Festival2012/Submit/Online Editing

• TITTLE SESSION: COLLABORATING FIREFOX BROWSER TO WIKIPEDIA PROJECTS AS AN OPEN SOURCE TO ACHIEVE EFFECTIVE ONLINE EDITING
• NAME AND AFFILIATION: Oarabile Mudongo — Mozilla Student Representative (Educator)
• SESSION TYPE: Learning Lab

1:WHAT WILL YOUR SESSION OR ACTIVITY ALLOW PEOPLE TO MAKE,LEARN OR DO?

As coding is one of the vital skills to be known in these time of technological advancements,it is a need particularly for the youths to have these skills for them to participate in most open source websites e.g (wikipedia,Mozilla). The session will be spiced up with a lot of online editing on wikipedia specifically using Mozilla Browser because of its fast speed hence maintaining constant editing without encountering unwanted bugs and more over creating webpages using Thimble as a tool for Mozilla Firefox.However the session will be focusing much in youth development and mentorship because they are to be mentored about the foundations of coding and interactions in the cyber world but even anyone whiling to learn about online editing on the open source is invited.People will be able to edit articles using Mozilla and publish them online hence interacting with each other through the talk page and mailing lists from the webmakers.

2:HOW DO YOU SEE THAT WORKING?

Since most youths are more interested much into coding and yet still don't know the hidden facts about the great browser (Firefox),these will make them realize the importance of using Mozilla as a trusted browser for their greatest needs either for secure browsing or speed.Most of University students composing of youths interact much with wikipedia a lot for their researches,making online edits and hence there is always a serious complain that other browsers have many bugs and are very slow or they are incompatible therefore making them see how these browser is useful to them is an initiative to start a good foundation for future developers in the browser moreover advising them to install Mozilla Browser into their machines would make them recognize and realize how effective the browser is to their day to day need.The main issue is not to make them think wikipedia is always there for their effective edits but rather make them to use Firefox not just on editing wikipages also even to consider using it when performing other online activities.

3:HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH 5,15,50 PARTICIPANTS?

There will be a direct demonstration and afterwards participants will be categorized into small groups of 5's or 10's establishing a peer-to-per relationship and getting to know each other well hence achieving the main objective of the session.

4:HOW LONG WITHIN YOUR SESSION BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE CAN TEACH THIS?

A live demonstration will probably take half an hour and also the peer-to-peer meetups will take half an hour too making a total of a full 1hr.

5:WHAT DO YOU SEE AS OUTCOMES AFTER THE FESTIVALS?

After the festival almost all the youths and everyone in general will be able to recognize the necessity of using the great web browser and they will be able to differentiate it from any other web browser as they make their edits online. Furthermore since coding is also one critical skill that need to be facilitated to all the people,and Mozilla Firefox being an open source web these will motivate almost all the youths and everyone too to contribute to the browser thereby making it more reacher in content through the skills they have been taught.Long term relationships will arise too hence creating effective communication between participants when it comes to contributing to the web browser by subscribing to the discussion forum on Mozilla web maker mailing list.