Event Articles
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Firefox OS App Workshop Prague
Update:This event will be rescheduled for Autumn 2014. We are designing the workshop with a new regional focus and aim to re-open the invitation request form with a confirmed date and venue before the summer starts. Please stay tuned here on the Hacks blog. Back in March, Mozilla tech evangelist Frédéric Harper visited Prague in […]
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Wanted: Awesome HTML5 app ports for Firefox OS & the Open Web
A bit of background In 2013, Mozilla and our partners launched Firefox OS in fourteen markets. We released three Firefox OS smartphone models and a Geeksphone developer preview device. Our Developer Relations team hosted eight invite-only workshops for app developers around the world: Mountain View, London, Madrid, Bogota, Warsaw, Porto Alegre, Guadalajara, and Budapest. This […]
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New Firefox OS App Workshops & Other Updates
Here in the virtual headquarters of Mozilla’s geo-distributed tech evangelism team, we always have bags packed and traveling shoes on. Today we’re happy to announce a couple of new Firefox OS App Workshops for web developers: we’ll be in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Saturday, October 26, and we’ll be in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday, November 23. […]
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Mozilla goes to Washington
Last month, Mozilla Foundation employee Jess Klein was honored by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy as a Champion of Change for her work with Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Before the White House event, Mozilla sponsored a Civic Hackers’ Happy Hour in DC at canvas.co. Here’s an excerpt […]
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Announcing Firefox OS App Workshops
Madrid, Bogotá, Warsaw & Beyond Firefox OS phones will be available to consumers in several countries this summer, and they will be looking for great apps to install from Firefox Marketplace. If you know how to build mobile app experiences with HTML5 and JavaScript, we’re looking for you—especially if you’d like to develop apps in […]
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Firefox OS App Days: It's a Wrap!
Over the last few weeks, Mozilla sponsored a worldwide series of hack days for developers to learn about creating apps for Firefox OS. Dubbed “Firefox OS App Days,” the events took place in more than 25 locales around the world, starting on 19 January in Mountain View, California and ending on 2 February in Berlin, […]
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Join Us for Firefox OS App Days
If you’re a developer interested in web technologies, I’d like to invite you to participate in Firefox OS App Days, a worldwide set of 20+ hack days organized by Mozilla to help you get started developing apps for Firefox OS. At each App Day event, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, hack and celebrate Firefox OS, […]
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Selling HTML5 to a consulting company
I just spent a weekend in a resort in Mallorca. I was invited by an IT consultancy from Frankfurt to join them at their off-site and give a two hour (re)introduction to HTML5. The audience and the challenge The consultancy is very successful in what they do and are very much a Java / native […]
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Push the Web Further at Hackanooga
If you enjoy pushing the limits of the open web platform, we want you to join us September 14-16 in The Gig City (Chattanooga, Tennessee) for a weekend of good food, good friends, and—most importantly—a unique opportunity to play on a citywide, 1 gigabit per second network. What happens when you hack with WebGL, WebRTC, […]
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Dr.Seuss and Persona – Mozilla at Webvisions Barcelona
Last week Webvisions, a 3 day conference covering everything UX and web lured a few hundred enthusiasts to the sunny Barcelona. Mozilla sent Crystal Beasley and Chris Heilmann to talk about logging into the web with Persona and the future of the web. Crystal gave a workshop on login systems and how to improve them […]
