IIT Kanpur developer workshop using Bespin
We’ve wrapped up our stop at IIT Kanpur. Arun and I did a developer workshop last night…well, Arun led the workshop and I assisted. Nearly 150 people attended an we were there until after midnight, working with students for over three hours. The enthusiasm of the students was inspiring to see, and Arun and I felt very at home with this crew of young Mozillans. But, what made this workshop so special was that it was the first time the the web-based IDE, Bespin, was used by such a large group. All things considered, it was a big success. We found a few bugs, but used Bespin to edit an HTML and JS file using <canvas> to have the students draw an Indian Flag.
One quick bug to report for the Bespin guys. It seems that there is a limit on the number of people who can login with a project of the same name. Initially, everyone named their project “IndiaFlag”. Only a few were able to start and everyone else was locked out. A sharp student realized the potential bug and made the suggestion to have everyone try to rename their project to a unique name. That did the trick and the room applauded his fix. Also, the copy/paste function didn’t seem to work. Not sure if this is just a limitation of cut/paste with <canvas> or not.
Today, Arun gave a talk on the open web. I met many of the campus reps here and got a few testimonials on video about their passion for Mozilla. As I write this, Arun is meeting with a professor interested in the semantic Web. We are now heading to Mumbai en route to Pune for the GNUify conference where we’ll both speak.
If you attended either of our sessions, please comment here, leaving your name and what you thought. Arun and I (and Jay and Mary in California) would love to keep in touch.
Hey, Seth.
The workshop was serious fun — it was great to see the participants being enthusiastic about it right till the end.
Oh, and Shashank’s projection screen was marvelous.
hey
The workshop was really a great learning experience…we got an insight into mozilla org. and especially firefox,HTML5,SVG…couldnt get to hear you presenting but other than that everything was perfect.
Looking forward to attend more workshops and see you presenting your ideas in future as well…:)
I guess the ’sharp student’ who fixed the bug was Praneeth aka lifeeth, my departmental senior, quite the man friday,huh!
hey seth
the workshop was really great and i myself gained a lot of knowledge and experience.
i also met u at the end of talk the next day in the noon regarding localisation….remember:)