Your Browser in Your Language!

The rate of innovation on the web is incredible. Mozilla has been at the forefront of this innovation and has been doing so in an open, participatory manner. Firefox is designed for standard compliance, performance, and portability. Mozilla Localization Project, abbreviated as MLP, tries to help and ease the availability of mozilla.org products toward different world cultures and languages through the support of the open source community.

Localized to over 80 locales, Firefox is available in the native language to over 97% of the worldwide Internet population! But how exactly does Mozilla succeed in having impact and how does its
volunteer driven culture complete the picture?

Living inside the Open Source community of mozilla.org, MLP couldn't be anything else than volunteers driven. If you think one of these products should be available in your language and that helps a large group of people how they experience the web, you're probably the best person to make it happen. Or the right person to help direct the people already working on this task.

You can start following the steps described in "How to localize Mozilla" to get in touch with our community. The document focuses on Mozilla based products, containing the basic steps to start a new localization project and how to let us know you're working on it.

I am honoured to be among those who were invited to amazing Mozilla Summit'10, due to my involvement with the Student Reps program and as a Community member. Awesomely it was during my internship at Mozilla! It was a situation of double joy for me :)

Mozilla Summit was an experience of personal, technical, creative and inspiring all at once. There were around 600 Mozillians: hackers, localizers, testers, marketers, and the individuals formerly known as 'users' like me. Mozilla Summit Science Fair, where representatives from over forty countries in attendance showcased their local communities and cultures.

Imagine, how great it would be to capture the essence of this diverse community and their cultures that are what Mozilla is. I discussed the idea with Mary Colvig, my mentor and the team  just a couple of days before the summit and this turned out to be one of my projects during the internship! We had less time to actually shoot the video person by person as most of the schedules were fixed and people were moving for participating at various sessions. The representatives at the fair were unaware of that we will be visiting them to make a video shoot. It was random and we tried to cover as much as we can. It was amazing to talk to each community member.

Many thanks to Mary Colvig for encouraging the idea & Rainer Cvillink, the media person for his patience in time to shoot, edit and give a beautiful outcome of the video. 

And finally, 

The video 'Your Browser in Your Language', was published in the Mozilla Annual Report!

Firefox Cup

As a User Engagement intern at Mozilla,  i got to work on Firefox Cup as one of my summer projects! 

The world’s largest football tournament started this week with plenty of opportunity to celebrate. And it is Fantastic to involve with something related. Ever worn a team jersey, painted team colors on your face in support or waved a flag from your car after a victory? There is another way to express your team spirit, and it doesn’t involve paint or fabric – just your Firefox Web browser!

As one of my first project at Mozilla i got to involve with Firefox Cup, which is Amazing! Firefox is the most customizable browser in the world. With Firefox Cup Personas (easy-to-use backgrounds that let you personalize the look of Firefox) you can customize your browser and show your team spirit.

Being in front of your computer doesn’t mean you have to miss out on all the action, you can participate with the Firefox Cup . By wearing one of these 32 Personas to support your team, you’ll take part in the global Firefox Cup competition. On the Firefox Cup website, you can easily see how many “fans” each team has (i.e., how many people are wearing each team Persona on their Firefox). The team with the most fans will win the Firefox Cup!
We’ll announce round winners on the following dates:

• June 16th: Round 1

While Mexico and Germany are competing closely, At the start of Firefox cup Argentina was leading its way followed by strong competitor- Brazil. And interestingly Brazil scored highest now, with considerable fan gain in no time!!

• June 23rd: Round 2
• June 30th: Round 3
• July 7th: Round 4
• July 14th: Overall country winner announced!

You can also stay on top of scores and news within your Firefox browser with the FootieFox add-on. No matter where you are in the world or your time zone, you can catch all the action and support your team with the Firefox Cup!
The winning country will be showcased on Mozilla’s sites and more, so be sure to cast your vote by wearing your favorite country’s Persona today.
For more information, see:

• Firefox Cup
• Personas
• FootieFox

To keep up the spirit you can use the Firefox Cup display picture and Twitter background image: http://mzl.la/9sne2u
Please "Like" and "Comment" in Mozilla Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/Firefox
For all related tweets please use #fxcup :)

Also i got to involved with Firefox Cup PR Outreach, packing and sending media tool kits to various publications via FedEx..which was fun. For the first time i got to be part of the website launch- www.firefoxcup.com I am amazed by the power of social media, getting to know more of it. So much of excitement catching up.. working with awesome Creative people for the Firefox Cup!

