Posted in Accessibility, India, community, developers, evangelists, l10n on July 24th, 2007 3 Comments »
Chofmann and I made our last stop in Mumbai, arriving on Friday, July 20, and leaving yesterday at 12:20 AM (India time, July 23.)
Several contributors from the ILUG-BOM group assembled for the final event of our Indian Tour. It was held at the Homi Bhabha center, TIFR and many thanks to Dr. Nagarjuna G. [...]
Posted in India, community, evangelists on July 20th, 2007 2 Comments »
Yesterday, Chris and I were in Hyderabad to meet more community. Through Aravind, one of our Mozilla IT gurus, I contacted a friend of his cousin who attends the Indian School of Business. To see ISB is quite impressive. It was built just under 10 years ago by many benefactors from India’s [...]
Posted in India, community, evangelists, l10n on July 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
On Wednesday, Chris and I had a great meeting with Mahiti, an NGO in India that is working to spread FOSS to NGOs across the country. We learned so much from the team and they have offered to help localize Firefox in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bangali, and English-IN. We’ll work out the details to see [...]
Posted in India, community, evangelists on July 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
On Tuesday, Chofmann and I had a packed day of activity. I’ve been trying to play catch up on blogging as we are cramming our days with meetings and more meetings. Sorry this comes a bit late…next post will be about Mahiti, a terrific NGO in Bangalore that is spreading FOSS across India. [...]
Posted in India, community, evangelists, l10n, other mozilla stuff on July 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
Our trip to Bangalore has been a fascinating experience and really started to provide great insight about the thriving tech community here in India’s version of Silicon Valley. The enthusiasm about Mozilla and its community are also extremely exciting. In addition to the packed schedule I had laid out for the trip, I was also [...]
Posted in India, community, developers, evangelists, l10n, other mozilla stuff on July 14th, 2007 1 Comment »
After nearly 30 hours of travel, Chris and I landed on Friday, July 13, after midnight in Mumbai. We arrived to our hotel by 2 AM and then got up the next day, headed back to the airport to fly to Ahmedabad in the state of Gujurat. We headed there to participate in [...]
Posted in community, developers, qa on July 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
We’ll have a meeting on July 10 to review all the recent requests for support from the community program. It is a jam-packed week for me, leaving for India on Wednesday. So, I thought I would blog now about what we will review and then follow-up next week after I land in India.
We’ll [...]
Posted in India, community, evangelists, l10n on July 6th, 2007 4 Comments »
On July 12, 2007, Chris Hofmann (Mozilla’s Director of Special Projects) and I will be going to India to meet many of the Indian community members who have been contributing to Mozilla. In addition, we hope to build our community of individuals who will take an active role in promoting the Mozilla mission and [...]