FSA Bootcamp India

It sounds Interesting right, ya it is the first event conducted only for Firefox Student Ambassadors. On Feb 14, yes on Valentine’s day FSA task force of India invited around 50 Firefox Student Ambassadors to Mozilla Space at Bangalore. These 50 students has been invited after selection based on their Previous contributions to Mozilla projects.

Firefox Student Ambassadors is one of the biggest and active ambassador programs in India. As I write, we have 28790 registered students globally with 16700 students from India.

The event started around 10.00 AM on Saturday. First we had introduction about Firefox Hello. Arcadio Lainez, Product Marketing Manager gave us a live demo of Firefox Hello explaining in brief all the features and future plans for Hello. It is one of the awesome feature introduced in Firefox 35.0, it is used for Real time Video conversation with our friends. Interesting video about Firefox hello is available in Youtube.

Then we had video chat with TJ, Community Manager for FSA. She was giving more insights about Firefox Program and what are the upcoming interesting things. Being FSA is not only Marketing products, it is about learning more about Open source Contribution.

We you too @CupofTJ 😊 http://t.co/YT2GmBU0c7—
MozSpace Bangalore (@MozSpaceBLR) February 14, 2015

There were lot of things to discuss in this meetup, and some of FSA are not aware of others. So after a small break FSA have been divided into 4 groups, and in each group 1 Mozilla Rep or 1 FSA E-board members were there. We were discussing how everyone started contributing and we introduced about us also.

Galaxy gave a brief introduction about the program and various way to get involved. Then Biraj was explaining a lot about new recognition system and various badges that are being introduced very shortly. Then We had awesome session given by Gauthamraj like how he started to contribute to Mozilla as a student, what was his mission and so on.

Without our RAL’s help the event might have not finished well. They are awesome people (Santosh Viswanatham, Bala Subramaniyan). And we had our Vineel Reddy who helped us to learn more about Mozilla.

Santosh helped FSA’s to know more about Firefox OS app development. It was very interesting. I was helping him during demo session, and told taught how Marketplace team will review each and every app, and guidelines for submitting a good app. Another app reviewer Trishul goel who is responsible for taking care of Tarako apps queue joined us.