Year: 2013

Mozilla Reps News

MozillaPH Goes Live on Radio for the First Time!

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Thanks to the awesomeness of my good (online & offline) friend and Mozilla supporter Pocholo Gonzales for inviting us at their radio show at DZIQ 990AM [Voice of the Youth Radio] earlier today at Makati City. DZIQ 990AM is also known as Radyo Inquirer (from the same group producing the Philippine Daily Inquirer). Mozilla Philippines Community Manager Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, Jr. and I were interviewed live on air about what Mozilla is currently doing in the Philippines and introduced the… Read the rest
Events Mozilla Reps Training

Very First FSA Leaders Camp

Robert "Bob" Reyes
The Mozilla Philippines Community always believe in empowering the youth, particularly students. Everyone here were ecstatic when the Firefox Student Ambassadors (FSA) Program [https://wiki.mozilla.org/StudentAmbassadors] was launched middle of this year. The leadership of the Community, through the Mozilla Reps [https://reps.mozilla.org] based in the Philippines, thought of gathering all FSA Leaders from Luzon, Visayas, & Mindanao (the three major island regions of the country) for a weekend of training and teambuilding activities — but time was not on our side (more… Read the rest
Events

Mozilla at the Y4iT 11

jlapitan
Mozilla Philippines participated again at the 11th annual Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology at the SMX Convention Center, Pasay City. It is considered one of the biggest gathering of IT experts and professionals, students and educators in the country. It is a 3-day convention and has an estimated 30,000 participants. Mozilla was one of the exhibitors which entitled us to have a booth and placed near the entrance. We also got a speaking slot on Day 2, which our… Read the rest
Events

Firefox OS App Days – Laguna

Faye
After almost a month of weekly MozTours and event invitations, the Mozilla Philippines Community is now all set to another big event set in the province of most of the team members, Firefox OS App Days Laguna! In this event, we teamed up with the student organization UPLB Computer Science Society, sponsored by the UPLB Institute of Computer Science and Globe Labs. It was held last September 21, 2013 at the ICS Mega Hall in the Physical Sciences Building of… Read the rest
Events

Maker Party Valero

Faye
It was a Friday night when the Mozilla Philippines Community organized a fun and educating webmaking event at Maker Party Valero last Sept. 6, 2013! Thank you Globe Labs for sponsoring our venue for that night!   The event had a good attendance despite being held on a Friday night. A good sign which indicates the growing interest on Webmaker here in the Philippines!   Erika and I were the emcees of the event and we sure had a blast… Read the rest
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Maker Party U-belt

Faye
To celebrate with the world on this season of webmaking, the Mozilla Philippines Community organized a Maker Party in the Manila University District (U-Belt). It was originally set on August 21st, a national holiday in the middle of the week where students are expected to just curl up in their dorm beds. However, a typhoon hit Manila and it was moved on the next national holiday, August 26th. Being in the center of the university district, the attendees were all… Read the rest