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12:30AM last night, gotten done with the meetings & calls - almost worn off - I was about to get my dinner & call it a day (for such long of a day it was). But what do you know! Got summoned by my Ingress faction for a call of duty - awkwardly eccentric, insanely probabilistic, extremely difficult, and yet immensely confidential task that needs to get done exactly at 4:30 in the morning, at a place 3hrs by road. Hence, I grabbed my gears & rushed for the pick up (with a couple of bread-slices in my pocket; because, Dinner) - and there's no looking back. In simple words - it was a covert operation of ~16 Ingress Agents, to transport an artifact (#2) from the origin portal in Bangalore to the destination portal at Mahabaleshwar (then undisclosable) - lots on XMs were spilled in the process & to defy the Resistance's effort to... well, resist - the process... & keeping it under Enlightened-control, strategically (12hrs) & effectively (4hrs). ...

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...

So it begins... Hundreds of Mozillians from all over the Asia has already started taking off for Santa Clara, California to attend the Mozilla Summit 2013 - the largest Summit we've ever had! This is historic; THIS IS EPIC! Not because of the numbers, but for the enthusiasm, reach & impact it will create. Prologue There are also two other locations where the summit will be hosted parallel to each other, with (almost) same tracks & schedules - in Brussels & Toronto. Grossly, Mozillians from Europe attending summit in Brussels, Mozillians from Latin America, Africa & Middle East and Canada attending are in Toronto, and the ones from Asia and USA will be rocking at Santa Clara. Participation According to the list of invitees, Mozillians coming in heavy bunch are from India, Indonesia, Phillipines, Japan, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Sri Lanka etc. which is almost proportional to the strength & activities in those respective Mozilla communities. There are plenty of...

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/

Claimed to be the largest Mozilla hosted event , Mozilla Festival is the place for creative-developers to share & show-off. With that being said, I've had the pleasure to attain MozFest 2012 at London, last November - allow me to share the joy ! Looking back, the entire event has so many tales to tell - but, as most of them are best told over a coffee - I won't take you through all the trivial details here - rather, let's just get down with the facts:

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