Journey as an FSA

Hello Readers

This is akhil from Hyderabad institute of Technology and Management pursuring the batchelor's degree in computer science stream..I'm a Tech enthusiast and a gadget freak love to explore new things and cutting edge technologies ...I joined Mozilla as it was different from other student ambassador programme which helped me learn new things and have hands-on experience on various mozilla products which helped me increase my knowledge...As an FSA i like the areas of contribution such as HIVE,ARMY OF AWESOME, BUGZILLA and i love contributing to these areas..After joining Mozilla i strongly believed that internet is a free public resource and mozilla is making the web a safe and secure place for the access of public resource..

Today looking back as a mozillian i can share lot of things and memories which helped me grow a lot in the last one year..Firstly i Thank a lot of persons who helped me and motivated me a lot for the contribution in mozilla and the open source platforms..

Then this was the 1st when i have attended the mozilla hyderabad community collab house on a 

sunday that was the 1st tym when i was making something useful thing in mozilla community and i was first asked to do some stuff on oneanddone and on the same day i was thought about how to use webmaker by santosh vishwanatham (anna)..i didn't remember the date but i remember that was the friendship day in the year 2014

That was the day were we gained the knowledge on some mozilla stuff and i was much intersted to gain knowledge and the possiblites to of contribution in mozilla and did some work at home and discovered all the possible ways of contrubtion..then i found out this was not the same as the rest of the student ambassadors program's..after a few days we thought of giving this knowledge to all our fellow members in college make them accessible to  various thing spresent in FSA.Then there came our college firefox club known as "HITAM FIREFOX CLUB"..then the mozilla rep sai charan reddy came into the picture and with his a firefox club was launched in the college.Thank's sai charan reddy (anna) for making a successful launch of firefox club in our college with out you dis would not have been possible

Afterwards i got interset to know things and explore much deeper about FSA from there i became a regular attende for collab house and gained knowledge about various things like

1) Firefox os:-Firefox OS (project name: Boot to Gecko, also known as B2G) is a Linux kernel-based open source os for smartphones,tabletcomputers and smart tv's developed by mozilla
2) Rust:-Rust is a general purpose compiled programming language developed by mozilla research
3)marketplace:-The firefox marketplace is the source for apps developed by mozilla contributor's across the globe for firefox os
4)Bugzilla:-Bugzilla is a web-based general-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project

 also i learned about other things like WEBMAKER,FIREFOX HELLO,THUNDERBIRD,PERSONA etc..

And from collab house along with knowledge i also gained lot of cool friends who are like minded people like me and were contributing to the mozilla..they helped me a lot in all the possible ways they and they are really good friends and we got a wonderful hyderabad team contributors from there a lot of knowledge,fun were exchanged between us in between we got connected with other area contributors like Dinesh(Tirupathi community) , Psv ramaraju(Vizag community) ,Jayesh(Taminadu community)

Afterwards when Deepak upendra, U.M.K Dikshit, Harsha Bandaru,Sai charan reddy,Akhilesh reddy were busy in spreading hte word mozilla in other areas of the state by launching a firefox club at JNTU Kakinda ..I met this wonderful public speaker and Mozilla guy "Akshay Tiwari" who for the 1st time thought me how to make an app for the firefox marketplace by conducting a firefox appathon event at 91spring board's (jayabheri towers) that was the 1st time i came to know why should i use web technologies(HTML5,CSS3,JS) for making an app for market place and how to install the emulator of firefox os and test the app and the procedure of how to push the app for marketplace..

There at this place i also met another wonderful person Ram Dayal Gurumukhi who said me about things like Gaia,Gecko,Gonk,Bugzilla and Fixing some good first bugs that was another wonderful place were i gained lot of knowledge on a single day

And from there i done lot of things in FSA programme and utilized it for the best for gaining knowledge and helping the people around me. presently i am contributing in the areas of moztrap ,firefox tv apps  ..inspired by the story?? want to contribute for FSA Programme  (open source) ?? DOn't know  were to start here are some useful links for all the people like you guys have a look

FSA Registration Link:fsa.mozilla.org
Mozillian Profile:www.mozillians.org
Marketplace:marketplace.firefox.org
Webmaker: www.webmaker.org/ 
https://teach.mozilla.org 
https://webmaker.org/en-US/explore 
https://blog.webmaker.org/badges 
Resources: https://teach.mozilla.org/teach-like-mozilla/web-literacy/ 
Web Technology for Developers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web 
SUMO : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/ 
Bugzilla:
What?:https://www.bugzilla.org/about/
Buzilla Articles:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/tag/Bugzilla
Keywords: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describekeywords.cgi
APP Development:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps
Reference apps: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Reference_apps 
Reference API's:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Reference
List of API’s:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API
FIREFOX OS BOOKS:http://firefoxosbooks.org/ 
MDN Contribution:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Getting_started
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction 
Links for contributors to learn how to get started with contributing:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Main_Page 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/ 
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/ 
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/signup/ 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction 
http://codefirefox.com/ 
http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/#!/progornoprog/advocate 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS 

That's all for today guys hope u also gained some knowledge here's ur AKHIl logging out for today have a great day bye bye...........