One Year of Mozilla Community Space Bangalore

Introduction:

This post highlights the happenings at Mozilla Space Bangalore from 2014 to 2015. These happenings sheds light on the efforts the community has put up to build an active Mozilla community to contribute perpetually. The aim was to empower new contributors to choose their path of contribution and to create a significant impact through various projects of Mozilla. To achieve this, we created various opportunities for local Mozillians to participate and contribute to the project.

Open Practices:  

As our Mozilla Mission emphasizes on openness of the web, we followed open practices to build the community around the Mozilla space.

Our practices are inclusive of Strategic initiatives, Impact filled events, local campaigns, transparent documentation and communication. Enabling Open Communities and Progressive measures of various projects in terms of their quality and quantity.

Partnerships:

Mozilla Space Bangalore has engaged with various Open communities aiming at promoting Mozilla mission further:

• Bachao project
• Wikimedia women
• Design Evenings
• Bangalore IoT & Makerspace Community
• CoderDojo
• 3D printing & hardware
• Hive Bangalore
• Funstore

Impact:

Representing Mozilla India Community, Bangalore space has been the hub of activity for most of the key Mozilla Meetings and Events. Particularly over the last one year we have engaged more than 2400 people in 80 Events covering the domains predominantly L10n, Webmaker, Location Services, Community Building, Women Empowerment, Cloud Services, Dev, FirefoxOS, & Hive Network.

Apart from the local community activities, several Mozilla Staff has visited Bangalore space to participate in various high-level Community building activities including:

• Firefox OS Intensive workshop
• Community Space & Community Health meetup
• L10n meetup
• Dietrich work trip to Bangalore

Reach:  

The activity of Bangalore Mozilla Community has been consistent over the past 1 year. Mozilla Space Bangalore has played a significant role in spreading Mozilla mission and empower local contributors.

Mozilla Space Bangalore has hosted more than 80+ events in around its one year of functioning.

Apart from the physical activity the community is active online through blog and Social Media

• Website: http://mozillabangalore.github.io/blog/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mozillabangalore | 951 Likes
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/MozSpaceBLR | 192 Followers with 1900 impressions per month
• Google+: http://bit.ly/1csuJQR | 49 followers & 4978 views
• Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/mozillabangalore/

Mozilla community space Bangalore has been a collective effort from the community. We’d like to specially thank Vineel R. Pindi, Kaustav Das, Priyanka Nag, Ankit Gadgil, Soumya Deb, Sayak Sarkar, Abhiram Ravikumar, Jafar Mohammed and Gauthamraj Elango for their efforts in building the community.

This wouldn’t have been possible without the support from William Quiviger, Rosana Ardila, and Michelle Thorne.

Thrilled to see what we could do in 2016!

Tracking:
Mozilla Community Space Bangalore Blog: http://mozillabangalore.github.io/blog/

List of Events:

2014

• 05th Jun – Design Evenings
• 19th Jun  – Bangalore Design Evenings
• 25th July – MozCoffee Bangalore v8.0 
• 2nd August – Maker Party Bangalore – 2014
• 7th August – Bangalore Design Evenings
• 21st August – Bangalore Design Evenings
• 23rd August – Make Hardware
• August – September – Maker Party Bangalore – 2014 
• 23r-24th  August – MozBoot India
• 14th October MozCoffee Bangalore v9.0
• 18th October FirefoxOSBus Pitstop
• 14th OCT   MozCoffee Bangalore v9.0 
• 6th November MozCoffee Bangalore v10.0
• 15th November Firefox OS Intensive Workshop – Bangalore
• 29th November Scrollback Ambassadors Meetup
• Nov – #‎Fx10‬ ‪#‎ChooseIndependent‬
• 15th-16th Nov – Firefox OS Intensive Workshop – Bangalore 
• 8th December – Hour of Code
• 11th December – UnBox Festival Planning
• 20th December – CoderDojo Bangalore v1 
• 21st December – MozCoffee Bangalore v11.0
• 23rd December – FSA Bootcamp Planning
• 27th December – Install Fest 
• Dec – Hour of Code 
• Dec- UnBox Festival Planning 
• Dec – CoderDojo Bangalore v1 
• Dec – MozCoffee Bangalore v11.0 
• Dec – FSA Bootcamp Planning 

 
2015

• 6th January – FSA Exec Board Meeting
• 10th January  – CoderDojo/Webmaker Event Palnning
• 20th Jan – January FSA Office Hour
• 24th Jan – Make Day
• 2nd Feb –  Mozilla L10N Hackathon
• 3rd February –  MozCoffee Bangalore v12.0 – L10
• 7th Feb – FirefoxOS & The Bachchao Project Hack Day
• 14th Feb – FSA Bootcamp India
• 18 Feb  – Hive Bangalore Leadership Team Meeting
• 19 Feb –  Hive Global Community Call
• 22 Feb –  Volunteer Training
• 23rd Feb –  FSA Exec Board Meeting
• 26 Feb  –  Firefox OS for everyone
• 28 Feb –  Firefox OS for everyone
• 1st March  – Mozilla Cloud Services
• 8th March  –  Build your own Firefox!
• 11th March – Weekly FSA Meetup 
• 15th March – Working with BMO [ v 0.1]
• 16th March – Firefox Hello Days!
• 21st March – CoderDojo Bangalore
• 24th March – Webmaker Club Testing
• 24th March – FSA Exec Board Meeting
• 26th March Creative Team Meetup Planning
• 26th March Hive Bangalore Planning Meet
• 28th March Creative & Social Media Task Force Meetup
• 7th May – Q&A about Asia Community Engagement
• 8th May  – Mozilla India Task Force Meetup
• 16th May – DuckDuckGo Privacy Hackathon
• 16th May – Webmaking with Nannies
• 17th May – Mozilla India Task Force Follow-up Meet
• 18th May – FSA Exec Board Meeting
• 20th May – Webmaking with Nannies v2.0
• 23rd May – Rust 1.0 Release Party
• 26th May – Webmaking with Nannies v3.0
• 1st June – Firefox Spring Campaign Planning
• 4th June – Mozilla Science Global Sprint
• 5th July – Quack & Hack – Bangalore
• 8th July – CoderDojo v6.1
• 11th July – Tech Evangelism Workshop
• 19th July – FSA Regional Meetup India
• 25th July – Joomla Bangalore Meetup
• 15th August – Independence Day Celebration at Space

Please go through the website and blogs written by few our community members:

• Mozilla Community Space Bangalore Blog: http://mozillabangalore.github.io/blog/
• http://galaxyk.github.io/e/fsabootcampindia/
• http://kaustavdm.in/2015/02/firefox-os-for-everyone.html
• https://www.facebook.com/funstore.io/posts/1635124586761818

Tweets with pictures from the l10n hackathon:

• https://twitter.com/playingwithsid/status/562573236223758337
• https://twitter.com/playingwithsid/status/562164553174118401
• https://twitter.com/birajkarmakar/status/562119710926307330

Jeff’s blog from the l10N event: https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2015/03/11/localization-hackathons-in-india-and-sri-lanka/