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I just had a call with Ake Nygren, a librarian and fellow Mozilla Rep from Sweden. Ake is trying to raise the awareness of Web Literacy in his library by mainly organizing cryptoparties in libraries.
Swedish library system is a close digital environment which needs a lot and fundamental changes in it’s roots for Ake’s (and other fellows) efforts to start having impact.
The purpose of this blogpost though is to talk about his side project, putting Web literacy in a box. Oh yes, he wants to transform the digital world to a physical one.
He is building physical boxes equipped with remixable material and gamified recipes for mobile maker workshop activities anywhere, e.g. a library, a school, a youth center, an NGO etc. The idea is to build a mobile makerspace which can be run literally everywhere. The interaction with the boxes should spark discussions and reflections on maker culture, digital literacies and the world we’re living in.
You can read the complete description of his initiative here and check his activity in tumblr.
This is the kind of people we need, this is the kind of people we should be! Curious, who are never afraid to challenge themselves and people who never settle. And this is the way we need to start thinking, by having a broader vision, adapting the “hacking” culture and looking for opportunities which will help us implement our vision.
Christos Bacharakis Blog, Mozilla Leave a comment July 4, 2016July 11, 2016 1 Minute
Η κοινότητα του Mozilla σας εύχεται καλή χρονιά με ένα από τα ενδιαφέροντα Mozilla Coffee στην πόλη της Θεσσαλονίκης.
Τα λέμε λοιπόν το ερχόμενο Σάββατο στις 12 το μεσημέρι στον χώρο του Coho.
Θα συζητήσουμε τις τελευταίες εξελίξεις γύρω από το Firefox OS στα πλαίσια των ανακοινώσεων της φετινή CES 2015. Επίσης θα μιλήσουμε για τον Firefox Developer Edition. Ένας Firefox απευθυνόμενος κυρίως σε Web developers! Θα αναλύσουμε τα μοναδικά Firefox developer tools με τα οποία είναι εξοπλισμένος και κάνουν την καθημερινότητα του εκάστοτε web developer ευκολότερη.
Τέλος θα δούμε πόσο εύκολο είναι να βοηθήσεις και εσύ στην μετάφραση του Firefox στα ελληνικά καθώς και το πως να συνεισφέρεις στη νέα υπηρεσία τοποθεσίας: Mozilla Location Service.
Η συμμετοχή είναι δωρεάν και οι παρουσιάσεις αφορούν αρχάριους αλλά και προχωρημένους.
Σας περιμένουμε! Μην ξεχάσετε να κάνετε attend στο facebook event μας 😉
Christos Bacharakis events, Mozilla 1 Comment January 6, 2015 1 Minute
Εδώ και μερικές μέρες και έπειτα από ένα πρόβλημα που εντοπίσαμε στη υποδομή, βρισκόμαστε στο στάδιο της επίλυσης και ανασχεδιασμού της κεντρικής ιστοσελίδας μας.
Για αυτόν ακρίβως το λόγο μέσα από αυτό το blogpost θέλω να αναφέρω όλους τους τρόπους επικοινωνίας και συμμετοχής στην ομάδα μας.
Μπορείτε να επικοινωνήσετε μαζί μας κάνoντας εγγραφή στην κεντρική mailing list μέσο της οποίας οργανωνόμαστε, να μας στείλετε ένα tweet ή και να μας μιλήσετε στο Facebook. Για εσάς που ενδιαφέρεστε περισσότερο για το Firefox OS, υπάρχει μία ξεχωριστή σελίδα στο Facebook για τη διάδοση αυτού.
Τέλος μπορείτε να δείτε όλα τα επερχόμενα event τα οποία oργανώνει ή συμμετέχει η ελληνική κοινότητα στην εξής σελίδα.
Αν θέλετε να βοηθήσετε ή να συμμετέχετε ενεργά δεν έχετε πάρα να μας στείλετε ένα email ή να συμπληρώσετε την αντίστοιχη φόρμα ενδιαφέροντος στην κεντρική σελίδα του Mozilla.
