Sunday 25 May 2014

Mozilla Old Dhaka Meetup 1.0

Old Dhaka is the old or historic part of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. It is the most crowded place in the country. Lots of people living here with many diversity and different profession. You can find people at here all most from every corner of the country. Lots of historic places and lots of interesting delicious foods is available here. Many community members of Mozilla Bangladesh are living in this part of the city including me. I proud for live in Old Dhaka.
But interesting fact is there is less presence of Mozilla here. We contribute to Mozilla from home, but met each other at other part of the city in any event or meetup. To meet Mozillians from Old Dhaka and plan some thing to increase the presence of Mozilla at this part of the city, I arranged a meetup for Old Dhaka Mozillians on 17 May, 2014 at Hotel Star old Dhaka branch.
The event was so successful, almost 15 people attend to the meetup including 5 reps. We did lot of discussions on different issues of our Mozilla activities and contributions. We decide to do some webmaker events in different schools and colleges at Old Dhaka. If possible we do hive events here. Since Mozilla Bangladesh is going to arrange MozCamp Alpha at Dhaka this month of next, we also utilize this occasion to discuss and plan the event. We talked about the MozCamp with other participants and inform them how the MozCamp will look like next.
Since the meetup was at old Dhaka and Hotel Star is famous for the traditional cuisine. I believe participants have enjoyed the meetup with food, fun and swag.

Thursday 22 May 2014

Mozilla Bangladesh l10n Sprint May 2014


Mozilla Bangladesh organized a successful onsite l10n Sprint on 13 May 2014 at Hub Dhaka, Mirpur Dhaka to translate Firefox OS related strings and documents in Bangla. At the sprint 10 Mozillians gather at site and more than 5 Mozillians attended online. Mozillians complete localization and review of more than 1300 new Firefox OS strings. They translate Firefox OS related web content in Bangla which is more than 4000 words. They also review the scripts translated for Bangla voice over for Firefox OS related video content which is more than 7000 words. At the end of the sprint participants learned how to test Firefox OS through MozTrap. They committed to test Firefox OS and other incomplete tasks after the sprint from their home.

The event was so productive and successful and full of foods and fun. That was one of the best sprint I ever attended.

Event planning Pad: https://bangladesh.etherpad.mozilla.org/l10nSprintMay14?

More event photos: https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%23MozBDl10nSprint

Wednesday 21 May 2014

New Firefox Community Launch by Mozilla Bangldesh

I can remember the day 29 October back on 2009, we arranged a lunch party to celebrate Firefox 3.5 at Dhaka. That was the first event where we can manage to bring Firefox swags and distribute them to the participants. That was the day we decide we need to build and grow a community for Bangladesh to spread Firefox and words of Mozilla. And we start a Facebook page named Mozilla Bangladesh on that day. Feeling lucky that again I was again part of a launch party of Firefox 29.

It feels good when you got more than you wish. When you got lot more it deserves celebration. New Firefox (29) brings us once again that occasion to celebrate its launch with its new looks and exiting features. Mozilla Bangladesh arranged a community launch party to celebrate new Firefox launch on 9 May 2014 at Hub Dhaka, Mirpur Dhaka.

Mozilla table full of Firefox swags

At the party around 100 participants attended including all the Reps, active Mozillians and well wishers of Mozilla and Firefox browsers. The event start with an interesting ice breaking activities conducted by community lead Mahay Alam Khan.

Tapu Afrad taking about l10n

After that Reps Rahid, Noor, Aniruddha, Shafiul talked about different features of new Firefox and discussed about Mozilla missions and different products. The event ends with Q/A session. At last Mozillians are served with snacks and Firefox swags.

Participant group photo

Photos of the party:
Launch party at News: