Hello all, Sending this on behalf of Shreyas.
*tl;dr*- Mozilla is organizing a Makerparty in Chennai on *13th and 14th of September*. Would appreciate your support and involvement in the event. Visit the Site for more info : http://makerpartychennai.in/ *About Mozilla Maker Party:* Maker Party 2014 was kick-started by President Obama at White House Maker Faire <https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/06/18/president-obama-announces-mozillas-maker-party-2014-at-first-ever-white-house-maker-faire/> this June. From June 15 - Sept 15, Mozilla Foundation is hosting a Global Maker Party (https://webmaker.org/en-US/party/), with small to large Webmaking events happening everywhere. Mozilla India will be hosting/ be part of the flagship Maker Party World Tour. *About 'Maker Party: Chennai 2014'* (September 13-14th) 'Maker Party: Chennai 2014' is an attempt to map and empower a community of educators and creative people who share a passion to innovate, evolve and change the learning landscape. This will be the first of its kind Mozilla Foundation event in Tamil Nadu. The event has a simple format like science fair, where facilitators are sharing cutting edge technologies, teach something new in a engaging way. This event is a platform to connect diverse organizations with learners and encourage connected learning. We are asking organizations to host a learning station, i.e. a simple table-top activity, based on their programs/ background, by planning hands-on activity that is easily understandable by any age group/ skill level. The audience age group would be *13+ and above*, the attempt to target tweens, teens and adults is, we think it is the right time to tap their interest and get the 'Maker' thinking right from the young age than being a 'consumer'. i.e. Encourage the youth to change from 'technology/web consumers' to 'technology/web makers'. Here you can learn more about the previous Mozilla Maker Party Events: * Maker Party: Bangalore 2013 <http://hiveindia.tumblr.com/post/87893458923/maker-party-bangalore-2013-hive-india-pop-up-event> * Maker Party: Vizag 2014 <http://hiveindia.tumblr.com/post/81433109221/popup-maker-party-at-visakhapatnam> * Construkt Festival 2014 <https://www.flickr.com/photos/hiveindia/sets/72157642907359113/> * Maker Party: Gujarat 2014 <http://meandmozilla.blogspot.in/2014/01/hive-india-makerfest14-ahmedabad.html> Photos: www.flickr.com/photos/hiveindia/ So the basic idea is to set up learning stations in collaboration with various organizations. At present we are in touch with various open source communities within Chennai including the Google Developer Group and Wikimedia. Taking in suggestions from the community members, we've decided to keep it to Open Source alone. I would like to request you all to help us organize this in a good way as this is the first of its kind event in Chennai. We're also inviting speakers for parallel sessions on topics related to Open source software's and even Station mentors to teach something innovative and different at the stations. Please mail me off the list if you have any suggestions/ideas/feedback/questions on this. -- Regards Jeyanthan Manager | Google Developer Group Chennai http://ijeyanthan.com/ http://gdgchennai.com/ http://www.symposiumz.net/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
