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In this post, I'm gonna briefly raise some key issues & suggest half-baked solutions about events in India. It's heavily focused on developer-events, but some bits are pretty generic. These are from the discussions, experiences and findings under the lights of the following events: MozSetup at IITKGP ProgramIIEST at IIEST (duh!) ...and some more events since the late 2013 Before I dive in - like a side-note, I'd like to mention - since 2012, we've tried to increase developer contributions in India heavily. Some low hanging fruits , to start with; and they have generated results . Now it's time to take some further steps, and evolve further. But there are some blockers. Very real ones. Most challengingly(!), non-technical ones. Thoughts on developer-hosted events They are Procedural They can plan properly and execute efficiently. Something that's not vastly common in South Asian region. They are Innovative Given an opportunity, they m...

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 ====================================== ______ 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 ================================================================================