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Firefox Test Sprint Dhaka 2018

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৩ বছর পেরিয়ে মজিলা কিউএ বাংলাদেশ কমিউনিটি এখন প্রায় ২০০+ কন্ট্রিবিউটরের একটি কমিউনিটি। বিগত ৩ বছর সফলতার সাথে আমাদের এই কমিউনিটি মজিলার বিভিন্ন প্রোডাক্ট ও সেবার গুনগত মান উন্নয়নের জন্য বিভিন্ন লোকাল ও গ্লোবাল Test Day, Bug Triage day এবং Bug Verification Day হোস্ট করে আসছে।

তিন বছর পূর্তিতে আমরা আয়োজন করছি “Firefox Test Sprint, Dhaka”। এটি একটি দুই-দিন ব্যাপী কর্মশালা যেখানে কন্ট্রিবিউটরদের দক্ষতা বৃদ্ধির জন্য প্রশিক্ষণ দেয়া হবে। এই কর্মশালায় কীভাবে আরো ভালোভাবে মজিলার বিভিন্ন প্রোডাক্ট ও ফিচার এর গুনগত মান উন্নয়নে কাজ করতে হয়, তা দেখানো হবে।

Photo Credit: Rezaul Huque Nayeem

ইভেন্ট ভেন্যুঃ Independent University, Bangladesh
সময়ঃ 5th & 6th October (9.30 A.M – 5.30P.M)

গেরভাসে মর্খহম

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আপনারা অনেকেই হয়তো জানেন যে, দীর্ঘদিন কান্সারের সাথে যুদ্ধ করে গত মাসের ২৭ তারিখে আমাদের মজিলা কমিউনিটির প্রিয়মুখ গেরভাসে মর্খহম মারা গিয়েছেন।

গারভ মজিলা কমিউনিটির শুরুর দিকের একজন মেম্বার এবং মজিলার অনেক পজিশনে বিভিন্ন কাজে তার অবদান আছে। বাংলাদেশ মজিলা কমিউনিটির অনেকেই গারভ এর সাথে কাজ করেছেন। গারভের সাথে আমার প্রথম দেখা ২০১১ সালের অক্টোবরে, বনানীর বুমারস এ, সাথে ছিল রাহিদ ও এনজাম। রাহিদও আমাদের ছেড়ে চলে গিয়েছেন।

গারভ অনেক বিষয়ে বিভিন্ন সময়ে আমাকে এবং বাংলাদেশ কমিউনিটির সাহায্য করেছেন, এজন্য তাকে আন্তরিকভাবে স্মরন করছি। মিচেল বেকার গারভকে নিয়ে একটি ব্লগ পোস্ট লিখেছেন, সময় পেলে পড়ে দেখতে পারেন।

RIP Giuliano Masseroni

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Photo Credit: Francesco Lodolo

(English below) Oggi è un giorno triste per la comunità di Mozilla, italiana ma non solo. Abbiamo appena appreso che Giuliano Masseroni, aka jooliaan, ci ha lasciati la scorsa notte.

jooliaan, pur non essendo più attivo da qualche anno, è stato un elemento fondamentale per la crescita della comunità italiana e la nascita dell’associazione Mozilla Italia, come Vice Presidente, Presidente, e amministratore del forum di supporto. Se state leggendo questa pagina, lo dovete anche al suo lavoro.

Ci uniamo al dolore dei famigliari e degli amici nel ricordo di una persona, un amico, che ha dato un contribuito fondamentale alla storia dell’Open Source in Italia e alle nostre vite.

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Today is a sad day for Mozilla, not just for the Italian Mozilla community but for the Community as a whole. We just learned that Giuliano Masseroni, aka jooliaan, passed away last night.

jooliaan, even if he hasn’t been active for a few years, had a crucial role in the growth of the Italian community and the creation of the legal association Mozilla Italia, as Vice President, President, and administrator of the local support forum. If you’re reading this page, it’s also thanks to his work.

Today we’re sharing in the pain of his family and friends, remembering a person, a friend, who’s given a fundamental contribution to the history of the Open Source in Italy, and to our own lives.

ITTW Conference 2013 Fall

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This seminar is being organized to gather high school and college students together, and promote involvement in the IT industry among them.

Seminar Topic: Career counseling, motivating students to work with the technology industry, provide a platform to both students and IT professionals to interact.
Venue: Auditorium, International School Dhaka, Bashundhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

A small seven member Mozilla Bangladesh team attended the three hour conference.