Christos Bacharakis Blog, Mozilla Leave a comment April 30, 2014 1 Minute
Introduction to Firefox OS – Create your first Open Web App Workshop
This workshop will walk you through  the most exciting new platform in mobile, Firefox OS.
You will have the opportunity to take a look under the hood of Firefox OS, the web technologies adopted and how open web applications work. In addition we are going to build our own first open web application using HTML5, Javascript and CSS using Firefox’s innovative developer tools.
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events, Mozilla 7 Comments April 25, 2014 1 Minute
This weekend I had the pleasure to experience the first Mozilla Weekend event in Tirana, Albania. They were two days dedicate to Mozilla, it’s products, the community and of course the Open Web.
It was my first time in Tirana and the first time I was meeting the Albanian community in general. From the early beginnings, when Elio Qoshi first contacted me and invited me to the event I was able to see his passion. After I had the chance to meet the rest of the Albanian community I have to say that they all share the same passion. The passion of doing great things, the passion for knowledge and of course sharing their knowledge with other people as well. Let me try to describe the Albanian community with 3 words: passion, professionalism and hard working people.
So yes, the #MozWeekend was a blast! The event was well organized in an amazing venue with a great content. The attendant had the chance to learn about Mozilla’s vision about the open web, some of our amazing products such as Firefox, Firefox OS, developer tools and conquer the knowledge on how to create his first Open Web Application. And after creating his first Open Web Application he learned how Mozilla can help him on how to turn his idea to a product or a startup by signing up to WebFWD. He also leaned how is it to be part of an amazing community such as Mozilla’s, how to join and how can he help on keeping the web open and accessible for everyone.
I am really glad that I was part of the MozWeekend in Tirana because I saw the impact of the event in the attendees. I saw people’s hunger for writing Open Web Apps and contributing to our mission. It was really amazing!
Thank you #MozWeekend, thank you #MozAlb!
Hope to see you soon
Here is my Flickr album of the event
and my presentations files from the three sessions I run.
Mozilla Persona and Lightbeam
Introduction to Firefox OS
Christos Bacharakis events, Mozilla Leave a comment February 13, 2014 1 Minute
Mozilla Webmaker and Webvistas community go to public libraries
Photo by Thalia Papoutsaki
I am really happy to announce you a series of workshops regarding the web in our lives.
Mozilla’s and Webvistas‘ communities are co-organizing along with the municipality of Thessaloniki a series of workshops in the central public library of the city.
Our meeting is around every second Wednesday at 6pm in the first floor of Thessaloniki’s central public library. You can check the map here for directions.
Below you can find a detailed schedule of our workshops:
1.    16/10 2013 – Christos Bacharakis, Mozilla – Create your own videos simple, easy and fast using the popcorn tool.
2.     30/10 2013 – Giannis Kaskamanidis, Psychologist – The web and the children. Pros and cos of the usage of the internet
3.     13/11 2013 – Maria Filipopoulou, Mathematician  – Scratch 2.0: Programming while playing or playing while programming?
4.     4/12 2013 – Christos Bacharakis, Mozilla – Create your own web page in HTML using thimble. First part.
5.     11/12 2013 – Christos Bacharakis, Mozilla – Create your own web page in HTML using thimble. Second part.
6.     18/12 2013 – Dimitris Alvanos, lawyer – Online transactions
7.     8/1 2014 – Despoina Drivakou, Psychologist – Social interaction on the web
8.     22/1 2014 – Christos Bacharakis, Mozilla – Create your first  Open Web Application.
Ανακοίνωση και στα Ελληνικά από την κοινότητα των Webvistas.
Το πρόγραμμα και στα ελληνικά – the schedule in Greek
1.    Τετάρτη16 Οκτωβρίου 2013 – Χρήστος Μπαχαράκης Mozilla – Δημιουργώντας βίντεο εύκολα, γρήγορα και απλά.
