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আপনারা অনেকেই হয়তো জানেন যে, দীর্ঘদিন কান্সারের সাথে যুদ্ধ করে গত মাসের ২৭ তারিখে আমাদের মজিলা কমিউনিটির প্রিয়মুখ Gervase Markham মারা গিয়েছেন।

গারভ মজিলা কমিউনিটির শুরুর দিকের একজন মেম্বার এবং মজিলার অনেক পজিশনে বিভিন্ন কাজে তার অবদান আছে। বাংলাদেশ মজিলা কমিউনিটির অনেকেই গারভ এর সাথে কাজ করেছেন। গারভের সাথে আমার প্রথম দেখা ২০১১ সালের অক্টোবরে, বনানীর বুমারস এ, সাথে ছিল রাহিদ ও এনজাম। রাহিদও আমাদের ছেড়ে চলে গিয়েছেন।

গারভ অনেক বিষয়ে বিভিন্ন সময়ে আমাকে এবং বাংলাদেশ কমিউনিটির সাহায্য করেছেন, এজন্য তাকে আন্তরিকভাবে স্মরন করছি। মিচেল বেকার গারভকে নিয়ে একটি ব্লগ পোস্ট লিখেছেন, সময় পেলে পড়ে দেখতে পারেন।

https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2018/08/07/in-memoriam-gervase-markham/

"Kabbo" is the first Bengali poem apps in Firefox Marketplace.

For the last couple of months, i was working on some Firefox OS apps ideas. After analysis, I feel the shortage of Bengali literature based apps in Firefox Marketplace. So i engaged myself for developing "Kabbo", a collection of 100+ Bengali poems apps. This December the apps published in Firefox marketplace. Initially there are some basic features like platform independent, offline usability, compatible in all Firefox, poem search option and so on.

কাব্য" এপ্লিকেশনটি বাংলা ছড়া ও কবিতা সংকলন করার একটা ছোট উদ্যোগ। ফায়ারফক্স ওএস ব্যবহারকারীদের বাংলা কাব্য চর্চাকে উৎসাহিত করার জন্য মূলত এ উদ্যোগ নেওয়া হয়েছে।

In this version added 9 poems of Satyendranath Dutta, 5 poems of Jogindranath Sarkar, 50 poems of Sukumar Ray, 4 poems of Jatindramohan Bagchi, 24 poems of Rabindranath Tagore and 10 unsorted poems.


Now based on the feedback from the users, working on the next version update of the apps.

Try Kabbo: https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/kabbo/

   

Dated: December 13th at 3:00 PM BDT
Location: Middle Badda, Dhaka, Bangladesh

13th Dec 2014 evening i with two mozillians do some Firefox OS apps idea adda, a unplanned meeting in my home. One of them is Masud Parveg, play guitar as a hobby and wants to do a guitar related apps. Other Mozillian is Nazmul Huda Shojib , passionate traveler and wants to volunteer for Travel related apps. We were online and try to share our details via etherpad https://bangladesh.etherpad.mozilla.org/129 we would love to have more ideas about apps development.

Thank you Mozilla.
With Bangladeshi Booth @ "Are You a Mozillian?" View the full Mozilla Summit 2013 video here

Mozilla Reps Camp is a yearly meeting of the Council members and Reps mentors for discussion of different topics, review our status and as well as planning for upcoming year.

This year the Camp city was Madrid, Spain, from 30th August to 1st September, 2013 and the theme of the Camp - Building Communities

I applied for the Schengen Visa and lately received the visa approval after some complications. As i am the only attendee from Bangladesh for the ReMo camp, i started my journey for the camp from Dhaka - Istanbul - Madrid. Mozilla booked my flight with TURKISH AIRLINES. The flight was good.

I meet with Alfredos Panagiotis Damkalis aka fredy at the Istanbul Airport. We ride the same flight from Istanbul to Madrid. From the Airport we decided to take the metro. After going the halfway we have to reroute our way to the Hotel, because of a line was closed for construction. Lastly reached the Radisson Blu Hotel Madrid Prado. I shared room with my mentor Vineel from India.

This camp reminds me of my previous attended Mozilla Reps Camp 2012, Berlin. This year many faces were missing from the previous camp but meet some new mozillians (face to face) for the first time.

We all wear special cool yellow vests during most of our sessions in Hub Madrid.


Thrilling camp days passed  with brainstorming, jotting ideas, action plans and so on... We do swot analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats), also divided into groups and discussed about different scheduled topics.

Our last day late night wandering in the Madrid's street was very very interesting :)


Madrid is one of the best location in the world for Fine Arts. As a great art lover i didn't miss the chance from our busy schedule to visit the Museo Reina Sofía (Spain's national museum of 20th century art) to see the famous masterpiece - "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso. i did explore some floors of the museum with some of my fellow mozillians but not much for time shortage.

