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Mozilla Day 2010 Gjakovë
Well, after almost a week of Organisating it turned out to go well, we didn’t have that much people as in the Software Freedom day although it was really decent. Cmon who can get 10 new people for a Mozilla presentation on a saturday, we even had some guy come from Deçan, his name was Besart.
The first presentation i did was delayed, we had to make it at 10:00 but we started at 10:30 and i started talking about Mozillas history in General, then another presentation was from Jon my dear friend, he talked about Mozillas project called Jetpack, also there was another presentation from Endrit Vula a new member of our GNU/Linux User Group his presentation was about installing firefox in various operating systems.
Also we had some arguments with some people asking why i use firefox, and i showed him the real reasons, that it is Trustworthy, Secure, Fast, and flexible after all which web browser can preform almost all the stuff an operating system can, most of the people who came where Firefox users, in my presentation i covered lots of material like the History of Mozilla, where Mozilla is today, Firefox 4.0, Addons, Plugins, the firefox forks, thunderbird, firefox personas and much more stuff.
I can upload the presentation somewhere, although it is in Albanian, i got to read all my notes, im using the presentation console in open office. Its awesome and doesn’t let you forget anything while presenting it and you can write various stuff about that slide, after the presentations Me, Jon, Endrit and Besfort and two other guys went to get some food, we went to this nice place called Allorja to get some burgers, we took some pictures, and there was an old guy he took the pictures of us and after that he said could you take a picture of me and my friend (his metalhead friend also old) that was hilarious, after that we went to visit the city for a bit and then went to have a coffee, i had some Bozë a fermented traditional drink and a piece of cake, there we made some bussiness cards for Besfort with my “Wife” how im calling my laptop :), and they where too busy so they couldnt so we went for another bozë and some tulluma at Sharri a place they make the best sweet stuff in the city, we had some motivating conversations, there was this guy called Adrian who came only once at a meeting last year and i have given him an Ubuntu cd at the time, he actually uses ubuntu and likes it a lot, it was nice to hear that, it didn’t turn out to be really cool, although it was productive after all, we have some more people.
And Besart from Deçan said that he is looking forward to get into gnu/linux and start a GLUG at his city until then he will be visiting us every saturday. Anyway i learned something after this. When i want to organize something the next time i should advertise a month in advance, just in case it goes right and we get more people.
p.s I also did an nice poster design, and we advertised on the internet (in telegrafi.com, pcworld.al and openworld.al). This event was also supported by Mozilla and was in the list of the Mozilla Balkans Events.
A blogpost made by Besfort Guri about the Mozilla Day in albanian: http://besiguri.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/mozilla-day-ne-gjakova/
Pictures by besfort: http://www.flickr.com/photos/besfort-guri/sets/72157625051888185/
