DeveloperDays/FOSS.INDecember2007
Name of the project:
Mozilla Project Day, (proposed day) Wednesday, December 5, 2007
(proposed) Date:
December 5, 2007
Name of the proposer:
Mozilla: Seth Bindernagel, Mary Colvig, Chris Hofmann, Mark Finkle & Axel Hecht
Proposers involvement in the Project:
Mozilla will send a team of employees to help lead a Mozilla Developer Day with the Indian Developer Community.
Pre-requisites to participate:
Interest in learning more about Mozilla. All participants are welcome. During the project day, we would like to shine some light on Indian contributors, specifically mentioning where work has been done. It will be most helpful for Mozilla Indian contributors to participate and discuss what they have been contributing. Some knowledge of the localization process or knowledge of the XUL programming language, JavaScript, and/or the Mozilla platform would be helpful, but is not required.
Audience:
application developers, extension developers, open-source evangelists & enthusiasts, localizers, security experts
Handouts to be distributed with pointers to material:
Most materials will be distributed electronically or developed for all to see and contribute to through the following wiki site:
Proposed Schedule
Theme of the day: Building a Mozilla Community and getting Firefox working better in India
(We hope to have two concurrent project plans, one discussing how to get involved with Mozilla via the extension development platform. The other describing how to get involved through either the QA/Testing or localization efforts.)
Other ideas to include in the tracks above:
- QA sprint -- Introduction to the Mozilla QA process and then have folks do ready to testing on different platforms. (We might need to do this because as Mozilla comes closer to the release of Firefox 3, having a localization sprint might not be feasible.) - Localization hands on workshop and/or Testing Day -- Will depend on release schedule of Firefox. - Need to keep it focus on empowering users and developers - Presentation of developer tools that will help you better develop web content: Fuel & Firebug/Finkle
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Opening remarks about the developer day by Mozilla employees who are in attendance and will lead the day |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Introduction to Mozilla by a Mozilla Senior executive describing the state of the Mozilla Project and its community |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Attack of the Indian font problems (bring your favorite site that doesn't render correctly in Firefox -- we'll identify problems, reduce test cases, file bugs) |
| 11:45 - 12:25 | Become a Mozilla evangelist: Blogging, speaking, evangelizing to websites (i.e. how to find sites that need to be contacted and how to do that. How to file bugs that are Mozilla related issues, and not a the problem of a website, and more) |
| 12:25 - 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | Plan A: Lightening demos of extensions developed by local developers and Chrome Java Script Libraries or Plan B: How to Localize in India, with a sprint to the end of the day. |
| 14:15 - 15:45 | Plan A: Extension development tutorial/intro to FUEL, or Plan B: Continuation of localization sprint |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Plan A: Intro to Babelzilla; Plan B: continuation of localization sprint |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Closing remarks, party |