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===Past Events:===
===Past Events:===
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* '''Web Maker Party:'''
* <big>'''Web Maker Party:'''</big>
The Web Maker Party was held in the month of February in 2015 as an event at CMRIT's annual cultural fest Cultura. The web maker party was based on simple tool developed by Mozilla that consisted of four tools-Thimble, AppMaker,Popcorn maker and X-Ray goggles.These tools helped in starting the code from scratch, developing an app, embedding a video into the site and reading the code of a particular site respectively.
The Web Maker Party was held in the month of February in 2015 as an event at CMRIT's annual cultural fest Cultura. The web maker party was based on simple tool developed by Mozilla that consisted of four tools-Thimble, AppMaker,Popcorn maker and X-Ray goggles.These tools helped in starting the code from scratch, developing an app, embedding a video into the site and reading the code of a particular site respectively.


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* '''Data Privacy Day 2016:'''
* <big>'''Data Privacy Day 2016:'''</big>
The data privacy data was celebrated by all Mozillians on the 28th of January 2016. This initiative was also taken up by Moziety to educate fellow students and club members and non-members about "Private Browsing" feature offered by the Firefox browser and also to inform why data privacy is important to us and how Firefox helps us to not be tracked on contradiction to most other browsers.
The data privacy data was celebrated by all Mozillians on the 28th of January 2016. This initiative was also taken up by Moziety to educate fellow students and club members and non-members about "Private Browsing" feature offered by the Firefox browser and also to inform why data privacy is important to us and how Firefox helps us to not be tracked on contradiction to most other browsers.


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* '''Teach the Web:'''
* <big>'''Teach the Web:'''</big>


Teach the web was an event organised by Moziety at CMRIT on the 5th of February. The event was an introduction  themed to be an introduction to web development based on HTML and CSS. The event was a grand success with students from first to third year coming together to be a part of the session. The session witnessed a participation of about 200-250 students. It was a hands-on session where students could deploy every new skill that was being taught to them and hence no aspect of the session remained dry as it was very interactive.
Teach the web was an event organised by Moziety at CMRIT on the 5th of February. The event was an introduction  themed to be an introduction to web development based on HTML and CSS. The event was a grand success with students from first to third year coming together to be a part of the session. The session witnessed a participation of about 200-250 students. It was a hands-on session where students could deploy every new skill that was being taught to them and hence no aspect of the session remained dry as it was very interactive.
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* '''Thimble Design Challenge at Cultura'16:'''
* <big>'''Thimble Design Challenge at Cultura'16:'''</big>


Thimble design challenge was held at the CMRIT campus as an event of the college's cultural extravaganza Cultura'16 on the 20th of February 2016.The event was a beginner level web development contest. The facilitators demonstrated the use of Thimble and then opened up a contest for the next 90 minutes, where the students were asked to create/remix a web hack. Each round had elimination and at the end, the top two groups along with other interesting hacks were awarded prizes and goodies.
Thimble design challenge was held at the CMRIT campus as an event of the college's cultural extravaganza Cultura'16 on the 20th of February 2016.The event was a beginner level web development contest. The facilitators demonstrated the use of Thimble and then opened up a contest for the next 90 minutes, where the students were asked to create/remix a web hack. Each round had elimination and at the end, the top two groups along with other interesting hacks were awarded prizes and goodies.
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* '''200 OK Hackathon:'''
* <big>'''200 OK Hackathon:'''</big>


200 OK Hackathon will be held at the CMRIT campus as an event of the college's cultural extravaganza Cultura'16. This a a 24 hour hackathon having an open theme which begins at 1 p.m. on 19th Feb and gets over at 1 p.m. on 20th Feb. The contestants will be free to work on any topic and any technology they want.We as FSAs from Moziety, at the event will be the representatives of the Mozilla community at the space and hold a few lightening talks in intervals during the hackathon giving them insights of the beauty of the Mozilla community and how the club at college functions.
200 OK Hackathon was held at the CMRIT campus as an event of the college's cultural extravaganza Cultura'16. This was a 28 hour hackathon having an open theme which began at 10 a.m. on 19th Feb and got over at 2 p.m. on the 20th Feb. The contestants were free to work on any topic and any technology they want. Moziety was a community sponsor for the event and Abraar Syed, club lead and FSA of Moziety along with Sharath George M, were the mentors for the hackathon and also judged the hackathon.




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When: 19th February 2016
The winners of the hackathon were Parul(FSA) and Shashank who built an aquaponics instrument for the aquarium using an arduino micro-controller. The hackathon saw some good ideas and some average, but overall was a good learning experience for all the participants.


Where: CMR Institute Of Technology
Group picture from the hackathon:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Hackk.jpeg/512px-Hackk.jpeg


Time: 1 p.m.


Register with us here: [https://in.explara.com/e/hackathon4f7b7f377c216aa94c26cabd4013f904 200 OK]
* <big>'''Introduction to git:'''</big>
As a part of the club activity, Moziety conducted an introductory hands-on session on version control systems using git and github. It was held on the 02-March-2016. The audience was taught what the jargons like git,commit, clone, fork, pull request, branch, etc mean and how these help us to do collaborative work and make contributions to open source projects.
 
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The speaker for the event was Aishwarya Naidu, who is also an FSA at Moziety and she was accompanied by volunteers namely Ayesha Ishrath and Caroline Sylvia who are also FSAs.
 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Speake_naidu.jpg/256px-Speake_naidu.jpg


More details: [http://culturafest.org/events/Technical.html Cultura'16]


=== Upcoming sessions: ===
=== Upcoming sessions: ===
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* <big>'''Web Designing using bootstrap:'''</big>
The tenative date for the event is 10-March-2016.
The audience will be taught how to customize and use already available templates for easier and faster web designing purpose.
Venue:Mech AV Hall, CMRIT
* <big>'''Bugzilla:'''</big>
A Bugzilla session will be conducted by the end of March.
More details will be put up shortly.
=== Contact Us: ===
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