Mozilla in Asia

• Web 2.0 Expo 2008: Mitchell Baker (Mozilla Foundation)
  Video of Mitchell’s presentation on Mozilla Fennec and our plans for the web on mobile devices.
• Web 2.0 Expo 2008: Clay Shirky (NYU ITP)
  Clay Shirky talks about the impact of the change to society with how groups are using the Internet. Lightly edited speech transcript at Clay’s book blog.
• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organization
  Clay’s presentation video, Feb. 2008 at Berkman.
• Antonio Gomes on MicroB, Nokia tablets’ Firefox
  Antonio interviewed about the Mozilla-based browser that is on the Nokia N800 series.
• ./iake: 75 | จงระวัง พลังด้านมืดจะครอบงำทุกสิ่ง!
  Minefield Thai test.

The Thai community of Firefox localizers is very busy these days.

Last week they held a localization party called “House 2.0” where they worked to finalize most of the localization needed for the upcoming Thai Firefox release. This is very similar to the German Mozilla community who recently also held a “Hack’n'Cook” event. I am looking forward to the Thai locale release.

UPDATE: Molecularck has an overview of the House 2.0 Firefox Thai l10n sprint and blognone has a nice overview in Thai Firefox 3 Thai localization sprint วันที่ 2 และ 3

Firefox Thai Locale!, originally uploaded by pittaya.

1st Thai Firefox 3 on GNU/Linux (very pre-release), originally uploaded by arthit.

Firefox 3 Thai Langpack pre-alpha 1, originally uploaded by kengz.

Isriya Paireepairit (a.k.a. markpeak) Patipat Susumpow (a.k.a. keng) and Arthit Suriyawongkul (a.k.a. bact), are among the Mozilla community members in Thailand who are working to finalize Thai language support in Firefox. They recently held a bugday at the end of March and pittaya has some photos up on Flickr.  I see there are still some bugs open before we can launch a Thai localization but I’m hoping we can do so soon.

Update: Chakrad Chalayut has a great overview of the bug day here BugAThon at coffee world Silom Rd., and in Thai as well BugAThon ที่ coffee world สีลม.