Some links:
Mozilla Reps Portal event page Mozilla Reps Camp 2013
ReMo Camp 2013 information in Mozilla wiki Mozilla ReMo  Camp 2013 wiki
Some photos during the camp
One of the Group photo :)
Lanyrd remo camp madrid 2013
Twitter

This seminar is being organized to gather high school and college students together, and promote involvement in the IT industry amongst them. Venue: Auditorium, International School Dhaka, Bashundhara.

A small seven member Mozilla Bangladesh team attended the three hour conference.

We meet some celebrities like Nash Islam (CEO at G&R), Riyad Husain (CEO at Magnito Digital), Kazi Monirul Kabir (Country Consultant Bangladesh at Google), Fahim Mashroor (Founder and CEO at bdjobs.com) and so on. During the conference they share their sweet and sour experience, which was interesting and very inspiring. They talk about honesty, self judgment, creative ideas, how to manage time and most importantly entrepreneurship.

After the conference i talk with some of the speakers about Mozilla Bangladesh community and possible future coordination. We share our views and facts. The other Mozillians also talk with them about different topics. I display our "KEON" device, describe features and spread Mozilla by distributing WebFWD swag.



Reps event page: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/ittw-conference-2013-fall/
Event: photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahsanbd/sets/72157635920304675/

An effort to locate and index the Firefox Marketplace Apps from Bangladesh. Please add your apps so that other Mozillians might get help with the knowledge / resource and kick-stat their Apps development. Please, follow the format below:

Your Name - your online address

    Apps Name - URL Source code(if applicable) -
    Apps Name - URL Source code(if applicable) -
    Apps Name - URL Source code(if applicable) -

---A---

Abir Hassan - abir99 (facebook)

• SolarPedia - https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/solarpedia/

We (Mozilla Bangladesh) held an event at the Institute of Science and Technology(IST) Campus, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26th January 2013

Audience:
The event was open for all. We created a Facebook event page to start the crowd gathering. During the event, there was approx. 60 attendees including IST faculties, 3 Mozilla Reps and some active community members. The volunteers decorated the venue (IST Auditorium) with Mozilla banners, balloons, posters.

Intro:
Firefox OS and apps have been the talk of the town during the whole January in Bangladesh. Both Bengali and English Newspapers [1]-[3] were covering the news. So our event's key topic was "Firefox OS and apps development". The Talking points -

Mashkawat Ahsan:
Mozilla mission, Mozilla projects & technologies (bugzilla, Webmaker, SpiderMonkey etc.), Bangladesh Community, contributor engagement, how to contribute, Q&A sessions. Slide link: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?c5j73d0yljzyl38

Shafiul Azam:
Kickstarting Firefox OS Apps Development: Beginner's Guide for starting development of open web apps ( Intro Firefox OS, Apps, Organization, Tools, Sample apps creation, OS Simulator, Marketplace submission, Tips & Tricks, Q&A sessions. Slide link: http://shafiul.github.com/slides/kickstart_fxos.html

Aniruddha Adhikary:
Introduction to Mozilla Developer Network and valid markup (documentation, examples, best practices), Q&A sessions. Slide link: http://www.rvl.io/aniruddha/introduction-to-mdn-and-valid-markup

Event Objective:
#Short-term: Awareness of the Mozilla projects, open web, applications, standards, share guidelines so that they can start building apps.
#Long-term: Arrange open web hackathon in Bangladesh, involve the local professional and armature developers.

Anticipation:
Thanks to all the participants to keep our event warm with their anticipation [4]. It was great to be with them. Special thanks to IST authority for giving us opportunity to host the event and Md. Al-Amin Opu and his friends, Mozillian Safwan Rahman for help us coordinate the event smoothly. At the end of sessions, we chit-chat with snack packs and give away Mozilla swag :)

Thanks for reading this through.

FaceBook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/455370757861644/
Mozilla Event page: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozcampaign-ist/
Tweet: https://twitter.com/mozillaBD/status/295114207479857152
Event photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahsanbd/sets/72157644009815323/
[1] http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=266509
[2] http://eprothomalo.com/contents/2013/2013_01_27/content_zoom/2013_01_27_15_5_b.jpg
[3] http://bangla.bdnews24.com/tech/article582293.bdnews
[4] http://t.co/38Ebu2nS

visiting Ankur stall with Mozillian Mahay Alam Khan

I attended eASiA 2011 with Internet Society (ISOC) Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter and serving lighting talk about ISOC, Mozilla and open source. Many visitors and participants of eAsia2011 were interested to know more about open source projects, how they might be any use. Some of them are surprised to know that Firefox is a open source project despite they are using Firefox everyday. As a Mozilla Reps from Bangladesh, I try to give them the glimpse of ongoing Mozilla projects and technology. The whole day i give lighting talks in different groups.

On 3rd December 2011, when preaching to the university students about Mozilla, a interview was taken instantly by aNIK Khan, Host of "Young Nite".

