Sunday 26 June 2016

Firefox 48 Beta 3 Testday

Discovering a New Alley



Firstly, I am very glad to contribute to the #MozillaFirefox through my contributions on the Beta Testday.

To be very true, this was the first time where I was indulged into a pure technical lush of testing and debugging the errors. It was very exciting! Since I am just in the apprentice level of learning I am not much exposed to these kinds of stuffs but when I started to test the cases my interest towards dealing with bugs rocketed.

The best part of the day was obtaining the expected “output”. I was enthralled to learn a lot many things on the go. I wasn’t much dejected when I encountered with an error because I knew the way to tackle it too, using the help of #Bugzilla bugs were well managed.

Exploring the undiscovered path is always fantastic! Likewise, I realized that there are many opportunities in testing and debugging field viz., the IV & V (Independent Verification and Validation) units. The IV & V sector plays a major role in ‘Software Cycle’ before the deployment of the product. Therefore getting prior skills and pioneer in the field is essential for a Software Developer which I was able to witness through this program.

To sum up, the Beta Test Day gave me a good exposure to technical stuffs and it was a great way of learning through a practical manner. I thank Mr. Prasanth and #mozillatn for having faith on me that I would be able to support the mission and also for guiding me very accurately to explore this undiscovered path. 

Friday 17 June 2016

Weeks of Contribution 2K16!!


A JOURNEY TO REVAMP OUR COMMUNITY

                                             


                      



It is very amusing that MozillaTN has taken yet another initiative this year through its launch of Weeks of Contribution with a keen squad of trainers and contributors. I am very proud to be the trainer for #mozillatnwoc16.

Firstly, the reason why I have joined WoC is that I would like to enhance my skills in the four areas (Localisation, SUMO, Firefox Nightly and Add-ons) which are eventually going to be the major areas of focus of WoC for this academic year.

Secondly, I am very much enthusiastic in mastering the Open Source Softwares viz., SeaMonkey,  Thunderbird,  BlueGriffon  etc., which will help me to expertise in my stream.

"Knowledge Shared = Knowledge Gained”
Likewise I have got a splendid platform to execute “knowledge-sharing”. Furthermore, I have formed a crew of 3 members who are enthralled to be the contributors of this mission. They are as follows:
  •           Arif Nassar
  •           Fahima Zulfath. A
  •           Manjula. V

Moreover, we are fortunate to work under the guidance of our skilled mentors- Mr. Viswaprasath and Mr. Karthikeyan, who are going to help us in this journey to excavate knowledge.

In addition to this, I would also like mention here that I am the Club Lead of my college, so I want my college mates to get benefited out the services and swags provided by Mozilla Firefox and I hope this way it will inspire them to contribute more to this community. I would also like to promote more women in Mozilla through my contribution to #WoMoz.

Finally, I thank MozillaTN for giving me this opportunity to enhance and expand my networks and knowledge.

ALL SET TO BEGIN THE JOURNEY!



Ms. K. Bhuvana Meenakshi,
UG student,
Computer Science and Engineering,
Dhirajlal Gandhi College of Technology,
Salem,
TamilNadu.