A 30-minute talk on the Mozilla Community and Projects
The presentation, which was titled “Mozilla Community and Projects,” began at 1.00pm (GMT + 2hr) on October 1, 2008 and lasted for 30minutes. I was glad I made more effort to invite interested students and staff members of the University (University of Cape Town) to the presentation. The awareness, which was solely done by me, was by pasting of posters in public places rather than relying only on the mails sent to the postgraduate students in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, which was done by the IEEE, UCT Chapter. Here is a link to the poster. There were few postgraduate students in attendance, mostly my colleagues, who came in to cheer me up.
The Mozilla Talk
I began with a brief introduction of myself as the Mozilla Firefox Campus Representative, a web developer and a software developer. I could remember mentioning that I began developing websites when I was in my third year in College. Thereafter, I said I was going to talk as a web developer, software developer and regular user of the Internet and would point them at reasons why they should try to use the Mozilla Firefox Web browser or the Mozilla Framework. I noticed that some web savvy came by, probably to learn about new tools that they could include in their arsenals. Someone asked me what I could say about the Google Chrome, which is a new Web browser launched by Google Corporation. In my opinion, I think the Google Chrome is a XULrunner application, and that was my answer. In addition, I said that the Google Chrome is specifically meant for Google applications so that users of the applications could have faster access to them. These applications have large chunk of Javascript code, and having a specific Web browser that provides faster access to the applications is not a bad idea, though the Web browser could be used to access other websites.
I could say we had close to 30 people, mostly students, who attended the event, and the event was a successful one. I could only see few IEEE members in attendance, though I am also an IEEE member. I would like to say that we had the event under the auspices of the IEEE, UCT Chapter. Other people who came must have got the wave from the posters that I pasted. Here is a link to the pictures on the Google Picasa. On the giveways, I think the audience were not interested in the party hats, rather they went away with other gifts, like lanyards, pin badges, rubber bracelets, tattoo stickers and other sticker sets. I have the presentation slides published on the web in “.html” format, and here are the slides in the Microsoft Powerpoint “.ppt” format. I am happy to give the same talk or more information about hacking the Mozilla framework in the near future; perhaps, we could create a Mozilla Club here in the UCT like the one in Seneca College, Canada.