India/Meetings/3-08-2011

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Mozilla India Official Representatives Meeting Notes: 

   Most of the meetings will be open to all the community members. 
   ReMo only meeting will be usually done in case of proposals,
   new events, important decisions, issues, conflicts, swag/ budget requests. 
   In any case, meeting notes will be published.

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Attendance:

  • 1. Dwaraka Nath - Chennai
  • 2. Vineel Reddy - Hyderabad
  • 3. Galaxy Kadiyala - Pune
  • 4. Raphael Jacob - Pune
  • 5. Kinshuk Sunil - Delhi NCR
  • 6. Arpit Kumar - Ghaziabad
  • 7. Sajin Henry - Kerala/ U.A.E
  • 8. Arun Prakash - Chennai 
 Agenda:
  • Welcome & introductions!
    • Create Roadmap [TBD]
    • Create working Processes & Structures [TBD]
    • Clear Mentor-ship - All Mozilla Reps have a assigned mentor
      • Regional Mentors to be appointed soon.
    • Regional Centers
    • Regular Online Meetings -- Fixed date & time [TBD]
    Mozilla's mission is to encourage choice, innovation and 
    opportunity online. Mozilla is more than just a browsers.
    Video: About Mozilla
    Video: Firefox Story
  • Events - Moz Camps | Hackathons | Regional Meetups
    • Quarterly Open Web events [TBD]
    • Regional meetups:
        • People new to Mozilla, who want to involve or any open source enthusiasts can attend.
        • Topics/ Tracks: Open Web (Drumbeat, WebFwd), Internet, Web technologies, Mozilla Projects and various initiatives, Localization, Benchmarks, etc.
    • Software Freedom Day -- September -- Each of us is participating in one.
    • Partners/ Sponsors for the future events. [TBD]
    • Participation at OSI Days 2011 -- Kinshuk/ Abhishek
    • Participation at WikiMedia Conference -- Kinshuk/ Abhishek
    • FOSS event in September -- Dwaraka
    • Monthly meetings for Mozilla & Open source enthusiasts in Pune. -- Raphael & Galaxy
  • SIG's -- PR, Marketing, Localizaion, Support, QA, Add-ons etc
    • Working more closely with Mozilla staff, gaining valuable experience and new skills, and of course, receiving cool rewards.
    • Building an in-house:
      • Localization team
        • Arun Prakash
        • Dtsdawarak
      • PR team - Regular articles publishing & tracking(both positive & negative) in regional press.
        • dtsdwarak
        • Arpit
        • Sajinhentry
          • Review:
            • Kinshuk
            • Vineel
  • Tools for Mozilla Reps:
    • ReMo business card generator.
      • "Monthly Update" form -- 5 minutes easy to fill form
        • 1) to help your mentor track your progress in the program and know what relevant guidance or support (s)he can give you for specific activities you're involved in.
        • 2) to help the broader community have more visibility and insight into your activities. Indeed, every time you will submit your monthly update form, a link to it will automatically be added onto your ReMo profile page, thereby enabling anyone interested in knowing what you've been working on to find this information easily.
        • 3) Tracking/ measuring/ rewarding
    • SWAG!! :)
    • As a start students can use tools from here: http://studentreps.mozilla.org/en/projects
    • Each Official active Mozilla Reps get a respective Email ID name@Mozillaindia.org
  • Mozilla India Website:
    • Theme [TBD]
    • Blog
      • DTSDwarak
    • Social media integration [TBD]:
      • Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Youtube - Screencasts/ podcasts [Hispano], Flickr.
    • Official Mozilla Reps list on website [TBD]
    • Firefox regional versions download buttons in front page.
    • Community India spotlight
  • Building an in-house:
    • Localization team
      • Arun Prakash
      • Dtsdawarak
    • PR team
      • Starting a media newsletter (something like what i did for InGDIn - http://ingd.in/media)
      • Form a PR team that can regularly contribute articles to various magazines and blogs.
      • Connect with other bloggers, techies, journalists.
      • Regular Articles in leading magazines
      • TEAM:
        • dtsdwarak
        • Arpit
        • Sajinhentry
        • Review:
          • Kinshuk
          • Vineel
  • Mozilla India wiki
  • Mozilla India Guest Panel -- Objectives [TBD]
  • Mozilla India Speakers:
    • Open registrations for speakers
    • Student reps or other community members can plan/host a event and can invite the speakers from respective regions.
    • Speakers are encouraged to be aware of the events and opportunities around them.
    • List of mailing list's that can be followed to keep posted with the event:
    • Mozilla Reps are considered as speakers

Goals for next 6 Months:

  • Build, train and engage a strong passionate Mozilla community.
  • Build a in-house localization team -- encourage, teach(existing l10n team as mentors - still an idea!?), give tools and get them on board -- From School students to any language enthusiast. -- Prospective L10n team.
  • Have at-least one Mozilla Rep from each State/ City.
  • Fully functional website and up to date wiki.

Needed:

  • Speakers on Open Web and Firefox in Pune, Chennai & other major cities.
  • ReMo India Private mailing list
  • name@mozillaindia to official reps
  • ReMo list on mozillaindia.org website

Mozilla Reps are encouraged to write a bit about themselves and what they are working on at their public user profile.

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