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
- The email address campusreps@mozillaphilippines.org has been created and may be ready by next week.
- 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. 😀
Hi! Also consider DEVCON: http://www.devcon.ph
dito un mga pics nung meeting, wala un group pic.. pashare nlng..
http://www.jlapitan.com/2010/01/28/mozilla-phil…
konti lng ng-firefox friday sa twitter.. #MozillaPH.. hehe..
I think an add-on contest is a great idea, firefox add-ons are the main reason why i love Mozilla and Firefox
I agree entirely.
It is the incredible addons that separates Firefox from other browsers like Safari and Chrome. I think you should capitalize on it as much as possible.