Firefox OS Mini App Days – Rajagiri College Of Engineering, Kochi.

          Firefox OS Mini App Days[Kerala] are a series of events hosted as a continuation to the Firefox OS App Days in Kochi,Kerala. These are mainly aimed at institutions were students are encouraged to develop there own apps in groups or a individuals and submit to firefox marketplace.

          We have officially started our events in Rajagiri College of Engineering. It was a one day event with about 70+ students. There were also attendees from nearby colleges. The registration started at about 8:30 am and was closed by 9:30am. The event started at sharp 10:00am. The agenda mainly included General Mozilla talk/Introduction to FFOS , App Development, Hands on Developer session :

> General Mozilla talk/Introduction to FFOS- Mainly discussed mission and activities of Mozilla. About the FFOS,its benefits and how it is gonna change the way people see the mobile world.

> App Development – FFOS architecture,how to simulate the app and validate the manifest.

> Hands on Developer Session – Students were working on to build apps for the marketplace.

         After the above sessions the students were made to demo their app and talk about it.

The apps demoed are as follows :-

> Simple converter – it does simple conversions like metre to centimetre etc

> Bounce game – In this game we have to keep the ball bouncing

> Scientific Calculator – It does scientific calculations

> Timer – In it we could measure time intervals

> Touch Puzzle - A picture is cut into different pieces and is in a scrambled state we have to rearrange to finish the puzzle.

> Clock – A simple digital clock

> Horoscope – By typing in our DOB we could get our sign details for example Gemini,Libra etc

> Hangman – Same old hangman game

> Love calculator – Getting percentage of love between two lovers

> Tic Tac Toe – a strategic game

> Stone Paper Scissors – Traditional game played with hands by the students

> Minesweeper – traditional windows game

Almost 12 apps and apart from the above some unfinished ones were also demoed.

Metrics:-

Metric #1   Recruiting contributors Success scenario #1   Not less than 5

We got some very enthusiastic contributors with many FF Student ambassador sign-ups

Metric #2   Apps demos Success scenario #2   Atleast 2 - 3

We got nearly 12 apps :)

Metric #3   New requests for Hackathons Success scenario #3   1-2

Couple of colleges nearby who came for the session requested to conduct similar ones in their college.

Metric #4   Creating a Student Ambassador Club Success scenario #4   Identifying the potential contributors and following up with their works.

There was already a FF ambassador in the college who helped us in coordinating the event and he has said that Club activities gonna start quite soon with official inauguration and follow up activities.

The event was quite a sucess and my special thanks to Saurabh(:jsx), Naresh