Steps to get in Army of Awesome

Army of Awesome:-

Its a part of SUMO (Support Mozilla) ,,,in which u can tweet by your Twitter account & helping the User by solving their queries regarding Firefox problems like crashing, freezing etc.

My Experience :-    

Well, i have been contributing in AOA since a last Year..., i love to do Browsing in firefox, so almost i know how to fix various issues occurred, that's why i also glad to fix problems regarding firefox of users all around the world...., During Contributing the best feeling is when i getting  'Thanx' from user in response.... It simply means that my one Tweet saves a somebody's day....:)

And this is not the end, For being an active contributor since last year, i also rewarded by Mozilla with some Goodies. :)

Steps to Contribute in AOA:- 

1) Register as a Contributor... 

• Before Contributing,  First you have to Register as a contributor at mozilla site & you should also have a TWITTER ACCOUNT ...
• .Follow the link below:-https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/users/auth
  As shown in Image , here you have to Fill your details and click on the register button.
  
  

  

  After register successful, Go ahead to edit your Contributor Profile..

  
  

  2)  Go To 'Get Involved Page':-

  • On this page you can see diverse ways to contribute in Mozilla..... But now we are talking about 'Helping User'....Here u also can help Firefox User and also as well as Thunderbird Users.....Follow the link to get this page:- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/?icn=tabz 
     
    
    • Now Click on the link as shown in image....
    
    
     

    3) Choose the Army of Awesome link :- 

    Follow this Link :- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/get-involved
     
    

     

    4) Next Page :- 

    Follow the Link below:- 

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/get-involved/army-of-awesome

    

    5) Now AOA page comes at front of u :-

    Here's the same page as shown in screenshot below, where u can see button on "signin"

    
    

    
    

    

    Just Click on 'signin' button

    6) Now signin with ur Twitter account:-

    

    
    

    7) After signing in You will be redirected to the AOA portal:-

     

    

    
    

    Now you are Free to reply the tweets....Plz Keep in mind few things During Tweeting:-
    • Always use (#fxhelp) tag while tweeting, otherwise u will be Block by Twitter by posting Bulk/spam of tweets...
    • NOt Always use the Predefined Answers. Use ur wording while tweeting which is better more than predefined answers for the user...
    • Apart from AOA, keep tweeting in ur personal twitter account, which prevents u from suspension of ur account.......

    
    

Community Building in Punjab -- 8th December- 2013

          

Here’s the first time community building event organized in Punjab. A big thanx to Sujith Reddy (Organizer) & Komal Gandhi (Rep-attendee) to support us & took initiative to build a community in Punjab.

                Recently, We organized number of webmaker parties in colleges. In which we had been succeeded in spreading the awareness about Mozilla. But on the contrary part we think it’s also our duty now to get contributors for Mozilla.

                Then we all were thinking that what should we do to expand the ratio of mozillian in our region. Then sujith suggested us to build a community in our region (Punjab).

                            

                8^th  December :- That was the day on which there was first time in punjab a mozilla community was going to be build. Then we all gathered at food plaza restaurant, the venue in Fatehgarh sahib. At 11:00 am sharp we started the event with introduction of individually of all community members.

               

                Then sujith gave small task to all i.e to write your views on sticky notes regarding what you think/what do you mean by building a community in Punjab. We all completed this task with coffee & French fries.& were doing discussion on each other’s opinion about community building in Punjab.

                Then sujith took a long session in which he explained following things in detail:-

·         Prime Motive to build a community in Punjab.

·         Our roles in a community.

·         How to get involved in Mozilla

·         DOs & DON’Ts

 
   Then a quick session given by me in which I was telling about my experience as a contributor of SUMO & about the recent activities of Mozilla, what I (sajeev) & mohit had done now yet in our region, then after the brief introduction about Mozilla products & webmaker tools, we felt appetite.

   Then we proceed to having lunch , after then we continued the event again, then Sujith & Komal shared their experience of mozilla Summit & as well as we discussed some topics like Localization, WebFwd etc…

                And I personally hats off to Sujith, that the way he explained each & every thing very easily to all & sought out everybody’s query.

                At the end we had a Mozilla cake to celebrate to celebrate the community building in punjab.

Punjab community:- I’m glad to say that as of now we already have Regional Marketing Ambassadors & SUMO contributors in our community….its a good beginning J J

 

MozFest at Shri Guru Granth Sahib World University...7th Dcember-2013

Hii Mozillians,,
          

       At the end of first week of month December, we have two interesting & big events in Punjab province. On the 7^th Dec. there was Mozfest event at Shri Guru Granth Sahib World University. It was an event to spread the information about mozilla’s products & activities. The Prime motive of this event is to grab more people to get involved in Mozilla. Because after analysis we came to know as compare to other regions of india, in Punjab there are very less people who know about this biggest Open Source Community. So our agenda is to expand the network of Mozilla in Punjab and this event on 7^th December is all about it.

                 Rahul Bains as a marketing ambassador helped us so much in doing all arrangements… 

                So at 10:30 we started the event by Sujith reddy & Komal Gandhi. For the event we have m-tech & MCA students which is good sign for us.