2.    Τετάρτη 30 Οκτωβρίου 2013 – Γιάννης Κασκαμανίδης Ψυχολόγος – Διαδίκτυο και ανήλικοι: θετικές και αρνητικές συνέπειες της χρήσης του.
3.    Τετάρτη 13 Νοεμβρίου 2013 – Μαρία Φιλιπποπούλου  Μαθηματικός – Scratch 2.0: Προγραμματίζω παίζοντας ή παίζω προγραμματίζοντας;
4.    Τετάρτη 4 Δεκεμβρίου 2013 – Χρήστος Μπαχαράκης Mozilla – Μαθαίνοντας να φτιάχνουμε ιστοσελίδες σε HTML μέρος 1ο.
5.    Τετάρτη 11 Δεκεμβρίου 2013 – Χρήστος Μπαχαράκης Mozilla – Μαθαίνοντας να φτιάχνουμε ιστοσελίδες σε HTML και CSS μέρος 2ο.
6.    Τετάρτη 18 Δεκεμβρίου 2013 – Δημήτρης Αλβανός  Δικηγόρος – Διαδικτυακές τραπεζικές συναλλαγές.
7.    Τετάρτη 8 Ιανουαρίου 2014 – Δέσποινα Δριβάκου  Ψυχολόγος – Κοινωνική διάδραση στο διαδίκτυο
8.    Τετάρτη 22 Ιανουαρίου 2014 – Χρήστος Μπαχαράκης Mozilla – Μαθαίνοντας να γράφουμε ανοιχτές διαδικτυακές εφαρμογές – Open Web Applications.
Τα λέμε εκεί! – See you there!
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events, Mozilla 1 Comment October 15, 2013 1 Minute
Fedora Romania and OSOM
This February was an amazing month full with awesome events regarding Free and Open Source software.
In the mid of the month I was invited in Bucharest in order to have a session in OSOM conference. OSOM (awesome) is the annual meet up/conference of the Romanian FOSS communities and projects.
This year there were re-presenters and presentations from the following communities: Fedora Project, Mozilla, OpenSUSE, Java User Group, Ubuntu, Drupal and ROSEdu. All presentations were really interesting but I would like to choose Mozilla’s, OpenSUSE’s and ROSEdu’s presentations where they were simply amazing!
In this point I would like to give an extra credit to ROSEdu which is a group of people who promote and support open source in education. Way to go guys, keep up the great work!
During my presentation on Friday I had the chance to present the Fedora project and it’s community. I presented Fedora 18’s new cutting edge features and I put a special effort in our official spins and special interest groups. Romania was a challenge for me because except of my presentation I wanted to seek more active contributors along with the experienced ones like my best friend Nicu. I am really glad that I had the chance to spend to full days with him!
During the dinner after OSOM I was approached by Theodora which is a young developer who wants to be more involved in Fedora’s development process!
On Saturday, thanks to Marcela and Ioana, the two girls that made OSOM happen and with the help of ROSEdu, Fedora had it’s release party in the Facultatea de Automatica si Calculatoare. Along with Nicu, we had the chance to make a more detailed presentation of the Fedora Operating system and the Fedora wiki. We presented Gnome 3, some tips and tricks on that, Fedora Project’s wiki, steps on how to contribute in a variety of roles, how to translate and of course some hacking sessions. During the hacking sessions, we hacked our raspberry pi installing Fedora, we presented some cool GIMP tricks and finally we had our rpm packaging session.
The attendances were 15 and except some Fedora users the variety of them was from other FOSS communities such as Ubuntu and OpenSUSE but In the end of the day they all had a fresh Fedora installation!
