Priyanka's Scrapbook

If you are not already aware of what Scrollback is, here is a small introduction to Scrollback. "Scrollback is a beautiful, open source text chat service designed for communities. Scrollback chat rooms can be embedded in websites and linked with Twitter hashtags or IRC channels." [You can visit the Scrollback site for a better understanding]. Many community websites and personal websites have adopted Scrollback and embedded it into their sites. A great example for this is the Mozilla India website . Here are a few simple steps following which you can easily embed Scrollback in your personal website. Step 1: On the Scrollback website, create your own chat room. This chat-room will be the one which will get embedded into your site. The modal window where you can name your room as per your needs Step 2: Once the room is created, you will automatically be re-directed to your room's page. On your room’s page, the left column will have all information about y...

I am sure many of you have received an email last day whose subject line was "Invitation to MozCamp Beta India". I am not sure if you were surprised (or confused) with the 'Beta' word and its significance in the event name. Personally, I have never been to a MozCamp before but what I understand after my conversations with several former MozCamp attendees (please correct me if I am wrong), it used to be a gathering for all Mozillians of a region (mostly continent level) to be able to interact with each other. People who have been working virtually were given a chance to meet in reality during this. Also,these MozCamps used to focus a lot on cross community interactions and cross-cultural learnings. The structure of MozCamp is getting a bit modified from this year. Starting this year, MozCamp is going to be more like a 'Train the trainer' sort of event. Unlike previous MozCamps, not all active Mozillians will be called down to attend a MozCamp. Only sele...

My first two days in Scrollback started a bit differently than all other conventional "first day" at office experiences. I was lucky to have been able to skip my office desk for the first two days and place myself in the MLR Convention Centre, Bangalore to be a part of RootConf 2014. I wasn't an attendee, rather wore a proud "Crew" badge for 2 days and did help the HasGeek team in the conduction of the event for two days. DevOps is not much of my domain and honestly, I do not understand much of it either. I didn't spend too much time inside the auditorium as well, I ended up spending most of my time outside it. I was officially supposed to be in the T-shirt stall to give away (not free) T-shirts but I guess I could be blamed for lingering around for most of the time, catching hold of awesome people and bugging them with some random stuff. I did learn a lot of stuff which will include T-shirt folding, arranging them, counting them...so anyone opening a n...