RK's Rambling

MozFest is an annual, hands-on festival for and by the open Internet movement. Every year, bright minds from around the world build, debate, and explore the future of our lives online. In this publication, we invite everyone to share their thoughts and start conversations. And I had the unique opportunity to attend and take three sessions for the 2016 chapter. MozFest is a unique learning experience and a journey in itself. There are so many interesting things and session that follow those three days that it becomes almost impossible to follow everything (more on that later). So I will focus my narrative mostly on my sessions. Though technically I had three different sessions. One of them was supposed to go on for all of the days and once we reached we had to immediately start setting things up for that one. Session 1: Painting with Virtual Reality and A-Painter The primary goal of the session was to showcase the capabilities of A-frame and what a-painter can do. We had a lot of ...

Mozilla Foundations is a curious organization. Though most of us have grown up getting acquainted with it by using Netscape and later Firefox, Thunderbird. There is also the foundation part where it undertakes a lot of projects to make the openweb and world as a whole a better place. Among many teams that help volunteers, budding developers dip their toes into code, help in evangelism, code contribution, advocacy is Developer Relations (DevRel) and they came up with an ingenious plan to come up with a team of volunteers passionate about these to come forward represent Mozilla DevRel. Havi Hoffman (from Mozilla Labs), Dietrich Ayala (From Platfrom Engineering, Firefox OS) and many others handpicked a group of people who eventually came to know as Mozilla TechSpeakers. (If you want to read more about it, this lovely piece by Havi is a must read!). I was fortunate enough to be in the first group (knows as pilot pilots). And eventually ended up being facilitator to the last group which g...