Firefox Student Ambassadors Officially Launched!

Kemuel Joseph Domanog

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Hey all! We know that everyone is excited about the launch of the Firefox Student Ambassadors Program. The name sounds cool, right? Well it really is!

Here are few basic information about the newly launched program:

Who are the Firefox Student Ambassadors?
They are individuals who are passionate on Mozilla’s mission and they are those who promote the Firefox browser, Firefox OS and other Mozilla products and projects in their respective campuses or universities!

They are given opportunities to learn new skills, gain recognition and advance their leadership in the Mozilla Community!  They can also be accepted into the Mozilla Representatives (ReMo) Program!

What Firefox Student Ambassadors do?
Firefox Student Ambassadors exists to raise the awareness of tools and resources that Mozilla has to offer in helping other contributors (especially other students) via some of the activities listed below:

  • Event Speakership
  • Recruiting Contributors
  • Event Organizing
  • Graphic Designing
  • Student Developers
  • Photographers
  • Event Bloggers / Documentation

How to Join the Firefox Student Ambassadors Program?
Joining is easy. One must be at least 18 years old (and above)  and is currently enrolled or associated at any school or learning institution. YES, Professors and School Administrators are now welcome to be part of the program. Visit http://mozillaph.org/ffxstudents to register!

So, what’s next?
After registration, you are encouraged to create a Firefox Club — a group of Firefox Student Ambassadors at your respective school or campus. Students get to meet fellow Ambassadors in their schools and work as a team on events planning and growing the Mozilla Community at their institution. To check if there is already an existing club on your school or campus, please visit http://mozillaph.org/ffxclubsdirectory

What to do if there is no existing club on my school?
Gather all your friends, Classmates or Professor who want to join the Firefox Student Ambassador Program. Appoint a leader, who will be Mozilla Philippines Community’s contact person at your school or campus. Be sure to choose a name for your club. Please create a club via http://mozillaph.org/ffxclubs

So what are you guys waiting for? Come and Join our program. Be the next Firefox Student Ambassador to represent Mozilla in your school! Keep the Firefox fire Blazing!

Geeksphone Keon for Firefox OS App Days – Manila Demoers

Robert "Bob" Reyes

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As promised last January during Firefox OS App Days – Manila, each of the attendees (brave souls) who demoed their apps for Mozilla’s mobile OS will receive a Geeksphone Keon (Firefox OS Developer Preview) device one released.

I fulfilled this promise last night during a simple handover ceremony held at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) Prism Plaza, Two E-Com Center, Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City.

Pinoy Mozillians who are now proud owners of the very first Firefox OS powered devices in the Philippines: Geeksphone Keon.

Pinoy Mozillians who are now proud owners of the very first Firefox OS powered devices in the Philippines: Geeksphone Keon.

Present during the event (held on short notice) were worthy Geeksphone Keon recipients:

  1. Noel Anonas
  2. Joell Lapitan
  3. Antonio Martinez
  4. Paul Ameer Jayme
  5. Mark Joseph Penaranda
  6. Kevin John Ventura
  7. Rofus Dela Cruz

Noel developed the “Bad Boy” game app, which lets the player trap the trash bags being thrown by the bad boys of the neighborhood.

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Ever cheezy Joell (a Mozilla Rep from Laguna) developed a FLAMES (Friends, Lovers, Affectionate, Marriage, Enemies, and Sweethearts) app — remember your elementary school days?

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Tony on the other hand presented a simple school registration system for mobile devices.

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Paul Ameer (from Olongapo City) developed an app to hone one’s skills in typing on a mobile device. The app is aptly called QTT.

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Marc Anthony (Paul’s colleague from Olongapo City) created a treasure hunt game called Grubin. This app features the different scenic spots and tourist attractions all over the Philippines.

Mark Joseph in the other hand created an app that lets users thrown random questions and will return answers from the program’s database.

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Fellow Mozilla Rep (from Laguna) Kevin John started developing the app codenamed Tranzilla. The app aims to provide information for travelers, where other people can leave their tips and comments — sort of an opensocial travel network.

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Want a Geeksphone Keon for yourself? Propose for a Firefox OS app and Mozilla might send you one, for free! Click here for more info.

