Mozilla Webmaker Workshop

Mozilla Webmaker Workshop

GLAU Firefox Club organized Mozilla Webmaker Workshop on 17th October 2015. 100 students attended this workshop including student coordinators and faculty facilitator. As a club Lead, Monika Agrawal planned this event and club faculty mentor Mr. Jitesh Kumar Bhatia helped us to organize this event successfully for third year students. 

At 10:00 am we all gathered at venue to mark the beginning of this workshop, Chief guest of this event were honourable head of department of computer engineering and applications, Dr. Anand Singh Jalal, program coordinator of computer engineering and applications, Dr Dilip Kumar Sharma and Mr. Manoj Kumar. Faculty and member of Abacus computer society of GLA University also showed active participation in this event.

Workshop started by welcome speech given by club lead, Monika Agrawal. She invited honourable H.O.D. Sir to inaugurate GLAU firefox club and inspire participants by his motivating words to mark beginning of this workshop.Club inauguration was done and Dr Anand Singh Jalal thanked club members for organizing this event, he than enlightened student about Mozilla and how they all can become Firefox Student Ambassador and start contributing. 

After his motivating words club lead showed video of Mozilla Story available on Mozilla blog, this refreshed the minds of students and they became curious to know more about Mozilla  After this club lead took a info session on Mozilla. She told how students can make cool apps using Webmaker and Appmaker, she also told how firefox is optimised for windows 10 and its advantage over chrome and edge. This was done showing a demo of how firefox can change browsing experience of windows 10 and why we should set it as default browser.

Student coordinators distributed a notebook, pen, mozilla sticker and tattoo to all the participants before beginning with technical session of this workshop.

Now club faculty mentor, Mr Jitesh Kumar Bhatia started technical session on J2EE with brief introduction of  HTML and CSS concepts. He taught students how to create forms, use J2EE concepts, database connectivity and image upload option in their native application. Demo was shown on each topic which made concepts of the participants more clear. At the end of this session question and answer session was held to solve the queries of the participant. After this we headed for an hour break.

We all assembled at the venue after this break, now a fun game was organized for all the participants. In this game we showed images to the participants and they have to guess computer terminology which is depicted by that set of images. 20 set of images were shown to the participants and all the participants who guessed the right answer at first were given prizes. In prizes we gifted them Mozilla Wrist Band , remaining Mozilla stickers and tattoo along with a parker pen.  Chief guest of this workshop were invited for prize distribution ceremony.

After this club lead, Monika Agrawal along with other student coordinator took session on Big Data. Participants enjoyed this session. After this honourable H.O.D. sir asked students their feedback about this workshop and which browser they use normally. Few students preferred chrome over Firefox so they were asked reason behind their choice. After this feedback club lead was asked to provide brief summary of cool features of firefox which makes it better than other browsers. She highlighted features of Firefox like better privacy, cool themes and latest version of firefox. Meanwhile student coordinators asked all the participants to update their default browser to Firefox in their Windows 10 laptop. Club lead also highlighted the fact that Mozilla is an open source community and anyone can start contributing. 

At the end of this workshop we successfully downloaded and set Mozilla Firefox as default browser in the laptops and PCs of college lab. This was done especially for all those who were using windows 10 although there were few PCs and laptops which had linux and windows 7, so same thing was done in them also. At the end everyone was happy and willing to contribute to Mozilla Community. 

Chief guests praised our work and participants were happy. We also asked all the participants to fill feedback form at the end to identify our areas of weakness and expectations of participants from us.

At the end photo session was done and certificates were distributed to everyone who participated and in organizing this workshop.

After reading the feedbacks forms we found that around 80 participants out of 100 preferred Firefox browser over other browsers whereas 20 participants were unhappy with Firefox since they had advertisement popup problem and synchronization problem in Firefox.

Participants were happy with Mozilla goodies provided to them. Mozilla T-shirts were given to student coordinators, club lead and club faculty mentor. Overall this event was a huge success and we all are looking forward to organize next event for Mozilla family across India.