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Mozilla Philippines Community 2010 Kick-Off

February 8th, 2010 by Regnard Raquedan with View Comments

The Mozilla Philippines Community had a kick-off meeting at the Old Spaghetti House at the UP-Ayala TechnoHub in Diliman and we had a productive meeting. Here are some of the items and ideas that were bounced around:

  • Special events – We’re evaluating which special activities to support this year, some of the events that popped up were (the names in the parentheses are the point persons):
    • Y4IT
    • WordCamp
    • Software Freedom Day
    • Joomla Day
    • Ubuntu Release
    • Form Function Class
  • Community-hosted events – We can also events ourselves. Some suggestions include:
    • Mozilla Devcon
    • Mozilla Hack-athon
    • Add-on Contest
    • Cosplay(?)
  • Regular events – We’re targeting a quarterly assembly/get-together this year and the next event is likely to be in G2IX
  • Mozilla Firefox Mascot in the Philippines – Once we have decided to host an event, I’ll try to arrange to borrow the Mozilla Firefox Mascot and bring it here
  • Social Media – We decided to create presences in several popular social media sites. You can be a fan of the Mozilla Philippines Community in Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/mozillaphilippines) and follow in Twitter (@MozillaPH)
    • All bloggers in the community are encouraged to create a link to the Mozilla Philippines Community site
  • Campus Reps – Campus Reps leaders Ren-Ren, Joell, and Jun shared their plans of coordinating with schools. Among them is the Colegio De San Pedro, where they are coordinating w/ Sir Francis
  • Localization – The main consenus is a “Translate-athon” activity where we crowdsource the localization/translation of Firefox in an event
  • Evangelism – It was suggested that a project where we give “Powered by Firefox” stickers/posters to internet cafes that carry Firefox as their main browser. This is very interesting and may need some participation of Mozilla.

Looks like a busy and promising year for the community. :D

Mother Knows Best!

January 19th, 2010 by Regnard Raquedan with View Comments

The Mozilla Campus Reps Team, led by Ren-Ren Gabas and Jun Barrun, visited Angelicum College in Quezon City last December to spread the word on the Mozilla Campus Reps program.

Ren-Ren shared this very interesting anecdote on Firefox usage in the Philippines:

One of the most curious comments that we received was from a elementary school-aged girl who lingered about the booth, and told me, “Meron kami niyan sa bahay. Sabi kasi ni mama, mas maganda gamitin ang Firefox.” (“We have Firefox at home, because Mom said that it is better to use.“)

Wow! Proof that mother knows best, huh?

For more information on the Angelicum College visit, hop to Ren-Ren’s blog post. :)

Five Years of Firefox in Manila Done!

November 22nd, 2009 by Regnard Raquedan with View Comments

The Five Years of Firefox in Manila event was held yesterday and it was a great launchpad for the Mozilla Philippines Community.

I, along with Community coordinators Ren-Ren Gabas, Allan Caeg, and Mozilla Campus Reps from Colegio San Juan de Letran Calamba led by Joell Lapitan, came at 12 noon to make the necessary preparations at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in Makati City. Since the event was scheduled at 3:15, we had enough time to iron out the logistics and event flow. Also, we had great support from the AIM folks in the event management.

People started trickling in at 2:15 and the heart snacks were served. In line with the Philippine community theme, we had Filipino delicacies for the food. (Yum!)

We started a but late at 3:30 with around 70 people in attendance. The program proper was kicked off by Allan Caeg, who had a short welcome message and showed the “Light the World with Firefox” video:

Ren-Ren Gabas then had a short talk about the Mozilla Campus Reps initiative and I then followed up with the Five Years of Firefox in Manila talk and introduced the official Mozilla Philippines Community website and invited the people join.

Globe Telecom also showcased the Web2Mobile add-one where Globe subscribers can send SMS and MMS via the Firefox, with a very intuitive interface. This demo drew a lot of “ooooh”‘s from the audience. On a side note, the app will be launched soon and this was a project by a couple of Computer Science students from the University of the Philippines – Diliman. Then came the most awaited portion: the raffle.

I think most of the Firefox fans who came to the event really wanted the special edition Firefox shirts we gave away, but we could only give out five shirts. :( Maybe we can have more in the future. ;) But nonetheless, no one went home empty handed as we gave everyone little Firefox goodies.

If you ask me, the event was able to introduce the Mozilla Philippines Community in a nice way and it was able to make people look forward to the next set of events. :D

A huge thanks to everyone who came and those who helped, I hope you will be a part of the Mozilla Philippines Community moving forward. :D

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Here are some photos of the event, courtesy of Aja Lapus and Joell Lapitan:

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One final thing: props to my fellow bloggers/Firefox fans who were there: