Engagement/Developer Engagement/FirefoxAppDays

Firefox OS App Days

What: A series of App Days which will take place over the course of approx one week in 10-20 locations around the world. Most of the global App Day events will take place on Saturday January 19, 2013 or Saturday, January 26, 2013.

This program is driven by Mozilla's Engagement team. The events themselves will be organized and coordinated through ReMo and the Mozilla community.

Goals

• Inspire and amplify grassroots developer momentum worldwide
• Educate and inspire developers to work on apps and submit them to the Firefox Marketplace
• Create opportunities for local developers to showcase their apps
• Gather sign-ups and raise awareness of the developer phone program

Event Venues

These event locales are confirmed, but still subject to change.

• Mozilla Spaces
  • Mountain View, CA
  • Toronto, Canada
  • London, England
  • Berlin, Germany
  • Auckland, NZ
  • Taipei, Taiwan

• Other Locations
  • Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Manila, Philippines
  • Nairobi, Kenya
  • Rome, Italy
  • Barcelona, Spain
  • Madrid, Spain
  • Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Bogota, Colombia
  • Santiago, Chile
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Athens, Greece
  • Pune, India
  • Bucharest, Romania

Content, Templates & Toolkit

• Learning materials in progress (Mortar templates, Marketplace screencast, Firefox OS Simulator)

• • Video introduction (in production)
  • Marketplace screencast

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 Requirements

Pending

Resources

Pending