Localised Firefox Campaign @ MozUP

What could be a better start to a Sunday morning and the First day of November, other than breaking new grounds with Mozilla Uttar Pradesh's Localised Firefox Campaign at Precursor Info Solutions, Lucknow. The event kick started at 11:30 AM being "Grow Firefox download in Indian Languages" being the main agenda of the event.

To give it a boost, I started the event with a short Introduction of all the attendees, in which they had to tell their names, college and their expectations from this event. Their excitement could be easily seen in the expectations they had from us. I then introduced all the MozUP members. Vnisha then took the charge and introduced FOSS to all the attendees. She asked them what they know about Mozilla in order to make it more interactive and innovative.

Vnisha told everyone about Mozilla and its mission. Then Ashish came up with the various products of Mozilla and introduced every product to the attendees. Jyotsna, then explained Firefox OS and its app development. This took alot of time as all the attendees were so curious to know more and more about it. After that, Ashish explained the FSA program to everyone.

then, they were all asked to visit the url of the contribution areas, and Vnisha explained them in detail that in what ways they can contribute in Mozilla. Meanwhile, Noorul was busy in clicking some great pictures. Vnisha then told them about the main objective of this campaign and all the attendees were then asked to download the Hindi Firefox Browser.

All the attendees were then provided with the stick notes on which they were asked to write the feedback and stick it on an awesome Firefox Browser Logo painted by Ankita. We got great responses from all the attendees. All in all the event was a huge success.

Day of the Girl with WoMoz UP

 

 To make a change in the society, this small effort was done by the WoMoz of Uttar Pradesh. It all started when Vnisha suggested for an event to celebrate International Day of The Girl Child on 11 October'2015. I wasn't aware with this date as the Day of the Girl, so it made me to google the same. I took the responsibility of  the venue, and thought why not do this event with the girls of Mumtaz Shelter hime, Aminabad, Lucknow . WoMoz of UP went to the shelter home and met the girls. To know more about them, we first asked their names with their ambition. I still wonder why all the girls wanted to be a Doctor!

 Vnisha then asked them, whats so special about 11 October. Every girl screamed -'Sunday'. That was indeed an obvious answer. But as Vnisha started telling them about the Day of the Girl, few girls said - Yes. It was told to them in their classes. Thereafter we told them about the objective of this day. We made them aware about all issues concerning gender inequality. We made them aware with the girl power in spite of the challenges that a girl face. Meanwhile, a sweet young girl came to me, and asked me to write her name on her hand with a pencil as she doesn't know how to write. I pretended to write her name on his hand while she promised me that she will learn how to write and will show me next time when i will come to meet her.

 

Thereafter, drawing activity was performed by those girls. They were asked to draw something based on the Theme of Day of the Girl-2015 : Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence. Girls from 2nd standard to 12th standard were indulged in drawing, the way they could. Sejal helped the girls during the drawing activity.

 

The event highlighted critical issues of concern for girl. During the whole event, Jyostna was engaged in capturing the pictures. We did get some awesome clicks. One of them has also been featured on Mozilla India.

 

P.S. : For more pics, visit flickr