Last Friday (November 13 2009), I gave a lecture/conference titled Mozilla and its technologies in the context of the Mozilla Campus Reps program. Indeed, I am a Mozilla Campus Rep at INSA Lyon, my university.

The lecture had four parts. First of them was a classic presentation of Mozilla and Netscape history. Then, a presentation of some Mozilla projects like applications, libraries, tools and especially Mozilla Labs. The real technical part was about the Mozilla Platform (Gecko, XUL, ...). To complete, the Open Web and web standards.

Everything went well. I planned to give a 30-minute to 45-minute length lecture with 15 minutes of questions but it looks like I had a lot of things to say and I talked one hour long. Fortunately, there wasn't a lot of questions so I finished in time.
The most important is I had only good feedback which is pretty cool for a first experience !

The Mozilla campus Reps program wasn't able to send me a swag pack so I asked to Tristan Nitot (Mozilla Europe) who seemed delighted to help. Paul Rouget (Mozilla Europe too) also helped with some advices. A big thank you to both of them !

Finally, you can download my slides. You can also get the source files here. The slides have been made in latex with beamer. All this stuff is available in Creative Common Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY).
The slides aren't really verbose. They have been made only to get attention of the audience and let them follow me. I've spoke about a lot of subjects that are not even mentioned like JavaScript benchmarking, V8, FOSS work-flow... I find it more dynamic and -I hope- less boring for the audience.

It was a nice experience and I'm glad to have spread Firefox and Mozilla !