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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!

Wow! I can’t remember the last time I actually had logged-in to an IRC network not until tonight. I got a message from the Mozilla Philippines Community Manager that the rest of the gang are online at #mozilla-ph but I was mobile that time.

The moment I logged into my desktop machine, I immediately searched for the chatroom using Mibbit. If you’re the type of person who’s always on the go but don’t have a laptop, then Mibbit is for you. It’s a web-based IRC client. To join us online, simply use the following settings in Mibbit:

Or, you may opt to install ChatZilla as an add-on to our favorite web browser, Firefox:

If want to be more sentimental, you can always download and install mIRC on your Windows machine.

Enjoy and see you all online! Join us and help improve Mozilla products the Filipino way.

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 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.

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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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.

Good news! Mozilla’s William Quiviger will be in Manila and there’s going to be a meet-up with him on August 26, 2011 (Friday) at 6:30pm. The venue is still TBA, but it’s most likely going to be in the Makati area. The venue will be at the UP-Ayala TechnoHub in Quezon City.

William is part of Mozilla’s Contributor Engagement Team and he is one of the main proponents of the Mozilla Reps program. He has expressed his excitement over meeting the Mozillians based here in the Philippines.

The event will be an informal get-together (so don’t be shy!), but expect a lively discussion ranging from Mozilla to William’s Filipino roots.

If you’d like to join the meet-up and get together with fellow Mozilla Firefox fans and volunteers, feel free to email me at regnard@raquedan.com.