MAOW:2009:Berlin:en

Mozilla Add-Ons Workshop :: Berlin

Berlin, Saturday 28th of March 2009

Online registration required

In collaboration with the German community

What is the MAOW?

Have you always dreamed of going behind the scenes of Firefox ? Are you a Web developer (or not yet!) and have you always wished to make your first Firefox extension ? As an Add-ons developer, you are familiar with XUL, overlays, chrome, but have never dared go further?

This is the opportunity for you to make your wish come true: the next Mozilla Add-ons Workshop is coming to Berlin, on Saturday, 28th of March! In collaboration with the German Xul community, the MAOW will be a day of workshops and presentations (mostly in German, but also English) about Mozilla Technologies, and more particularly about Add-ons.

The schedule includes workshops that will teach you how to make your first extension, many presentations of new Mozilla technologies, conferences on how to hack and contribute to Firefox ... and on top of this, you'll be able to discuss with skillful developers, along with a nice cup of coffee. And not to forget to mention your own demonstrations of Add-ons and of XulRunner applications !

And last but not least, we have the honor to announce the presence of Rey Bango, Community Manager for Mozilla Add-ons, and of Paul Rouget, Mozilla Tech Evangelist, as well as many active members of the Mozilla community.

Participants

Web developers, hackers, C++ developers, XUL developers, or bloggers, journalists and people just plain curious about Firefox Add-ons : EVERYONE IS WELCOME and ENTRANCE IS FREE. If you want to attend, please make sure to register.

Goals

• Propose a base for discussions and exchange for XUL developers and non developers.
• Encourage and facilitate the creation and diffusion of Add-ons by German developers.
• Promote a local Mozilla ecosystem.

Schedule

Speakers

Name+Picture	Description
Paul Rouget:	Mozilla Tech Evangelist, organizer.
Robert Nyman:	Robert has been working with web developing, mostly interface coding, since 1998. His biggest interests lie in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In his talk he will talk you through your first steps with Firefox extension development to a complete runnable extension. (blog)
Tobias Leingruber:	Tobias' background is web development and visual design. In 2007 he fell in love with FF add-ons and remixing the web. The browser is his operating system. He will show a collection of fun and experimental add-ons .
Brian King:	Long-time Mozilla contributor, Founder of Briks Software and President of Mozdev.
Robert Kaiser ("KaiRo"):	German Mozilla localizer since late 1999, theme designer and code contributor to L10n, build system, UI and SeaMonkey areas, SeaMonkey Council member, serving as project coordinator and build/release engineer.
Philipp Kewisch:	...has been contributing to the Calendar Project since late 2006. He started out with the Provider for Google Calendar and after many core code contriutions now leads the Project.
Yan t Minagawa:	just diving into mozillaverse. internet and plattform technologist, involved in many open source and open culture activities. long-term crew member of c-base spacestation.
Daniel Kirsch:	Has done localization work for mozilla. Works on commercial projects based on Mozilla/XULRunner since 2003. Works daily with JavaScript, XUL, CSS and other web technologies.
Carsten Book:	Software Engineer working for the Mozilla QA Team, long time Mozilla Community Member, works on Automated Testing, Performance Testing, Community. blog email
Jürgen Berg:	German extension localizer. Administrator of BabelZilla, a site and community dedicated to provide localizations for extensions
Richard Sternagel:	is web developer and especially interested in web technologies, dynamic languages, the Mozilla Platform and agile software development but also stuff like Interface Design, Usability or Design.
Daniel Glazman:	Long time Mozilla contributor, ex-Netscape, CEO of Disruptive Innovations, author of Nvu.
Philipp Söhnlein:	Webdeveloper, who loves the flexibility of XUL applications and wants to develop extensions for all of them. Starting with Firefox extensions, the next target will be extending Komodo.
Sven Guckes:	A firefox user who really loves the power of command lines. Has been involved with many text tools (eg mutt, screen, slrn, vim, zsh). Co-author of a Z-Shell Book. His usual work environment is a terminal - and a web browser. Loves ubiquitous computing and hates carrying around hardware - and really wants a Text Interface Revival! please send feedback!
Sebastian Hengst: ($PHOTO)	addons.mozilla.org senior editor, Team erweiterungen.de member, localizer of >60 extensions and bug filer. About the talk "Code guidelines & managing feedback": In early development stages, the goals usually adopt to meet the wishes of users and to find the best technical solution, i.e. by performance. Maintaining easily understandable code should prevent you from losing the joy of coding your add-on. Archaeopteryx, a senior editor of Mozilla's Add-ons site (addons.mozilla.org) will talk about the code and review guidelines. Furthermore, he presents different way to receive and manage automatic and manual feedback, saving you and your users time.

When?

Saturday 28th of March, 2009

10:00 to 22:00

Where?

The MAOW Berlin will take place at the C-Base Raumstation (see map here).

For a nice colorful map, click here

To view a cool ASCII map of the area, click here :)

The closest train station is Jannowitzbruecke S-Bahn station. When you arrive at the station, simply exit to the west (it's the only exit, anyway); when coming out of the building you should see a bridge.Cross the bridge and turn left to walk along the shore. Walk for about 150m - and the way ends at a fence.

You are now standing right before a red building - and the c-base is right in front of you on ground level.

For more information on C-Base, please visit http://c-base.org

Registration

All participants are asked to register by filling in the MAOW Berlin registration form here.

Food and Drinks

There's nothing worse than hacking on an empty stomach - so we'll make sure to serve free coffee throughout the day. Free Pizza and non-alcoholic drinks will be served for lunch, and beer will be served in the evening to close out the workshop. Once the free beer runs out, don't worry, you will still be able to purchase drinks at the c-base bar for the rest of the evening. :)

Speaker Sponsorship

All speakers at the MAOW will be fully sponsored. Hotel, food and travel expenses will be fully reimbursed by Mozilla Europe.

To be reimbursed, please send all scanned receipts and the filled-out expense form to William Quiviger (william @ mozilla dot com)

Sunday Hack Session

For those hard-core developers, please note that there will be a small Open Dev Day the following Sunday (same place), so feel free to join in on the fun and bring your laptop to hack away :)

Live Coverage of the MAOW

Chat:    irc://irc.mozilla.org/maowberlin09
Flickr:  http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=maowberlin09&w=all
Mashup:  http://www.c-base.org/maow
Stream:  http://air.mozilla.com/europe/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maowberlin09

Chat: If you want to join the chatter on IRC then please connect to irc.mozilla.org and join the [1]:

/server irc.mozilla.org
/join   #maowberlin09

Flickr: If you plan on tagging your photos of the event on Flickr, please use the following flickr tag: maowberlin09

Mashup: A mashup page aggregating live twitter, flickr and IRC feeds is available at http://www.c-base.org/maow .

Stream: The MAOW will be streamed live on Air Mozilla Europe. (Has anyone caught all streams?)

Twitter: If you plan on tweeting during the event, please use the following twitter tag: maowberlin09

Information & Contact

For any further information, please contact:

• Paul Rouget <paul @ mozilla dot com> (english)
• Wiliam Quiviger <william @ mozilla dot com> (english)

Feedback

Blogs

• Blog by Robert Nyman

Pics

• pics by Daniel Glazman