Maker Party Phase 3 (21st February 2015)

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 28^th March at Klab. Where Klab members and Mozillians will meet and translate Mozilla Firefox OS.