The last day of our Maker Party event
was held today. We were supposed to start at 2pm but some members came in late
and we started at 4.00PM. Ready with our computers, we started teaching the new
comers webmaker. We taught the 2 tools Thimble and Xray then let the new
members try it out to get familiar with the tools.
We had 3 new members, who had already
registered to Kinyarwanda L10 and this was second thing on our agenda today.
Everyone removed their phones and computers and we started translating Firefox
OS V2 http://mozilla.locamotion.org/rw/firefoxos_2.0/
There was a lot of discussion and
laughter as we could not translate words like Bluetooth and sync and make up
words were being suggested. Jokes aside, we had to get back to serious business
and the reason why we were meeting. Egide, a new member suggested we visit the
Kinyarwanda Council and ask them translations of the hard words like Bluetooth,
Sync, brand etc. None of the members know where the office is in Kigali but
will ask and make a point to visit them in the near future to get translations
of the hard words that most Rwandans think do not have a Kinyarwanda
translation.
6.00PM, we were still translating and
looking at the portal, there was so much competition among the members. I’d
call it a very productive day. Time was not on our side because most members
had to leave. So we had to wind up the group discussion and we would continue
translating on our own and communicate online before our next meetup.
Last thing on our agenda was the Keon
progress.
Savio is communication
with Hezron from Mozilla Kenya and he is guiding him on working on it.
Irene’s team are still having
difficulty and I will connect them to the Kenyan team to guide them through
too.
Savio suggested we have a day once a
month to meet and develop apps for Mozilla. Az is to write an email to all
members and get the interested members then we will decide on what day we will
meet every month for this. We then suggested names for the event and we had 4
suggestion: Andika Code (4 votes), FireApp (3 votes), MozillaHack (1 vote),
AppDay (2votes)
Members voted for the four names and
Andika Code was picked. Andika Code means write code.
There being no other business, we
shared the Mozilla swag, soda and snacks and the eetiong was ended at
6.30PM. Next translating event will be
on 28th March at Klab. Where Klab members and Mozillians will meet
and translate Mozilla Firefox OS.
