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Brace yourselves, a new Mozilla India is coming...

WIP title: Releasing Krakens... an entire army of them! Peek-a-boo: New visual identity of Mozilla India... Yay! Well, the idea of Foxy hugging the Ashoka Chakra as the logo had to be thrown into the gutter - too many objections about potential abuse of the country-emblem. Though, I fail to see how hugging your mother can be considered a nefarious act! Now, to the main topic; TL;DR: The new Mozilla India websites is live & kickin', also it has got some new platform-integration (& underlying infrastructure upgrade). The Mozilla India developers have been at work for a while now & things have started to shape up. The Platforms & the Infrastructure I'll be mentioning these two terms way too often below, so I'd rather give a brief: Platforms : a software stack on an OS, allowing us to achieve some task in particular. Some lose examples would be blogging, content management, documentation, API, content serving etc. Infrastructure : the hard

Stepping down from ReMo Council

Yes, you heard it right. No, there's no sad story behind it. Also, the decision is not made in a hurry. In fact, I've been trying to figure out my purpose & impact as a council member the moment I took up the duty — and soon after, I came to the conclusion that it's not really my thing. Being in the Council empowered me as a Rep & I'm glad to have helped in the Mozilla community activities globally, and especially in South Asia. So, there are lots of reason why not to, but there are a couple of reason for me to retire; and here's why: Focus I can be more effective at my other parts of Mozilla contributions (mainly around Developer Community Building in South Asia), if I step out from some of all those things I'm involved with. There will be another blog, listing them down & delegating responsibilities accordingly, where applies. Time Being in the council means dedicating a huge amount of time reviewing/approving budgets - a continuous i