Mitcho’s presentation on the localization of Ubiquity at Tokyo 2.0 last night is up on Vimeo: Ubiquity: Command the Web with Language 言葉で操作する Web.
Ubiquity: Command the Web with Language 言葉で操作する Web from mitcho on Vimeo.
Slides here on SlideShare
I’m attending the 2009 MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference.
See more photos at Facebook | Sumardi Shukor’s Photos – MSCOSCONF2009 – Conference Day 1
For some background on this event, Yoon Kit has a good overview of how far the Malaysian government has come but also has some good constructive criticism for the organizers of the event. I highly recommend his blog post at Open Malaysia Blog – MSCOSCONF.
In the morning of the first day, I gave a presentation in the Community Track. I was scheduled to talk about Firefox 3.5, Fennec and Bespin, but at the last minute I decided to change my presentation to focus on HTML 5 and web standards. I did not want to come off as just focusing on Mozilla software so I decided to re-do my presentation to this:
Open Source Powers the Open Web: HTML 5, JavaScript, and the importance of open web standards (download in OpenOffice Impress format or pdf format.)
In the afternoon, I was on a panel discussion about open source and innovation.
Can Open Source bring about your next Innovation Breakthrough ?
Panel Speakers
1.Dato’ Dr. Kamaljit Singh, GIRC
2. Tengku Farith Rithaudeen, SKALI
3. Gen Kanai, Mozilla Corp
4. Ang Chin Han, BytecraftMODERATOR: Dr. Raslan Ahmad, MOSTI
Download my presentation in OpenOffice Impress and pdf.
I sometimes use Slideshare, and if that’s what folks would prefer, I can upload the presentations to Slideshare but I spent a portion of my presentation slagging Flash so it seemed a bit strange to then go use Slideshare (which is all Flash.)
I’m happy to take questions via email or via comments to my blog. Unfortunately the network connection at the conference was not as stable as I needed it to be to demonstrate some of the heavier open video demos, so if you came to my presentations, please download them to see the links to the demos I wanted to show.
In a recent post at Ken Kovash’s Blog of Metrics regarding Firefox in Latvia passing 50% market share, Indonesia was ranked at 63% market share. With such a love for Firefox, it’s also great to see that Indonesia has finally had it’s first Mozilla event last month.
Romi Hardiyanto, Mozilla’s localizer for Bahasa Indonesia, led an afternoon of presentations on Add-ons for Mozilla at ITS Surabaya, a university in the second-largest city in Indonesia. Romi has a great write-up of the event, Mozilla Day at ITS, at the brand new Mozilla Indonesia blog.
A photo of the students
Photos from the event are available at Romi’s Flickr, Aini-san’s Picasa and Kiki’s Facebook.
I would like to take a moment to thank Romi Hardiyanto, Mozilla’s tireless Bahasa Indonesia localizer for Firefox who, in addition to localizing Firefox for Indonesians, is also working to spread Firefox farther in Indonesia. Thank you Romi!
This event would also not have happened without the support and coordination of Nur’ Aini Rakhmawati of ITS Surabaya who hosted the event. Thank you Aini-san!
Thank you also goes to Mary Colvig who provided support from Marketing/Events.
Since there has been so much interest in Add-ons in Indonesia, we would like to explore the possibility of doing a similar or related Mozilla-focused event in Jakarta later this year, after the launch of Firefox 3.5. If you would like to have a Mozilla event in Jakarta, please feel free to comment and leave your email so we can contact you. We are looking for people in Jakarta who would volunteer to help us with some of the organizational work to create such an event.
Here is Romi Hardiyanto’s presentation on Add-ons (in Bahasa Indonesia, not English.)
Here is Kiki Ahmadi’s presentation on the PureZilla add-on.
Thank you Romi and Aini-san and everyone who made Mozilla’s first event in Indonesia a success!
I am happy to announce that our localizer for Bahasa Indonesia Firefox, Romi Hardiyanto, is giving a presentation on Mozilla Add-ons development at Information System Department Park, ITS Campus Sukolilo, Surabaya, Indonesia on April 24th at 14:00. Similar details are at Spread Firefox:
Indonesia Mozilla Add-ons development talk – Spread Firefox
UPDATE: the maximum capacity for the event is 150 attendees.
