Uganda Christian University Webmaker

On 29th March we held a webmaker event where students and developers witnessed the power and the possibilities of the open web by Mozilla.

Participants

 The event was graced by 64 participants at the beginning of the event but the number kept growing as time went on. We planned to have 50 attendees but we had over 90 registrations 24hrs before the event day, so we sent invites to 70 participants out of all those who applied for the event.
The event was opened by a senior lecturer at the faculty of science and technology  Uganda Christian University, Ms. Asiimwe Rebecca , who coordinated the event organization and welcomed us, she gave her views about the open web and showed a lot of support and encouraged the students to embrace the Mozilla projects

 We had participants from UCU , Makerere university and Kampabits institute who were all enthusiasts and were so interested in webmaker tools. We had told them before how remixing and hacking with the webmaker tools was fun.

 The session started off with a small introduction of the community members and San James went on and introduced the Mozilla community, the Mozilla foundation, its projects and how to contribute.

San James on Community and Mozilla

 We had sessions on Firefox Students Ambassadors (by Joy) and FirefoxOS (by Micheal and Brian) which included a short demo of an application by Brian.  

Micheal on FFOS

We started off the web making session introducing the tools to the participants; it was not hard because the participants already had knowledge about JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Despite the fact that they were using the tools for the first time and being given only two hours to comeup with makes, these are some of the makes participants came up with.

San James teaching thimble

We awarded the best four makes with the best coming from a group of guys who made a very good mix showing Uganda’s independence history, Here are some of the makes from the event:

• https://pnemeyer.makes.org/thimble/MTg5MDQ1MTQ1Ng==/vintage-newspaper
• https://quinton.makes.org/thimble/LTE3NTAyMDQ0MTY=/music-is-life
• https://donnemma.makes.org/thimble/LTE4Njc2NDQ5Mjg=/deps-vybes-let-your-voice-be-heard
• https://allan_senkubuge.makes.org/thimble/LTIwNTIxOTQzMDQ=/book-cover
• https://jarau.makes.org/thimble/LTE4MzQwOTA0OTY=/principles-of-design-page-elements 

More makes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/remo-webmakerucu 

It was amazing seeing the students and techies showing so much interest and the passion they while voting the best makes of the day, with so much interest, they asked us to go back to have more events there.

The event was awesome with a lot of love showed for the webmaker project, this shows the web has a great future indeed, we plan to hold more events especially apps sessions and hackathon at the university very soon. It was a great experience.

Credit to everyone who made this event so great and gave the students a lot of pride in what they learned.

Links: http://www.ucu.ac.ug/ucunew/

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Thanks to Mozilla.