Tuesday 13 May 2014

Mozilla Firefox Launch Event in Pakistan

After the launch of well awaited Firefox around the globe many countries like Hong Kong, Bangladesh, India, etc organized an event for the launch of the new Firefox. Among all these Pakistan has also organized it's first official or mega event on 10th May 2014 at Beaconhouse National University. This was the first mega event which was organized by Huda Sarfraz followed by Pakistani Mozillians team.

There were 150 seats for the people to show up their interest and register themselves into this launch event and among those around 90-100 people showed up which was one of the big achievement for the Pakistani Mozillians team.

Starting with, the event was started a bit late at 11:30am but Talaal Burny kicked off the event well decently and kept the atmosphere alive. He started with the giveaways by asking audience different questions related to Mozilla. The first giveaway was a Firefox cap to one of the attendees who had Firefox installed on his/her android phone.


Talaal Burny Kicking off the event
Credits: Farooq Saleemi


Talaal Burny giving away the Mozilla T-shirt
Credits: Salman Ansari



After the giveaway Talaal announced the first presenter of the day, Asad Sajjad to give a talk on "Get involved: Volunteer options at Mozilla or How to get Involved in Mozilla ?". He explained about the Mozilla contributions that how they can contribute or get themselves involve in the Mozilla Community as well as Firefox Student Ambassador Program(FSA).




Asad Sajjad Presening "Get involved: Volunteer options at Mozilla"
Credits: Farooq Saleemi

Asad Sajjad Presenting "Get involved: Volunteer options at Mozilla"
Credits: Farooq Saleemi

After Asad's presentation there was the second giveaway for the attendees which was correctly identifying the Webmaker logo.


Later on now it was Shahmir Khan's time to come in and share his knowledge about Mozilla Technologies and the Open Web. His great talk on Shumway, Appmaker and the demonstration of Firefox OS indulged the audience.

Shahmir Khan presenting "Mozilla Technologies and the Open Web"
Credits: Farooq Saleemi



Now here comes another giveaway # 3 after Shahmir's talk which was correctly identifying the Firefox OS logo for the firefox swag.


Now it's time for Fawad Hassan to come in and explain more about Firefox OS. He came all across from Islamabad to give a talk on Firefox OS. His talk was totally based on Firefox OS and he also demonstrated the contact viewer application to the audience who responded much to his talk in the question answers session after his talk.


Fawad Hassan presenting "Firfeox OS"




Now here comes another giveaway # 4 which was the tongue twister 'the quick orange Firefox jumped over the lazy dog' (3 times) in-order to win Firefox swag.

After Fawad Hassan, it was Mehmood Ali and Hasan Ahmed's time to join the stage for the most important presentation of the day, for which this event was organized "The  New Firefox".
Mehmood Ali and Hasan Ahmed demonstrated the New Firefox, told about the new features and the existing feature which has been improved in the New Firefox. They also explained that how easy the Mozilla has made the customization for the users in the New Firefox and how we can set the interface of our browser according to our priorities or our choices. Mehmood Ali also told us how to bring/make UNICORN in the browser by throwing everything into the Additional Tools & Features in the Customization section.

Mehmood Ali demonstrating "The New Firfox"
Credits: Farooq Saleemi

Mehmood Ali and Hasan Ahmed demonstrating "The New Firfox"
Credits: Farooq Saleemi



After Mehmood Ali and Hasan Ahmed's talk we had a Question/Answers session from the audience in which all of the team who presented came up to answer their question. Most of the questions asked by the audience were about Firefox OS and what benefit will they get by joining Mozilla Community and What we are getting from it?




Question/Answers Panel

Now it was the time for the best TWEET and the best SELFIE competition, whose winners were announced right after the lunch break. During the lunch break we had different booth's for the attendees to get more and detailed information about every single presented. These booth's included Firefox Student Ambassador Program, How to contribute, Webmaker, Urdu Localization, Firefox OS and the Firefox OS phone demo, and more about The New Firfox.

The New Firefox Booth
Credits: Farooq Saleemi


Firefox OS phone demo Booth
Credits: Farooq Saleemi



Urdu Localization Booth
Credits: Farooq Saleemi



Special thanks to our Social Media Team who kept the event alive on the social networks.

Social Media Team




Mozilla Pakistan Community ended up the event by cutting the cake.

p.s THE CAKE WAS AWESOME ... :P

The New Firefox Launch event Cake





 The Mozilla Pakistan Team and Community. Keep up the GREAT WORK ! :)



The Mozilla Pakistan Team-I

The Mozilla Pakistan Team-II






Links to our Mozilla Pakistan pages

Facebook -> https://www.facebook.com/groups/MozPk/
Twitter -> twitter.com/MozPk
Google + -> http://tiny.cc/MozPk

Flickr for more pictures ->
https://www.flickr.com/photos/imsaleemi/sets/72157644592641702
https://www.flickr.com/photos/salman-ansari-photography/sets/72157644213619400
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44794267@N00/sets/72157644680136193


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