Mozilla Ireland

After much preparation the Irish community is now live!

Let me start off by introducing myself(again somewhat). My name is Stephen and I am a young long time passionate fan of the Mozilla project. I am novice Multimedia student moving into his final year as well as a newly accepted Mozilla Rep, the only one in Ireland.

To summarise what a Mozilla community is about can be said in one word, openness. That alone is what the Mozilla project is about and as such the communities of Mozilla are open to all. Anyone can join and your opinion matters and you do not have to be a programmer! As long as you are passionate for what Mozilla stands for and are willing to dedicate your own time and effort into helping teach and talk about the Open Web, Mozilla and other FOSS aspects then you are more then welcome.

As a community we will be hitting a few main area’s of interest. Spreading the word, Eduction and Localization of Firefox OS and Firefox Desktop. If you think there is something else by all means voice it!

We also have a presence on Facebook and Twtter! I would recommend you folks also get set up on IRC as we will be hosting meetups on our Ireland channel.

https://twitter.com/MozillaIreland

https://www.facebook.com/MozillaIreland

https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC

Finally, thank you for reading and if you have any questions just fire away!

Stephen Murphy
Mozilla Ireland
Mozilla Rep

https://reps.mozilla.org/u/sj_mur/

Helen Foster was one of the main speakers at the Ireland & UK Moodlemoot 2012.

She is community manager of moodle.org, founder of Notes on Scrabble and a former member of the managing committee of Grammar Police.

Over three-hundred delegates attended the Moot in Dublin early this week.

Helen spoke of the Mozilla Foundation and its development of the Open Badges Project.

Kyle pointed out the importance of debugging and solving issues at the network level, he provided a whole set of resources to do so, examples ranged from pure network debugging to connection testing and ultimately dealing with comcast customer support or how to contact sprint to get things done.

Richard Wyles wrote of this recently in the Moodle Lounge. Amongst other things he said

Learning today happens everywhere but it’s often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements gained outside of formal education and training contexts. Mozilla’s Open Badges project is working to solve that problem, making it easy for any organization or learning community to issue, earn and display badges across the web. The result: recognizing 21st century skills, unlocking career and educational opportunities, and helping learners everywhere level up in their life and work.

The Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition brought together Web developers, designers and technologists with educators, online learning innovators and collaborators that range from NASA, the U.S. Department of Education and the Girl Scouts of America to Intel, Disney-Pixar and Motorola.

The goal: explore how digital badges can provide learners of all ages new ways to gain 21st century skills, harness the full educational power of the Internet, and unlock career and learning opportunities in the real world.