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First ever Mozilla South Asia Inter-Community Meet-up was held successfully on 23rd and 24th February 2013 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
All most all the participants had landed in Kathmandu by 22nd night. We all had dinner, traditional Nepalese with marvellous traditional dancing at Yak & Yeti Hotel where the meet-up was to be hosted and where accommodation was provided as well.
On the official first day of the meet-up, 23rd, the session kicked off with introducing each other, our role in Mozilla and how we hope to contribute to Mozilla in the year ahead. A SWOT analysis was done on community basis. In the afternoon we all attended the Open Data Day which was a public event organized by the FOSS communities in Nepal. There several small sessions each with a time span of around 15 minutes were carried out on Mozilla as an organization, Firefox OS, Webmaker and Localization. A load of thanks to Gen, Deb, Gautham, Mac and Huda. A few Firefox OS developers phones were available and the participants had the chance to have hands on experience of the Firefox OS. That was the firsts hands on experience of mine as well and that was simply superb. Next we had a discussion with Nepalese FOSS communities on "How to sustain with FOSS". There we discussed about the issues that are faced by the FOSS communities, how to retain the existing contributors, financial sustainability of the projects, how we can adopt from other communities etc. Back at the hotel we discussed the issues faced by Mozilla communities in each country and solutions as suggestions based on the SWOT analysis in the morning session.
On 24th, officially the last day of the meet-up, common issues for the Mozilla communities in each country were identified and categorized. Participants were listed under each category as their interest. A task force for each category was formed and they discussed separately to come up with a road map for the year 2013 so that the common issues raised earlier are addressed properly. I hope that through inter community support and collaboration, we as the Mozilla South Asian community will be able to spread the word and contribute to make Mozilla products better.
It was a wonderful experience, the stay at Nepal and the meet-up. Many thanks to all the participants, Mozilla Nepal community and other supporters for the great hospitality and organization. Special thanks to Suresh and Lumbini FOSS community for the immense support rendered to Danishka and myself during our visit to Lumbini the following day.
Hope to see you all and more in the next meet-up with all the tasks in the road map ticked :-)
More info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community/South-Asia/Inter-Community-Meetup-2013
More info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community/South-Asia/Inter-Community-Meetup-2013
Nice blogpost, hope this will produce more contributor :)
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