Bangalore DevDay 2010

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Bangalore DevDay 2010 - Saturday, February 27, 2010

Summary

Mozilla is organizing an informal developer-oriented conference in Bangalore on February 27, 2010. The Mozilla DevDay will be an opportunity for developers, open source enthusiasts, and web aficionados who live in and around Bangalore, to meet Mozilla staff and learn about the Mozilla Project and its technologies.

The event is free and open to the general public. All sessions will be in english.

Schedule

Time Title Speaker
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM Welcome to MozCampBangalore, Introductions & Ice breakers Mozilla Team
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Session 1: Mozilla Web Standards Arun Ranganathan (Evangelist, Mozilla)
11:00 AM - 11:15 15 minute coffee break -
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Session 2: Mozilla Labs -- extension development through Jetpacks and a look at the other Labs initiatives Ragavan Srinivasan (Product Manager, Mozilla Labs)
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch -
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Session 3: Mahiti / CIS chat - what Mahiti and CIS are doing (purely informational) Sreekanth S Rameshaiah (Executive Director, Mahiti)
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Session 4: Mozilla Firefox 3.next features discussion, with some focus on out-of-process plugin, electrolysis, Jetpack uplift, l20n, etc. Seth Bindernagel (Director Localization, Mozilla), Ragavan Srinivasan (Engineer, Mozilla Labs), & Arun Ranganathan (Evangelist, Mozilla)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break -
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Session 5: Afternoon interactive hack session Mozilla Team
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Conclusion, Distributing Goodies, Sign-up for More Info... Everyone!

Mozilla Labs Hack session

In the afternoon, members of the Mozilla Labs will be hosting a Jetpack Code Session. It starts with getting to meet the Jetpack team, as well as some informal and hands-on lessons in learning to enhance the browser by creating your own jetpack.

IRC Channel

The IRC channel is #devday.in on the Mozilla IRC server.

Registration

The DevDay is a free conference open to the general public. All interested participants may register by following this link.

Venue

The DevDay will take place at J R D Tata Auditorium (National Institute of Advanced Studies) situated on 5 acres of land within the campus of the Indian Institute of Science.

Getting to and from the venue

Food & Drink

The event will be catered by a local restaurant called "Halli Mane", which serves authentic vegetarian south Indian fare.

All food and drink is kindly being provided by the The Centre for Internet & Society.

Twitter

For all MozDevDay participants using Twitter (or other social networking services), please use #mozdevday.in as the hashtag for your Tweets.

Tagging Pictures

If you plan to take pictures and upload them to the web, please tag them with mozdevday.in.

Contact persons

Any questions for Mozilla may be sent to any of the following:

  • sethb at mozilla dot com
  • arun at mozilla dot com
  • ragavan at mozilla dot com

Questions for Mahiti may be sent to any of the following:

  • sree at mahiti dot org
  • sarabaptistebrown at mahiti dot org