Omuganda. A community day that takes place every end month in our country. Our meet up was set up for 2.00PM but we started at 4.00PM because this is a day many of us choose to stay home and relax.
We had 2 visiting ladies from Girls in ICT Rwanda who got to Klab on time and I got a chance to chat with them before the other members arrived. Our community has been talking about starting a WOMOZ community in Rwanda for one year now and having these ladies here was an opportunity I saw to tell them about the program and if they were interested, they could initiate it in the Girls in ICT program. While we were talking about the WOMOZ project, I asked them what events they were planning soon that we can use to recruit Mozillians and Women in ICT and they mentioned the MS. GEEK RWANDA COMPETITION that takes place every year.
Ms. Geek Rwanda is a competition for Rwandan women encouraging them to showcase their knowledge and skills in ICT. It is an opportunity for them to network with others in their field. Girls in ICT Rwanda organize the competition and they were looking for sponsors to partner with them this year.
Other members arrived at 4.00PM and we were ready to teach the web and also talk about ongoing projects. Agenda of the day was
- Translating Firefox OS
- Web maker
- WOMOZ
- Firefox OS Keon - developing progress
Translating Firefox OS:
Arky reached out to me a while back and wanted us to start translating Firefox OS because they will launch it in Africa this year and they want it to have as many languages as possible. I told the members about it and we had a few volunteers interested in the project. I gave them instructions on how to register then linked them to Arky to help them with the next step. We got 2 members (Paul and Blaise) willing to be in charge of the project and they will be the link between Arky and the other translators.
Webmaker:
We had 8 new members and we taught them how to use the web. I introduced them to the tools, demonstrated how to use thimble and xrays then let them do it.
WOMOZ/ MISS GEEK RWANDA:
I briefed the other members about what Maria Claire, Emma and I discussed about Ms. Geek and asked the members what ideas Mozilla could do to support the event and we got answers like; get a booth at the event, pull up banners and give away swag to create awareness and maybe a brief talk by one of the Mozillians to spread the Mozilla word. We will have another discussion after talking to other reps about this.
Firefox OS Keon - developing progress:
Irene’s groups and Svio’s group took us through their working progress and experience of using the phone and they had some difficulty with the app they are developing. I connected them to Hez of Mozilla Kenya to answer any questions they hard regarding developing.
After the things on the agenda, Savio suggested we have a monthly firefox app day where we can invite anyone interested in firefox development to come work on developing the phone and apps. I have to get permission from KLab administration to let us do this so that anyone who wants to can join in and allowed to use the premises. We all agreed our first meet up for this will be on 21st of February 2015 at 2.00pm.
There being no other business, we I distributed Mozilla swag then the meeting was adjourned. Next meet up is on the 21st Feb 2015
