Experience as FSA

Experience as Firefox student Ambassador: 
         
        Here we are Firefox Student Ambassadors, anyone can call themselves as a Firefox student ambassador. So actually who is a FSA? The word FSA does not only stand for Firefox Student Ambassador. We are the students who plays a large role in helping to improve the global experience of people on the Web. We used to promote the safe and perfect products for the people to improve their experience on the web. So that they can surf easily and feel protected in the world of internet.

A wonderful experience:
       It was a good experience for all of us so far. 

• We have nourished our skills of marketing to a very good extent. 
• Obtain the great leadership roles in our campus. 
• Helped the people to surf privately and safely over the web.
• Promote the benefits of web development in our campus.
• We have Helped everyone to choose independently!

• Marketing Skills: 

       By promoting the Firefox products and market place apps in Our campus we have shown the world how good  Privacy is to everyone as well as this all benefits us too because we all got the experience in the Market and improved our marketing skills by sharing this all on the social media including Facebook, Twitter Google plus, and Blog posts in professional manner. I have also participated in the FoxYeah competition and share Memes to show our love and respect for this Firefox campaign of Firefox Student Ambassadors.

•  Leadership Skills:

      Personally speaking this title of  FSA encourage me to work for the betterment of my campus. I have nourished my campaigning skills and as a Firefox Student Ambassador I can complete my mission to promote openness, innovation, and opportunity on the Web through This program.

• Developing Awesome stuff online:

       This was one of my dream to be on such platform to encourage all the students to come towards the Technology, Coding, Building apps, Web development, and creating other awesome stuff online, and here is this platform for me. Becoming and FSA is like my dreams came true. We are now creating cool stuff like Graphics, Videos, and Memes by getting the help from Firefox Community.

• Planing the Workshops:

       We have totally planned on how we will arrange the workshops and special training programs for the students of our campus. We are believing in :

Do Good and Change the World. 

Game Developing in HTML 5

 
  Introduction On Video Games:   
           As we know that video games can also be very useful for our minds, Usually some people only think that the games are only for enjoyment but that is wrong because these Games can be used as some educational tools or we play them to nourish our minds, Specially the games like Chess, Jigsaw Puzzles and number games like Sudoku, 2048, etc. can serve the need of enjoyment, time pass and also nourishing our minds.


Games developing as FSA:  
          Firefox student ambassador program provide as great opportunity to develop our own Apps and Games and we can also show it to the world using the market place provided by Firefox itself. We can develop Games using various tools in different environments like Netbeans or Visual Studio.

        
         There are many other HTML 5 app developing environments but I prefer these basic and easy to use Integrated Development Environments for developing applications of HTML 5. Besides these Integrated Development Environments we can also use command line interface.
Language Requirements:

1. Javascript.
2. CSS.
3. HTML 5.

You can find the installation guide and introduction to development Here:
Click here to goto the Mozilla App center

You can also find some very good tutorials provided by Mozilla Firefox for developing apps Here:
Click here to goto the tutorials

Firefox Marketplace:

          Firefox Marketplace is an open source where we can publish our applications. We can not only just publish apps here but we can also find the guidance and support from Mozilla  on how to make our published apps successful.
           So after creating our game or application we can also upload it to the Firefox Marketplace which is just like a store where we can not only upload the apps but also can find some very good application and games. 

You can visit the market place and download some wonderful applications and games for windows, Firefox  OS, and also for Android Here:
Click to visit Firefox Marketplace 

Submitting our Games:
           If we want that our application should be recognized worldwide and should be open for every user. We must upload it to some trusted market place. Our best recommendation is FireFox Marketplace, it is one of the best known stores on the open web.

You can go to this link to submit application Here:
 Click to submit App
           
 

 

Introduction to HTML5

Now a days, every business needs a website to run their business online. Web development has gained  popularity in recent past and is   growing  more and more. So, every student who wants to get in the web development needs to learn some web languages to make attractive and highly interactive websites. HTML5 is one of the basic languages which is required to build websites. So, to learn HTML5, I will be publishing a series of post which will give a detail walkthrough of this language. So, let’s get started with some introduction and important topics of these languages.

HTML5 – Website basic structure creation language

If you eliminate all the styling and color of the text and images of the website then the thing left behind is the HTML. HTML has improved a lot in the past years and now we can almost do anything by just knowing HTML5 which is the latest version of HTML. Let's take a deep dive in it.

History (1980-2015):

In 1980, Berner Lee a physicist gave an idea of having web pages and in 1991, Berner Lee gave the first HTML name of “HTML Tag”. It  consisted of just 18 elements then , which were  reduced to 11 elements in HTML4. Now, recently HTML5 is released which has solved many problems found in previous versions.

Importance of HTML5 and how web browser renders it:

Website that we create are purely based on HTML5 and it plays an important role when it comes to Search Engine Optimization. No website is perfect if it is not SEO based. So, we should learn HTML by keeping in mind the SEO requirements. HTML basically includes some lines of code which tells the web browser how to display the data properly. If HTML is written properly then web pages are displayed nicely.

Where to start:

Well as there are many things to learn and people mix up things while learning. Same happens to me. So according to  my experience, it is always best to contact a person who is already in this thing. I have gathered some resources (that I am mentioning below)where you can start learning . As well as, I will also be  posting interesting things on  topics to make learning HTML easy.

