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Foss.IN Project Day

August 8th, 2007 by seth bindernagel

I believe that Foss.IN is India’s largest open source conference, but I could be wrong about that.  Either way, it is taking place this year from December 4 - 8, 2007 in Bangalore.  Chofmann and I are thinking of submitting an application for a Project Day, but we would need to make sure we can get enough participation from our Indian developer community.  We’d also consider sending some Mozilla Mountain View developers if we do organize a big enough group.  Chofmann, Mary (Leader of Mozilla Events), and I will talk about it on Friday.

Thoughts?

5 Responses to “Foss.IN Project Day”

  1. on 08 Aug 2007 at 9:26 pm   Sankarshan

    I think this would be a good idea. What is required is an on-ground proposer who is going to be the contact between the foss.in team and the Mozilla team. Might be a good idea to have a half day translation sprint even.

  2. on 09 Aug 2007 at 2:02 am   Jay

    If we did have a Project Day, I would love to see a discussion about open source in Indian academics (I have heard a lot of people talk about how Microsoft-centric India is… is there any truth to that?).

    I am currently trying to revive the “Mozilla University” initiative that Chofmann helped put together a few years ago… and want to find out if students and professors in India are interested in a curriculum built on open source projects. Localizers have been helping out for a while, but why not get more folks interested in helping us test and develop Firefox? I see colleges and universities (maybe even secondary/high schools) as the best place to plant that seed.

  3. on 18 Aug 2007 at 8:24 am   Bhasker V Kode

    Personally, I’d love to see Mozilla make it to the Project Days event at FOSS.in. I am sure that others like me from Chennai, would have loved to meet your team in person during your tour in August, but we look forward to meeting you when you visit India next, which will hopefully be in the near future. 8 )

    Keep Clicking,
    Bhasker V Kode

  4. on 20 Aug 2007 at 1:52 am   Balakumar Muthu

    Surely their will be a huge participation from the Indian developer community for the Mozilla’s Project Day event at FOSS.in.

    Last year, I am one of the organizer of the”Mozilla Firefox Party” in Chennai - India, it had a great response.

    So, I strongly feel you must organize such an event.

    Thanks

  5. on 20 Aug 2007 at 11:47 am   Sankarshan

    The deadline for proposing a Project is 28th of this month. However, if there are folks willing to turn up at the Project Day, I’d love to see the following:

    + talk on Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird roadmap (a keynote type)
    + technical talk on the following:
    - contributing to the L10n
    - creating extensions
    - discussion of OPEN issues pertaining to Indic
    - translation sprint perhaps
    - Lightning Project (?)

    Time is running out and I don’t really see anyone stepping up to propose a day.

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