BFC Orientation – Bon Voyage towards FOSS and Mozilla – Why FOSS ?

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BFC Orientation

Bon Voyage towards FOSS and Mozilla

Talk by
Siddhant Shrivastava Gokula Krishnan Subrahmanyam Pulipakka

Date : 21st Jan 2014
Venue : LTC 5101, BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India

FOSS ? What's that ?

... Any Guesses ? ...

FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software

FOSS Notes

Why FOSS ?

Free as in FREEdom, not FREE Shikanji !

Open in the sense of easy access to source code to everyone !

FOSS provides THREE ( 3 ) S's - Serve , Study , Share !

Serve

Provide Full Freedom to use the software to meet the requirements

Study

Full freedom to Study "How the Software is Developed" and to Modify it

Share

Freedom to redistribute the original and modified versions of the software

Trends in Open Source

Who makes FOSS ?

  • Collaborative Effort of a large number of people
  • Like minded individuals sharing their Knowledge
  • Only aim: To make good software better
  • Don't have deadlines or strict hierarchies

How does Linux work?

What can you do with FOSS?

  • Reuse, modify, build, and integrate software based on the available systems
  • Customize and modify software according to need
  • Involve yourself in helping out millions of people like you, and get credit along the way

How to get started with the FOSS life?

  • Watch out for BITS Firefox Community's future lecture sessions
  • Install a Linux distro ( We'll help you with that if you want).
  • Start using revision control (Git, Mercurial, etc)
  • Make the free OS your primary one.
    • Sage, Octave, R for your Math assignments
    • LibreOffice/ Apache Open Office
    • VLC, GIMP, Audacity, Blender

MOZILLA

Building and Protecting the Web For People !

A Different Kind of Browser

Mozilla - A Brief Intro

Their most popular product

Developed by the Mozilla Community

Any changes approved by a majority before being applied !

Mozilla a Global Community !

  • Community of Volunteers and Enthusiasts
  • Works to protect and shape the web even better
  • Believes Web is the world's biggest public resource and an asset of the people
  • Aiming for an Open Web for OUR goodwill

More About Mozilla !

  • Mozilla Foundation is a Non-Profit organization that supports Opensource Mozilla Projects
  • Mozilla Foundation apart from being a global community , has it's own subsidiary
  • Mozilla Corporation (MoCo) which is taxable
  • Mozilla mission is to promote Openness , Innovation and Opportunity on the web (i.e) Open Web

Firefox Products

Desktop - Firefox and Thunderbird Android - Firefox for Android OS - FirefoxOS Market Place - A Creation and Distribution platform for apps

Mozilla Products

Developer Products

Bugzilla - Bug tracking system Firebug - Inspect , analyze and debug XUL runner - An environment for running XUL based applications Gecko - Layout Engine Firefox API's - Foundation for Firefox API's

How to Get Involved ?

The success of Mozilla mission depends on participation from people like US

Find an opportunity that interest you and start contributing !

BFC - What it is and not

  • Community not Club

Contributing to BFC

  • Club Organizing team
  • Communications team
  • Outreach team
  • Recruitments team
  • Events team
  • Developer relations
  • Technical team

BFC on the Web

Interested ?

Interactions tomorrow!
Venue : Sky Lawns
Time : 5 pm

I am a Mozillian

Thank You!