Date : 11th - 14th December, 2014
Location : Pandit Farms, Pune
CMDA IT EXPO is one of the biggest fair that is organized every year in Pune city. Over the years IT expo has gained popularity among entrepreneurs, developers and most importantly students. Every year it witnesses crowd of over 7000 people of which around 80% visitors are from IT background and the rest are keen in knowing how IT is involved in non-IT fields.
“I can’t believe smartphones OS can run on such low hardware specifications. This is a great technology and I will surely buy Firefox OS phone”.
“Can I root my current smartphone and install Firefox OS in it? ”
Our answer : Yes u can !!
Visit this link for step by step guide : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Installing_on_a_mobile_device
Flickr album link : https://www.flickr.com/photos/119054516@N06/sets/72157647568036744/
Location : Pandit Farms, Pune
No. of attendees : 10,000+
CMDA IT EXPO is one of the biggest fair that is organized every year in Pune city. Over the years IT expo has gained popularity among entrepreneurs, developers and most importantly students. Every year it witnesses crowd of over 7000 people of which around 80% visitors are from IT background and the rest are keen in knowing how IT is involved in non-IT fields.
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| Firefox OS Education Booth |
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| Students exploring Firefox OS phones |
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| Visitors at Firefox OS booth. |
It was a great opportunity for us and so we had set up a Firefox
OS education booth to create awareness about Firefox OS. The open source
communities Pune Linux users Group (PLUG) and Wikipedia community joined us at the
booth to promote FOSS technologies.
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| Gaurav Sir, imparting knowledge about open source |
We the mozillians of Mozilla Pune community and Firefox club STES pro actively
came forward to support this initiative.
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| Proud Mozillians !! |
In the 4
day long expo we had visitors from a varied background and to our surprise most
of them were hardcore Firefox users. It was a great experience interacting with
Mozilla product users.
The
Firefox OS stood like a star at the expo. Phones from our hardware partners Spice,
Alcatel, Intex and Zen were put on display so that people could have hands on
experience while we explained them about Firefox OS.
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| Ankit with a Firefox OS user |
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| FirefoxOS phones |
Goodies
were given to those who showed great interest in developing apps on Firefox OS. On
knowing that Firefox OS app development can be done by using text editor and
the apps are based on HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript only, many students and young
developers showed great interest in developing apps. Looking at their interests
we’ve planned to organize a dedicated Firefox OS hack-a-thon very soon in Pune
city.
Responses
from visitors after knowing how amazing Firefox OS is :
“You guys are doing a good job educating on Firefox OS. I
just bought one more phone and I'm happy about it.”
“This is
really a great OS and I will ask my child to start contributing towards it.”
“I can’t believe smartphones OS can run on such low hardware specifications. This is a great technology and I will surely buy Firefox OS phone”.
“Can I root my current smartphone and install Firefox OS in it? ”
Our answer : Yes u can !!
Visit this link for step by step guide : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Installing_on_a_mobile_device
Special
thanks to Sudhanwa Sir, Gaurav Sir, Geeta ma'am and Manjusha ma'am for
your support at the booth. It was a great experience for us to work with
you all and to know the inside out of Open Source world.
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| L-R : Suchita Agarwal, Aman Sehgal, Sohan Bandewar, Ankit Gadgil, Sayak Sarkar, Manjusha Atre, Prathamesh Chavan and Sudhanwa Joglekar |
Mozillians at the event :
- Ankit Gadgil
- Sayak Sarkar
- Aman Sehgal
- Prathamesh Chavan
- Suchita Agarwal
- Sohan Bandewar
Flickr album link : https://www.flickr.com/photos/119054516@N06/sets/72157647568036744/
