Year: 2013

News

Geeksphone Keon for Firefox OS App Days – Manila Demoers

Robert "Bob" Reyes
As promised last January during Firefox OS App Days – Manila, each of the attendees (brave souls) who demoed their apps for Mozilla’s mobile OS will receive a Geeksphone Keon (Firefox OS Developer Preview) device one released. I fulfilled this promise last night during a simple handover ceremony held at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) Prism Plaza, Two E-Com Center, Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City. Present during the event (held on short notice) were worthy Geeksphone… Read the rest
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Firefox OS-powered Geeksphone Keon Lands in the Philippines

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Hold your horses before celebrating … Geeksphone Keon units powered by Mozilla Firefox OS are NOT YET available locally. But, I got a package from UPS this afternoon containing the Keon units I promised to those who presented their apps during the Manila leg of Firefox OS App Days last January (awarding of the units will happen on Sunday). GeeksPhone is a Spanish start-up company and producer of smartphones founded in early 2009 by Javier Agüera and Rodrigo Silva-Ramos. They… Read the rest
Events Mozilla Reps WoMoz

Women and Mozilla Philippine Kick-off

Faye
Mozilla believes that all individuals must have the ability of shape their own experiences on the Internet. Thus, as Mozillans we must aim to give all people, regardless of sex, age and academic background, the opportunity to do so. However, it cannot be denied that as much as there are a lot of women involved in the use of technology, only a few choose to get involved in the IT field, particularly in the open source movement. Hence, the Mozilla… Read the rest
WoMoz

Women & Mozilla Community Lead in the Philippines

Eusebio Barrun Jr.
We all had been to tech events recently and saw quite a few women in attendance in what seems to be a male dominated realm. Part of Mozilla’s advocacy is for the web to be open and participatory, thus we have an initiative called Women & Mozilla (WoMoz). The Mozilla Philippines Community will be supporting the WoMoz and we are very happy to announce the appointment of Ms. Kathrine Faye Tandog as the WoMoz Community Lead here in our country.… Read the rest
Events Localization Mozilla Reps

Tagalog Firefox Translation Marathon 1Q2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Mozillian Localizers for the Tagalog Firefox Project gathered earlier today (a non-working holiday all throughout the country in celebration of National Day of Valor) at the Highlands Coffee, Alphaland Southgate Tower Mall in Makati City to have a Translation Marathon. There was around 16 Mozillian Localizers present to the event. Not a bad turnout for a holiday. And even the weather was somewhat cooperating … The Localization effort to Tagalog is already 42% complete prior to the event today. We… Read the rest
Events

AMA Computer University Biñan IT Week 2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Our friends from the Philippine Information Technology Organization (Phil-IT.org) invited Team MozillaPH to be part of the AMA Computer University (Biñan Campus) IT Week 2013 today. I, being a proud AMAnian (Parañaque Campus), led the MozillaPH delegation composed of our Community Manager Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, Jr.; Student Reps Lead Kemuel Joseph Domanog; and Student Reps Kenneth Sungcaya & Ryan Ermita from Colegio de San Juan De Letran (Calamba), Sheila Revilla from Pamantasan ng Cabuyao (PNC), Joshua Rubin from Pamantasan ng… Read the rest