  *  Then Sujith handling the stage very smartly, as Punjab is a new place for him, so he checked the audience behaviour & their knowledge that what they already know about Mozilla & Open source products. On basis of response from students, he proceeded with the introduction of Mozilla & its products. He explained the way very easily that how to get involved in Mozilla & also gave live demo to contribute in SUMO. Then he moved to Firefox O.S introduction.

                * After his impressive session Komal handled the stage with introducing WoMoz among students. She emphasized on women power in Mozilla. She also gave such examples like Mitchel Baker, which motivates feminine audience to take step to be a part of mozilla & doing contributions for Mozilla.

                And at last, It had been a great event & we also got number of good tech geeks for the community building event on next day….

Comunity Building In Bread-Basket of India (Punjab)

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So here's the hailing news coming at the end of this year.Finally Mozilla community in punjab province going to be constructed on 8 December ...so my all Punjabi's Participant :) tight ur shoes & mark that day in ur calender........... 

Event Scheduled By:-
Sujith Reddy - Moz rep (Organizer)

Event Portal :-
https://reps.mozilla.org/e/community-building-at-punjab/

List of Participants joining the event....

1.Ashish Jalota (Mozillian) - Marketing

2.Sajeev soni (FSA) - Army of Awesome, Forum Support, Web Development

3.Mohit Kumar Kakkar (Mozillian) - Marketing

4.Ashim KC

5.Sandeep Jindal

6.Abhishek Thakur

7.Bipin Karki

8.Abhishek

9.Amritpal Singh

10.Rahul Bains

11.Ashish

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Expectations :-

• We expect your support in order to promote Mozilla and its Products
• We all are professional here and can do a better job in terms of development, support, web applications, marketing etc.
• We love to Contribute for this biggest Open Source Organization (mozilla) &  will try hard to expand the network of awesome contributers for mozilla. 
• We want to improve our technical skills, specially about mozilla products and let the people aware of such things.
• We can surely expect during this event we can learn lot of valuable things from awesome Moz Reps..:) I personally think it'll be a great time for us to spend with them,  

MOZZONE Hack-Jam on 21st Sept....

Hello all,
        So, finally MOZZONE Hack-Jam Party in Desh Bhagat Engineering College completed with great success on 21st sept. we decided to organize a webmaker party in college from 2pm to 4pm, It was a massive experience for us, we (Sajeev,Mohit & Ashish) & students all were excited due to this event.

 

Agenda:-

• Introduce webmaker tools to students.
• How to Contribute & get involved with mozilla.
• Awareness of some "Hacking Tricks" through mozilla firefox.

The basic agenda is to aware students about webmaking tools by mozilla.& so that people would get a chance to work with the world's largest open source community Mozilla.We were surprised by the Overwhelming Response from the Students and their interest for Open Source.

We divided this Hack-Jam into three sessions.

              1st Session

i) Introduction to Mozilla
ii) Mozilla's Mission
iii) Products of Mozilla
 1. Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
 2. Mozilla Firefox for Mobile
 3. BugZilla
 4. Thunderbird
 5. Firefox OS
 6. Webmaker
 7. MarkketPlace

2nd Session                 

              Introducing Webmaker tools

•  X-Ray Goggles 
• Thimble 
• Popcorn Maker    

                                   3rd Session
In this session we get into the Internet lab of the College, & to give some tiny tasks to do for experimentation with webmaker tools........Then we give some hacking tricks to students, this session took 40 mints, this whole session was pretty interactive and we put up random questions in the audience....After that we moved to the quiz contest, In which we set some questions related to mozilla & its Products , we got some good tech geeks people in this party, who gave answers of mozilla quiz contest.....In the end of the party, we distribute webmaker T-shirts to students from the mozilla webmaker swag.....& also we distribute swag stickers among students.....

Then we had some group pics, with lot of smiling faces.......

                          

 

 Organized By:

Ashish Jalota (Mozillian)

Mohit Kakkar (Mozillian)

Sajeev soni (FSA) 

"MOZZONE--Hack Jam" Webmaker Party at Desh Bhagat Engg. College on 21-Sept,2013

We are organizing this event in College. So basic theme is about the "Webmaker Tools". we have divide this event in three sessions,

1st session---> Introduction about Mozila, Mozilla Products...
2nd session--> Introducing Webmaker Tools in detail, teach them practically that how to use    these tools & hacking tricks...
3rd session--> Make some groups of students & give Tasks to each group basis on webmaker tools...

We are Three Friends who organizing this event. 

Ashish Jalota :-> https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/ashishjalota6285/
Mohit Kakkar :-> https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/er.mohitkumar2011/
Sajeev soni :-> https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/sajeev_soni/

 For registration follow this Link:-

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1q09b-csuxIeqAIpHkSjh7i4knSwdE5brvQnXxDZyRhI/viewform

Soon, Mozilla Firefox in Tamil

In a development that brings out the online convergence of love for Tamil and passion for free software, Mozilla Firefox – a free, open-source web browser, considered one of the most secure – will soon be available in Tamil.

