MAOW:2009:Berlin:en

Mozilla Add-Ons Workshop :: Berlin

Berlin, Saturday 28th of March 2009

Online registration required

In collaboration with the German community

What is the MAOW?

Have you always dreamed of going behind the scenes of Firefox ? Are you a Web developer (or not yet!) and have you always wished to make your first Firefox extension ? As an Add-ons developer, you are familiar with XUL, overlays, chrome, but have never dared go further?

This is the opportunity for you to make your wish come true: the next Mozilla Add-ons Workshop is coming to Berlin, on Saturday, 28th of March! In collaboration with the German Xul community, the MAOW will be a day of workshops and presentations (mostly in German, but also English) about Mozilla Technologies, and more particularly about Add-ons.

The schedule includes workshops that will teach you how to make your first extension, many presentations of new Mozilla technologies, conferences on how to hack and contribute to Firefox ... and on top of this, you'll be able to discuss with skillful developers, along with a nice cup of coffee. And not to forget to mention your own demonstrations of Add-ons and of XulRunner applications !

And last but not least, we have the honor to announce the presence of Rey Bango, Community Manager for Mozilla Add-ons, and of Paul Rouget, Mozilla Tech Evangelist, as well as many active members of the Mozilla community.

Participants

Web developers, hackers, C++ developers, XUL developers, or bloggers, journalists and people just plain curious about Firefox Add-ons : EVERYONE IS WELCOME and ENTRANCE IS FREE

Goals

• Propose a base for discussions and exchange for XUL developers and non developers.
• Encourage and facilitate the creation and diffusion of Add-ons by German developers.
• Promote a local Mozilla ecosystem.

Schedule

If you know the Mozilla platform, we strongly encourage you to help us by giving a talk : feel free to send an email to Paul Rouget <paul at mozilla dot com>. It can be about one these proposed talks, or something from you.

Here is a tentative schedule.

Time Slot	Main room
10:00 - 11:00	WELCOME COFFEE
11:00 - 11:10	Welcome introduction - Paul Rouget (en)
11:10 - 12:00	Keynote - Rey Bango (en)
12:00 - 12:45	LUNCH
	Main Room	Room A	Room B
12:45 - 13:30	The Mozilla Build System: Robert Kaiser (de)	How to write your first extension: Robert Nyman (en)	TBD
13:30 - 14:15	Quality assurance: Carsten Book (de)	How to write your first XulRunner application: Daniel Glazman (en)	Gecko 1.9.1, what's new?: Yan Minagawa (de)
14:15 - 14:30	COFFEE BREAK
14:30 - 15:15	Fun and Art: Tobias Leingruber (de)	Make money with extensions: Daniel Glazman (en)	Adapt websites to your own needs with Greasemonkey - Richard Sternagel
15:15 - 16:00	Ubiquity: Rey Bango (en)	TBD	TBD
16:00 - 16:15	COFFEE BREAK
16:15 - 17:00	How to localize your extension: Jurgen Berg (de)	Javascript in add-ons (jsm, XPCOM, 1.7/1.8, and more): Brian King (en)	TBD
17:00 - 17:45	make extensions work on SeaMonkey 2: Robert Kaiser (de)	Starting with XBL - Create your own Objects: Daniel Kirsch (de)	Enlightening the Calendar: Writing Calendaring extensions: Philipp Kewisch (de)
18:00 - ...	TBD	Text Interface Revival - Sven Guckes	TBD

Speakers

• Paul Rouget:

Mozilla Tech Evangelist, organizer.

• Robert Nyman:

Robert has been working with web developing, mostly interface coding, since 1998. His biggest interests lie in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In his talk he will talk you through your first steps with Firefox extension development to a complete runnable extension.

• Tobias Leingruber:

Tobias' background is web development and visual design. In 2007 he fell in love with FF add-ons and remixing the web. The browser is his operating system. He will show a collection of fun and experimental add-ons .

• Brian King:

Long-time Mozilla contributor, Founder of Briks Software and President of Mozdev.

• Robert Kaiser ("KaiRo"):

German Mozilla localizer since late 1999, theme designer and code contributor to L10n, build system, UI and SeaMonkey areas, SeaMonkey Council member, serving as project coordinator and build/release engineer.

• Philipp Kewisch:

...has been contributing to the Calendar Project since late 2006. He started out with the Provider for Google Calendar and after many core code contriutions now leads the Project.

• Yan t Minagawa  :
  • just diving into mozillaverse.
  • internet and plattform technologist, involved in many open source and open culture activities.
  • long-term crew member of c-base spacestation.

• Daniel Kirsch:

Has done localization work for mozilla. Works on commercial projects based on Mozilla/XULRunner since 2003. Works daily with JavaScript, XUL, CSS and other web technologies.

• Carsten Book blog email
  • Software Engineer working for the Mozilla QA Team, long time Mozilla Community Member, works on Automated Testing, Performance Testing, Community

Jürgen Berg:
German extension localizer.
Administrator of Babelzilla, a site dedicated to provide localizations for extensions

When?

Saturday 28th of March, 2009

10:00 to 22:00

Where?

The MAOW Berlin will take place at the C-Base Raumstation (see map here).

For more information on C-Base, please visit http://c-base.org

Registration

All participants are asked to register by filling in the MAOW Berlin registration form here.

Speaker Sponsorship

All speakers at the MAOW will be fully sponsored. Hotel, food and travel expenses will be fully reimbursed by Mozilla Europe.

To be reimbursed, please send all scanned receipts and the filled-out expense form to William Quiviger (william @ mozilla dot com)

Information & Contact

For any further information, please contact:

• Paul Rouget <paul @ mozilla dot com> (english)
• Wiliam Quiviger <william @ mozilla dot com> (english)