Firefox OS-powered Geeksphone Keon Lands in the Philippines

Robert "Bob" Reyes

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Hold your horses before celebrating … Geeksphone Keon units powered by Mozilla Firefox OS are NOT YET available locally. But, I got a package from UPS this afternoon containing the Keon units I promised to those who presented their apps during the Manila leg of Firefox OS App Days last January (awarding of the units will happen on Sunday).

GeeksPhone is a Spanish start-up company and producer of smartphones founded in early 2009 by Javier Agüera and Rodrigo Silva-Ramos. They specialize in the development, promotion and commercialization of open source mobile telephony solutions.

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Geeksphone Keon and Peak are the very first commercially available Firefox OS powered devices (Developers Preview) in the planet. And the units that had arrived today are the very first of its kind in the country.

Contents inside the packaging of Geeksphone Keon device.

Contents inside the packaging of Geeksphone Keon device.

If you are planning to get either a Keon or a Peak from Geeksphone, just head straight at their website (NOTE: Mozilla is NOT selling the devices) if they had already replenished their stocks.

[L-R] Samsung Galaxy Nexus S i9023, Geeksphone Keon, & ZTE "Unagi" Test Device -- all running Mozilla Firefox OS.

[L-R] Samsung Galaxy Nexus S i9023, Geeksphone Keon, & ZTE “Unagi” Test Device — all running Mozilla Firefox OS.

Or you may want to submit an app proposal to Mozilla and if accepted, they will send you a Geeksphone Keon for free. Read this for more details.

Women and Mozilla Philippine Kick-off

Kathrine Faye Tandog

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Mozilla believes that all individuals must have the ability of shape their own experiences on the Internet. Thus, as Mozillans we must aim to give all people, regardless of sex, age and academic background, the opportunity to do so. However, it cannot be denied that as much as there are a lot of women involved in the use of technology, only a few choose to get involved in the IT field, particularly in the open source movement.

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Hence, the Mozilla Philippines Community presents the kick-off of the Women and Mozilla initiative, where women whether currently in the field of IT or not, can be informed of what they can do to contribute to open source, aid in its advocacy and empower other women to join the movement.

It will be held on Saturday, May 25, 2013 1PM at the Globe Corporate Showroom, Valero Telepark, 111 Valero St., Makati City.

Open to all women, whether students or working inviduals coming from any field! Snacks are on us!

Register via Eventbrite: http://womozphl.eventbrite.com/
Know more about Women and Mozilla at http://womoz.org/
More about the event on http://mozillaphilippines.org/!

See you there!

Women & Mozilla Community Lead in the Philippines

Eusebio Barrun Jr.

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chuchuWe all had been to tech events recently and saw quite a few women in attendance in what seems to be a male dominated realm. Part of Mozilla’s advocacy is for the web to be open and participatory, thus we have an initiative called Women & Mozilla (WoMoz).

The Mozilla Philippines Community will be supporting the WoMoz and we are very happy to announce the appointment of Ms. Kathrine Faye Tandog as the WoMoz Community Lead here in our country. Faye is an active contributor in the Community as events organizer and networks with other open source projects or communities. She has been instrumental in the success of the recent Junior Form Function & Class (JFFC) and Mini JFFC’s. She was the Vice-President for Human Resources of TomasinoWeb, an online student publication of the University of Santo Tomas (she just graduated this month and is currently looking for her first job).

Right now she is busy with her planning pad, so watch out for some cool activities she had lined up like Mini Hackathons and of course MozMilk Tea! for women techies out there. Being the first female and youngest Mozilla Rep in the Philippines, she really enjoys volunteering and giving back to the community.  You can find more about Faye by following her on Twitter @fayetandog  and her personal blog in Tumblr, where she spends most of her time sharing about Mozilla and random stuff.

Tagalog Firefox Translation Marathon 1Q2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes

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Mozillian Localizers for the Tagalog Firefox Project gathered earlier today (a non-working holiday all throughout the country in celebration of National Day of Valor) at the Highlands Coffee, Alphaland Southgate Tower Mall in Makati City to have a Translation Marathon.

Panoramic shot of the Highlands Coffee while the Translation Marathon is on-going.

Panoramic shot of the Highlands Coffee while the Translation Marathon is on-going.

There was around 16 Mozillian Localizers present to the event. Not a bad turnout for a holiday.

