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Monday, November 11, 2013

Mozilla Nepal Meetup III

Mozilla Nepal Community organised Mozilla Nepal Meetp III on 9th November,2013 at SAP Falcha Babarmahal on the ocassion of the 9th annivarsary of the Mozilla Firefox.

Mr. Hempal Shrestha explained about the theme of FOSS Nepal, i.e FOSS for education. Simlarly Mr. Surit Aryal discussed about the themes of the Mozilla Nepal Community. Aryal along with Mr. Aavash Mulmi discussed about the fields that can be contributed by the normal people for the Mozilla Community and the Firefox Comunity. According to their listings, some of the fields that can be contributed are SuMo(Support Mozilla), Localisation, testing and question answer, coding, marketintg, developer documentation, design, user research, accessibility, system administration, add ons,education and others.

Mr Subir Pradhanang too, discussed about the theme for this year,Open Web For Open Education. He pointed out the sucess of the Mozilla and Firefox  due to the lead taken by the community such as Mozilla Nepal and others.  Openness in the source code and the collaboration from different open source community is making the sucess of Mozilla and other FOSS projects, as according to him. He also informed that the non technical persons can also equally contribute in this field via different mediums such as marketing, designing and so on.

Similarly the importance of the localisation was also discussed in the event. Many rural and urban people too are not familiar with the english language. The localisattion of the FOSS products like Mozilla, Firefox would be then very beneficial to those people.

Mr Nootan Ghimire was there to talk about the FSAs(Firefox Student Ambassadors), their benefits and their challanges. Dadhiram Nepal showed the importance of the localisation during the discussion in the event.

Apart from the talks and discussions, the event was interesting due to lucky draw for t-shirts and birthday cake of Mozilla Firefox. 6 lucky participants got the t-shirt printed with Mozilla.

Discussion and presentation on SWOT(Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats)of Mozilla Nepal and FSA was really amazing.

Presentation by Shristi Baral on FSA Nepal on Women Empowerment with WoMoz was praiseworthy where she discussed abut the challanges and opportunities to women.



// Edited version will be posted soon.

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