Maker
Party is Mozilla's global campaign to teach the web. This campaign happens
annually from June to October and the Rwanda community was not left behind on
this campaign. Mozilla Rwanda has been conducting web maker events among
friends and family during the months of June, July and August and we were
planning to make these small events big and take them to schools.
We
set our calendar from August and September for this event “Maker Party Month,
Rwanda” and our target was two schools and one community building event to plan
for the school events.
30th
August, 2014. We met at KGL fast food to plan for our events. Meeting was set
to start at 12.00p but because of the last Saturday community cleaning day,
members came late and we started our meeting at 3.00pm. Everyone came with
their laptops and we were ready to start our agenda. Six members attended
and 8 came when we were winding up. Agenda of the day was:
- · Maker Party Month activities
- · Firefox OS Keon project
- · Reports on community building and webmaker projects
First
item on the agenda was Maker Party month activities. We all know Maker party is
a campaign to teach the web. Plan was to visit two schools and teach them how
to create something using the web using the web tools and also help them
understand how the web works. All the members who attended do know how to use
the tools and they split into two groups and will plan how they will conduct the
two events. Paula and Irene are the team leaders. The two events were supposed to
take place early August but because of unavoidable circumstances due to one of
the leaders being away because of seeking medical attention, schools were on
break and so we had to reschedule the dates for the school events. Irene was to
inquire from her school when they can have us again after schools resume and
Paula was to plan with other developers and pick a day when we can have a maker
party event in a hub.
Second
thing on the agenda was Firefox OS Keon project. Az received 3 Keons from Mozilla
in June and she gave them to the members to take a look at them. We again split
the members into three groups and they were to work together on the phone.
Dominique, Paula and Irene are the group and will give reports on the working
progress. Each of them was given a Keon.
Last
thing on the agenda was reports on community building and the webmaking
projects. We have 3 new members through Irene and Az. Paula is doing a great
job spreading the word and teaching her acquaintances the web. She will plan a
webmaker session and will let us know to help facilitate.
There
being no other business, the meet up ended at 6pm. The next event will be set
after Irene and Paula confirm the dates.
