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OpenSource Bridge 2016: Back among the Open Source Citizens

  I recently gave a talk  in OpenSource Bridge in Portland. This was my second time taking a session here, the first one being on Firefox OS ( sigh ) last year. My session was on 23rd June, the penultimate day of the conference and the same day when I finally reached portland at 12:50 AM. Since the talk was at 10:45 AM. I spend the rest of the night quickly juggling up my slides and last minute code pushes in github. Last minute talks are nothing new to me, being the star procrastrinator among all the Mozilla TechSpeakers. But this time I was a little nervous and wanted the talk to go smooth since this had generated a little bit of attention due to an awesome article from Benjamin (which you can read here ). And the tweets followed Bringing #Mozilla to the IoT er > the glee, when your merged #firefox code will affect millions of people @rabimba https://t.co/5oAaEEgfxo — Jeff Mackanic (@mackanic) June 13, 2016 . @mozilla needs to stay relevant and gui

All Hands 2016: MozLondon, A recount

#MozLondon : Mozilla All Hands 2016 I recently had the opportunity to take part in Mozilla All Hands 2016 (a.k.a #MozLondon). Mozilla All hands. All Hands are bi-yearly events of Mozilla where all the paid staff from different teams around the globe meet with each other along with a handful of invited volunteers to disscuss about future projects and get some work done! This year it was in London and just immediately before Brexit (I actually didn't even know about it before I went there). It was a work week, so essentially the event spanned from Monday to Friday. I arrived at LHR on Monday morning, and then there was the awesome Heathrow Express which took me to Paddington, just a 7 mins walk away from Hilton Metropole where I was staying with a bunch of other people. The event started with all of us having an evening orientation familiarizing us with rules and regulations along with Code of Conduct(that turned out to be really important later on...).  Tuesday started w