Speaking of new Fedora users lets talk about new Fedora contributors too. Ioana Chiorean and Alex Lakatos expressed a lot of interest in contributing to Fedora project. Both of them are leaders in Mozilla Romanian community organizing A LOT of events and mentoring new contributors. Especially Ioana is willing to put a lot of effort in organizing and coordinating the Romanian community. I am really glad that I have the chance to mentor them in Fedora and watch them contribute in the project. Welcome guys and thank you for your effort! I am pretty sure that more updates are going to follow. 😉
Wrapping up my thoughts, OSOM was an excellent event where I had the chance to meet a lot of active and interesting FOSS contributors, see another perspective specially of open source in education, seek 3 new contributors and make a lot of friends!
Thank you Marcela, Ioana, Nicu, ROSEdu and of course Fedora for make it happen!
My photo album from OSOM and the Fedora release party can be found here.
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events, fedora 6 Comments April 9, 2013 2 Minutes
FOSDEM 2013 – review
The first weekend of February of every year is always dedicated to FOSS Developers Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels.
FOSDEM is always a great opportunity to meet all my old Fedora and Mozilla friends from around the world. Unfortunately I didn’t get in time in Brussels in order to attend Fedora community’s dinner but I met them afterwords in the Delirium Cafe enjoying a large variety of beers. Right Christoph 😉
Saturday morning wake up is always tricky but along we Nikos we managed to get in time in order to prepare the Fedora booth along with Jiri where there was a surprising waiting for us as you can see in the picture above. Generally the most of my time I spend it in attending sessions but I did some contribution in Mozilla’s and Fedora’s booths too. This year’s Mozilla and Fedora booths where better than any other year with a lot of new and passionate people spreading the word of their favourite open source project and seeking more and more contributors.
It was another great year with a lot of enlightening presentations, a lot of awesome and brainstorming conversations with hackers from all over the world and of course a lot of hacking. The discussions you have outside dev rooms with amazing hackers, the brainstorming and all this energy can’t be compared with anything in the world. I want to give an extra credit to flash Fredy and Panos for having a live demo session in Mozilla’s booth, presenting Firefox OS devices the whole weekend! You were amazing guys, thank you! Finally I want to thank all the Reps who spend some time in booth talking with people, answering questions and solving problems.
As I blog posted before, more than 40 Greek hackers took over Brussels and FOSDEM where some of them run 8 sessions regarding open source software, open source hardware, their awesome projects or the project where they contribute in.
But this year was special for me too because it was my first time attending FOSDEM as a speaker. At Sunday noon I had a session in Mozilla’s dev room regarding debugging Firefox OS and open web apps as well as Gaia apps too. Thank you Clarista and Benoit for the excellent organization of the Mozilla presence. In general I think my presentation was a success despite the stress I had on stage. You can find my presentation online and you can always mail me for anything regarding debugging Firefox OS and Gaia.
World, watch out! Firefox OS is coming and it’s going to be astonishing!
FOSDEM 2013 is over and I cant wait a year for the next one! I am really glad for having a lot and great time with my old and new friends.
You can check FOSDEM’s 2013 photo album here.
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events, fedora, Mozilla 4 Comments March 23, 2013 2 Minutes
Three weeks, three awesome events, one goal
I am really excited about this blog post! The upcoming weeks are going to be extremely awesome, regarding the two FOSS projects I am mostly involved in Fedora and Mozilla.
Athens Firefox OS App Days
By time order, this Saturday is the Athens Firefox OS App Day which is sold out from the previous week. This event is going to be a hackathon on the new Firefox OS operating system for mobile devices. In 11 hours, 350 web and mobile developers are going to learn everything about Firefox OS, from theory to “build my own app”. We are going to provide them all the nessessary tools for building their own app in a few hours such as pizza and beer!
A month ago was the Firefox OS hackathon, a pilot event of Firefox OS App Days in Athens hackerspace which prepared us for a success upcoming series of Firefox OS App Days events.
For live updates follow MozillaGreece twitter account or you can watch the live video stream.
