Engagement/Developer Engagement/FirefoxAppDays

Firefox OS App Days

What: A series of App Days celebrating Firefox OS will take place in 10-20 locations around the world. Most of these App Day events will take place on Saturday, January 26, 2013, with a few exceptions. Firm dates ASAP.

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

• 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 are the confirmed event locales for Firefox OS . Sign-ups for all locales should be available on December 17:

• Mozilla Spaces
  • Mountain View, CA - Jan 19
  • Toronto, Canada - Jan 26
  • London, England - Jan 26
  • Berlin, Germany - Jan 26
  • Auckland, NZ - Jan 26
  • Taipei, Taiwan

• Other Locations
  • Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Manila, Philippines
  • Nairobi, Kenya
  • Rome, Italy
  • Barcelona, Spain
  • Madrid, Spain
  • Sao Paulo, Brazil - Jan 26
  • Bogota, Colombia
  • Santiago, Chile
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Athens, Greece
  • Bangalore, India
  • Bucharest, Romania
  • Warsaw, Poland

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 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