Young Nite is a  Socio-Political Talk Show with Bangladeshi Youth from all possible sectors. A performance by an young talented performer at the end of every show.and popular among teen.

i talk about Mozilla projects, how people can get involved with Mozilla projects, contributor engagement programs, our past events (Soft launch of Mozilla Bangladesh Community), proposed upcoming programs (Hackfest, programming contests). Mozilla Firefox badge, mozillareps.org website is highlighted with my name and designation. Among the listeners, a lady's feedback is added after my conversation with the host. i'd like to take a moment to thank you to Mr. Kazi Nazmul Alam Taposh, Executive Producer, ATN News, for the time out of his busy day for me to allocate the news feed (which is now uploaded @ youtube).

The Mozilla interview later featured by ATN News - "Young Nite" program at [10th December, Friday night: 1:15am] Bangladesh Time and [10th December, Sat noon: 1:15pm] Bangladesh Time. Host by aNIK KHAN.


YouTube video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1vI80TVGsk
Audio Language: Bengali
Subtitle: No subtitle available now.
Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahsanbd/sets/72157628578373129/

15th October 2011, the three Mozilla Reps (Ahsan, Enzam and Rahid) based in Bangladesh had an opportunity to meetup with Gervase Markham. We get together at Boomers Café for lunch, a local meeting hub in Banani, Dhaka; while Gerv shared his view and experiences of Mozilla with us. We also give him the glimpse of what we have done and future planning regarding the Mozilla Community Bangladesh. We are honored by Gerv's presence and a great thanks to him for his time and consideration.

Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahsanbd/6247077619/in/set-72157627900929366

24th September 2011: This are the BUET event updates - 1. i've designed some posters with the help of Mozilla Creative Collective. We have printed and posted in different locations. http://www.hottipsblog.com/2011/09/24/soft-launch-of-mozilla-community-bangladesh/ 2. Ribbons & balloons to decorate the room. 3. Two facebook and one meetup pages are created to invite. also by twitter. BUET event's meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/mozilla/Dhaka-BD/365532/
PS: The scheduled event in 26th sep. at Asian University Bangladesh (AUB) will be delayed. as per My visit and discussion with Mr. Rahid [2], General Secretary, computer club, AUB, dated 23th sep. It is rescheduled on 14th Oct [3], but after a online meeting with Rahid & Enzam on 13th Oct. 2011, this event is on hold again.

26th September 2011: BUET event related blog posts - http://forum.linuxdesh.org/thread-663.html http://forum.projanmo.com/post355751.html#p355751 http://www.rongmohol.com/post202875.html#p202875

01st October 2011: Thank you to all the Mozillians, participants, contributors, volunteers for a great evening together at the soft launch of Mozilla Community Bangladesh, 27th Sep 2011 at BUET. A special Thanks to Mozilla, BUET, AKNET, ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter, Dhaka University, UPS for helping us to get to the event date, a successful one. It was nice to see so many open source enthusiastic men and women to celebrating this event. The event was with a vision to share the skills, ideas and interests with the Open Source participants. We are pleased that 40-50 people participate actively and enjoy the whole event. We discussed about History of Mozilla & Firefox, Open source projects, Licensing issues, Web security, Collaborative Web development etc. There was Mozilla swag for all the participants and t-shirt for quiz winners. We also arrange snacks for the participants. After the event, we found the comment book with different cool comments. A great thanks to Pierros and Vineel for resolving the swag issue. http://twitpic.com/e/1x7d


Blog post by Claire Clarista - http://bonjourmozilla.fr/?post/2011/10/03/Mozilla-Bangladesh-est-n%C3%A9-%21
Event Photos: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjwmYsta
Photo Credit: Mr. Ridwan Ahmed Khan

This are the BUET event updates -

1. i've designed some posters with the help of Mozilla Creative Collective. We have printed and posted in different locations.
2. Ribbons & balloons to decorate the room.
3. Two facebook and one meetup pages are created to invite. also by twitter. BUET event's meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/mozilla/Dhaka-BD/365532/

PS: The scheduled event in 26th sep. at Asian University Bangladesh (AUB) will be delayed. as per My visit and discussion with Mr. Rahid [2], General Secretary, computer club, AUB, dated 23th Sepember'11. It is rescheduled on 14th October'11 [3], but after a online meeting with Rahid & Ienzam on 13th Oct. 2011, this event is on hold again.

We meetup with the Mozillians in BUET, to discuss about our upcoming Open Source (Mozilla Campus Campaign) event at BUET, dated 27th September 2011. Earlier we decided with 24th but we pushed the date a bit for some issues. We survey the event venue today for the preparation. Btw, the topics that we have selected for the events are - History of Mozilla & Firefox, Collaborative Web development, Web security, Open source projects in Bangladesh, Licensing issues. There would be quiz, Q&A and review sessions also, we will fine-tuning the topics before our next pre-event meeting.