NIT Warangal in
coordinating with Mozilla Club Warangal has successfully hosted "Firefox
OS App Days", the first ever kind of 24 hours over night hackathon in
Mozilla India Community on 17th August,2013.Sudheesh, Mozillian from NIT W was
the main organizer for the event on NIT W behalf , where in I was the Organizer
on Mozilla's behalf.Jaipradeesh, Srikar, Devendra Dora, Jayanth, Sai Kiran,
Srikanth ,Hema, Hitesh, Rahman, Ajay,Hemanth,Maniraj,Bhargav and Kranthi were all the
Rep and Mozillian Attendees for the event.
The Event started
with an Introduction to Firefox OS, why it is important to build apps for
Firefox OS and how to earn money out of it by Sudheesh and then Jai gave an
introduction on b2g project, clearly explained what gaia and geecko means, and
also introduced Firefox OS MDN. There were newbies in html5 but who had a great
interest in making apps for Firefox OS. For them Sudheesh took a session on
basic tags of html5 and Devendra Dora a Mozillian from NIT W took a session on
CSS3. Now all the participants were familiar with building basic web page and
then I took a chance to Introduce Mozilla Web Maker Project, introduced the
most popular tool "Thimble" of
Web Maker Project. Later I introduced the various ways to get involved
in Mozilla.
Delicious lunch
was arranged by NIT W, every one had their belly full of lunch and returned
back to the hall to develop apps. In the next 2 hours after lunch, participants
came to an idea on what app to build and how to build. Jai and Sudheesh were
continuously helping the participants in building the web apps, API's etc. The
hackathon continued till 8 pm and then again it was time to have dinner. All
the participants had their dinner and came back to the hall by 9:30 pm.
An informative
talk by Prof. Anjaneyulu DRDO Resource Person, Professor at NIT W was given a
presentation on Open Source and it's importance in real world. Sir also gave
good suggestions to the students which boosted their enthusiasm towards their
Open Web App Development for Firefox OS. Muted BAT MAN movie was played from
Mid Night in order to not to disturb the serious developers.The hackathon
continued till morning 7 am.
Participants
tested their apps till morning on Emulators and also on Dreamulators (A new
word invented for those who emulated their apps in their dreams..:) ).
Before moving to
break fast, Sudheesh and Jayanth from NIT W have explained a detailed step by
step procedure to push their apps on to github and made participants feel happy
and proud for their first open source application available in their
repositories. Then all of us moved to have breakfast, then after their was apps
showcase, Great news was that we expected 8- 10 apps but the outcome was around
23 apps. A professor from NIT W was the main judge for the apps, where in best
three apps were selected based on their UI,Creativity and Social Cause.
List of Apps:
1.Shop now
2.Movie imdb
3.Birthday
4.Tourism
5.Newsfeed
6.Refree
7.Tic tac toe
8.Qzilla
9.Incredible
india
10.Warangal &
Techno jits
11.Programming c
guide
12.Geek clock +
rock paper
13.My links +
clicks
14.Donate blood
15.Calculator
17.Mentor's pal
18.Hack
protection
19.Love calc
20.Profile
management
21.Sports
22.Sms bomber
23.Dots
This is the first
event in the history of Mozilla Club Warangal which was a huge and huge
success. Kudo's to Sudheesh, Jayanth, Jai,SaiKiran and Srikar for putting their
lot of efforts and for making this event a huge success.
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