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
11:10 - 12:00	Keynote - Rey Bango
12:00 - 12:45	LUNCH
	Main Room	Room A	Room B
12:45 - 13:30	The Mozilla Build System: Robert Kaiser	How to write your first extension: Robert Nyman	TBD
13:30 - 14:15	Quality assurance: Carsten Book	How to write your first XulRunner application: Daniel Glazman	Gecko 1.9.1, what's new?: Yan Minagawa
14:15 - 14:30	COFFEE BREAK
14:30 - 15:15	Fun and Art: Tobias Leingrub	Make money with extensions: Daniel Glazman	TBD
15:15 - 16:00	Ubiquity: Rey Bango	TBD	TBD
16:00 - 16:15	COFFEE BREAK
16:15 - 17:00	How to localize your extension: Jurgen Berg	Javascript (jsm, xpcom, 1.7/1.8): Brian King	TBD
17:00 - 17:45	make extensions work on Seamonkey 2: Robert Kaiser	XBL: Daniel Kirsch	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 lies 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.

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)