Hello Every Mozillans Around the globe from the Hyderabad Mozillan community
The community of Hyderabad is known for overnight hackathons.so we are back once again with one more hackathon Focusing on the development of the Addons using Web extensions.The Hackathon has Nearly run a day with a developer's count of 100+. so finally back to share the experience with the blogpost and hope you like it.
THE BEGINING
Once all the participants are ready the event was started by giving an introduction to the participants about mozilla and the mozilla Hyderabad Community by vineel reddy.people were excited to know about the community and the story of mozilla and then the session was continued by the tech speaker santosh.He spoke and gave an introduction to the firefox addons, statistics about addon ecosystems, web extensions and their ecosystem
Then a Hangout call was taken place by the Community Manager of the Addons team.
It was Caitlin Neiman who spoke much more about the web addons and gave a deeper insight of
the addons.She also Clarified Q&A which were asked by the participants of the hackathon
After the hangout call, the participants got a better clarity of the addons ecosystems and how to develop the addons.then participants started drawing ideas on the addons they wanted to develop in the hackathon.later the tech speaker Santosh took the session to illustrate the hackathon partcipants on the first addon which he developed and explained the anatomy of web extensions
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Afterwards, we provided the Hacksheet to all the participants which provided them useful links for developing and learning about the addons along with the communication channels. and the participants started working on their addon ideas and did their best to make the addon work absolutely fine.
later as we know it will be very difficult to stay awake the whole night and develop something we all had pizzas for dinner. and a refrigerator filled with red bulls helped us stay awake at night with full energy and enthusiasm.
During the Middle of the Night, we had an icebreaker session called session called "Fuzzy Duck" which was explained to us by another Mozillain Madhukar.It was a very fun game and the people enjoyed playing it.
Finally at the end of the hackathon during the morning the participants successfully completed their addons and started giving the demos on the addons which they developed during that night. then we finally conclude the event by distributing t-shirts to all the participants and the addons theme pendrives to the winners of the hackathon.
we loved the response from the participants for the addons hackathon and the way they converted their ideas into 100% working models within a single night by continuously working
so we finally thank all our speakers,collaborators &community members who helped us a lot to make the event happen very smoothly without any issues and make participants very happy. Keep looking towards the community as more things are going to happen in the community.
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This is akhil signing off from my end and hope you like the event .