New York Times, Mozilla and ME

1,000,000,000+You Walk-about at Charminar.

http://onebillionplusyou.com/

Mozilla Community meet @ Ameerpet

Date: 19th july 3.0pm,ameerpet,A.P. INDIA

We started with  discussing each others favorite features of Firefox,

*Cbrao said that he is unable to open multiple Gmail accounts at the same time in Firefox, where as he can do so in IE8, using the 'Start a new session' feature. Veeven told him that he can use multiple profiles. (But, afterwards by Googling, he said found Gmail Manager.)

*veeven talked about the awsomebar and recent improvements like restricting the matches to bookmarks (*) and to tagged (+), etc.

* Manish enquired about a way to install/uninstall add-ons without restaring Firefox. Veeven told him that the Jetpacks can meet that requirement.

*Me & Sireesh proposed to start a community website for Firefox users in Andhra Pradesh. Manish suggested it would be better we conduct meetups about all free software's.

A gathering about Firefox without talking on Add-ons? Never.  We spoke about our favorite add-ons.

here are few:

* Aardvark: you can use it to clean up (remove ads, or other things on the that you do not need on) a web page before printing

* Tree Style Tab: organizes tabs in a tree structure. If you open multiple tabs by clicking on links on a page, all those tabs become children of the tab that you opened them from

* S3 Firefox Organizer: Helps you manage your files on Amazon S3

* FlashGot: use your external download manager in place of Firefox's

* Zotero: helps you manage your research sources

* Weave: a service from Mozilla. Sync your bookmarks, browsing history, and saved passwords.

* Indic Input Extension: type in Indian languages

* Window Resizer: resize your browser window to standard resolution sizes

* Firebug: debugging tool for HTML, CSS and JavaScirpt

* FoxyProxy: Use multiple internet connections? Make your life easy.

* FoxClocks: Have current time of multiple locations on your status bar or toolbar.

* DownThemAll: a download manager cum accelerator for your Firefox

* Cooliris: browse photos and videos on the web or on your computer

* Padma: read Indian language local newspapers in Unicode

link to gallery : http://picasaweb.google.com/pindivineelreddy/LaunchPartyCommunityMeetAmeerpet#

Firefox 3.5 Mega launch Party @ Hyderabad-Super Success & super fun !!!

Mega 3.5 Launch Event/Party :

Where ?
A.I.T.U.C Auditorium,Hyderabad.

When?
July 11th

How ?

* Panel Members and guests.
* Technical Supporters -Bhuvan Krishna, FSF,India( www.Swecha.org) ;Srikanth P- change Manager,Infosys.
* Media Partners - The HINDU,93.5 SFM radio,Vidyouth,Saakshi news.
* Chief Guest : Dr.Sudhakar garu,AIPSO general secretary.
* Target Audience-all Mozilla Firefox and Open source Developers,enthusiasts,Activists.

Campaigning and messaging that are used :

* http://www.meetup.com/cities/in/hyderabad/groups/
* http://upcoming.yahoo.com/search/?type=events&rt=1&rollup=&...
* Backdrop/Banners
* Brochure
* Posters and Sign boards

Firefox Promotional Activity and contests :

* Swag distribution -Stickers,wrist bands,Party caps,Batches etc
* Flaunt your Tattoo contest
* Video testimonials
* Live Browsing and experience of new Firefox 3.5 features (Wi-fi computer zone)

How do we Measure the success as ??

* Surveys and Response from the participants and attendees
* Video Coverage,Photos.
* Blogging ,Publishing an article,Video testimonials.

The complete event details we posted at spreadfirefox.com : http://www.spreadfirefox.com/campusreps/success0910#comment-9147

There are news articles published relating to the event :

1)The HINDU,National newspaper main edition,3rd page
http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/12/stories/2009071259040300.htm

2)Saakshi regional newspaper,july 12th local edition ( please look for the attachment)

3)Vidyouth, weekly magazine : http://www.vidyouth.com/2009/07/12/welcome-to-a-foxier-net/

We also did One more event held on 19th july( http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/4408 ) !!!
here is the link to photo gallery : http://picasaweb.google.com/pindivineelreddy/LaunchPartyCommunityMeetAmeerpet#

The fastest, safest and all new Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is now here...!!!

Spotlight Success party @ My home.:D

I was featured as the 'community spotlight' in the homepage of Spread Firefox for all my contributions as a Student rep / volunteer for Mozilla!
Also i was the First community member to be featured on that NEW SFX website :)

Party Time...!!!!!

A New look Everytime...with just a click !!