App Dev Jaipur :)

So what can be worth of a Sunday -

• a movie
• an outing with friends
• sleeping (my personal favorite :) )

But the love towards technology, development and self build-up drags each and every one of us to a common platform APP-Dev (our new Sundae-feast , new passion for Mozillians).

By each upcoming day the phenomenal effort is given as input by each which ultimately results in form of awesome apps. The idea is not to flood with random pieces but to produce marvel: in terms of UI, in terms of code.
Now our focus is not only on UI elements but also on quality of code. We believe Code to impress . Rather than writing complex-large-code we are trying to minimize and optimize the code.

Every new meetup updates our knowledge stack with

• new ideas – from each and every one
• new technologies – pros and cons of technologies and which should be used and when.
• new  motivation – each meetup fills positivity and incline all of us towards app dev
• new APP – for sure !!!

And last but not the least these meetups pumps up the community bonding and leads towards a stable growth of everyone.

Mozinar Udaipur

  

To spread the Mozilla mission our team now reached city of Lakes, Udaipur. Techno India NJR (Udaipur) was kind enough to provide us with all resources for our workshop.

This was a much awaited event as the planning for this event had started before a month. Dipesh Monga and his team (quite a dedicated one) had put a lot of efforts to make this a successful one.
The workshop started with the formal introductions, followed by explanation of Mozilla mission (Osho Parth). He explained the essence of open source and how Mozilla is into it and the various verticals of contribution to the open source .

 

Then Meghraj Suthar explained about the webmaker tools and how to use them.

    

 After that Trishul explained the ease of developing apps for Firefox OS.
Now since the Mini-camp Jaipur  we have made the hands on Sessions a mandatory part of every workshop. So we then started with hands-on session for web-maker followed by app dev hands-on.
The concept of hands-on was entirely new to the attendees and they enjoyed every bit of it. They have been attending various seminars and this was was the first time they were able to apply immediately what they have learned few minutes before. And surprisingly we got a number of remixes and eventually more volunteers :) .
After the hands-on the various contribution verticals were explained to the attendees in which they can start their contributions.
Dipesh Monga then demonstrated how to use the App-maker and what can be done with it. Again the audience were awestruck with the simplicity and ease of development. And last but not the least this event would not be possible without the enthusiastic volunteers.

Finally we concluded the workshop by distributing few prizes for best makes and also collecting Ideas to fill our idea tanks.

So overall I think as a team we succeeded to deliver the Mozilla mission and hence can expect a lot of contributions from Udaipur.
Thanks to Techno NJR, Udaipur and wonderful and beautiful volunteers.

MozGarh - Mozilla At Nargarh :)

hello everyone,
                        Well this was one of the most unexpected #makerparty(event link) of all time, i know iam too late to post about this event but better late then never.
In this blogpost i will be sharing my amazing trip to the NaharGarh Fort,Jaipur(wiki link ) which took place on 20th July,2014. The meetup actually started at saras parlour where we discussed about the upcoming agenda of MCR and about the Club reporting system, but as the time passed by we all decided to take a trip to the beautiful fort and continue our maker-party at NaharGarh. The event was attended by Osho Parth , Trishul Goel , Tushar Arora, Adit Bharadwaj and Santosh Mangal. 

The road trip pictures to Nahargarh. 

As we all reached the fort we explored the beauty of the fort, the ancient walls explained the glory of India.  We all chose a silent spot where the strong winds made our day. We discussed some of the webmaker tools and how we can use them in our future workshops to increases productivity and get even better results.

Discussing the Tools

At the end we just took a selfie and ended the awesome trip with a note that "no matter where you go or where u stay you can always explore the options and achieve your goals."

Some More pictures from the trip :) :

The selfie time :) 

“DOING GOOD IS A PART OF OUR CODE”

MInicamp jaipur :)

Now this was the biggest and one of its kind event organized by MCR, and obviously the expectations were quite high. And after the event concluded we know the bar has been raised.

The event kick started with the memento signing by all the attendees. With a single sign everybody engraved their love for Mozilla on a single chart paper. Now the challenge was to bring people from different colleges, regions on a common platform and for this idea given by Vineel worked like a charm. All we needed to do was to call random two people from group and ask them to meet as a long lost friend : simple and Effective. This helped us to create a friendly and open environment.

Then Vineel (Mozilla India Community Liaison ) briefed everyone about what is Mozilla and Mozilla Mission. Vineel also explained what exactly is Firefox OS and what are the future plans to compete in the market.
This time we(Osho, Trishul) kept our self confined to organizers roles and gave the session responsibilities to Adit, Tushar and Lavish. Very first time we tried concept of parallel sessions. We arranged two parallel sessions of webmaker tools (a bit for non-coders) and also App-dev(a bit for web-coders). To help the attendees to choose the right session as per their interest, we the session leads briefed a bit about their session before hand.

