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 technology and business sectors and the building has some impressive architecture. Also, the campus is situated among many leading tech firms, and many of the students have spent several years in the technology field. I took some pictures and pasted one of them just below.

Chris and I talked with the students about doing market research projects that will help inform Mozilla about the landscape of Internet users in India. Additionally, some of the students are interested in creative projects to help spread Mozilla’s software through India. We were excited to have such a large group of students assemble and will likely try to work out some creative independent study projects for the students who are most interested in helping.

This relationship (and the one from last weekend in Ahmedabad) will help us understand the market in India and how to spread Mozilla. We’ve found again and again that student communities are really contributing so much to the project. Whether it is a contribution from Oregon State, Seneca, Stanford, Berkeley, or the many, many campus reps, we rely so much on student enthusiasm and support. The feeling has been the same in India and it seems that student groups here will do a lot to help spread Mozilla.

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