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

HΛniF: Hadits, Now in Firefox

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!

• 江村 秀之(えむら ひでゆき) or Hideyuki (level) Emura who you may know has the most popular Mozilla blog in Japan: えむもじら and was profiled by CNet Japan last year before Mozilla 24: Mozillaの成長を見つめ続ける、クールで熱い老舗サイトの運営者〜江村秀之（level）氏／えむもじら運営
  
• 池田 譲治(いけだ じょうじ) or Joji Ikeda who is one of the leading Mozillagumi members and is famous for his translations of Mozilla-related information. Ikeda-san blogs at Firefox Hacks 翻訳日記 and was profiled by CNet Japan last year before Mozilla 24:心に伝わるテクニカルワードを探求する翻訳のエキスパート 〜池田譲治さん／Mozilla Japan 翻訳部門 和訳アドバイザー
  
• 下田 洋志(しもだ ひろし) or Hiroshi (piro) Shimoda who many of you know is a prolific Mozilla add-ons developer, XUL expert, blogger at outsider reflex, and very talented designer to boot.
• 松澤 太郎(まつざわ たろう) or Taro Matsuzawa, who most of you know as “BTM” or “kumicho” and is one of the key members of the Mozillagumi, XUL developer, and blogs at すめるまん Broken Diary
• dynamis(でゅなみす) or Tomoya Asai, who most of you know as the localization peer in Japan and recently joined Mozilla Japan full-time. dynamis runs his own 7ème Gnossienne blog, but also runs the important Mozilla Japan 翻訳部門フォーラム and the Mozilla Japan L10N Forum where the Japanese Mozilla community discuss l10n issues and solutions.

We’re very lucky to have such active and prolific developers and localizers and authors in Japan. With the previous pocket-guide to Firefox 3, and now this expert’s guide, Japanese Firefox users and developers have a pair of great books to help them enjoy Firefox 3 to it’s fullest.

Emura-san’s blog post about the book has an image of the dust jacket cover which some of you might enjoy: Firefox 3 Hacks 予約可能に.

• linking in outside code (vs. Air which cannot pull in outside libraries)
• multi-threaded (vs. Air which is single-threaded)
• extendable (like Firefox is)

Flickr Uploader is available in English, French, traditional Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

For those of you who are interested in XUL or XULRunner, it’s an interesting interview, especially when Richard discusses how there may be a future for user-developed extensions to Flickr Uploader.

Seth Bindernagel explains that recently Mozilla gave a $100,000 grant to the Participatory Culture Foundation, a non-profit that has developed a free and open-source video application that happens to use a lot of Mozilla technologies.

As Seth explains, Mozilla supported PCF with this grant on 3 terms:

1. Their mission to ensure the continued rise of open source & open standards aligns with the Mozilla mission to encourage choice & innovation on the web.
2. They’re building something that can have influence on the way users browse web content, rich media, and desktop UI — and it’s based on Mozilla technology.
3. PCF is another example of that leverage we are looking for…they don’t have any venture backing, they’re running on a very lean budget, and they continue to seek creative resources to make a big difference in the way their users access content on the Web.

Please try Democracy Player- it’s quite an amazing piece of software.

Our previous developer conference in December of 2006 attracted over 150 participants (report in Japanese; photos of the event) and was a big success.