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Well, had I known I would be able to make it for the second day of MozTI@BESU, I wouldn't have written my blog for the first day separately. Would preferably have merged the two together. Well, it was a situation that even 5 mins before leaving home, I wasn't sure I would be going for the second day of this grand event.  The second day started of with Introduction to Mozilla and Mozilla communities where the two great speakers Soumya Deb and Sayak Sarkar shared the stage. They took turns to explain the crowd about Mozilla Foundation, the goal and mission of this organization and so on. Sayak even read the manifesto of Mozilla to make things clearer for all. It was followed by a series of talks on different Mozilla products, Mozilla projects etc.  While Soumya caught the attention of the audience with his introduction to Mozilla's biggest project right now, B2G (commonly known as Firefox OS), Sayak mesmerized the crowed with his Webmaker stories and proj...

# Image source: Official poster for event After a long time did attend a really big FOSS event today at Bengal Engineering and Science University, commonly known as BESU. It was my first visit to BESU campus. The beautiful campus did welcome me this morning with loads of greenery. The very surrounding did fill me up with energy and enthusiasm for the day. The on-spot registration process for this event began by 9am. By 9.30am, when sufficient crowd had already gathered at the seminar hall, the crowd was welcomed by the Vice-Chancellor of BESU, Dr Ajoy Kumar Ray. He addressed the crowd with a very simple but powerful speech which was the perfect start to the event. After his address, Sayak Sarkar (a Mozilla Representative and also the organizer of the event) took over. He made a presentation on Google Summer of Code, introducing to the crowd the idea behind GSoC is, how it is run, how to apply for it and so on. Though his talk was supposed to be on GSoC, the enthusiastic...