YAY! Won AngelHack. SFO! Here I come.

From Idea to a prototype in 24 hours!

It was really amazing experience coding all night, eating, collaborating. There were around a total of 30 teams to pitch in front of the judges. Couple of them was really good. We were given 3 minutes to pitch in front of judges and 1 minute Q&A.

We were the first team to pitch. We called our team Typeset. What we do is pretty much simple. We found out that people are taking a lot of time to format/typeset their content to their own specified format. We felt that it’s not the job of the content creator to format/typeset the whole content; all he needs to worry about is the content itself. So we created a product where at the click of a button, typeset the contents. Layout, margins, typography, etc., are automatically determined by the tool based on the desired format of the output document. This makes the process of typesetting simple, fun and intuitive.

The winner gets a 12 week’s mentorship, workspace and most importantly a chance to pitch in front of investors on Global Demo Day at Silicon Valley. =D

 

Root Conference(Mozilla Collaboration).

Event: Root Conference.

Date:16-May-2014

About: Rootconf is an event on DevOps and Cloud infrastructure with workshops on 14 – 15 May and conference on 16 – 17 May 2014 at Bangalore. Rootconf will help you to plan and develop a strategy map for infrastructure and devops. It will show you the building blocks for reaching a strategy for Infrastructure Scaling, Continuous Integration, Deployment and Delivery.

As a mozillian I’ve got a chance to attend Root conference. Benjamin kero took over the session on quick prototyping with LXC and Puppet.

The crowd was full of developers and entrepreneurs.

At the end of the event many developers approached us about ways to contribute to Mozilla.

AngelHack Bangalore-2014(Mozilla Collaboration).

Event: AngelHack Bangalore.

Date: May-4-2014

For those who don’t know:

AngelHack is the premier developer relations platform which provides aspiring developers, entrepreneurs, start-ups, small and fortune 500 businesses the best developer tools and developer outreach programs.

Additionally, AngelHack organizes massive Hackathons around the world and has been written about in over 30 publications including Forbes, TechCrunch, and Wired. In 2012 we hosted 20 hackathons in 6 countries and brought together over 4,000 hackers. In 2013 we hosted 70+ hackathons with 10,000 attendees.

The winning team join a 12 week HACKcelerator program and go to Silicon Valley for funding and exposure.

 

After the last year’s success at Hyderabad. I wanted to spread the awareness about Mozilla and FirefoxOS in AngelHack Bangalore.

Then I contacted the Organizers and with the support of Galaxy we finally got a slot for the Mozilla in AngelHack, Bangalore.

Soumya Deb talked about FirefoxOs, ways to develop apps etc..

 

The crowd was really amazing. They were totally involved into the talk and asked a lot of questions. We conducted a small quiz and gave away the goodies to one who answered.

Overall, It was amazing crowd who hacked over for 24 hours and made amazing apps. Many of them built FirefoxOS apps.

Note: After Mozilla talk, I participated in Angel Hack and developed a product over 24 hours time and finally Won AngelHack.

 

FirefoxOsAppDays Bangalore. MSRIT.(october 2013)

Event: FirefoxOsAppDays at M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology.

When: 9-oct-2013

Agenda:

1. Introductory presentation on Firefox OS, Marketplace.

2. Technical overview, Technical presentations on: Firefox OS Simulator, Developer Tools, Web APIs, Web Apps templates.

Jaipradesh had taken over these presentations where he had done an awesome job with icebreaking sessions and creating awareness and educating the participants about FirefoxOs.
I spoke about WebFWD and validated their ideas for the FirefoxOs market place.

It was more like a hackathon where students of MSRIT and other colleges brainstormed on ideas and at the end of the event developed awesome apps, some of them were marketplace ready.

Many showed up interest and started questioning about the ways of getting involved among the community. A good healthy Club was formed in the University.

 

Huge banner at the entrance.

 

 

Explaining about FirefoxOs.

Something that made us proud is how the audience was actually interested in knowing about how to contribute, Devtools, Firefox OS demo etc.

Students from other colleges, who attended the event, were excited to organize MozClub in their own institutes & host events. They connected with us and we talked with them after the event.
Honestly, I really haven’t seen so many enthusiastic students anywhere else – they’re so full of positive energy, and willing to do something good!

AngelHack(Nov 9th and 10th)(Mozilla Collaboration).

A two day hackathon at Microsoft is as good a place as any to find an audience for Mozilla’s community and WebFWD awareness camp. So, we decided to take a trip to the giant offices of Microsoft whose pictures we were not allowed to take. (security concerns… Whaaaat?)

AngelHack is  organized all over the world with the sole objective of connecting Technopreneurs with investors. We represented Mozilla in this event to help the participants understand how they could contribute to Mozilla and the next-big-thing in mobile OS platform – The Firefox OS.

I did few extensive one-on-ones with potential technopreneurs, explaining them how to get involved and touched upon the importance of the open source movement.

We also decided to have some fun along with the awareness process. Quickfire quiz round was conducted and cool Mozilla swag were distributed.

Fallowing this, on a professional note I had a talk with Angel hack community manager Kamrin Klauschie regarding collaboration with Mozilla in their upcmoning events.

Sidenote: The food  there is pretty awesome and so are the people.

I would like to thank my fellow mozillians: Sujith, Vineel, Srikar,Saikiran ananthula and everyone present representing Mozilla.

     Here it goes, a perfect and successful App Days at VIT University on 28th and 29th of September with more than 250 participants at graVITas’13, an international knowledge carnival.

Awesomeness of the Event:

         Participants were very excited and satisfied by the 2 day session on Firefox App Days. They felt the speakers to be very effective and were quite responsive during the session. In the App Development Session, both the reps and the participants were at their best.

         Representatives and Speakers were very informative and helpful to everyone present in the session. Speakers found participants to be quite interested to gain the knowledge. Now, the Organizers, they feel everything was at its best thanking both the Mozillians and the Participants.

Event Index:

Day 1

1. Introduction to open source and web making.
2. X-Ray Goggles
3. Thimble
4. Mozilla Popcorn
5. Web Fwd

Day 2

1. Creating and Advantages of Mozilla Persona Account.
2. How to contribute to Mozilla !
3. Market Place
4. App Development Training
5. 5 Hr Hackathon

 

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