As I was recently appointed Localization Lead for the Firefox Aurora Tagalog translation efforts of the Mozilla Philippines Community. Two (02) weeks ago, I called for a MozCoffee event to all interested individuals to participate in the Tagalog Firefox project. The meeting was actually held this afternoon at McCafe Greenbelt 1; iced (or hot) mocha was on us!

Upon registration, each of the attendees received their coffee stub, which entitles them to a free hot or cold McCafe Mocha …

It was a very fruitful initial meeting, seeing old and new faces within the local IT circle. Most of them were not that aware of the localization (translation) efforts being made for Mozilla products, more particular: Firefox.

Thanks to the awesome people of McDonald’s Greenbelt 1! They managed to reserve a corner of their busy branch to accommodate the meeting attendees.

All those present during the meeting went home with some swags sent by Mozilla HQ (you are all awesome!).

We are now in the planning stage for the next meeting sometime middle of February this year. I’m thinking of having a hands-on type of walk-through about the Narro. Please do watch out for this event. Details will be posted in this blog soon.

If you want to be part of the Mozilla Philippines Localization Team, you may join our Facebook Group {tagalogfirefox@groups.facebook.com} and be sure to follow @TagalogFirefox in Twitter. Mabuhay!

Having two hour time  for a business meeting would be enough but not with our community meet up that we have to continue the discussion online in the mailing list. The first meet up of the year last January 13, 2011 at  Racks Restaurant in Festival Supermall, Alabang started by 6:30pm until 9:00pm.

We defined three areas to concentrate this year, and these are: localization, developer and engagement. I consider these to be the Power of 3 for our success this year. Here are the roles accepted by those in attendance during the meeting. My apologies for not being online during the meeting, two of the USB broadband sticks has no signal in the area.

This is just the initial list of volunteers so you can join any of these based on your interest, for our shared goals you can check out the minutes of the meeting  on Google Docs prepared by Kevin Ventura for more information. If you have any suggestion on how to contribute please feel free to contact us.

Indeed a very fruitful meet up with positive response to all the challenges coming this year.  Thanks to all who attended the meeting and supporters of Mozilla Philippines.

Interested to be part of the localization (translation) efforts of the Mozilla Community Philippines? Please join us for an afternoon of coffee while we talk about the following:

• Meet & Greet (see the faces behind the names in the L10N)
• What happened in Mozilla Camp Asia 2012 (Kuala Lumpur)?
• Current status of the PHL Mozilla Localization Project (L10N) | Localization of Firefox Aurora
• Plans for 2012
• Kwentuhan

Sign-up page is now online at http://phlmozcoffee2012.eventbrite.com

Please do not hesitate to contact me via robert.reyes@gmail.com or SMS 0939.914.2860 for inquiries. Thanks!

BTW, did I mentioned that Mozilla HQ is sending some swags for the meeting attendees? See you!

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Everyone seemed to be busy on Christmas holidays, also the bad weather that hit the country,  hope everyone is now ready for some action in our Mozilla Community. Last year made a new mark in our mission that more volunteers are coming out but still a lot more things are needed to be accomplish. The Mozilla Reps program is one of the great things that make our volunteer efforts with ease in a structured manner.

We’re going to have the meet-up on January 13, 2011 at  Racks Restaurant Festival Supermall Alabang at 6pm-8pm. It’s a community event so we’ll just make a small contribution for the food and of course swags will be given away. The delegates from the Mozilla Asia Camp 2011 have a lot to share to you guys that will definitely inspire everyone to volunteer and be part of the community.

The Mozilla movement in the Philippines welcomes everyone to attend, especially college students. This is a limited slot only because of the small space of the venue so if you want to join the fun fill up this form.

Mozilla Philippines attended the Mozilla Asia Camp 2011 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last November 18-21, 2010. Mozilla Asia Camp is a gathering of the most active contributors of the Mozilla Asia community, and was the first Mozilla Camp held in the region. The event lasted only two days, but it was such an intense weekend of presentations, discussions, brainstorms, workshops, hackathons, BOF, impromptu gatherings centered around the Mozilla projects, with a special focus on Asia.

