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Mozilla Philippines Community Update (August 2010)

August 17th, 2010 by Regnard Raquedan with View Comments

After the successful meet-up a few weeks ago (where we saw the very first Mozilla Firefox Pizza), it’s time to share some of the key points of the community meeting:

  • The Mozilla Philippines Community will be at the upcoming Philippine Youth Congress for Information Technology (or Y4IT Conference) this September. I’ll be having a speaking slot at September 16, 2010 and I’ll be talking about Open Web Technologies. Mozilla is also going to be one of the sponsors of the event, which is the biggest IT event in the Philippines to date (an estimated 20,000 college students will be attending the 4-day congress).
  • The efforts on the Mozilla Student Reps will continue under the leadership of Joell Lapitan and Jun Barrun. The focus will be on getting more schools in easy to target areas, such as Metro Manila and in the Laguna province. The meeting also attacted first-time volunteers from AMA and De La Salle Canlubang.
  • There’s also effort in supporting global Mozilla initiatives in our locale. The Mozilla Philippines Community is promoting sites like Mozilla Drumbeat, Mozilla Hacks, and Rock Your Firefox at the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs 2010. While each of the sites a long shot to make it the Top 10 at this point, the sites still got some exposure in the Philippines.
  • Localization is also picking up, albeit gradually. The localization for Tagalog is now at 15%, up from 6% a couple of months ago.

Not included in the meeting, the Mozilla Philippines Community is now part of the 2010 Software Freedom Day event in the Philippines.

If anyone is interested in having the Mozilla Philippines Community in their respective events, feel free to drop us a line. :D

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

We’ve Moved to a New Web Host!

January 13th, 2010 by Regnard Raquedan with View Comments

The Mozilla Philippines Community website now has  a new home!

Thanks to MSWEB Network Solutions, we now have a better web host that has more features than our previous hosting provider. This transition will enable our website to be more engaging and social. :)

Join the Mozilla Philippines Community Mailing List!

December 1st, 2009 by Regnard Raquedan with View Comments

After the success of the Five Years of Firefox in Manila! event last month, I’d like to keep the momentum and invite Mozilla Firefox fans in the Philippines to join the official mailing list for the Mozilla Philippines Community.

The mailing list was created by Mozilla’s Gen Kanai (Director of Asia Business Development) and the list is for discussion of Firefox and Mozilla technologies in the Philippines.  The list also aims to be the communication hub for localization and compatibility issues here in the Philippines. The list will also be the initial place of quick updates for offline and online in the community.

So if you’re a Filipino Mozilla Firefox fan, web designer, web standards enthusiast, blogger, or a student interested in open web technologies in the browser space, I again invite you to join the Mozilla Philippines Community mailing list.

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: