India
About India
India is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people. India is a federation composed of 28 states and 7 union territories.
- 125 Million Internet users in 2011 and 150+ Million in 2012.
- "There were only around two million smartphones back in 2011 and less than a million on Android. Now, there are more than 27 million smartphones and next year it will be over 50 million."-- Google India
- Mobile Vs. Desktop: 56.30% vs. 43.70%
About Mozilla India
Mozilla India is a group of passionate people who care for the web and love Mozilla to take its mission forward to guard the open nature of the internet. Our regional community has contributors that include student reps, localizers, testers, marketing volunteers, coders, Mozilla Reps etc. These community members come from various backgrounds - some are students, teachers, lawyers, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, designers, parents.
Objective(s)
Mozilla India is a volunteer run organizations engaged in promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the web in the country. Mozilla India is driven by community who volunteer their time and energy to lend momentum to protect, nurture and steward the web they love.
Mozilla India was born as an effort to bring together a community for users, translators and developers of the Mozilla and Open Web technologies in India.
Mozilla India is part of the global community of Mozilla Foundation, founded to manifest the state of Mozilla community in India.
The organization is composed of the most active contributors, which may vary over time.
Here is the current list of active contributors and partners.
Mission Mozilla India is a community driven initiative to work together on a well defined goals with a purpose to improve and grow. We as a community aim to reach end users, contributors with various resources and guide them about the projects. We hope to make it easier for anyone to participate and help them focus on the projects they choose to get involve and advise on getting started. Raise awareness on the Mozilla mission, introduce Mozilla to educational institutions, government organizations and corporate companies, increase PR activities. Create momentum for action and strive to keep the web open.
Promote projects and ideas of Mozilla in India by organizing events, localization of products, offering free help, knowledge, resources and our vision for an open web, make everyone realize that Internet is a critical public resource.
Promote Open Source and Open Web Technologies in the country. We are open to associate/work with existing open source or other community run, public benefit organizations.
"Internet By The People Internet For The People"
Internal organization
We are a meritocracy group like the rest of Mozilla and the regional community is categorized across as below:
Categories
- Users: Anyone who visits the site.
- Casual contributors: Users that contribute to the community from time to time in different projects.
- Core contributors: A casual contributor who has been participating actively for at least 6 months or more could be proposed as a core contributor or member. He will have rights to vote in the internal decisions that could be made in the community. If you are going to be inactive or you stop contributing you will be again a casual contributor.
- Owners: Casual or core contributors who are in-charge of a Task Force Area. The role of Owner is responsible for defining tasks, prioritize to get the best possible progress and review its implementation.
- Mentors: Casual or core contributors who want to help newcomers to get into the community. This is an additional responsibility.
Areas
Anyone who cares about the web, loves Firefox or believe in the Mozilla mission can join the community and can start contributing to the projects. You don't have to be a C++ guru to be able to contribute to Mozilla. There are several areas that one can contribute to based on their availability of time even if that's 5 minutes!
- Technical
- Engagement
- Localization
- WoMoz: Women & Mozilla
- SUMO & QA
- PR/ Comms & NeMo
- Events & Logistics
- Documentation
- Legal/ Patents
- Webmaker
Task Force
Each Area has a Task Force Team. Task Forces are the interest groups that focus on a specific Area of contribution(SUMO, Localization, QA, Engagement, Web-Dev, IT ). You can learn more about the Task Force Teams here.
Owner of Task Force
Each Task force area will have one owner in-charge, mentor(s) to guide new members and a variable number of contributors. Preferably, it will prevent a single community member responsible for several areas. You can learn more about the Owner of the task force here.
Mentors
Mentors are the casual/ core contributors who take up the responsibility to help/ guide others. This is an additional responsibility. To learn more about the Mentors please visit this page.
Communication Channels
- Join our Mailing list.
- Click this document to learn about the culture and "good things to keep in mind". Very useful read if you are getting started.
- IRC: Server- irc.mozilla.org at Channel #india
- Learn more about IRC here.
- Facebook:
- Mozilla India Youtube
- Mozilla India Flickr
- Google Plus
Contact
Have questions or would like to talk to us? Write to us at join at mozillaindia dot org :)
Monthly Online Meetings
Once a month, an open meeting is organized for status updates on different on-going projects and followed by topic that would need discussion.
How to join the meetings: - You can join us at #india on IRC (irc.mozilla.org).
Events & Campaigns
Events
- List of events in 2010
- List of events in 2011
- List of events in 2012
- List of events in 2013
Campaigns
License
Mozilla India is a group of volunteers and officially represents Mozilla Foundation or Corporation in the country. To ensure compliance with policy trademarks of Mozilla Foundation, the following statement is made: The use of trademarks Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Sunbird, Camino, Bugzilla and other for Mozilla Foundation, and the use of the logos of Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird is done for the sole purpose of publicizing and promote Mozilla products and explicitly recognizes that Mozilla India not own or have any rights to such trademarks or logos. It also states that, according to the information in the FAQ on Mozilla's trademarks (in English) , trademarks and logos mentioned in the previous section are the exclusive property of Mozilla Foundation.