Now when the sessions started Lavish, Adit, Tushar completely rocked. As single soldier can not win the war alone. These fellows were well assisted by Chandan Baba, Anju Chandel, Gautam Sharma, Raj Rohit, Dipesh Monga, Talha Anwar. And as a team, we were able infuse the charm and able to deliver the knowledge.








And hats off to the attendees, we have organized a number of workshops in various parts of Rajasthan in span of an year, but I can proudly say we had the best set of attendees in this Minicamp, enthusiastic, quick-learner and most important willing to take an extra leap to cross the bar.


After these session, was the turn of Ice Breaker Session “Ali Baba 40 thieves” and this was the point where we came to know what our community exactly is. Every body busted the floor with awesome dance moves, Chandan Baba being the Best :P .

After that Raj Suthar explained various contribution verticals in which one can contribute to Mozilla. The idea was delivered that anyone can contribute to Mozilla by as simple as even Tweeting.
Trishul then explained a bit about mozilla code base, Bugzilla and a bit Geeky part.  We started each session with collecting ideas and pasting it over idea tanks.


The idea for this event was to keep hands-on approach for every thing and in complete event we stuck to this approach. Attendees made various makes live at the event, also we submitted a firefox app right in the event.

Now finished from the organizers side, we called up the attendees and one by one they spoke about what they felt about the event and what they were able to achieve.

Moving towards the conclusion the final part was a surprise PRIZES, we awarded prizes to the best performer from each event. And last but not the least a big thanks to some really creative people who engraved their creativity on charts and we were totally awe-struck.

And Finally the MCR touch -> a round of FOXY pics and number of awesome memories to cherish.

JNU WebDay

This was a event hosted by one of our most enthusiastic  contributors Shahbaz Alam and was the first event hosted by him thus had a special value for each one of us.
Event was hosted at Saras parlor and had many contributors from Jaipur National University .

Event was initiated by none other than the host himself Mr.Shahbaz Alam who explained everyone about the What Mozilla is all about and requested everyone to introduce them self in few words along with the  description of the open-source idea in their vision.

I explained about what open source is and what mozilla is? and told us about the ways of contribution to mozilla.

A brief description of Webmaker was given and App-dev session started.

Participants were very much excited to learn about app development.

manifest files were given to students and hands on started.

 

Followed by a hands on session in which we created multiple webmaker makes and multiple application ideas were suggested by the fellow contributors and then came our first app for the day.  which was titled as Make me smile developed by hitesh 
    

Finally event summed up with the group picture.

At the end of session we had some awesome contributors who have the will and wisdom to carry ahead the spirit of the open-source .

Simple solution for common problem for Linux users ... when you install windows after installing Linux and need to recover grub..

Simple solution for most common problem for Linux users ... when you install windows after installing Linux and need to recover grub..

Need a live DVD. Use the Ubuntu distro from ver 10.04 and above, Kali live, Debian Wheezy live, or any live debian-based distro. Use according to the architecture you installed, either 32bit or 64bit.

Then boot with it and once in the system, open up a terminal and do this:

1.# fdisk -l (search for the partition where you installed kali: /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc)
2.# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt (Mount the kali partition)
3.# mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev (You will need to mount the /dev directory into mnt)
4.# chroot /mnt (change the root to the mounted partition to be able to run the command from the mounted partition)
5.# grub-install --recheck /dev/sda (install grub in the HDD sda, not sda1, sda2, etc.., just sda.

Now, please issue these 2 commands, if they fail, do not worry, you will have to do it after reboot.. This will make win7 show up in the grub menu.
# os-prober (looks for partitions in the HDD and register them in the os-prober file.
# update-grub (Takes some templates, including the os-prober file and writes them in the menu)

That is all, once done, reboot..You should see the grub menu. If you do not see the win7 in the menu, don't worry, just enter kali, open up a terminal and run the 2 commands I posted above:
#os-prober (looks for partitions in the HDD and register them in the os-prober file.
#update-grub (Takes some templates, including the os-prober file and writes them in the menu)

Reboot again, you should see the kali and win7 in the menu.

Mozilla User Research Program - Community Dinner

During the User research program held at Jaipur the volunteers stayed for two days due the schedule mismatches i got the chance to meet the MUR Team at the community dinner eve and had a great time with them and it was one of the most memorable moments . The Community Dinner was held at the Forresta kitchen Restaurant  was one the most memorable  dinner i have ever had. All the community members were present and joined by all the User Research team members and we enjoyed a lot with great food. At my table i was joined by Peiying Mo, Elizabeth Hunt and Adit Bharadwaj. We had the ordered traditional Rajasthani food, with Some spicy dish( which by the way had after chilly effect), some mixed Veg dish at hands and the specially  'Lassi' which gave a sweet ending. At the dinner we had some awesome talks about the growing of the open source world and  also discussed the working atmosphere at the home office in California . And at the end "The Paan" which gave a twisted ending to the dinner for everyone over there. it was awesome, some of the pictures of the community dinner below: