Saturday, June 7, 2014

MozCoffee Pune

Event Name: MozCafee Pune
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Date:  6th June 2014
Venue: Pune
Hashtags: #mozcoffeepune, #firefoxstudents 

-= Note =-
Initially this event was planned on 31st May 2014 in Pune. However, due to riots in pune on 31st May and 1st June, we postponed this event to 6th June 2014. 

-= Audience and size =-
There were 28 students who attended the event. All participants were Final Year (B.E) engineering students of Information Technology in VIIT Engg College, Pune. Overall, they seemed to have good knowledge of web technologies ( HTML, JavaScript) and interested in open source contributions.

-= Our participation =-
We discussed Mozilla Mission and importance to contribute to open source to keep the open source community healthy.  This event aimed to celebrate and promote volunteering for Mozilla. It is organize for VIIT Engineering (University of Pune) students. In this event I explained Mozilla Mission, Firefox 29 features, Firefox OS apps and importance of rating Firefox OS app to the audience. 

-= Audience reactions =-
My goal was mainly to make people aware about Mozilla Mission and Firefox OS Apps and App development. From the oral feedback from the audience, it seems like it went well. We got positive feedback the audience provided us their email addresses to inform them about future events on Firefox OS in VIIT. From talking to audiences, they were very happy with this event. 


-= Organization =-
I think it all worked well. Everything was in place.

-= Overall feel =-
Good interest from the audience in Firefox and Firefox OS app. They feel confident to rate apps for Firefox OS.

-= Was it worth it? =-
According to my knowledge, Yes. The audience was satisfied with the content of the event.

-= Should we go again? =-
Yes. I feel its worth the investment.

-=Photos of the Event =-




-= Success Metric of the Event =-
After the event Five (5) contributors are recruited as Mozillian.  There profile links are:
1. https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/aniketkudale/
2.  https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/ayushi.tripathi1812/
3.  https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/shreyashatal/
4.  https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/godavari.doke/
5.  https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/qaidjohar/

These new Mozillians are going to help in rating Firefox OS app. 


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