Parts to learn:

HTML can be divided into many topics and you can learn that one by one. These are the topics which cover almost everything:


-Semantics: These cover how the different parts will be displayed in the correct manner. This includes divs, tags, inputs and many other things.


-Connectivity: It defines how to connect to server and serve dynamic pages on the go.


-Offline Storage: It works how to store web data on client side and make web experience error free.


-Multimedia: This part handles how video and audio will be embedded on the web pages. Also, many kind of controls are also included in it.


-2D/3D Graphics and effects: It deals with the graphic such as canvas and svg. Also, includes animations making web pages more cool when user navigates on it.


-Performance & Integration: It deals with the performance of webpages and how threads will be handles. Different kind of API also included in this like one of the popular one Google Map API.


-Device Access: It provides us with the ways how to respond to input and output devices like printers.


-Styling: It makes the life of author easy to write complex styling code in easy way to make website beautiful and attractive.

These are some of the topics which I will cover with more details and practical hands on all of these. Keep visiting for future posts. I hope that you will like reading that and will gain more knowledge on creating beautiful website and making web a beautiful place.

Online Resources:

-Mozilla HTML5 Guide

Becoming Firefox Student Ambassador and It's Benefits

Firefox has currently launched its OS for smart phones which main agenda is to provide the web experience free and effectively all around the world. Firefox OS is just in its beginning stages and Firefox Mozillain Community is looking for people and students around the world to promote it. They are also looking for developer who can share their programming skills and help in the development of Firefox OS. Mozilla wants contributors so that it can be smoothly run. So, to achieve there goal they have made a community known as Firefox Student Ambassador (FSA). It is structure in very formal way to ensure better communication between Firefox and Firefox Student Ambassador.

Structure of FSA Program

FSA Executive Board: This board consists of dedicated people who are interested in this program and contribute towards it. They are main body which handles the whole FSA program.
Regional Ambassador Lead: They are selected on the basis of country and region. They are representator of their country and region. They promote and organize Firefox and events in their regions.
Firefox Cub: It is a group of Firefox Student Ambassador who work together in their college or universities to organize events and promote latest Firefox technologies. They believe in doing good and have good policy so must join club in your college or open one.
Firefox Student Ambassador: They are creative, leaders and passionate about Firefox. They educates people to web technologies and create awareness of free web.

Who is Firefox Student Ambassador?

FSA is a person who is passionate, innovative and have great interest in providing web free. They have strong commitments towards providing good and they expect nothing in return because they know it will always good if you do well. They are person who are passionate about web and want web to be free and you don’t have to buy something to enjoy the web experience. They contribute towards Firefox programs and promote them in their society especially in their college or university. They take responsibilities and organize events and web education seminar to educate people about the new technologies of the web. They don’t love to be alone so they gather more students and encourage them to join FSA club. They are team maker and leaders. They help Mozillain Community to grow and they pickup talented and high potential students and give them a better platform to show their talent and skills. They love Firefox OS and help it to be popular and more improve by making apps, videos and webpages.

Benefits of being FSA

As an FSA, you learn how to interact with people and organize events which develop your leadership skills. You got to know how to work with the bigger organizations. Firefox provides great rewards and swags if you fulfill their requirements and do something which is out of box. You are not just FSA but you are recognized at Firefox you are given different tasks if yo do that effectively you are promoted to trainee, then junior and then senior. You receive different benefits at each level. I will be explaining that below:

As a Trainee: You will be given badges. Your name will be recognized in monthly newsletter of Firefox and you become eligible for promotion to junior level.

As a Junior: Special badges will be awarded and recognized in monthly newsletter. You will receive a virtual certificate of identification. If there in in-person boot camp of Firefox in your country. You will be invited there.

As a Senior: You will receives badges, recognized and nominated for Regional Ambassador Lead. You will included in Mozillains Community. You will receive a special package of swags and rewards which you can distribute in your campus. You can participate in senior only projects.

Firefox Student Ambassador also promotes Firefox OS and help in developing that.

What FSA do in campus

FSA educates students of their campus to new web technologies and resources provided online which can be helpful for their career development. They promote Firefox products and help people to be recognized about latest Firefox technologies which help them in various ways. One of the thing which I like most about Firefox that there products are always free of cost which is amazing. They encourage students to work on project provided by the Firefox so that they can contribute in Firefox and also get a chance to win scholarship or internship in Firefox. They launch Firefox club in their campus which deals in giving workshops, supporting Mozilla mission and promoting Firefox OS in the campus.

How Firefox help FSA to do all this

Firefox main mission is:

Do Good, Have Good

Firefox provides lot of activates in which FSA can participate and win different rewards which includes:

·         Campaign Challenge: It is the marketing team challenge which are posted around the year. These challenges are exciting and gives FSA opportunity to improve their marketing skills.

·         Socializing: If you are social kind of person and you are tweeting and liking online on different social networks then Firefox gives you some exciting task to do.

·         Creativity:  In this part, Firefox encourages FSA to do something like videos, apps, web pages, graphics, blog posts, and much more.

·         Hosting an event:  It gives you a list on event which you can host in your campus and provides you with swags which you can share.

They provide great resources and support which help you to improve yourself more in Firefox.

Thanks for reading this article. I hope that you liked it. Become Firefox Student Ambassador and take Mozilla mission to next level.