A group of over 10 volunteers who have been translating the browser menu and other settings into Tamil, for over a year now, have confirmed the browser can be downloaded from the Mozilla website after Tuesday.

In the Tamil Mozilla, the options are kopu for ‘file’, viruppangal for ‘preferences’, and nagal yedu for ‘copy’, among others. 

The Firefox browser has been translated into around 120 other languages, including some Indian ones. But the Tamil browser boasts of a near-complete translation of all the terms.

“The other browsers that can be downloaded from the Mozilla site are a mix of English and the regional language. Our focus in Tamil Translation was to find the easiest possible translation for every English word on the browser, in Tamil," said Arun Prakash, an engineering graduate associated with the Mozilla Tamil Translation team, a group of volunteers who are enthusiastic about Tamil and computing, which initiated and finished the entire translation.

“There is no need for a Tamil keyboard, as the keyboard shortcuts will be the same. Settings, history, tools or download instructions will be in Tamil, and the browser will lead you to the Tamil version of the website you are looking for, if one exists," Arun said.

The volunteers were given a glossary of most frequently-used words to aid their translation work, after which every change was peer-reviewed.

Mozilla, whose development depends on the contributions made by volunteers across the world, releases a new version every 3-4 weeks.

But the volunteers said they would just need to make changes to the new fields as the old translations would remain intact. 

The Tamil Mozilla project is just a starter, and the efforts of the translation committee can be put to bigger projects such as in video/audio playing applications and projects websites, Arun said.

Keywords: Mozilla firefox, Tamil language, Tamil free software, open-source web browser

Telefonica Announces Launches of First Firefox OS Devices in Latin America

ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fire and ZTE Open Firefox OS smartphones go on sale through Movistar in Colombia and Venezuela Today

Today, Telefonica announced that the ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fire and ZTE Open devices will go on sale in Colombia and Venezuela. Both devices are now available through Movistar stores and sales channels. Telefonica also announced that Firefox OS devices will launch in Brazil in Q4.

Firefox OS marks a significant milestone for the Web, enabling for the first time devices to be manufactured to totally open Web standards. These launches come just one month after the launch of the first Firefox OS smartphones in Spain, with Poland shortly after.

“Firefox OS powers the first smartphones built entirely on Web technologies and will stimulate an inspiring new wave of innovation for the Web,” says Jay Sullivan, Mozilla Chief Operating Officer. “We are proud to work with partners like Telefonica which see the potential to deliver an experience for first time smartphone users which will delight them and really put the power of the Web in everyone’s hands.”

Commenting on the launches, Yotam Ben-Ami, Director of Open Web Devices at Telefónica Digital said, “There is strong momentum building behind Firefox OS as we bring more devices to more of our markets. But this is just the beginning as the platform, content ecosystem and range of devices continues to expand. There is an inherent imbalance in the smartphone market at the moment and we believe that Firefox OS represents the best opportunity to restore balance and provide a more open smartphone experience to customers.”

Firefox for Android Makes Mobile Browsing Faster & Easier

Firefox for Android makes it easy to get to your favorite sites with a personalized page that we call the Awesome Screen. Firefox for Android includes a new and improved  Awesome Screen to help get you to where you want to go on the Web quickly.

The Awesome Screen now completes your URL destination as-you-type to get you to your favorite sites faster. Firefox for Android includes Switch to Tab that lets you easily find and switch to any open tab from your Awesome Screen without opening duplicate tabs. The title bar in Firefox for Android hides while not in use to make your entire screen available for your content. Simply pull down the title bar from the top of the screen when you are ready to use it again.
Have a favorite search provider? Firefox for Android lets you change your default search provider from the Firefox add-ons manager. It is really easy to make this change in a few clicks. Simply, visit the Add-ons manager, and long-tap on an installed search engine. This brings up a dialog where you can either “Disable” the search engine, or “Set as Default.”
Firefox for Android includes an updated RSS feed reader to create a simple way to subscribe to an RSS feed. If you go to any page with a discoverable RSS feed and long-tap on the URL bar, you will be given the option to “Subscribe to Page.”
Mozilla works with a global volunteer community to create Firefox and almost every non-English version of Firefox is localized by community volunteers. Firefox for Android adds support for Turkish and Hungarian locales bringing an amazing Web experience to even more people around the globe.

Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open sells out on Ebay

• One of the first Firefox OS phones, the ZTE Open, took the unusual route of going up on sale on еБay. It was available in the US for $80 and in the UK for £60. Was because supplies have just run out.
• Mozilla has partnered with Telefonica and the Open is available through the carrier in several countries (Spain, Venezuela and Colombia), the eBay phones were sold directly to customers.
• eBay UK is reporting 990 Open phones sold and eBay US says 985. There won't be any more units available until the next production run, but it's not clear when that will happen.
• Note that the ZTE Open is still available through Telefonica-owned Movistar in Spain (for €70 including VAT) if you really wanted to buy one but missed the eBay sale.
• There are other Firefox OS-powered phones too, Geeksphone Peak+ and the Alcatel One Touch Fire