As you all know, I and Hitesh
have started a campaign named MozRide as part of Mozilla Web Maker Project to
host Maker Parties in the city of Warangal and raise awareness on Open source,
Open Web, Net Neutrality, Mozilla and to teach the web.
MozRide got good response and
many of our friends wanted to get involved in this campaign. Ajay – Mozilla Web
Maker Super Mentor, M Santhosh, Bharath, Sudheer, Manoj, Samudrala Santhosh,
Sai, Vineeth, Abdul Ghani and Vamshi have joined me and Hitesh for the MozRide
to a Village and we all together have hosted Maker Party @ Gangadevipally.
It was a two day event; first day
was train the trainer’s program - to all the newbie’s who joined the campaign. I,
Ajay and Hitesh have trained the new people who joined the program upon Importance
of Open Source and the Open Web, Mission of Mozilla and Web Maker Project,
different ways to contribute to Mozilla, How to host Maker Parties, Web Maker
tools, event guides to plan and host Maker Parties themselves. First day was
very productive. All the newbie’s who joined us Day 1 are now in a stage to
host Maker Parties on their own. All are satisfied with the training.
Second day was the Maker Party.
We all were set and were very excited to host the event. Gram Sarpanch (A head
of the village) has inaugurated the program. Many people of the village have joined
us in the event. Children, farmers, Bank Officials, teachers, House wives were
all the part of Maker Party.
First I have given a brief Introduction to all the
people about who we are, what we do as part of Mozilla and how we do. Then
people moved to different stalls organized, in the first half an hour, everybody
have given awareness on Open Source, Internet, Open Web, Net Neutrality and
Mozilla to the people and the rest of the event was showing them live about
what Internet is, how to use the web using Firefox Browser, how webpage is
loaded in to the browser, how it is built with html and the basic html tags.
The village which we have chosen
for MozRide has many credits. It is one of the best villages in India and it
has been awarded as the Model Village. There
is 90% of literacy, no alcohol consumption, 100% children going schools, no
child labor, purified drinking water at a very low price etc.
There was no Internet
connectivity in the village, we used paper prototypes – we made a prototype to
describe about internet, we used charts to describe about html tags. The second
day of the event was also a great success. Finally we took feedback from the villagers and gave a momento on behalf of Mozilla Warangal. People felt so happy for sharing the knowledge with them.
Make which we have created: https://merajimran.makes.org/popcorn/2791
Reps Portal Link: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/maker-party-gangadevipally/
Flickr Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/82525714@N05/sets/72157646278828382/
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