Hello Mozillans
We are back again with our contribution to open source MOZILLA once again. This time the event was a quite new one and interesting one..it was a two day hackathon we the students from across the city has come forward to meet at one place to "CONCEPTUALIZE, DEVELOP,SHOW & WIN". so lets dive into to the details to know more about the event and how did it take place..the event covered various themes of MOZILLA.
DAY 1:
The first we have started a bit late but there were a lot participants eagerly waiting for the session because they knew that they gonna learn something new from the regular things.Finally event was on.
so the event was started by one of our rep who started discussion about the agenda and the flow of event with the participants
MOZILLA MISSION
The first speaker was giridhar who started the event with the MOZILLA MISSION as there were several new students who are completely new to the environment..the session made the students know what mozilla mission &goal was which had clarified various kinds of doubts that the students were having regarding the mozilla.it also helped them know what was FSA programme and how it works and play a vital role..
PRIVACY
Later after the session the participants were taught about the user security and privacy.why was it considered to be as the most important consent and why the user have to care about it.this session was handled by me (akhil) where we covered about digital footprints, free basics and the tips and measures to be taken to prevent themselves from getting tracked..it got a huge response from the audience side because all the participants were asked to install the lightbeam addon and check out themselves for how much they being tracked.they were shocked by the results produced by the light beam addon.
SERVICE WORKERS
Later the next session was taken by madhukar who spoke about the topic called service workers even this session has got a huge response as everyone in the hall were new to the word called service workers.he spoke about the various websites which are using the service workers technology and the other websites which will port it in near future.he also covered how the service workers concept gonna become a major important factor for the websites in the near future.which made everyone curious to know about the technology behind it and how would it become possible to run a website offline.
Now the real coding part was started which was handled by avinash were he thought for sometime about how to code a firefox os app for a tv.He covered the topics such as html,css,javascript and bootstrap.later they were thought about the firefox simulator how it looks and how it works.Finally student were given a task to make a TO-DO list app for firefox os powered tv.which made them know about the importance of making open web apps.later it they were tested on both mobile and tv simulators for knowing how their apps which were programmed by them worked
After the completion of making hands on open web apps we have ended DAY-1 Hackathon
DAY-2
The DAY-2 was completely different from the 1st day as it was a completely a hands on session on Iot for connected devices.and all the participants were formed into teams. later they learnt about the basiscs of arduino by prasana dutt. later the participants started programming the arduino using the ide.Built some of the basic tasks of arduino for a while and obtained the serial data from it
Later after doing some tasks on iot for connected devices by all the participants santosh viswanatham had spoke about some of the important mission & goals of Mozilla and also the reason why it is important to think that the web should be open and secure to everyone and also how MOZILLA is doing it's part to make the web open and seecure.later the participants were given a few tasks to programme in the IOT IDE.
After the completeion of the allocated tasks to each participant.the tasks were juged by the reps and the best tasks were awaded. later there was a disturbtion of certificate to all the participants by the event organiser followed by the closing keynote of the event.this was the end to the two days event on Firefox os And connected Devices.
That's all for today folks this is Akhil logging out.
Have a Great Day.
We are back again with our contribution to open source MOZILLA once again. This time the event was a quite new one and interesting one..it was a two day hackathon we the students from across the city has come forward to meet at one place to "CONCEPTUALIZE, DEVELOP,SHOW & WIN". so lets dive into to the details to know more about the event and how did it take place..the event covered various themes of MOZILLA.
DAY 1:
The first we have started a bit late but there were a lot participants eagerly waiting for the session because they knew that they gonna learn something new from the regular things.Finally event was on.
so the event was started by one of our rep who started discussion about the agenda and the flow of event with the participants
MOZILLA MISSION
The first speaker was giridhar who started the event with the MOZILLA MISSION as there were several new students who are completely new to the environment..the session made the students know what mozilla mission &goal was which had clarified various kinds of doubts that the students were having regarding the mozilla.it also helped them know what was FSA programme and how it works and play a vital role..
Later after the session the participants were taught about the user security and privacy.why was it considered to be as the most important consent and why the user have to care about it.this session was handled by me (akhil) where we covered about digital footprints, free basics and the tips and measures to be taken to prevent themselves from getting tracked..it got a huge response from the audience side because all the participants were asked to install the lightbeam addon and check out themselves for how much they being tracked.they were shocked by the results produced by the light beam addon.
Later the next session was taken by madhukar who spoke about the topic called service workers even this session has got a huge response as everyone in the hall were new to the word called service workers.he spoke about the various websites which are using the service workers technology and the other websites which will port it in near future.he also covered how the service workers concept gonna become a major important factor for the websites in the near future.which made everyone curious to know about the technology behind it and how would it become possible to run a website offline.
DAY-2
The DAY-2 was completely different from the 1st day as it was a completely a hands on session on Iot for connected devices.and all the participants were formed into teams. later they learnt about the basiscs of arduino by prasana dutt. later the participants started programming the arduino using the ide.Built some of the basic tasks of arduino for a while and obtained the serial data from it
Have a Great Day.
