BITS Mozilla Club Organizes its first Event!!!!!!!

13th April 2010 was surely a red-letter day for the BITS Mozilla Club for it was the day when we conducted our VERY FIRST EVENT.It was a Technical Projects' Presentation and the driving force behind it was the vision of our founders.Our place being filled with creative and innovative 'Geeks' they new that the students in BITS can come up with excellent ideas to contribute richly to the Open Source World of Mozilla.The challenge was to turn them into reality.Not only this , but also that the juniors in the campus should get an experience before-hand of what kind of work they can do in their senior years.This whole concept led to this Technical Projects' Presentation.

The idea is straight.Project Managers/Mentors will come and explain their Project Idea .Interested students will decide to work under the respective Manager/Mentor on the Project they liked.
The result-A successfully completed Project, a satisfied Manager/Mentor and junior with enriched knowledge in the respective domain.All this to make our Firefox bigger and better!!!!!!

So, the actual event.The theme was ' IMPROVING FIREFOX FUNCTIONALITY THROUGH ADD-ON DEVELOPMENT AND DEBUGGING'.It started with our founders Shashank Todwal and Nitish Varma giving us a brief introduction to the Club-Purpose of founding, activities, club management and so on and also explaining us what the event actually was, respectively.One of our senior faculty from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Information Systems , Mr. Mangesh Bedekar was also present.After the introduction , each Manager/Mentor explained his idea via a PowerPoint Presentation.The audience then shot questions which he/she answered in a most convincing way.The Managers/Mentors were from the Technical Projects' portfolio of our club.It was heartening to see two people from the audience too presenting their Project Ideas after the members of the Club had presented theirs.And rightly so, they were presented with Mozilla Swag!!!!!!!

After every speaker had given his/her presentation feedback forms were distributed seeking the audience to input any Project they would like to be a part of along with a few suggestions they have for the club like the span of our activities, the overall feel of the event and so on.Dheeraj Bhaskar from Club Management then concluded the event after explaining the future prospects of the Club and by proposing the vote of thanks.

It was extremely fulfilling to have an overwhelming response for our very first event and get a very encouraging response from Mr.Mangesh Bedekar who thoroughly loved the concept and the vision.Notices have been put up in our hostels where students can browse through the various Project Ideas and decide on which one to work on.We hope to complete these Projects soon.

I have to mention a few names without whom this event could not have taken place.(I'm just going to do this once.Sure I can't praise you guys everytime an event takes place ...right?..Joking!!!)
Our Founders Shashank Todwal and Nitish Varma, Dheeraj Bhaskar and Srishti Gulati from Club Management, Pritesh Gudge and Yuvraj Aneja from Event Management , Gaurav Jha from Publicity and Marketing , and of course , the Technical Project Leads or the Project Managers/Mentors.(I wasn't out there doing nothing ....I did the compering.....and I am writing this blog!!!)

Well ,this is just the start.Our club plans to do a lot of stuff in the months to come all directed towards the unified cause of "Contributing to the Open Source World of Mozilla and make web browsing a bigger and better experience"


Following are the presentations given by the respective Project Managers/Mentors -

Web search personalisation by Shashank Gupta

Project Abstract-
Personalise your search using browser on client side, predict intentions of user from history and display results based on these intentions.

Web search personalisation by Shashank Gupta

Anywhere bookmark by Akshat Goyal

Project Abstract-
Create a bookmark link to a specific location on a long web-page to avoid scrolling.

Anywhere bookmark by Akshat Goyal

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Image video processing and canvas element by Abhay Rao

Project Abstract-
Canvas Element allows fixed element control and enables analysis of Image/Video algorithms as a part of OpenCV will be studied and implemented in JAVA Script

Image video processing and canvas element by Abhay Rao

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Advanced Bookmark Manager by Kusum Kumar Madarasu

Project Abstract-
Working with bookmark manager and
looking at add-on development and packaging

Advanced Bookmark Manager by Kusum Kumar Madarasu

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Webshot Add On For Firefox By D. Ashitosh

Project Abstract-
Developing a Web Shot add-on for
Mozilla Firefox

Webshot Add On For Firefox By D Ashitosh

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Your comments are most welcome!!!!!!