Makilan is Mechanical Engineering student with passion to take web at Remote Places
March 3, 2016
1) Please introduce yourself and give us three keywords that would define you the best.
- I’m Selva Makilan, doing Mechanical Engineering at SASTRA University.
- I can and I will.
- Innovative thinker and Dreamer
2) What area are you from [city]
- Native: Avinangudi, Cuddalore.
- Currently in Thanjavur.
3) What do you do as a career [job/school/retired]?
- Student / SASTRA University.
4) List a favorite hobby or something about yourself that you'd like to share.
- Hobbies are making Crafts, Popupology.
- Mobography (Mobile Photography), Music, Dance Lover.
5) Links to your website, blog, etc.?
6) How did you discover the Web?
- Through my family and friends. Well, it all started with creating mail then got associated with the web as such.
7) How did you hear about Mozilla and Mozilla Tamilnadu Community?
At my University, I attended an orientation. In the orientation, one of my seniors took the session about Mozilla and its Contributing areas. After that orientation, I came to my room and searched about Firefox Student Ambassador. Then I saw one Mozcafe event which was conducted by D.Vigneshwar in Thanjavur. I attended the session and then joined the Mozilla Tamil Nadu community.
.8) How and why did you start contributing to Mozilla?
Actually, I like to learn something new apart from my academics and improve my skills by those concerns, I joined in Mozilla then became a Mozilla FSA. It’s really pretty cool to get some ideas. Before entering into Mozilla I didn’t have much knowledge in Computer Science and by contributing in Mozilla Localization Service and done with great Success, I am in a great hope to contribute in other areas and now I am interested in Mozilla L10N.
9) What’s the contribution you’re the proudest of?
Secured third place in Tamilnadu in Mozilla Location Service(MLS) is my proudest moment as of now as it is my first contributing area.
10) What advice would you give to someone who is new and interested in contributing to Mozilla?
Feel free with Mozilla Community, don’t feel shy to ask anything. Language doesn’t matter and your basic knowledge is enough to do everything because here you have a chance to learn a lot. Community members are always ready to help you anytime.
11) If you had one word or sentence to describe Mozilla, what would it be?
Simply Awesome
12) What exciting things do you envision for you and Mozilla in the future?
I concentrate on developing this Mozilla community in remote areas, due to less awareness in rural areas we are in the position to improve there also.
13) Is there anything else you'd like to say or add to the above questions?
No, I feel these questions are more than enough.
14) Please tell us more about your community. Is there anything you find particularly interesting or special about it?
Like I said before, here after my community will be improved in rural areas. Since after coming to a reputed University, I got a chance to know about Mozilla, before that I know Mozilla Firefox as a browser alone, I wasn’t aware of these things behind Mozilla and really am amazed.
15) What’s your best memory of your fellow community members?
After I joined in a Mozilla community, I didn’t know anything about it, what I have to do, which area would suit me I confused a lot and assumed myself that I am not fit for these things. Then a guy Gowtham encouraged me and helped me a lot. Representatives gave some ideas to do my basic steps for creating a blog, manage a GitHub etc...