The Philippine delegation was led by Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, our local Community Manager. He was accompanied by Joell Lapitan, Allan Caeg, Robert DC Reyes, Juned Sunido and Renren Gabas.

“We expect to meet new friends, as well as HQ guys,” Jun said. “We want to network with our Mozillians and learn new things about Mozilla.”

Joell added, “My most unforgettable moment was the sharing with Mitchell Baker during one of the breakout sessions when we were asked about how we became part of Mozilla.”

Some fellow kababayans who were part of Mozilla were also there, notably Grace Jimenez and William Quiviger. Will previously visited the Philippines for a meet-up at the UP Ayala TechnoHub last August.

The delegation was most impressed with the new “Boot2Gecko” technology where a phone was demo’d to use HTML5 technologies. In addition, the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) was also introduced as an authoritative replacement for the W3Schools site. MDN is an online resource where developers can find tutorials and references about web technologies.

Other technologies and programs that were highlighted included the Web Forward initiative, Test Drivers program, and the Aurora and Beta Tester programs.

As the delegates returned from the Mozilla Asia Camp, some of them have already programs in mind for 2012. “For me, it will be about localization, developers and a solid action for recruitment,” Jun concludes.

The PUP Technology Festival 2011 is a 2-day University event that focuses on ICT and how it can be used as a tool to improve human processes and systems. It features plenary and parallel seminars, exhibits, an academic competition, technology appreciation, and interactive sessions.

Mozilla Philippines will talk about HTML5 and CSS3 on Tuesday, November 29 at 10am during the Technology for Employment track.

Mozilla Philippines will be attending the last MiniFFC event of the year. This event will be held this Saturday, November 26 at 4pm at the US Auto Parts office in Mandaluyong.

This MiniFFC will feature the best minds of the web design industry. Speakers for this event are James Florentino from Wishbone Media, Andrei Gonzales from Hugo Manila and Allan Caeg from US Auto Parts.

MiniFFC #9 is organized by the Philippine Web Designers Organization (PWDO). Check out the event details on Eventbrite. Come and join us as PWDO reveals their newest events for 2012.

Hello everyone!

After two years as Community Manager for Mozilla Philippines, I’m stepping down. I’ve really enjoyed leading the community but I’ve made this decision based on a huge personal move.

Eusebio “Jun” Barrun will take the reins in leading the community and I couldn’t have wished for a better person to be the next Community Manager– Jun has been a consistent and solid contributor since the community started and his work for the Student Reps initiative had broken ground on establishing Mozilla’s presence in various schools.

It was a pleasure working with everyone and all I really can say are words of gratitude to the folks who’ve supported me and our community. Special mention to Mozilla’s Gen Kanai, Mary Colvig, and William Quiviger for helping the Mozilla Philippines community immensely.

Again, thanks to everyone!

Last September 10-11, 2011,the Mozilla Philippines Community supported the Philippine Web Designers Organization‘s flagship event– the <form>, function(), & .class(FFC) Web Design Conference.

The Mozilla Reps program was kind enough to send a huge box full of Mozilla swag as giveaways to the events attendees (as seen in this blog post). I think Mozilla and the Mozilla Reps got good exposure in the event, thanks to the focused audience (most were web developers/designers in their mid-20′s).

The event itself was filled with great topics. I gave two opening keynotes (Day 1 and Day 2) which I enjoyed writing. I has been a while since I read a speech I wrote– I’ve been doing mostly extemporaneous talks as of late.

There were lots of learnings, most notably in web standards as Rico Sta. Cruz had a workshop on HTML5 and CSS3. I just wished the attendees were given sufficient time to dabble on a small HTML5 project or CSS3 styling exercise. But other than that, it was web standards FTW.

It was really great that Mozilla is part of the FFC Web Design Conference to remind web designers and developers about the value of the Open Web and Web Standards.

Just a quick update on the meet-up with Mozilla’s William Quiviger: the final venue is at the TechPortal at the UP-Ayala TechnoHub in Commonwealth Avenue, Diliman Quezon City. The program will start at 6pm.

Since slots are limited, please register at the form below:

Or you can visit http://mozillaph082011.eventbrite.com.

Thank to Ayala Foundation for sponsoring the venue, as well as the food and refreshments at the event.