Mozilla Summit 2010: Day 2

July 9th, 2010 by Regnard Raquedan with 1 Comment »

By the time Day 2 of the 2010 Mozilla Summit ended, I was very tired. But I was glad.

The second day of the biggest get together of Mozilla-folk this year was filled great activities, starting with great keynotes in the morning up to the very first Mozilla World Expo.

I also attended a talk that focused on the branding research done by a Search Engine 1. One of the funny things they found out was that some folks think that the current Mozilla logo looks like the Toronto Raptors logo:

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After the talks, there was a cool Mozilla Science fair where the cool projects were showcased. Then the big thing for me: The World Expo.

The World Expo is an exhibit of the different Mozilla communities all over the globe and that includes our community. We were given some space, plus an LCD display and a pair of speakers to share to the rest of Mozilla how awesome our country and our community are.

I created a slideshow of the Mozilla Philippines Community’s past activities, plus some nice tourism photos of the Philippines. I also set-up a sampling station of Filipino delicacies.  The best seller was the dried mangoes. :D

After packing-up at the World Expo, I attended a roundtable discussion with Mozilla Foundation Chairperson Mitchell Baker along with all the local community leaders. The informal session centered on Mozilla topics and local communities.

By that time, I was very tired. But it was well worth it as people liked the Mozilla Philippines Community booth and I got to interact with yet more Mozillans.

Mozilla Summit 2010: Day 1

July 8th, 2010 by Regnard Raquedan with No Comments »

I’m here in Whistler, Canada with over 600 Mozilla employees, partners, and community leaders from all over the world and the first day was full of demos, technology, and things to look forward to in the future.

The started off with a nice breakfast here at the Fairmont Whistler Chateau and I sat with Gen Kanai, Cheng and Keng from the Mozilla Thailand Community, plus a couple of interns for Mozilla. The conversations were nice and that set the tone for the day.

The keynotes started and it was pretty cool. Personally, I found it nice that speakers didn’t rely much on slide decks, especially the talk by Mitchell Baker.

Then came the demos– they were simply mind-blowing. (If you follow the #moz10 hashtag in Twitter, you’ll read that a lot of people share my sentiments). There were stuff like 3D and graphics acceleration with WebGL, audio processing in the browser, a 3D movie rendered on the fly, processing optimization that will make Firefox 4 uber-fast, and neat Fennec stuff.

After the demos, we had an extended lunch break to let folks watch the World Cup 2010 match between Germany and Spain. Around that time, I took a nap because I was feeling the jetlag. (Manila is 15 hours ahead of Whistler).

I then attended the breakout sessions:

  • Moving from Local Events to Strong Local Communities – Great session run by event managers from Mozilla. This session had a great discussion on how to keep communities active, and I had great takeaways on event scheduling and topics. It was also a great intro to Mozilla Drumbeat. Here are the session notes.
  • Mozilla’s L10N (localization) Information Architecture – Another equally nice session by Seth Bindernagel, Christopher Howse, and Sta? Ma?olepszy. This session showed how the localization monitoring was optimized using sound information architecture methods.
  • The Mozilla Web Universe – A bit of a letdown of a session. It was a discussion centered on how to manage the 100+ websites affiliated with Mozilla. The session ended with an invitation to a potential Mozilla Web Task Force.

An hour after the sessions ended, everyone had dinner in various restaurants at the Whistler Village. I selected an Italian place and I got to serendipitously meet my Mozilla Summit Buddy. Dinner was OK, and I had a great discussion with the local community leaders from Brazil and Colombia.

I was very tired as the day ended. But Day 1 of the Mozilla Summit 2010 was a great start for an awesome event that it I’m looking forward to the next day.