Mozilla Firefox Launch Event In
Pakistan
As the new
update of Firefox were celebrated around the globe, so on the 10th
may, 2014 Beaconhouse National University hosted Mozilla Pakistan Community
first ever immense event.
The event was about
the Mozilla Firefox mission ( open source ) and many other presentations about
Mozilla were been discussed and told. The event started at 11 am and the host
Talal Burny provided a sensational start to the event.
The first
presentation was delivered by Asad Sajjad which was about “how to get involved
in Mozilla.” He told us that how we can contribute to Mozilla and how we can
help Mozilla in making THE WEB WE WANT. He also enlightened us about the
Mozilla Firefox Student ambassador program.
Then Shahmir
khan took the charge and shared his views about the Mozilla mission (open
source) and
told us
about the new Mozilla technologies.
Then it was
Fawad Hassan’s time to come and share his views as he’s been involved in
Mozilla since a very long time and he specially traveled here from Islamabad to
present. The presentation was totally based on Firefox OS. He gave a very
detailed explanation showing the code work and all other stuff which was
related to the OS.
Giveaways
were been given time to time to keep the audience’s interest in the event.
Now it was
Mehmood Ali and Hassan Ahmed’s (Mozilla reps) turn to present. They explained
the reason for which this event was basically organized “ The New Firefox”.
Now it was
the question/answer session in which the launch team answered the questions of
the audience in a very moral way.
When the
question/answer session was completed, tweet and best selfie contest was
announced which was to be done during the lunch break.
Multiple number
of booths were established which demonstrated all the presentations.
Social media
team which kept the The New Firefox launch event alive on the social set-ups (
twitter, google +, facebook etc )
When lunch
break was done, the winners of the tweet and selfie contest were declared
respectively. After this, the even was successfully terminated with a delicious
Firefox cake.
Only a few
months have passed and i have learned and experienced a lot of things about
Mozilla and their respective mission. It’s a great task to perform and in
future will surely work for the betterment of Firefox and will make THE WEB WE
WANT.
Firefox
launch team.
