This Month is off to a great start with the Mozcoffee that took place on the 5th of July at Steers prior to the anticipated MozFestEA happening in Uganda. As expected , prostate Mozilla Kenya came together to discuss their contribution to this amazing event. Of course, try being the First Mozcoffee in weeks ,we had a variety of issues to address . However, the purpose of the meet was to focus on the two most important agendas of the day: The Maker party and the MozFestEA2014
MAKER PARTY
First Things First
Since the aim of the Maker party is to teach the web around the Kenyan community, our first task was to identify our type of audience .This, we concluded will include any interested persons ,schools and organizations. Given the different audiences we anticipate in the program ,we sought out different ways to reach them. One major idea was to partner with organizations in and around Nairobi such as Nairobi Dev School and NairoBits. As seen in previous endeavors ,forming partnerships with organizations that share the same goal can make any program stronger and better known in the community. Creating online activities to target online audience will ensure the online community participates in the Maker Party. This will require use of online platforms such as HOMAGO; where we will create an online teaching network.
Who takes what
The Planning process for the maker party involved delegation of activities to different MozReps
- Organizing Online activities (HOMAGO) – Hezzi
- Partnership with Nairobi Dev School – Ash
- Partnership with NAIROBITS – Cliff & Vicky
- Mozilla Blogger – Brie
MozFestEA
Regarding the most anticipated event in East Africa, the Mozilla Kenya community expressed its enthusiasm to help out with some of the Mozilla Reps taking notable sessions during the three day event. The Mozilla Kenya community in Uganda will be represented by Ash, Vicky Cliff, Boss, Steve and Brie. As such ,different reps were required to choose a topic to talk about. The sessions in the program include:
- Firefox OS Marketplace – Vicky
- Firefox OS Development -Vicky
- BUGZILLA – Alex
- Tips on Building JavaScript Apps – Hezzi, Boss
- Introduction to Gaming – Ash
- WebMaker – Cliff
- MVC Vs Traditional Coding Methods – Hezzi, Boss
- Q&A – Alex
- Army of Awesome – Steve
- L10n – Steve
In-house matters
It was noted there was a lack of initiative to follow through with planned Mozilla events. This being the key factor in ensuring successful participation, it was decided that frequent Mozcoffee meet ups will be held once a month to keep track of the Mozilla events and contribution. Additionally, a team was set up to discuss better ways to revive the community spirit by coming up with a better approach to organizing Mozilla events. Subsequently, Mozilla Kenya will be required to recruit new enthusiasts to its cause. This task was assigned to Brie
Overall, the meet up was successful with all major issues being addressed fully. My only hope is that the next meeting will have more members showing up …..we could use more great minds
Cheers!