Very good turnout even if it was a non-working holiday weekday.

Very good turnout even if it was a non-working holiday weekday.

And even the weather was somewhat cooperating …

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The Localization effort to Tagalog is already 42% complete prior to the event today. We aim at reaching at least 50% completion by end of this month.

If you want to be part of the Mozilla Philippines Community Localization Team, please get more information here.

More photos taken to document the event can be viewed here.

AMA Computer University Biñan IT Week 2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes

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Our friends from the Philippine Information Technology Organization (Phil-IT.org) invited Team MozillaPH to be part of the AMA Computer University (Biñan Campus) IT Week 2013 today.

I, being a proud AMAnian (Parañaque Campus), led the MozillaPH delegation composed of our Community Manager Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, Jr.; Student Reps Lead Kemuel Joseph Domanog; and Student Reps Kenneth Sungcaya & Ryan Ermita from Colegio de San Juan De Letran (Calamba), Sheila Revilla from Pamantasan ng Cabuyao (PNC), Joshua Rubin from Pamantasan ng Muntinlupa, and Kristina Verbo from the University of Santos Tomas (UST).

MozillaPH team less Kim (who is behind the camera).

MozillaPH team less Kim (who is behind the camera). First time for me to wear my Mozilla 15th anniversary shirt.

The organizers gave us a vacant classroom to have the Mozilla Booth, where students (and even faculty members) can signup to be part of the community. As a token of our appreciation, those who signed up got awesome Mozilla Firefox swags.

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During the plenary session (held at the campus gym at the top-most floor of the building), Jun and I made a tandem presentation. Jun delivered his introduction about Mozilla and the Mozilla Philippines Community:

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While I did the New Web Challenge (Firefox OS) presentation. My slide deck may be viewed online here.

Me preparing to make a demo of Tilt 3D and the Firefox OS Simulator.

Me preparing to make a demo of Tilt 3D and the Firefox OS Simulator.

Me with the Firefox OS Demo Device.

Me with the Firefox OS Demo Device.

Crowd during the plenary session attentively listening to Jun's presentation.

Crowd during the plenary session attentively listening to Jun’s presentation.

With some of the AMA-Binñan students at the Mozilla booth.

With some of the AMA-Binñan students at the Mozilla booth.

Thank you very much to Phil-IT.org for organizing the event and to the awesome people of AMA Computer University Biñan Campus for the very warm welcome and hospitality. Hope to be back at your campus this coming school year.

More photos from the event are here (courtesy of our very abled photographer Kim).

Mozilla 15 Years Of A Better Web, Tell Us Your #Webstory

Eusebio Barrun Jr.

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You have made Mozilla’s #webstory possible, and we invite you to Retweet the 15 Mozilla facts and/or participate by submitting your own story.

Tweet, an image or a video about how you’ve contributed to 15 years of Mozilla, what Mozilla and Firefox mean to you, or a memorable moment you’ve had on the Web. Be sure to post on Twitter with the hashtag #webstory.

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@Firefox, @Mozilla and @MozillaPH

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Welcome Pinoy WebFWD Scouts!

Robert "Bob" Reyes

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Team Mozilla Philippines is both happy and proud to announce the current roster of WebFWD Scouts based in the country (in alphabetical order):

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WebFWD is led by a team of professionals with deep experience in startups and entrepreneurship. We are passionate about helping the next generation of entrepreneurs disrupt closed markets and successfully extend the open web.

Learn more about WebFWD via https://webfwd.org

Mozilla-PHL: Zamboanga Goes Mobile A Success

RJ Ian Sevilla

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The Mozilla Philippines successfully organized its very first mobile-related event in Zamboanga City dubbed as Zamboanga Goes Mobile -”Open Source Style” last March 16, 2013 at the E-Learning Centre Inc. The event was supported by Globe Labs who provided internet connectivity for all participants all throughout the day.
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More than 75 participants from the Zamboanga Peninsula attended the event, which aims to introduce the Firefox OS and the Firefox Marketplace to the Region. The Mozilla Philippines team was represented by Mr. Jean Austin Rodriguez, Mr. Kemuel Domanog , Ms. Joyce Domanog , Mr. Robert Reyes and Mr. RJ Ian S. Sevilla.

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