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We meet some celebrities like Nash Islam (CEO at G&R), Riyad Husain (CEO at Magnito Digital), Kazi Monirul Kabir (Country Consultant Bangladesh at Google), Fahim Mashroor (Founder and CEO at bdjobs.com) and so on. During the conference they share their sweet and sour experience, which was interesting and very inspiring. They talk about honesty, self judgment, creative ideas, how to mana ge time and most importantly entrepreneurship.

After the conference i talk with some of the speakers about Mozilla Bangladesh community and possible future coordination. We share our views and facts. The other Mozillians also talk with them about different topics. I display our “KEON” device, describe features and spread Mozilla by distributing WebFWD swag.

  1. Reps event page
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Mozilla@SUB

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Mozilla Bangladesh and State University of Bangladesh (SUB) is co-organizing a Mozilla Awareness Event to spread the Mozilla mission. An exciting opportunity for State University of Bangladesh students to share and brainstorm their open source ideas.

Facilitators with talking points:
Mozilla: Introduction

by Mashkawat Ahsan
Diving into Fx OS/Open Web Apps Development

by Shafiul Azam
Architecture of FxOS

by Aniruddha Adhikary
Webmaker

by Ashickur Rahman
Special Attractions:

Lots of fun with small quiz sessions and Cool Mozilla gifts
Organized by:

State University of Bangladesh & Mozilla Bangladesh
Event type:

State University of Bangladesh (SUB) student only
State University of Bangladesh:

web:http://www.sub.edu.bd
For more info / Coordinator:

Mashkawat Ahsan, Mozillian +8801819437167 https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/ahsan/

Nazmul Huda, Mozillian +8801814652293 https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/nhshojib86/

Event Link: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozilla-sub/

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Mozilla Bangladesh’s event at Institute of Science and Technology

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We (Mozilla Bangladesh) held an event at the Institute of Science and Technology(IST) Campus, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26th January 2013

Audience:
The event was open for all. We created a Facebook event page to start the crowd gathering. During the event, there was approx. 60 attendees including IST faculties, 3 Mozilla Reps and some active community members. The volunteers decorated the venue (IST Auditorium) with Mozilla banners, balloons, posters.

Intro:
Firefox OS and apps have been the talk of the town during the whole January in Bangladesh. Both Bengali and English Newspapers [1]-[3] were covering the news. So our event’s key topic was “Firefox OS and apps development”. The Talking points –

Mashkawat Ahsan:
Mozilla mission, Mozilla projects & technologies (bugzilla, Webmaker, SpiderMonkey etc.), Bangladesh Community, contributor engagement, how to contribute, Q&A sessions. Slide link: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?c5j73d0yljzyl38

Shafiul Azam:
Kickstarting Firefox OS Apps Development: Beginner’s Guide for starting development of open web apps ( Intro Firefox OS, Apps, Organization, Tools, Sample apps creation, OS Simulator, Marketplace submission, Tips & Tricks, Q&A sessions. Slide link: http://shafiul.github.com/slides/kickstart_fxos.html

Aniruddha Adhikary:
Introduction to Mozilla Developer Network and valid markup (documentation, examples, best practices), Q&A sessions. Slide link: http://www.rvl.io/aniruddha/introduction-to-mdn-and-valid-markup

Event Objective:
#Short-term: Awareness of the Mozilla projects, open web, applications, standards, share guidelines so that they can start building apps.
#Long-term: Arrange open web hackathon in Bangladesh, involve the local professional and armature developers.

Anticipation:
Thanks to all the participants to keep our event warm with their anticipation [4]. It was great to be with them. Special thanks to IST authority for giving us opportunity to host the event and Md. Al-Amin Opu and his friends, Mozillian Safwan Rahman for help us coordinate the event smoothly. At the end of sessions, we chit-chat with snack packs and give away Mozilla swag 🙂

Thanks for reading this through.

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/455370757861644/
Mozilla Event page: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozcampaign-ist/
Tweet: https://twitter.com/mozillaBD/status/295114207479857152
Event photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahsanbd/sets/72157644009815323/
[1] http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=266509
[2] http://eprothomalo.com/contents/2013/2013_01_27/content_zoom/2013_01_27_15_5_b.jpg
[3] http://bangla.bdnews24.com/tech/article582293.bdnews
[4] http://t.co/38Ebu2nS

ATN News – “Young Nite” featured Mozilla

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I attended eASiA 2011 with Internet Society (ISOC) Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter and serving lighting talk about ISOC, Mozilla and open source.

