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.
Pierre Equoy has been kind enough to provide an English translation of Tristan Nitot’s comments at the e-G8 event.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here are my notes on my “introduction to WebGL” talk from BarCamp Bangkok 4.
NOTE: I said that Firefox 4 beta 6 shipped with WebGL on by default. That’s not true. One needs to go into about:config, search for ‘webgl’ and switch “webgl.enabled_for_all_sites” to ‘true’. Hopefully beta 7 will ship with WebGL on by default.
UPDATE: excellent overview video by Mozilla engineer Vlad Vukićević:
WebGL: Bringing 3D to the Web – 2010 GPU Technology Conference
Introduction to WebGL: 3D on the web
BarCamp Bangkok 4 (2010), Sripatum University
Presenter
What is WebGL?
History of WebGL
Architecture
Mobile?
Applications of WebGL
WebGL developer libraries
Demos
Thank you
References
If I was in Washington D. C. I would try to make it to this event on Oct. 22 at the New America Foundation.
Additional relevant background in this post: Web Security Trust Models | Freedom to Tinker
Mitchell was interviewed by Bernard Leong and Daniel Cerventus, two of the hosts of This Week in Asia podcast.
This Week in Asia is a podcast that caters to what’s the hot and interesting news dominating the web and tech landscape in Asia. We focus on the latest news on web and technology space, for example, Internet trends, mobile-web news and social media across Asia (China, Korea, Japan, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong SAR, Cambodia, Laos and Middle East).
This Week in Asia Episode 69: Mitchell Baker Mozilla or via iTunes if you prefer that.
Previously Mark Surman has been on TWIA, as well as myself twice, Episode 39, and Episode 13.
