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Malaysian l10n sprint at BarCamp KL (CyberJaya)

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Gen Kanai| Comments Off

This weekend, August 13th, the Mozilla Malaysia community will be gathering at BarCamp KL (Cyberjaya) in Malaysia for a localization sprint for the Malaysian Firefox that is in development.

Arky Ambati will be coordinating the localization sprint alongside Muhammad Syafiq.

If you are interested in helping to create a Malaysian-language Firefox, please do consider joining the event at BarCamp KL (Cyberjaya.) You may get some cool Firefox swag :)

Unfortunately I am unable to attend myself but Arky and Syafiq will be your coordinators.

Have a great localization sprint! Let’s see the Malaysian Firefox soon!

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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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Posted in Asia, community, events, Firefox, Malaysia, Mozilla, News, open source, open web

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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Posted in Asia, community, events, Firefox, Indonesia, Mozilla, News, open web

Vietnamese language Firefox localization group

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Gen Kanai| 1 Comment

With the hard work of Hung Nguyen, we have had a Vietnamese Firefox since 3.6. However, Hung is working on his own and is looking for additional help to localize Firefox as well as other Mozilla software and websites into Vietnamese. This mailing list has been set up to coordinate the localization of Firefox and other Mozilla software into Vietnamese. We are actively looking for volunteers- please come help if you are interested.

If you would like to join the mailing list, please do so here:

https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-l10n-vi

If you prefer the Google Groups interface (same emails, different interface) you may sign up here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.dev.l10n.vi

Note this is a moderated list because the spam to Usenet has been severe in recent years. Only spam messages will be moderated/deleted.

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Posted in Asia, community, Firefox, localization, Mozilla, News, Vietnam

Burmese language Firefox localization group

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Gen Kanai| Comments Off

Thanks to the efforts of Dietrich, Arky and Chit in Myanmar, as well as the support of Mozilla IT, we now have a mailing list and mirrored Google Group to discuss and plan and work on a Burmese language Firefox.

If you would like to join the mailing list, please do so here:

https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-l10n-my

If you prefer the Google Groups interface (same emails, different interface) you may sign up here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.dev.l10n.my

Note this is a moderated list because the spam to Usenet has been severe in recent years. Only spam messages will be moderated/deleted.

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Posted in community, localization, Mozilla, Myanmar, open source, open web

pregi.net new Mozilla mirror in the Philippines

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Gen Kanai| 2 Comments

A few months late but I wanted to announce that the Philippine Research, Education and Government Information NETwork (PREGINET) has provided a new mirror for Mozilla in the Philippines.

http://mozilla.pregi.net/

I want to thank Bani Lara and the team at PREGINET for agreeing to host a new mirror for us in the Philippines.

In this case Mozilla provided the server hardware and PREGINET is providing the bandwidth, rackspace, power, etc.

If you know of an organization who can provide mirror server bandwidth for Mozilla anywhere in the world, please do not hesitate to get in touch.  We are always looking for more mirror capacity as this is how Mozilla’s software is distributed to all of our users around the world.

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pregi.net Mozilla mirror 1123

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Posted in Asia, community, Firefox, Mozilla, open source, Philippines

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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Posted in community, events, Firefox, Mozilla, open web, politics

Firefox at 16 percent share in Thailand

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Gen Kanai| 2 Comments

Jon Russell at the Asian Correspondent points us to a Bangkok Post article, Internet use increases but Thai sites lagging behind, covering statistics on Internet usage in Thailand taken from Truehits.net (a Thailand-based firm tracking many key statistics.)

For web browsers, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer controlled a 65.6% share last year, a decline of 13 percentage points from 2009. Mozilla’s Firefox increased its share from 2.7% to 15.9%, while Google Chrome rose from 8.4% to 11.8%.

Truehits also provided a list of the top 10 Thai websites which are: sanook.com, kapook.com, mthai.com, dek-d.com, exteen.com, teenee.com, manager.co.th, truelife.com, gmember.com, and playpark.com.

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Posted in Asia, browser, community, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mozilla, News, Thailand

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