BeingMozillian: Firefox App Days Kerala

Firefox App Days[Kerala] was the first major event by Mozilla in the Kerala locale(India). The event took place on June 22nd at Startup Village Kochi. The event venue was special since it was the first place in India to have 1Gbps connection. This event made a thorough imprint for Mozilla Mission in Kerala.

A little about the event...
      The event witnessed a participation of nearly 65 people of which 9 were Mozillian/Rep Attendees who helped organize the event. The event kicked off after the breakfast with an introduction of Firefox OS and Marketplace. After that we had the most exciting higlight of the event which was none other than the remote session from Nick Desaulniers(JavaScript Mind Reader Jedi at Mozilla). Then there was a small session on WebFwd which got nice response from the audience. Again the event got into the App Development Session. Then after the lunch hackathon session followed when participants became busy with app development. This was followed by the demos of the app by the developers and the team who made the best app were given the opportunity to cut the cake celebrating 15 years of Mozilla. Then firefox app day tee shirts were given away. The event concluded with grand style.
Apps developed at the event are as follows :-
> an HTML5 implementation of a Japanese flower arrangement game
    > a snake and ladder game
> a hangman game
    > a wallet utility thingy
> a game for identifying similar items with pictures and sounds for
autistic kids
> an app that would let us add a new note every time a call is received
(by the Sony people)
    > BMI calculator
    > news readed for hacker news
    > language translator
> Unit converter
> Event management programme
> Love percentage calculator

A little more about the event...
     The event got featured in national as well as the local newspaper creating a massive publicity for Firefox OS and Mozilla Mission. We had two official Sony professionals who were working on Firefox OS Team at Sony. The event has set out momentum for more app days in the locale, as a result of it 2-3 mini app days have been confirmed in engineering colleges. Finally we believe that this event created enough foundation for Mozilla in Kerala locale so as to move forward in confidence.

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Nick's presentation

http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/firefoxOSPresentation/#/initial