Engagement/Developer Engagement/FirefoxAppDays

Firefox OS App Days

What: A series of App Days celebrating Firefox OS will take place in more than 20 locations around the world. Most of these App Day events will take place on Saturday, January 26, 2013, with a few exceptions.

This program is designed and organized by Mozilla's Engagement team in collaboration with the ReMo (the Mozilla Reps program) and the Mozilla community.

Our Goals

• Educate and inspire developers to work on HTML5 apps and submit them to the Firefox Marketplace
• Amplify and inspire grassroots developer momentum worldwide
• Create opportunities for local developers to showcase their apps
• Raise awareness of Firefox OS and the developer ecosystem

Event Venues

These are the confirmed event locales for Firefox OS App Days. Developers, designers, and entrepreneurs are invited to register. Start building apps for Firefox Marketplace and Firefox OS:

• • Athens, Greece: http://firefoxosappdays-athens.eventbrite.com/
  • Bangalore, India: http://firefoxos-appday-bangalore.eventbrite.com
  • Barcelona: http://firefoxosdaybcn.eventbrite.com/#
  • Beijing: http://firefoxosbeijing.eventbrite.com/#
  • Berlin, Germany: http://firefoxosappday-berlin.eventbrite.com/
  • Buenos Aires: http://firefoxosbsas.eventbrite.com/
  • London, England: http://fxosldn.eventbrite.com/
  • Madrid: http://firefoxosmadrid.eventbrite.com/
  • Manila, Philippines: http://firefoxosappdaysmnl.eventbrite.com/
  • Mountain View, CA, US: http://firefoxosappday-siliconvalley.eventbrite.com/#
  • Nairobi: http://firefoxosappdays-nairobi-eorg.eventbrite.com/#
  • Paris: http://firefoxosappdaysparis.eventbrite.com/
  • Rome, Italy: http://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=5030083114
  • Sao Paulo: http://firefoxosappdays-saopaulo.eventbrite.com/
  • Sénégal: http://firefoxosappdaysdakar.eventbrite.com/
  • Toronto, Canada: http://firefoxosappdays-toronto.eventbrite.com
  • Vancouver, Canada: http://firefox-os-vancouver.eventbrite.com/#
  • Warsaw, Poland: http://firefoxosappday-warsaw.eventbrite.com/#
  • Wellington http://wellingtonfirefoxosappday.eventbrite.com/#

• Mozilla Spaces
  • Taipei, Taiwan - Jan 26 (UTC+8) - http://firefoxosappday-taipei.eventbrite.com/#

• Other Locations
  • Jakarta, Indonesia - Jan 21 http://firefoxosappdays-jakarta.eventbrite.com
  • Seoul, South Korea - Jan 26 http://fxos-appday-seoul.eventbrite.com/
  • Bogota, Colombia - Jan 26
  • Santiago, Chile
  • Bucharest, Romania

Content, Templates & Toolkit

• Introduction to Firefox OS http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxos/
• Content Repo: Resources for hacking on Open Web Apps http://fwenzel.github.com/hackday-resources/StartHere.html
• Firefox Marketplace Developer Hub https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/
• Firefox OS Simulator - Add-ons for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-os-simulator/
• Firefox OS - Mozilla href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS
• Firefox Apps Docs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps target="_blank">Firefox Apps Docs</a>

Event Schedule

• Timing: Sat, Jan 19 - Sat, Jan 26: Each location will select the date and venue.

• Example schedule:

• 9:00am Check in.

• 9:30am Introduction to Firefox OS & Apps Marketplace

• 10:00 - 11:30am Screencasts and/or local speakers/demos of FxOS and phone

• 11:30 - 12:00pm Q& A

• 12:00 - 1:00pm lunch

• 1-5pm: app hacking

• 5-7pm: demos & pizza & beer or local equivalent - party-time.

Creative Assets

Pending

Resources

Learn more about:

• Firefox OS https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS
• Apps https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps
• Marketplace Developer Hub https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/

• Mozilla Reps https://reps.mozilla.org/
• Mozilla Reps Wiki https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo