Mozilla Philippines Community 2010 Kick-Off

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. 😀