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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!

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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Mozilla Firefox 7 released with a significant reduction of memory usage for faster browsing. In response to users demanding lower memory usage of Firefox, it now uses 20% to 30% less, and sometimes as much as 50% less according to Mozilla Hacks. Expect more memory usage improvements as Mozilla engineers started the effort MemShrink to the stability of Firefox.

I downloaded the latest desktop version on my machine and made some comparison before and after the upgrade, I did notice some improvements in the decrease of memory usage. One thing is the way it handle PDF files that has a blue loading status bar faster than the previous version in terms of page rendering. How was your browsing experience? please leave it in the comments.

This is my first post as the new community manager of Mozilla Philippines and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Regnard Raquedan for serving the community. Also with the guidance of Gen Kanai, Mary Colvig, and William Quiviger of Mozilla. I’m  looking forward to the success of Mozilla Philippines goals and objectives.

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Three months after the release of Mozilla Firefox 4, a new version of Mozilla Firefox is out!

The new version, Firefox 5, has incremental changes from the last one, but the most notable is the branding– succeeding Firefox releases will be dropping the version number from its branding. (But the version number can still be found in the “About Firefox” section.)

Why so soon? This new release is part of Mozilla’s new rapid release cycle (partially inspired by Google’s approach to churning out new versions of Google Chrome every so often). With this new rapid release cycle, we may see Firefox 7 by the end of the year.

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A new local Mozilla community in Bukidnon had their Mozilla Firefox 4 event last month!

Organized by the folks at Bukidnon Online, the gathering was a great way to jumpstart the local activities and doubled as a blogger meetup. According to the organizers:

All of the participants also had a grand time surfing the web using the latest version of Firefox and they all pledged to share the good news about Firefox 4 with their family and friends

After the events in Cebu and Cagayan De Oro, I’m glad that the presence of the Mozilla Philippines Community is spreading south.

On the same day the Mozilla Firefox 4 event in Cagayan De Oro was held, the folks from Cebu had their own Mozilla Firefox 4 event.

Organized by Evanjohnn Mendoza, the new local community had a great kick-off with the Firefox 4 event. According to Evanjohnn:

The gathering of Webdevs and bloggers was successful with Ruffy Heredia as our primary speaker talking about Mozilla Firefox 4, its new features and some add ons which are very useful for the bloggers.

The Cebu community’s main objective was to create a community in Cebu for Mozilla Firefox and build an awareness of the new version of Mozilla Firefox. Evanjohnn feels that they established the sense of community and were able to come up with an idea.

The good thing about this event is that it spurred excitement over creating a community in Cebu:

We want to create a small community: The Mozilla Firefox Cebu Community. Ruffy Heredia, an avid user of the Mozilla Firefox browser (and previous versions), is willing to head the community. The objectives of the community is to build small forums, discussions and meet ups so that we can learn more about the different features of the Mozilla Firefox  browser at the same time build a collation of user experience data so that we can learn more what Browser users like to to do.

Wow, isn’t that awesome? Thanks to Firefox 4, there’s a new local community in the Philippines.

Last April 30, the folks at Cagayan De Oro (CDO) had their launch event for Mozilla Firefox.

Led by Robert Egama, the budding local community had their event at the Big Flat Bread and the Firefox fans were treated to an enjoyable event. Just look at the Flickr photos (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62325262@N03/) and it will show a great start for a new local community.

There were local bloggers and Firefox supporters who had short talks: Chiq Montes, Edu Segundo, and M. Lim. Robert himself shared a few things on the new features of Mozilla Firefox 4.

With the launch event, the CDO folks have been inspired to keep the ball rolling and do more regular Mozilla community events in their locale. One upcoming activity is a university talk for the summer classes.

More power to the Mozilla community and CDO and keep it up!

It’s a little late, but I’d like to recognize the awesome folks who made the Mozilla Firefox 4 launch held at the Asian Institute of Management last April 16, 2011 a big community success.

The volunteers from the Mozilla Philippines Community:

• Jun Barrun
• Joell Lapitan
• Allan Caeg
• Juned Sonido
• Winston Almendras
• Theiss Trono
• Rubie Casana
• Aaron Cajes
• Ren-Ren Gabas
• Kevin John Ventura
• Kemuel Joseph Domanog
• Daryl Louie Abulencia
• Theresa Alvarez
• Lee Agosila
• Rolan Ruanto
• Angelica Candano

Special thanks to:

• Our speakers: Gen Kanai, Sid Stamm, Joey Alarilla, Michelle Santos
• Our sponsors: AIM, Globe Labs, and Yahoo! Philippines
• Martin Jimenez, the creator of the Mozilla Philippines’ official mascot
• The Asia Society – Philippines for their additional support
• Rey Mendoza for help in photo coverage
• Bryan Villamor for photography
• The media folks and bloggers who attended and covered the event

Mozilla Firefox 5 is just around the corner and I’m sure its launch will be equally awesome with the help of the volunteers and supporters.

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If you’re interested in helping out in future events,  please join the mailing list. Calls for volunteers are usually done there.

We have updates!

The program for the Mozilla Firefox 4 Launch in Manila is now finalized. Here’s how it looks like:

We’ve now confirmed that Sid Stamm, Lead Privacy Engineer at Mozilla and Michelle Santos, Mobile Applications Developer at Globe Labs, will be rounding up the keynote speakers for the event.

In other locales,  the Cebu and Cagayan De Oro Launches will be on April 30, 2011. The final details will be posted in the next update.