India/Community Meetup 14
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Overview
Hosted by Mozilla Community in India, Active and Core contributors to Mozilla in India are invited to attend the Mozilla India Task Force Meetup & Community India Meetup 2014.
This is our biggest Pan-India meetup so far and we are super excited! This year, the meetup will be held at Hyderabad (nicknamed as the City of Pearls).
Hyderabad is a global centre of information technology, home to more than 1300 IT and ITES firms, including global conglomerates such as Facebook, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Yahoo!, Dell, and is known as Cyberabad (Cyber City).
Participants
Mozilla India Community meet-up is open to all the existing active and core contributors/volunteers of Mozilla but registration is required. Participants include but not limited to:
Staff Participants:
- Gen Kanai
- Brian King
- Madalina Ana
- Jane Hsu
Invited participants RSVP here.
Schedule
April 4(Friday) | Task Force Teams Meet
This meet is only on invitation basis. More information regarding the task force can be obtained at here. About 20 Area leads are attending this meet.
- Discussion about Task Force agenda/updates
- All the Mozilla India task force owners and mentors meet for two days to discuss upon the agenda/ topics raised at the meeting
- Each task force team would have a lead + helper who design meetup for next two days for their respective area. For Example: localization team will plan for sessions/ discussions that they would like to drive/discuss at the community India meetup which will be held on April 5-6, 2014.
April 5-6(Saturday & Sunday) | Community India Meetup
This meetup is for all Active & Core contributors which include but not limited to Mozilla Task Force Teams, FSA's, Mozilla Reps, etc.
- Agenda, SWOT and topics will be discussed at online meeting
- The two days will have focused discussions where task force leads + mentors will be helping with the respective discussions
- At the end of 2nd day, all the teams will present a summary/roadmap of their area - what they did and plan to do in 2014
Travel & Accommodation
Hotel
Everyone will be staying at The Park Hotel.Below are the hotel details:
The Park Hyderabad 22, RajBhavan Road, Somajiguda, Hyderabad - 500082 , India T: - +91 40 23456789 / 44990000 F: +91 40 23331010 E: resv.hyd@theparkhotels.com
More information regarding the hotel can be available here.
- Rooms are booked for everyone on a twin sharing basis.
- Note: If you would like to arrive earlier or stay extra days, you have to make your own booking arrangements.
If you have any questions, please contact us
Reaching Hotel
Google Maps: http://bit.ly/HydMap
Detailed Instructions:
From Airport to Hotel(please check the arrival time of other participants and co-ordinate with them):
- Take a cab (Only if 3 people traveling or at night) - get down at The Park, Rajbhavan road
- 38 KM ~45 Min drive - Don’t get carried away with people asking to get into their cab
Traveling by bus:
Drop points:
- Punjagutta
- Ameerpet
- Lakdikapool
- Take a bus from the above drop points - get down at Khairtabad bus stop, get an auto ~2KM to The Park
Traveling by train:
- Hyderabad/Secunderabd:
- If Local Train:
- Take a local MMTS train to Necklace Road station (‘The Park’ is just 1KM from Necklace Road Station).
- Make sure you get on to the right train :)
- Take a local MMTS train to Necklace Road station (‘The Park’ is just 1KM from Necklace Road Station).
- If Bus:
- From Secunderabad station - Come out of the main station, then get an auto/bus
- 8KM ~20 Min drive - pay reasonably
- From Hyderabad station - Come out of the main station, then get an auto/bus
- 6KM ~15 Min drive - just as above (pay reasonably)
- From Secunderabad station - Come out of the main station, then get an auto/bus
- If Local Train:
And if you are still stuck up somewhere in Hyderabad, say hello to us:
- Galaxy Kadiyala at +91 8951192943
- Vineel Reddy Pindi at +91 9985258603
- Srikar Ananthula at +91 9293151370
FYI: Everyone in Hyderabad can understand and speak Hindi.
Communications Channels
Social Media
- Twitter: @MozillaIN
- Official hashtag for this event : #MozMeetIN14
- Facebook
- Group: MozillaIndia
- Page : MozillaIndia
- Mozilla India Youtube
- Mozilla India Flickr
- Google Plus
IRC
- IRC: Server - irc.mozilla.org at channel: #india.Learn more about IRC here.
Local Contacts
If you have any questions about the Meetup contact us through IRC or if you need more information, please don't hesitate to contact:
- Events Team - events at mozillaindia dot org
- Srikar Ananthula - ananthulasrikar at gmail dot com - (+91) 9293 1513 70
- Galaxy Kadiyala - igalaxyk at gmail dot com - (+91) 8951 1929 43
Online Meeting
- 26th February, 9.00 PM IST: Online pan-India community meeting-2
- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Mozilla-India-Meetings-26Feb14
- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Mozilla-India-Meetings-26Feb14-notes
- 26th March, 9.00 PM IST: Online pan-India Community meeting-1 update etherpads links