{"id":8433,"date":"2018-04-18T08:02:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=8433"},"modified":"2018-04-18T08:20:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:20:03","slug":"friend-of-add-ons-viswaprasath-ks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2018\/04\/18\/friend-of-add-ons-viswaprasath-ks\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend of Add-ons: Viswaprasath Ks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please meet our newest Friend of Add-ons, <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/u\/SHIHAN.VISWA\/\">Viswaprasanth Ks<\/a>! Viswa began contributing to Mozilla in January 2013, when he met regional community members while participating in a Firefox OS hackathon in Bangalore, India. Since then, he has been a member of the Firefox Student Ambassador Board, a Sr. Firefox OS app reviewer, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/reps.mozilla.org\/\">Mozilla Rep<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/TechSpeakers\">Tech Speaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2017, Viswa began developing extensions for Firefox using the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/Add-ons\/WebExtensions\">WebExtensions API<\/a>. From the start, Viswa wanted to invite his community to learn this framework and create extensions with him. At community events, he would speak about extension development and help participants build their first extensions. These presentations served as a starting point for creating the <a href=\"https:\/\/activate.mozilla.community\/\">Activate<\/a> campaign \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/activate.mozilla.community\/webextensions\/\">Build Your Own Extension<\/a>.\u201d Viswa quickly became a leader in developing the campaign and testing iterations with a variety of different audiences. In late 2017, he collaborated with community members Santosh Viswanatham and Trishul Goel to <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.mozilla.org\/t\/activate-improving-the-build-your-own-extension-campaign\/19883\/2\">re-launch the campaign<\/a> with a new event flow and more learning resources for new developers.<\/p>\n<p>Viswa continues to give talks about extension development and help new developers become confident working with WebExtensions APIs. He is currently creating a series of videos about the WebExtensions API to be released this summer. When he isn\u2019t speaking about extensions, he mentors students in the Tamilnadu region in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rust-lang.org\/en-US\/\">Rust<\/a> and Quality Assurance.<\/p>\n<p>These experiences have translated into skills Viswa uses in everyday life. \u201cI learned about code review when I became a Sr. Firefox OS app reviewer,\u201d he says. \u201cThis skill helps me a lot at my office. I am able to easily point out errors in the product I am working on. The second important thing I learned by contributing to Mozilla is how to build and work with a diverse team. The Mozilla community has a lot of amazing people all around the world, and there are unique things to learn from each and every one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his free time, Viswa watches tech-related talks on YouTube, plays chess online, and explores new Mozilla-related projects like <a href=\"https:\/\/mozilla-lockbox.github.io\/\">Lockbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also quick to add, \u201cI feel each and every one who cares about the internet should become Mozilla contributors so the journey will be awesome in future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If that describes you and you would like get more involved with the add-ons community, please take a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Add-ons\/Contribute\">wiki<\/a> for some opportunities to contribute to the project.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for all of your contributions, Viswa! 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Viswa began contributing to Mozilla in January 2013, when he met regional community members while participating in a Firefox OS hackathon &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2018\/04\/18\/friend-of-add-ons-viswaprasath-ks\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1405,"featured_media":8434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278890,121],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friend of Add-ons: Viswaprasath Ks - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2018\/04\/18\/friend-of-add-ons-viswaprasath-ks\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Caitlin Neiman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2018\/04\/18\/friend-of-add-ons-viswaprasath-ks\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2018\/04\/18\/friend-of-add-ons-viswaprasath-ks\/\",\"name\":\"Friend of Add-ons: Viswaprasath Ks - 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