MozCafe Rwanda 14th December, 2013

3.30PM, December 14th 2013, this was Rwanda's 1st official Mozilla event - MozCafe Rwanda. The swag arrived 4 days to the event and we were ready to begin. The turn out was not as expected but we had enough people (11) to continue with the event.

Agenda of the Day Event was:

• Building Mozilla Rwanda - Progress made so far as a community and plans for the future.
• Mozilla Rwanda Launch - Set a date and updates from Az
• Reports from Members working on different projects 

 Having our computers, tablets, i pads and agenda, we started the meeting.1st thing on the agenda, Building Mozilla Rwanda. +Az Anitah  took the team through the designs she had ie the logo, and promotional items she had designed for the community. We also discussed about Spreading the word and we picked schools as our start up points in this area. After a long discussion, we all agreed to visit two schools early next year to start then we will visit others later in the year. First school we target is KIST, end of January after their exams. Some of the activities we had in mind for spreading the word was to start Mozilla Clubs in Schools.

2nd thing on the Agenda, Mozilla Rwanda Launch. We set a date for the Launch of the community in February, 2013. We also discussed some of the Mozilla Gear we can design as a community for the event. Will share the designs with Mozilla Community soon.

3rd thing in the agenda was reports from members working on difernt projects. +Andrew Kinai  took us through a translation add on he and Fiacre are working on.

The addon is to allow a user to select a word, right click it and click the translate item added to the context menu. A small popup window will appear with translations of the selected word in Kinyarwada or English depending on the word selected.

The addon will utilize an API from kinyarwanda.net accessible here kinyarwanda.net/meta/query.xml.php?q=bite

One member was to do some research on localization, how to start translating Mozilla Firefox to Kinyarwanda, but he was busy did not get time to do it. Another member, Benjamin, took us through what we discussed about localization in our previous meeting so that the new members can know what we were talking about. Az was then given the task to do some research on localization and email the team about it so that the next meeting we can know where to start from.

 

After discussing our agenda, everyone got Mozilla Swag that Mozilla sent us then we had our A.O.B session. So many ideas were put on the table (Building Mozilla Rwanda) to be discussed. Some of them were;

• Have hangout sessions and Meet ups with other communities e.g Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania so that we can get familiar with what communities do.
• Rwanda's 20th Commemoration will be next year. This will be a big thing for the country and we can have an Advert about that and customize it on the Mozilla Firefox home page just like Google . 

After 2 hours of discussion, meeting ended at 5.30pm. That was the last meet up for he year2013. Next meeting is next year, January 2014.

I would like to wish all the Mozillians out there a Merry Christmas and a happy 2014.

9.11.13 2nd Mozilla Rwanda Meet Up

Saturday 9^th November 2013, we had our 2nd meet up at KLab in Kacyiru. It rained all morning and part of the afternoon so not many turned up and we started late. We were twelve members.

The agenda of the meeting was:

• Localization of Mozilla Firefox
• Translation Plug in

We went through the Mozilla website and other community websites to find out what they have done. Talked to Alex Wafula over the phone who referred me to Emmanuel (introduced us on email) of Mozilla Uganda Community because he has done a lot on localization.  Arky also sent us  a tutorial on Locolization which we also went through then we put Gaspard of Mozilla Rwanda in charge on the Localization project. Gaspard was asiigned to get more information from Arky and Emmanuel then will take the community through in the next meet up then we can start localizing Mozilla Firefox.

The 2nd item on the Agenda was the translating plug which Andrew and Fiacre are working on. Andrew explained to the community the mechanism of the plug in, how far they had worked on it and the challenges they went through. The plug in is still ongoing and they will give us more updates in the next meeting.

Meeting was over at 5.30 Pm. Next meeting is on 14th December, 2013 @ 3Pm

26.10.13 1st MozRwanda meet up at kLab Report

Saturday 26^th October 2013, Mozilla Rwanda Community had their 1^st meet up at KLab in Kacyiru to start the journey of Mozilla in Rwanda.

Kigali, Rwanda

9 members availed themselves with their laptops at around 3.00PM ready for our MISSION that keeps the internet alive and accessible to all. 

Discussions

The Agenda of the meet up was:

•  Interests people can contribute their skills in
• Plan/Preparation of the Community’s 1^st Hack Jam
• Look and feel of Mozilla Rwanda Community
• The Launch of the Community

Having this in mind, we all started the day’s activities and everyone went through the Mozilla.org/contribute website to see how they can contribute their skills. After everyone had a picture of what they wanted to do, we showed videos about Mozilla so that they can have an understanding of what Mozilla and its communities are all about. I think this was necessary because it answered so many questions the new members had about Mozilla and why they need to be part of the community. We then planned our 1st Hack Jam which will be on 9th November 2013. Each member will go the website to see what projects we can hack and each will suggest their topic in the course of the week and we will vote what projects we will hack. One project we all agreed on was Localization which +Az will discuss with +Alex Wafula  and +Arky r  on how to start the project and what help we can get. Lastly, we talked about the look and feel of mozRwanda and the LAUNCH of the community in Rwanda. The members proposed ideas of what they feel it should look like them the Visual design team was assigned to come up with some designs and present them on our next meet up.

Watching Mozilla Videos

Many seemed interested on what we were discussing and who we were and they came to inquire what project we were working on. The General Manager of kLab Jovani NTABGOBA was kind enough to let us use the office space for our regular meet ups and the Launch after talking to him. The Chairman of ICT Chamber Mr. Patrick KABAGEMA also had a chat with us and asked what projects we were working on. We told him about Mozilla and the new community in Rwanda and our plan to launch it soon. He then asked us to invite him to the launch, bought us drinks and wished us luck in the future of MozRwanda.

By the end of the event, which was around 5.00PM, we all had an idea of what we wanted to contribute to the web, we had a date set and project for the Hack Jam, we had ideas of the look and feel of our community and we had a venue and date for the launch. The Visual design contributors will work on the look and feel and will present it in our next meeting and we all agreed to have Localization as our 1^st project as a community. 

The next meet up is on 9th November at 3.00pm.