I will be speaking briefly at the PopOut! 2007 event at Suntec City in Singapore on October 4th. If there are any Mozilla community people in Singapore, I would be happy to meet you at this event. Please leave a comment at this blog if you would be attending PopOut!
The companies that will be presenting at PopOut! 2007 include:
As the 2007 Adobe Max Japan website has just been updated, you can see that John Resig will be speaking on “Tamarin and the Browser Scripting Revolution” on September 1st here in Tokyo. The session description is as follows:
Adobe releasing their ActionScript Virtual Machine as open source software to the Mozilla Foundation has sparked a browser scripting revolution. In this talk we’re going to look at all the new features being developed on top of the Tamarin JavaScript engine, including ways to embed Tamarin in other browsers. We’ll also look at the new JavaScript 2 language and how that’s being used in Firefox 3 to create some impressive applications.
I believe this is the first presentation on Tamarin in Japan and I think John will be covering some of the exciting new efforts like ActionMonkey, IronMonkey and ScreamingMonkey. John writes more about all of these at his blog.
The video from Robert O’Callahan’s presentation in Auckland is up now. Chris Double also does a demo of offline browsing in FX3. Very cool to see Mozillians in action in New Zealand.
The Auckland Web Meetup: June Meetup - Robert O’Callahan from Mozilla on Firefox
Peter Junge has a post on the OSS World Summit 2007 in Guangzhou for ZDNet Asia’s Open Source blog. This post was merely listing who spoke and what they spoke on. I hope Junge has some interesting opinions about the event for his next post.
Back in May, Chris Messina, who used to volunteer with Mozilla, posted a video rant which got a lot of attention. # 3 on the list of constructive criticisms about Mozilla Chris discussed in the video was, “I know something is happening in Japan with Joi Ito… but that’s about all I know about.”
Well, Chris, what is happening in Japan is a vibrant community around Mozilla Japan and Firefox with over 165 attendees for this past Saturday’s Firefox Developers Conference Summer 2007. In fact, I think we can say that we broke a number of records:
We we honored to have presentations from Mark Finkle, Mike Shaver, Justin Scott, Dan Mills and Basil Hashem in addition to presentations from 25 other members of the Mozilla Japan community.
The Japanese press covered conference including the updates to Firefox 3 including Places and the potential for microformats.
There are a number of comments up already in English:
We also have a lot of comments about the event in Japanese including:
As for photos of the event, there is
A number of people have asked about the streaming video and whether it will be published. We’re evaluating this request based on the additional cost (copyrights) and will report back soon.
I’d like to thank everyone who made this event a success: the vibrant Mozilla Japan community who gathered 160+ strong for an all-day affair, the presenters who spent lots of time and energy preparing for their presentations, the conference staff who worked on the network and video capture and streaming, and finally my colleagues at Mozilla Japan who pulled together to produce a great event. Thank you everyone!
This is a little ‘inside baseball’ but it was kinda funny to watch Stephen Colbert make fun of open source software during his introduction of Viacom CEO, Philippe Dauman, at the D Conference.
We’ve now opened up registration for the upcoming Japan Firefox Developers Conference in Tokyo on June 16th. Mark Finkle and Mike Shaver from Mozilla will be joining many from the Mozilla Japan community for a great day of discussions and presentations around Firefox extensions. I hope you can join us!
On June 16th, Mozilla Japan will be hosting our 2nd Developer Conference in Tokyo, focusing on extensions and add-ons. We’ve announced it on the Inside Mozilla Japan blog as well. If you are a web developer in Tokyo, please mark your calendar and reserve the date.
Our previous developer conference in December of 2006 attracted over 150 participants (report in Japanese; photos of the event) and was a big success.
The Inside Mozilla Japan blog is hosting a 5 minute clip from a panel discussion that was held during the launch of Thunderbird 2 in Japan on the topic of, “the future of email.” The video is in Japanese as are the subtitles. The panelists were from Daikin Corp, Tokyo University and Google Japan.
Mozilla’s Alex Faaborg did a great presentation on Microformats at last week’s Web 2.0 Expo. You can download Alex’s presentation here: faaborg-Web20Expo.pdf.