Mozilla Firefox 4 Event in CDO

May 2nd, 2011 by Regnard Raquedan with 3 Comments »

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!

 

For photos of the event, visit

Thanks for Making the Mozilla Firefox 4 Launch in Manila Awesome!

April 28th, 2011 by Regnard Raquedan with 6 Comments »

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. :D

Mozilla Firefox 4 Philippine Launch Update #3

April 12th, 2011 by Regnard Raquedan with No Comments »

We have updates!

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

Time Agenda Speaker
8:30am Registration Start, Coffee, & Media Interviews
9:30am Event Start
9:30am-9:40:am Welcome Remarks Prof. Richard Cruz, Asian Institute of Management
9:40am -10:10am Mozilla Firefox 4 & The Open Web Gen Kanai, Director of Asia Business Development, Mozilla
10:10am -10:40am Yahoo! Philippines Joey Alarilla, Southeast Asia Head of Social Content Strategy, Yahoo! Southeast Asia
10:40am -10:50am Break
10:50am -11:20am HTML5 and Mozilla Firefox 4 Demo Sid Stamm, Lead Privacy Engineer, Mozilla
11:20am – 11:50am Mobile Web Anne Michelle Santos, Mobile Applications Developer, Globe Labs
11:50am-12:00pm Raffle, Community Announcements, & Program Closing Regnard Raquedan, Community Manager, Mozilla Philippines
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch & Media Interviews

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.

Is Mozilla Firefox Losing Market Share in the Philippines?

April 7th, 2011 by Regnard Raquedan with 2 Comments »

I read a couple of posts about Mozilla Firefox‘s declining market share in the Philippines (One from Abe Oldandres and one from Ely Apao).  Abe cites data from StatCounter that last Matrch, Mozilla Firefox lost its status as the Number One browser in the Philippines. The data from StatCounter suggests that Google Chrome’s gain in the Philippines is a loss for both Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

I’m not afraid to admit that there are probably a good number of people who have moved over to Chrome from Firefox. There are pretty consistent indicators that Chrome is steadily climbing in the Philippines. And from what I’ve actually observed, there is an big increase on adoption of Google Chrome, but there are also lots of switchers to Mozilla Firefox from Microsoft Internet Explorer.

So the BIG question now is this: What will Mozilla do about it here in the Philippines?

The best person to answer that question is Gen Kanai, Mozilla’s Director of Asia Business Development.

Gen will be here on April 16, 2011 at the Mozilla Firefox 4 Launch in Manila event. Gen will be more than happy to answer the tough questions about Mozilla Firefox’s current situation here in the Philippines and its future directions in Asia.

Sign up for the event at the event’s registration page to get a change to ask your own questions and even learn a lot from the speakers from Mozilla, Globe Labs, and Yahoo! Philippines. :)

Mozilla Firefox 4 Philippine Launch Update #2

March 28th, 2011 by Regnard Raquedan with No Comments »

I’m still hung over from the Mozilla Firefox 4 launch last week, but you you knw what follows? The launch events happening worldwide.

I posted an update on the Philippine events there has been movement.

For the Manila leg, the event will be on April 16, 2011 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in Makati City.  Here’s the tenative program of the event:

  1. 8:30am – Registration Start, Coffee, & Media Interviews
  2. 9:30am – Event Start
  3. 9:30am-9:40:am – Welcome Remarks,  AIM Representative
  4. 9:40am -10:10am – Mozilla Firefox 4 & The Open Web – Gen Kanai, Director of Asia Business Development, Mozilla
  5. 10:10am -10:40am – Yahoo! Philippines – Joey Alarilla, Southeast Asia Head of Social Content Strategy, Yahoo! Southeast Asia
  6. 10:40am -10:50am – Break
  7. 10:50am -11:20am – HTML5 and Mozilla Firefox 4 Demo – TBA (Mozilla Engineer)
  8. 11:20am – 11:50am – Globe – TBA
  9. 11:50am-12:00pm – Raffle, Community Announcements, & Program Closing – Regnard Raquedan, Mozilla Philippines Community Leader
  10. 12:00pm-1:00pm – Lunch & Media Interviews

As you can see, we have two folks from Mozilla HQ who will be here to speak at the event. Also, Yahoo! Philppines and Globe are supporting the event, with a speaker each.

I’ll post updates on the finalized program by next week.

Unfortunately, the slots for the Manila leg are sold out. All slots were claimed in less than 24 hours after the event was announced in Facebook and Twitter. There is a shortlist, so people can sign up at the registration site and get a slot once someone cancels or new slots are opened.

For provincial events, there will be a leg in Zamboanga. The details for that event will follow.

Things are pretty high right now with the huge launch of Mozilla Firefox 4. I’m sure the global launch events are going to be awesome! :D

The Road to Firefox 4 [Infographic]

March 26th, 2011 by Regnard Raquedan with No Comments »

Here’s an interesting infographic from Royal Pingdom about the Road to Mozilla Firefox 4:

Mozilla Firefox 4 is Here!

March 22nd, 2011 by Regnard Raquedan with 3 Comments »


Mozilla Firefox 4 is officially live!

After several months in Beta and a few weeks in RC, the latest version of the Philippines’ #1 browser is released with much fanfare all over the globe. Firefox fans are getting together online and offline to mark this important moment in the browser’s history. If you want to see the download activity for Mozilla Firefox 4, visit http://glow.mozilla.org/ and you will see how many people are downloading the browser right this very moment.

What’s new in Firefox 4? It can be summarized in three items: Fast, Sleek, and Customizable. Here’s a video to elaborate more into that:

If you ask me, the very first thing you will notice with Mozilla Firefox 4 is the speed. It loads very quickly and renders complex pages fast. It started with Beta 7 and this speedy trend continues with the official release.

I encourage everyone to support Mozilla Firefox 4. It’s 100% community driven and it won’t be a huge success without the support of the daring web folks. You can show your support by:

  1. Downloading and using Mozilla Firefox 4
  2. Putting these cool badges in your Facebook profile
  3. Adding these nifty banners in your blog or website
  4. Joining the Twitter party and using the #fx4 hashtag

Here in the Philippines, there will be several Mozilla Firefox 4 launch-related events starting April 15, 2011. I’m going ahead and say that the Manila leg will be on April 16, 2011. Special mention to the folks at Globe and Yahoo! Philippines for getting involved in that event.

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