Tuesday 29 October 2013

#MozSummit

"What is Mozilla Summit?"
Mozilla Summit is the gathering of Mozillians from around the world to discuss where Mozilla is heading and make plans for the future. Moreover to celebrate the years of awesomeness. This year it held simultaneously at three different locations Brussels, Santa Clara and Toronto from October 4 2013 to October 6 2013.

My Summit location was Santa Clara and here's my brief account of it. Seriously its very brief.

"3 Days of Awesomeness"
The first day was kicked of by Triston Nitot with his Welcome Speech.  Then came the Keynote from Chairperson of Mozilla Foundation Mitchell Baker. The talk dealt with the topic "What makes Mozilla "Mozilla". This talk was a live feed from since she was tat the Summit @ Brussels. Then there was a small presentation and speech from Brendan. After a short break there was world fair. Every country represented themselves quite well at their stalls with food, dresses, coins, custom swags etc. There were many open sessions post lunch. The day ended with Firefox OS dinner and party.
The second day as usual was started by Triston Nilot. Then came Harvey Anderson with a report on the health of the web. This was quite informative and gave insights of threats been faced. Also there was demo of some of the upcoming products by Brendan. Post break there was Innovation Fair followed by open sessions. The day came to an end with World Fair Dinner.
The third day started also had the same start. The Mozillians were divided into small groups and was asked to brainstorm and come up with action plans. The activity went for a long time and people coming with lots of cool plans. All these were recorded and was asked to be filled in a form so that these plans can be put to action. Then there was the usual open sessions and the day came to an end with awesome dance party.

"Extras"
It was such a spectacular event and i was glad to be the part of it. Among all, the most memorable part of the Summit was the time spent with Slovenian Community Thanks to Rok, Gasper, Goran and Matyaz and with Support Mozilla Team(SUMO) Thanks to Rosana and Madalina. Apart from these i was able to meet lots and lots of cool mozillians and share talks. The social events were also cool, notable mention Great America amusement park. It was a great feeling altogether. Thanks Mozilla :) Keep it coming.

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