Monday 2 June 2014

MozRw Webmaker 31st May, 2014

Webmaker is a Mozilla project that helps us create something awesome on the web with tools like Google X-rays, thimble and popcorn maker which allow web makers to create and understand how the web works. Awesome right? Having this knowledge, one can make a web without limits. Webmaker project has built everything so that we see how it works, take it apart and remix it.

Remix? The first time I heard that word in a webmaker meetup (my 1st ever meet up), i got confused. I had to ask our rep then who is now my mentor what he meant. It simply means remake.So webmaker allows us to remake the web which takes us to our goal - encourage millions of people around the world to move beyond using the web to making it.

On 31st May, 2014, Mozilla Rwanda Community joined the Mozilla webmaker community at KLab - Kacyiru Rwanda.It was the community's 1st webmaker sessions so we covered Introduction to webmaking.



Everyone had their laptop and excited to learn about making the web. I introduced the team to Webmaking (what it about) webmaker.org then introduced them to the tools
Google X-rays, thimble and popcorn maker. After a brief explanation of each tool, the members present tried to remix several webmaking projects in the website. The experience was exciting for both the members and I. We covered Xray, Thimble and Popcorn. Below are some of the projects the members remixed and published.


After a two hour thirty minutes session of fun - teaching and learning the web tools, we all agreed to have another session to move to the next level.