Author: Robert "Bob" Reyes

Mozilla Rep | Localizer | Aviation Professional Bob is a Mozilla Representative (ReMo) Mentor from Makati City, Philippines. He is the Lead Localizer for the Tagalog Firefox and Firefox OS Projects. He is a graduate of BS Computer Science and was an aviation professional. He is currently an IT Consultant to big companies in the field of telecommunications, broadcast and aviation in the Philippines. He is the General Manager & Chief Technology Officer of TurfSite Web Services. He plays the piano, develops desktop & mobile applications, does plane spotting (photography) during his free time. He is dad to Robyn Andi Xeon and Bea Gaia Haswell.
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MozillaPH Year End Report 2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes
As we end the year 2013, here are some quick stats that will serve as our benchmark for the coming year: The year will end with twelve (12) active Pinoy Mozilla Reps in our roster. Props to my fellow ReMo’s for making things happen in 2012! From January to December 2013, we staged and participated in 90 events — that is around 1 to 2 events per week! In 2012, we only had 82 events (organized or participated in). We… Read the rest
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MozCoffee with Mozilla’s Jet Villegas

Robert "Bob" Reyes
The Mozilla Philippines Community is honored and proud to play host for a MozCoffee with no less than Mozilla’s Jet Villegas (Rendering Team) in attendance. Jet is a Senior Engineering Manager at Mozilla San Francisco and is proudly Pinoy! He actually just landed in Manila (MNL) some 14 hours before the meetup. The MozCoffee session held at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) Prism Plaza at Two E-Com Center, Mall of Asia Complex was well attended by Mozilla Reps… Read the rest
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Where will Team MozillaPH be this Week?

Robert "Bob" Reyes
November 2013 proved to be yet another (very) busy month for the Mozilla Philippines Community. Be sure to catch the team at these events: [NOW until the 29th] UST Innovation Roadshow [28th to 29th] JSConf.Asia [30th] Developers Connect (DevCon) Summit [30th] WoMoz Firefox OS Workshop [1st of Dec 2013] COMGUILD 5th Annual Conference of IT & Computer Science Students of the Philippines   Be sure to check the Mozilla Philippines Community calendar often: http://www.mozillaphilippines.org/events/… Read the rest
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Mozillians and Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Yes, today is Firefox’s 9th birthday. But instead of celebrating, Team Mozilla Philippines continued with the scheduled meeting of its core members and leaders to discuss community updates after the Mozilla Summit 2013 (Santa Clara, California, USA) and Mozilla Festival 2013 (London, England), a day after Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Typhoon Yolanda) — the strongest typhoon in recorded history according to CNN — made landfall on several provinces at the Visayas region. Team Mozilla Philippines is grateful to people… Read the rest
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Maligayang Bati, Firefox!

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Happy Ninth Birthday Firefox! Mozilla created Firefox to be an amazingly fun, safe and fast Web browser that embodies the values of our mission to promote openness, innovation and opportunity online. In the nine years since we first launched Firefox, we have moved and shaped the Web into the most valuable public resource of our time We are excited to join together with the global community of Mozillians to start the celebration of Firefox’s golden ninth birthday on November 9.… Read the rest