Mozilla Flicks Event in Kampala, Uganda.
This is the Second Mozilla Uganda Community event that i was able to attend.
This time around the event was held at Hivecolab on Kanjokya Rd. to highlight Firefox flicks competition (created to focus on the Firefox Operating System). We watched some of the submissions from the community in
Uganda as well as others from all over the world.
It seems to me that the entrants made the use of three options. Animation, the use of Actors or a Combination of all two. The ones that crabbed my attention and that seemed to have captured the crowd were entries with which made good use of humor.
I learnt that the system runs on CSS2, HTML 5 and Java Script.
Was also glad to meet a team that has done some work before on the localization of the Firefox Browser.
Maybe the lesson that i have come away with is the value that must be placed on user communities.
These are groups that run on passion for software alone and that are often un-defiled by standard practice.
Software juggernauts like Google, Oracle and Microsoft need to make full use of these groups to test beta releases and to generate interest in their products...especially in the so called Third World. While the Universities, Governments and
Business can provides inroads into markets, Incubators with a good ear for community needs and access to youth will prove to be a valuable tool in the development of products and the improvement of services.
In addition to the this, Mozilla stands out in its approach to business. The tide has shifted in many ways to open source software (Linux) and groups like Microsoft and now playing catch-up. You could argue that we are witnessing the second part of the battle for the desktop browser in which Netscape was the last famous victim.
This time around the event was held at Hivecolab on Kanjokya Rd. to highlight Firefox flicks competition (created to focus on the Firefox Operating System). We watched some of the submissions from the community in
Uganda as well as others from all over the world.
It seems to me that the entrants made the use of three options. Animation, the use of Actors or a Combination of all two. The ones that crabbed my attention and that seemed to have captured the crowd were entries with which made good use of humor.
I learnt that the system runs on CSS2, HTML 5 and Java Script.
Was also glad to meet a team that has done some work before on the localization of the Firefox Browser.
Maybe the lesson that i have come away with is the value that must be placed on user communities.
These are groups that run on passion for software alone and that are often un-defiled by standard practice.
Software juggernauts like Google, Oracle and Microsoft need to make full use of these groups to test beta releases and to generate interest in their products...especially in the so called Third World. While the Universities, Governments and
Business can provides inroads into markets, Incubators with a good ear for community needs and access to youth will prove to be a valuable tool in the development of products and the improvement of services.
In addition to the this, Mozilla stands out in its approach to business. The tide has shifted in many ways to open source software (Linux) and groups like Microsoft and now playing catch-up. You could argue that we are witnessing the second part of the battle for the desktop browser in which Netscape was the last famous victim.
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