Episode 1 mozilla contribution
- 1. Contribution path to Mozilla
- 2. GOALS ● To help students understand how they can contribute to Mozilla. ● To know how this contribution plays a major role in their professional life.
- 4. Where to Contribute ● FireFox is available in large number of languages. ● In India, it is also available in Regional Languages like Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, etc. ● It is done by the contributors like us who put energy to bring their own languages. ● Companies hire professionals, who are expertised in localization and make their Software available in all other languages. MOZILLA L10N
- 5. Where to Contribute ● Rust is the current trending area in Mozilla community. ● It is designed in such a way that SECURITY is given the major priority. ● It is a System level programming language that runs fast and prevents segmentation faults. YOUR CONTRIBUTION: ➔ Can write simple programs in Rust and share with your friends. ➔ Create Rust Libraries called Creators and make it available in creators.io which can be used by many other Rust developers. RUST
- 6. Where to Contribute WEB DOCS ● Initially called as Mozilla Developer Network. ● Involves large number of documentation works about HTML, CSS and Web related technologies. ● Most of the documentation related to Mozilla Technologies are available here. YOUR CONTRIBUTION: ➔ Can be a Documentation write. ➔ Proof reader for existing documents. ➔ Can translate the documents to your language.
- 7. Where to Contribute ADD ONS ● Browser Customization is the most important part in browser. YOUR CONTRIBUTION: ➔ Bring large number of add ons to addons.mozilla.org. ➔ Python knowledge, help in writing back end system of addons.mozilla.org (amo). ➔ If react, you can contribute to Front end.
- 8. Where to Contribute WEB COMPAT YOUR CONTRIBUTION: ➔ Report Bugs at webcompat.com ➔ Write simple html and css fixs for the particular bugs. ➔ Reach the bug to the developer. ● Currently, many developers are developing their contents only for specific web browsers like Chrome or Firefox. ● Thus it makes the web to look broken. ● The main of this is to make sure that a web page works across all the browsers in a similar fashion.
- 9. Where to Contribute AFRAME YOUR CONTRIBUTION: ➔ Building Aframe screens. ➔ Fix simple Aframe bugs in the Mozilla Repository. ● The main aim is to bring Virtual Reality in web, avoiding the gate keepers like Google or Facebook. ● They use simple HTML tags which makes easier of Development .
- 10. Where to Contribute ● Other areas include, increase the growth of Firefox usage. ● Quality Assurance ( Done by most of Developers ). ● Open Design - Logo designing as requirements specified by the border community. ● Feedbacks will be provided by them after mentoring, so that you can improve your designing skills.
- 11. NEXT STEP 1. Choose your area of specialization 2. Start your contribution in that particular area PASSION MATTERS
- 12. Find them at https://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ https://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ SPECIALLY FOR DEVELOPERS
- 13. WHY SHOULD I CONTRIBUTE What is that extra "wow" in your resume? Highlight your contributions in your resume
- 14. Check: https://tinyurl.com/PrasQA Eg. Mr. Prasanth - Mozilla Contributor Got opportunity to answer the HR people about his contributions towards Mozilla and thus cracked his interview at AMAZON.
- 15. Work on Live Projects Apply your knowledge in the real time applications.
- 16. Meeting "awesome" people & have fun
- 17. Reach our MozillaIN Community ● Tweet to @mozillaIN ● Join IRC channels #mozillaIN, ● Join the Telegram group @MozillaIN ● Our Google Groups https://tinyurl.com/GgMozIN
- 18. Reach our MozillaTN Community ● Tweet to @MozillaTN ● Join IRC channels #MozillaTN, #MozillaTNC ● Join the Telegram group @MozillaTN , @MozillaTNC ● Our Google groups https://tinyurl.com/GgM ozTN