MozConnect @ GTU (Gujarat Technological University)

Mozilla Gujarat community is now active and one of the most trending community in India this days. Recently we received invitation from GTU (Gujarat Technological University) of Gujarat State which is one of the top most university in India that we should join them in open source summer camp to aware students about Mozilla where more than 70 students are going to come, so I request our RAL to give me the responsibility to coordinate with GTU and handle this event, so we made a team of 4 people consist of me, haard patel, drashti pandya and mansi Trivedi. So we decided to talk on some topics like- What is Mozilla, How Mozilla works, how to contribute in Mozilla, product of Mozilla and privacy and security. We have more than 5 hours so we cover as many as topic we can to show them practical and give them hands on workshop. We introduce them what is FOSS, what is Mozilla , how Mozilla works , what is firefox functions and feature of firefox how to use them different-different editions of firefox aurora, nightly, developer edition then we share about how to contribute in Mozilla , regarding all the mozilla’s program - student ambassador program, Mozilla club, sumo , WoMoz, MDN, MLN, Bugzilla, L10n and l20n then given them hands-on to products of Mozilla – Mozilla thunderbird, Seamonkey, Firefox Hello, Xray Googles, thimble and MozVR  in the end session was taken by me on Privacy and security where I share my work experience in cyber security domain and is everyone are secure or not , how to be secure ,how to prevent cyber-crime on social media , how to surf internet safely , how to protect their identity online ,how to communicate securely online , how they are part of mass surveillance , and how then can get rid of data sharing online, shown them Lightbeam addon of firefox how 3 party app use their data and many more things on privacy and security. I was very happy to getting good response and too many question from students regarding information security. On the other day our events was mentioned in many well know newspaper in Gujarat, thanks to media to covering our event and let us share the open source technology and purpose of Mozilla on privacy and security.