On 3rd December 2011, when preaching to the university students about Mozilla, a interview was taken instantly by aNIK Khan, Host of “Young Nite”.

Young Nite is a Socio-Political Talk Show with Bangladeshi Youth from all possible sectors. A performance by an young talented performer at the end of every show.and popular among teen.

i talk about Mozilla projects, how people can get involved with Mozilla projects, contributor engagement programs, our past events (Soft launch of Mozilla Bangladesh Community), proposed upcoming programs (Hackfest, programming contests). Mozilla Firefox badge, mozillareps.org website is highlighted with my name and designation. Among the listeners, a lady’s feedback is added after my conversation with the host. i’d like to take a moment to thank you to Mr. Kazi Nazmul Alam Taposh, Executive Producer, ATN News, for the time out of his busy day for me to allocate the news feed (which is now uploaded @ youtube).

The Mozilla interview later featured by ATN News – “Young Nite” program at [10th December, Friday night: 1:15am] Bangladesh Time and [10th December, Sat noon: 1:15pm] Bangladesh Time. Host by aNIK KHAN.

YouTube video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1vI80TVGsk
Audio Language: Bengali
Subtitle: No subtitle available now.
Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahsanbd/sets/72157628578373129/

eASiA 2011

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I attended eASiA 2011 with Internet Society (ISOC) Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter and serving lighting talk about ISOC, Mozilla and open source. Many visitors and participants of eAsia2011 were interested to know more about open source projects, how they might be any use. Some of them are surprised to know that Firefox is a open source project despite they are using Firefox everyday. As a Mozilla Reps from Bangladesh, I try to give them the glimpse of ongoing Mozilla projects and technology. The whole day i give lighting talks in different groups.

On 3rd December 2011, when preaching to the university students about Mozilla, a interview was taken instantly by aNIK Khan, Host of “Young Nite”. The Mozilla interview later featured by ATN News – “Young Nite” program at [10th December, Friday night: 1:15am] Bangladesh Time and [10th December, Sat noon: 1:15pm] Bangladesh Time.

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Meetup with Gervase Markham

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15th October 2011, the three Mozilla Reps (Ahsan, Enzam and Rahid) based in Bangladesh had an opportunity to meetup with Gervase Markham. We get together at Boomers Café for lunch, a local meeting hub in Banani, Dhaka; while Gerv shared his view and experiences of Mozilla with us. We also give him the glimpse of what we have done and future planning regarding the Mozilla Community Bangladesh. We are honored by Gerv’s presence and a great thanks to him for his time and consideration.

Meeting Photos

Soft launch of Mozilla Bangladesh Community

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24th September 2011: This are the BUET event updates –

  1. i’ve designed some posters with the help of Mozilla Creative Collective. We have printed and posted in different locations. http://www.hottipsblog.com/2011/09/24/soft-launch-of-mozilla-community-bangladesh/
  2. Ribbons & balloons to decorate the room.
  3. Two facebook and one meetup pages are created to invite. also by twitter. BUET event’s meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/mozilla/Dhaka-BD/365532/

PS: The scheduled event in 26th sep. at Asian University Bangladesh (AUB) will be delayed. as per My visit and discussion with Mr. Rahid [2], General Secretary, computer club, AUB, dated 23th September. It is rescheduled on 14th October [3], but after a online meeting with Rahid & Enzam on 13th October 2011, this event is on hold again.

26th September 2011: BUET event related blog posts –

  • http://forum.linuxdesh.org/thread-663.html
  • http://forum.projanmo.com/post355751.html#p355751
  • http://www.rongmohol.com/post202875.html#p202875

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01st October 2011: Thank you to all the Mozillians, participants, contributors, volunteers for a great evening together at the soft launch of Mozilla Community Bangladesh, 27th Sep 2011 at BUET. A special Thanks to Mozilla, BUET, AKNET, ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter, Dhaka University, UPS for helping us to get to the event date, a successful one. It was nice to see so many open source enthusiastic men and women to celebrating this event. The event was with a vision to share the skills, ideas and interests with the Open Source participants. We are pleased that 40-50 people participate actively and enjoy the whole event. We discussed about History of Mozilla & Firefox, Open source projects, Licensing issues, Web security, Collaborative Web development etc. There was Mozilla swag for all the participants and t-shirt for quiz winners.
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We also arrange snacks for the participants. After the event, we found the comment book with different cool comments. A great thanks to Pierros and Vineel for resolving the swag issue. http://twitpic.com/e/1x7d

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