UPDATE: the HΛniF project and PureZilla will be presented
This event is open to non-ITS students. If you would like to attend, please contact me via email (see link at Spread Firefox) or please leave a comment on this blog with your email and I will forward your names to the professor.
I would like to take this moment to thank Professor Nur Aini Rakhmawati Gunawan of the IT faculty of the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember for hosting this event and making this event happen.
If you’re going to BarCamp KL this weekend, (April 4-5, 2009) please feel free to leave a note and say hello if you see me. This will be my first trip to Malaysia so I’m very excited to meet everyone and learn about the Internet in Malaysia.
via Flickr: karitsu’s Photostream
One of the key users that Mozilla focuses on in Japan are web developers as they are critical to having websites that work across all browsers, not just the one from Seattle.
Earlier this year, Mozilla Japan sponsored an event, “SwapSkills for the Happy Web Weekend“(Japanese), when John Allsop came to speak in Tokyo. We heard he was bringing his Web Directions conference series to Tokyo as Web Directions East (2008) and made the decision to co-sponsor the event.
In Japan, we still have a significant number of websites that are only compatible with the browser from Seattle. There are web-based services that stream entertainment content on the Internet that only work with IE, the most famous being gyao.jp, which does not deserve a link from me. There are banks that don’t work with browsers other than the one from Seattle. etc. Thus it is critically important that web developers in Japan understand leading web design, which includes the importance of standards-based design. Thus it was a pleasure for us to sponsor Web Directions East and it was a personal pleasure to introduce Mike Migurski as the final keynote speaker for Day 1, as Jeff Veen was unable to attend.
Thank you to all of the speakers, John himself, as well as Kikuchi-san and his staff and volunteers for what was hopefully the first of an annual series of events on leading web design in Japan.
Blog posts in English (these are speakers from the event)
web directions east (tecznotes)
Blog posts in Japanese
Web Directions East : 2 日目 | ヨモツネット
WDE: Web Directions East | Fumihiro Kato / 加藤 文彦
Web Directions Eastで講演をしてきました。 | FXB | 株式会社エフエックスビイ
覚え書き@kazuhi.to: Web Directions East
創造マラソンのデザイン更新中◆Web Direcitons East 2008でいい刺激。 | 創造マラソン
monkeyish studio: Web Directions East | Progressive Enhancement
安藤日記 [&] Web Directions East 08 (Eric Meyer)
安藤日記 [&] Web Directions East 08 (Dan Cederholm)
Japanese media coverage included:
This news is a few weeks old but I was pleasantly surprised to hear that a Firefox add-on, built by a team called kekeke, was the winner of the 2008 Yahoo! Kimo (Taiwan) Open Hack Day. If anyone has any more information about the team who won, or the add-on that was developed, please leave a comment.
The winners, kekeke, wrote a Firefox extension which allows users to select any keyword on any website and receive a summary of several Yahoo API search results (Flickr, Map, Knowlege Plus, and Lifestyle), without opening a new browser window. More relevant results will display in a stronger colour and users can save for later, or share results with friends.
I’m really looking forward to attending and presenting at BarCamp Bangkok 2, the second BarCamp held in Thailand in 2008, and scheduled to have over 500 people attending! I’ll be speaking about Firefox 3.1, TraceMonkey, Fennec, and our Mozilla Labs projects. Hope to see you at BarCamp Bangkok 2!
I’m in Taipei, Taiwan today to speak at COSCUP 2008 (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters), one of Taiwan’s leading OSS events.
Today, I’ll be speaking about Firefox 3.1, the new TraceMonkey announcement, and will do a quick overview of the major Mozilla Labs efforts. Tomorrow I’ll speak about Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile project.
Hope to see you there!
MozTW.org, the wonderful Mozilla community in Taiwan, is hosting a “Firefox Party 3.0” on July 19th in Taipei. I wish I could be there! I won’t mention the awesome anime robot. If you are in Taiwan, don’t miss it!
