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Malaysia Open Source Conference 2011

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Gen Kanai| Comments Off

I’m preparing for our Mozilla meetup in Malaysia this evening but wanted to publish the presentation I gave yesterday at the 2011 Malaysia Open Source Conference in Penang.

I want to thank my colleagues at Mozilla, Chris Heilmann and Robert Nyman, as their presentations provided significant inspiration and content for my own presentation.

I wanted to thank the MOSC 2011 secretariat for the invitation to speak and the coordination for the event.

2011 07 Malaysia Open Source Conference

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Posted in Asia, community, events, Firefox, javascript, localization, Malaysia, Mozilla, open source, open web, plugins

Mozilla Malaysia meetup in Kuala Lumpur- July 6

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Gen Kanai| 1 Comment

On July 6th, we will hold a meetup for those who are interested in starting a Mozilla community in Malaysia at Marmalade in Bangsar Village 2, Kuala Lumpur, starting at 19:00.

This is a gathering for anyone who:

  • might be interested in starting a Mozilla community in Malaysia
  • might be interested in localizing Firefox or Thunderbird into Malaysian
  • might be interested in starting a Drumbeat community in Malaysia
  • is interested in open source software and or promotion of the open web

More details and sign-up are here:

http://mozmymeetup.eventbrite.com/

Note: I’ve capped the dinner sign-ups to 30 45. If we get more than 30 45 interested, please come meet us at the Starbucks right near Marmalade Bangsar after 9 pm on July 6th.

For those of you who cannot attend the meetup (and for those of you who are planning to attend), we have started a new mailing list for the community in Malaysia. Please join this list to follow the discussion:

https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-malaysia

I look forward to the discussion both at the meetup and online at the mailing list!

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Mozilla Indonesia won the Best Booth at Compfest 2011

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Gen Kanai| Comments Off

Yofie Setiawan, one of the leaders of the Mozilla Indonesia community in Jakarta, has a great blog post covering the recent Compfest 2011 event where the Mozilla Indonesia community’s efforts won Best Booth! Congratulations to the Indonesia community!

At last day we are nominated as the CRAZIEST booth. They call us crazy actually it’s kinda like the most cheerful, happy, and friendly booth. And at the final day, there’s no exhibition anymore, but the commitee ask some person from Mozilla can come at the closing day. At first I have another important thing to do, but when the commitee said that we are winning the BEST booth at Compfest 2011, I cancel my plan behind, I ride my motorbike at topspeed to the closing event, and running till get sweat to the stage. And fortunately I get there on time! Really like last seconds, the time when the host ready to calls Mozilla up to the stage to take the awards as the BEST booth at the Compfest 2011 Exhibition. We are really happy and proud of it! We’re not planning to grab any awards at first. Our mission is to present Mozilla at the event. And we would love to do it again on any other chances.

Mozilla Indonesia won the Best Booth at Compfest 2011

 

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Mozilla Indonesia community featured in Gatra magazine

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Gen Kanai| 2 Comments

Thanks to the hard work of the Mozilla Indonesia community during the Firefox 4 launch, Indonesian magazine Gatra has featured the id-Mozilla community (PDF) alongside a review of all of the major browsers. The lead photo is from Surabaya, where Josh Aas, David Mandelin and David Anderson visited.

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View more documents from Gen Kanai.

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Posted in Asia, browser, community, events, Firefox, Indonesia, localization, News, open web

English subtitles for Tristan Nitot’s e-G8 comments

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Gen Kanai| Comments Off

Pierre Equoy has been kind enough to provide an English translation of Tristan Nitot’s comments at the e-G8 event.

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Mitchell Baker and Tristan Nitot at e-G8

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Gen Kanai| 1 Comment

Mitchell and Tristan are interviewed at the e-G8 meeting by OWNI.

Mitchell Baker (in English)

 

[EN] eG8 – Mitchell Baker – Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation from OWNI on Vimeo.

Tristan Nitot (in French)

 

eg8 – Tristan Nitot – Fondateur Mozilla Europe from OWNI on Vimeo.

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Firefox 4 launch party in Manila

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Gen Kanai| 2 Comments

In a few hours I’ll be leaving for Manila where my colleague Sid Stamm and I will be celebrating the Firefox launch with the Mozilla Philippines community this Saturday April 16th.

EVENT DETAILS HERE

If you are not already RSVPed and wish to attend, please contact the Mozilla Philippines community to see if there are any extra seats. The last I heard, the event was sold out.

I’ll be doing a talk about Firefox 4, Sid will be talking about some of the new security features of Firefox 4 and perhaps what we might expect later this year from the security team.

The Philippines market is a vibrant one for Mozilla, where Firefox has enjoyed being the dominant browser on the desktop since early 2009. Recently, we are seeing a growth in the popularity of Chrome in the Philippines (yugatech.com, jozzua.com), which makes for interesting discussions- it’s something I will certainly address in my presentation.

I’m really looking forward to spending time in Manila with the Philippine Mozillians.

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Posted in Asia, browser, community, events, Firefox, mobile, Mozilla, open source, open web, Philippines

Community Town Hall Asia meeting – Feb. 8th

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Gen Kanai| Comments Off

As promised in my previous post, the Contributor Engagement Town Hall meeting for Asia will be scheduled for Feb. 8th at 4:00 UTC/GMT as this is the time that is available to the widest number of participants. This means that it will be:

09:30 Colombo
11:00 Jakarta
12:00 Manila
12:00 Taipei
13:00 Seoul
13:00 Tokyo

We have participants from: Sri Lanka, India, S. Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.

We do NOT have participants from Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore at this time.

I’ve debated a few different ideas around how best to hold a conference call and I think Skype is the best bet as it will be free and we should be fine with the current number of participants. If you are joining the call via Skype, please be sure to mute your audio until you are asking a question. That should help call quality.

For those of you who’s contact information I do not have, namely Arpit and Ernest Chiang, please email me your contact information as well as your Skype ID so I can add you in advance of the call.

We will be using irc.mozilla.org #mozillians as our chat channel for the call. You are welcome to join the call but I will put preference on the community members who registered their availability at Doodle.com first.

If you have questions about Mozilla’s community activities or plans for 2011, please feel free to leave a comment on this blog post, please join the call or irc chat in real time, or email me at gen at mozilla dot com and I’ll do my best to address as many questions as I can during the call.

Thank you and looking forward to tomorrow’s discussion.

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Mozilla at Future Web Forum 2010 – Korea

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Gen Kanai| Comments Off

Just a quick note to those who might be in Seoul this week that Mozilla will be co-sponsoring the Future Web Forum 2010 event on HTML 5 on November 3rd.  Mitchell Baker and I spoke at this event in 2008 with Vint Cerf.  Channy Yun, who leads the Mozilla Korea community will be speaking about the HTML5 support in Firefox 4.  This is the premier event covering the web browser space in Korea and we are glad to see a focus on HTML5 in Korea.

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event video – The Emerging Threat to Online Trust

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Gen Kanai| Comments Off

The video from the event on browser and certificates, held by the New America Foundation, The Emerging Threat to Online Trust, has been posted to Ustream (flash unfortunately.)

For those of us who know how browsers and certificates and trust works, you may not learn anything new, but I think it’s important to see how browsers and certificates are viewed by people outside of the certificate authorities or browser industries. Indeed Andrew McLaughlin, previously at Google, is now White House deputy CTO under Aneesh Chopra and spoke at the event.

I came away with the impression that it is exceedingly difficult to explain how browsers secure transactions.  Mozilla comes off better than most because of how open our processes are.  Still, browser security looks like sausage to me- you don’t really want to learn how they’re made.

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