — Velammal Engineering College Tech Carnival, Thanjavur 7th Oct, 2012 — Sastra University Campus Mozilla Mania, Warangal 9th Oct, 2012 — Jayamukhi Institute of Technological Science

=================================== tl;dr ====================================== __________ Mozilla Summer Code Party - SICSR, Pune: 23rd June, 2012 __________ Event Page: wiki.mozilla.org/MozParty_Pune Etherpad : etherpad.mozilla.org/20120623-Pune-Workshop Sayak's post on Mozilla India : mozillaindia.org/node/644 Ankit's Slides: slideshare.net/ankitgadgil/the-mozilla-story Faisal's Slides: slideshare.net/ankitgadgil/using-firefox-like-a-boss Flickr Album : www.flickr.com/photos/kinshuksunil/sets/72157630325471864/ Facebook Album : facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151053643809188.493002.677614187 ================================================================================

=================================== tl;dr ====================================== ______ Talk & Workshop at OSScamp, BVB College Hubli: 11-12th April, 2012 ______ Event Page: osscamp.in/event/osscamp-hubli Talk Slides : debloper.github.com/talks/GearingUpAddons Workshop Slides : debloper.github.com/talks/RestartlessAddons Flickr Album : www.flickr.com/photos/kinshuksunil/sets/72157629471812562/show/ ================================================================================

=================================== tl;dr ====================================== __________ Workshop at Carte Blanche: MIT, Chennai - 25th March, 2012 __________ Slides : debloper.github.com/talks/RestartlessAddons EtherPad : etherpad.mozilla.org/addon-workshop-cbmit (Revision 2) Flickr Album : www.flickr.com/photos/77461019@N07/show/with/7017119283 Walkthrough : thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/making-of-restartless-firefox-add-ons ================================================================================