Next weekend (2-3/02) is FOSDEM, the biggest event for FOSS Developers around the globe. It’s going to have a lot of beers, parties, more than 160 presentations and around 5000 hackers around the world.
Except this boring stuff this year is going to be a great year for the Greek FOSS community which is going to have 8 sessions in FOSDEM.
Here is the list with all these awesome presentations – well done guys!
11:00 – 12:00 The neat guide to Fedora RPM Packaging Nikos Roussos
11:30 – 12:00 FirefoxOS: Port it… Build it… Flash it… – Alfredos-Panagiotis Damkalis
18:00 – 19:00 Using codebender as an IDE for Arduino and other embedded devices Vasilis (tzikis) Georgitzikis
10:00 – 11:00 Making a Hackerspace Smart – Dimitrios Amaxilatis
14:00 – 14:30 Introducing the Synnefo open source IaaS cloud platform Vangelis Koukis
14:00 – 14:30 Firefox OS and Web Applications – Debugging made easy – Christos Bacharakis
16:30 – 17:00 WebFWD: Moving the web forward – Vasilis (tzikis) Georgitzikis
18:40 – 19:00 Open Discussion – Christos Siopis
So, on Sunday noon I am having a session on Mozilla’s Dev Room presenting all the necessary developer tools and techniques on developing web apps for Firefox OS. The rest of the weekend, if I am not attending a session, you will find me on Fedora’s or Mozilla’s booth.
Fedora Greece Activity Day – Fedora 18 release party
As you already know Fedora 18 is out and there is no better way to celebrate than a release party. So, in the mid of February we organizing a Greek Fedora 18 release party shared in two cities, Athens and Thessaloniki.
It’s going to happen on Saturday and except the party, we willing to have a lot of hackfests explain how easy is for you to hack Fedora and contribute in upstream projects. We are going to have workshop for starters, introduction to Fedora, translation sprint and for more advanced users, RPM packaging workshop, build your own remix etc.
Our goal is to present Fedora to new users, seek contributors and hack our favourite operating system
More details are going to be published soon!
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events, fedora, Mozilla 23 Comments January 25, 2013 2 Minutes
Open Source and Research – talk, review
Two weeks ago – 27/11/2012 – , along with two great FOSS contributors shared a session in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece regarding “Open Source and Research“.
The event was organized by the society of the post graduate department of physics and math of the Aristotle University.
Kostas Koudaras –  OpenSUSE contributor – explained the differences between free source and open source and elaborated on the movement/culture of Free Source software. In addition he explained the philosophy of contributing upstream and generally what do you achieve by contributing in FOSS projects.
Salih Elim – Open Source strategist at ErgoQ –  presented where free/open source applies in day life such as routers, cars, software etc. Later on the audience got amazed by a slide he shared with companies who use and support open source such as redhat, mozilla, google, toyota, ibm, nasa etc. In the end Salih, presented some open source projects which were a products of academic research and explained why should the community of an academic research project has to use, adopt and produce open source software/hardware.
In the last part of the session I – Fedora Project contributor, Mozilla –  presented the benefits of working/creating inside a community especially if that is an open source one. I tried to motivate people to join active FOSS communities or great their own, finding people with common interested. I shared a list with the most active Greek communities such as the Fedora’s Project, Mozilla’s,OpenSUSE’s and explained them why these communities rock, what do we achieve by contributing in these projects and invited them to join us!  I am pretty sure that people understood that through open source communities they can build the future of the open software/hardware as other foundation and foss companies (Red Hat, Mozilla) did in the past.
It was a successful event considering the fact that we had around 75 people, an 30′ session with discussing and answering to questions after the event and a lot of feedback.
I want to thank Thanos Pavloudis from the society of the post graduate department of physics and math (from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), who organized this event, made it happen and want to organize more events regarding Open Source.
Some more photos from the event can be found in my picasa web album.
Till the next time, keep hacking the world 😉
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events, fedora, Mozilla 3 Comments December 11, 2012 2 Minutes
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