FirefoxFlicks at New Horizon

Flicks at new horizon was amazing, the event started at around 2:30 EAT ,though we had a smaller number of students, I introduced the flicks competition and took guys through the most important things to have in mind for the competition i.e the rules, theme, entry criteria,how to enter and prizes to win.

When it came to explaining what  firefoxOS was, oh my GOD everybody was eager to hear about it, I went through it, its technologies, how to develop apps, developer engagement and how to submit for a while. Everybody couldn’t wait to attend the forth coming firefoxOS hackathon.

We then went straight to showing them some flicks that are already submitted, starting with the early entry winners, then we went to the Ugandan flicks that were submitted so far and then we completed with more videos. This helped them to get a clearer picture of what to do, To make sure we were on the same page,we asked for ideas from them but they were so quiet and couldn’t give their own ideas which forced Lawrence to ask everyone  to give their ideas one at a go.

Lawrence our awesome community manager noticed the guys were so interested to know about other products Mozilla has got for developers, he talked about addons, the maker party that is going on, the webmaker tools and opportunities available to contribute to.

We concluded the event with interactions and sharing contacts with guys who wanted help and clarity with creating their flicks videos.

Thanks to the flicks team for their co-operation

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Firefox flicks at Mulltitech Business School

The Mozilla Uganda Community is participating in this years Firefox Flicks video competition,We are encouraging aspiring filmmakers, animators and creatives from around the country to produce and submit short films that promote and educate users about the issues that affect their online lives and also raise awareness about Firefox,FirefoxOS and mozilla.

We had an official launch of the flicks season before we started moving to different film institutions to tell them about flicks, how to enter, the rules judges and prizes.

We visited Multitech Business School where we talked to over 35 internship students from Busitema university which is found in Tororo in the eastern part of Uganda, Most of them were IT and computer science students and a few were interested in Multimedia and video related activities.
I began by taking them through Mozilla, its Mission, projects, how to contribute and the mozilla-uganda community because they were curious to know about Mozilla.It was an interactive and interesting session



 I then took them through the Flicks competition, how to enter,the theme "GET MOBILIZED" ,the rules, prizes and judges they loved the whole idea, and promised to get straight to work, We got some cool ideas from them just to make sure they understood the concept.
The students were more interested in the other projects so i took them through firefoxOS, amazing, they were all left wondering about the languages used and the phones owesome capabilities with the use of CSS3,HTML5 and JAVASCRIPT.
We went straight through X-ray goggles, etherpad and thimble. The students loved the tools and we went straight to hands-on, at some point someone cleared all the etherpad content to see if it really allows working in real time and collaboratively,they got their hands dirty with hacking pages but we had a limited time left.

 

Generally the students were left amazed and asked us to go back another time. we session was concluded by Moses who talked about how to access us on social media, how to join the community , how to contribute and encouraged them to keep using the webmaker tools.
 Lots of thanks to the team(martin,kelvin,moses) for the great work, the whole community and the Flicks team.
LINKS:  https://etherpad.mozilla.org/remo-multitech-webmaker-training
                https://firefoxflicks.mozilla.org
                http://www.multitech.co.ug
PHOTOS: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/set=a.478418562248244.1073741830.173150682775035&type=1
@MozComUg @mozilla @FirefoxFlicks
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