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Submitted by mirowais on Fri, 20/07/2007 - 13:39.
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Seth Bindernagel http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/ (Community Program Manager), Chris Hofmann (Director of Special Projects) and JT Batson http://jtbatson.blogspot.com/ (Head, International Marketing Efforts) of Mozilla Foundation are in India. The purpose of the trip is build further community involvement and start to find people who can help localizer drive the adoption of Firefox 3. This includes both supporting current volunteers in contributing more and providing resources.

The community is organizing a one day event at HBCSE, Mumbai to promote and support Firefox on 21st July 2007. Seth and JT will speak about community, localization, Firefox 3 and also promotion!

Agenda
Time Topic
10:30 AM Registration (it’s free!)
11:00 AM Introduction & Welcome
11:30 AM The State of Mozilla
12:00 AM Do we need an EN_IN version of Firefox? Local English, local search providers, certain spellings and other India specific items. Brainstorming, and team formation
01:00 PM Lunch break
02:00 PM Brainstorming on promoting Firefox in India (Spread Firefox.in ?)
03:00 PM How to localize Firefox? How did we localize for Gujarati? - small workshop
04:00 PM Firefox 3 - what’s up the sleeve?
05:00 PM Completion


The day is going to be exciting. It’s going to be mix of development, community and brainstorming sessions.

Who should attend ?

  • Everyone who’s helped in localization of Firefox / other Mozilla Software
  • Students and Open Source evangelists who want to promote Mozilla / Firefox
  • Community organizers & marketing enthusiasts
  • Anyone who’s interested in Mozilla / Firefox

Date : 21 July, 2007

Venue : Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
            Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
            V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd
            Mumbai, 400088 INDIA

FREE Event !!!


To register please add your name to wiki (link below), if you wish (you should!) to attend the event :http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Upcoming_meet_RSVPs

Regards,
Kumar Thirumal.