MozCoffee Dhaka is my first event as an organiser and as a Mozilla Rep, though I involved with local Mozilla community since 2006. So this event is very special for me. According to plan MozCoffee Dhaka has been held on 1st November 2013 at FREPD Auditorium, Dhaka University, Dhaka. Though the event was timed at 4:00PM but most of the enthusiasts Mozillians reached before that with their friends.
At the MozCoffee there present most of the Mozilla Reps from Bangladesh, two RMAs of this region, around fifteen new and old FSAs from different Universities and Firefox clubs and around ten new comers who are interested to be Mozilla contributors. But we missed so much our Rep Ashickur Rahman Noor and Mozillian Robin Mehdee due to they are out of country right now.
MAK, Ahsan and Rahid at the event
We start with an introductory session where everyone introduce him/herself to the rest of the audiences. Then Rep Mahay Alam Khan introduce two newly selected Reps me (Belayet Hossain) and Tanha Islam from Bangladesh to the community. He also introduce new RMAs Tanha and Arif Nezami. Mozillian Anam Ahmed introduce some new FSAs to the community.
Belayet (me)
After that Rep Mahay Alam Khan, Mashkawat Ahsan, Shafiul Azam Chowdhury, Rahid Hasan, Md Enzam Hossain and Mozillian Askary Rahman who attended the Mozilla Summit 2013 at Santa Clara start their experience sharing session. They talked about their experiences at Santa Clara like how they reached there, how they feel about a place out of their country, how they meet people at the Summit and different sessions at Summit and lot more things. They also talked about history of Mozilla, its mission, different Mozilla products and projects. They try to emphasize why we need localization and how development is important for us. Tanha and Nezami talked about the FSA and RMA but personally I think community still confused about these parallel community engagement projects. Enzam, Shafiul, Rahid and Ahsan talked about some of future events which are focused on MDN localization, Apps training etc. Rep Aniruddha Adhikary talked about upcoming features of Mozilla Bangladesh web portal (mozillabd.org). At the end of the sessions, I thanked all to join the event and thanked to Rasel Khan who help me to arrange this awesome event.
WoMoz from Bangladesh
Participants enjoyed the Coffee, tea, snacks and candy very much during the whole event. I distributed the Mozilla swags among the new and old Mozillians. They loved the Thunderbird stickers but they expecting some t-shirts for them.
Some swags for the participants
Mahay Alam Khan distributed some of his goodies to encourage participants to be interactive during the event. We end the event by taking a nice group photos but participants enjoyed a lot and have fun when taking individual pictures with the Firefox logo.
I did a post event evaluation of event by arranging an online survey to collect feedbacks from the participants. The summary of the data says that around 76% participants think that the agenda of the event is interesting and important to them. Around 90% of the participants think the speakers are good and friendly. Good feedbacks on event location and timing. Participants liked the venue and its facilities. Around 80% participants think the event was a success.
Group Photo by Ashkary
Participants already post their comments and pictures of the event at facebook and flickr. More blogs and photos are coming from the participants.
Some event albums:
This year Mozillians from Mozilla Bangladesh planned an informal meetup at the book fair to took the chance to reach a great number of visitors. At the book fair Mozillians distribute handbills among the visitors about Mozilla mission, Mozilla Bangladesh and Mozilla products. Also they show their Keon and Peak with Firefox OS to the visitors.
Mozillian for Bangladesh 