So after a long span of four months Mozillians around Kerala have come together for the second meetup of the Mozilla Kerala Community with a strong motive of taking the Mozilla initiative a step forward. After the Meetup 1.0 there has been a very good progress whether it is in the case of events, getting contributors or marketing. The event took place at BTH Hotel, Ernakulam South Kerala on January 19th from 10:00 to 1700 hours. We had received over sixty registrations and from that about thirty seven people were short-listed to attend the event.
We had kick started the event at around 10am with a grand opening talk by Abid Aboobaker. He had informally welcomed and introduced the mozillians who had been with community since the last meetup and before that. After that we had the ice breaking session similar to the one we had in the last meetup. Then Anush listed out the past events done by the community. This was followed up with Saurabh, going through each event and analysing and coming up with revisions wherever needed. After that we had altogether turned to group activity for that each of members were grouped into groups of four/five. All the mozillians were requested to come up with new ideas and suggestions for conducting event and working structure. We had brainstormed for quite a good time and have come with a handful of suggestions/ideas. We had lunch after the brainstorming session. The afternoon session was concentrated in forming Working groups for the community like design working group,Web development, Evangelism, System admin etc. Also new community members were introduced to bugzilla, irc and etherpad so that they can effectively work. Again each veteran members of community were assigned to each new member to follow up. We were very glad that we got five awesome womens to our team so that we could push WoMoz to some extent. It was really awesome to get together with lots of Mozillians and storming ideas for shaping the future of the community. I thank all the people who made this event sucessfull
The full set of pics can be found here http://bit.ly/Kz1ZIi
We had kick started the event at around 10am with a grand opening talk by Abid Aboobaker. He had informally welcomed and introduced the mozillians who had been with community since the last meetup and before that. After that we had the ice breaking session similar to the one we had in the last meetup. Then Anush listed out the past events done by the community. This was followed up with Saurabh, going through each event and analysing and coming up with revisions wherever needed. After that we had altogether turned to group activity for that each of members were grouped into groups of four/five. All the mozillians were requested to come up with new ideas and suggestions for conducting event and working structure. We had brainstormed for quite a good time and have come with a handful of suggestions/ideas. We had lunch after the brainstorming session. The afternoon session was concentrated in forming Working groups for the community like design working group,Web development, Evangelism, System admin etc. Also new community members were introduced to bugzilla, irc and etherpad so that they can effectively work. Again each veteran members of community were assigned to each new member to follow up. We were very glad that we got five awesome womens to our team so that we could push WoMoz to some extent. It was really awesome to get together with lots of Mozillians and storming ideas for shaping the future of the community. I thank all the people who made this event sucessfull
The full set of pics can be found here http://bit.ly/Kz1ZIi
