• Not quite Firefox Flicks

    April 25th, 2007 by seth bindernagel with 6 comments »

    http://foxkeh.jp/

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  • Mozilla 24

    April 23rd, 2007 by seth bindernagel with 8 comments »

    One of the great things that the Mozilla JP office is currently planning is the the Mozilla 24 conference. The idea is in development, but it would be excellent to get our global community to help with the execution.

    For now, the conference is happening in Japan, but the idea is more global. Essentially, the idea is to hold a 24 hour conference that kicks off in Tokyo. As business day progresses around the world, each of our communities will be able to come online and contribute to the conference. Mozilla 24 will take a lot of logistical coordination and we’ll need to find people in each of our locales across the globe to help contribute. If you’re interested in learning more about the planning, contributing to the proposed tracks, or just have some general questions, please email me and I will make sure to put you in touch with Gen or Kaori.

    (Have been having some trouble uploading to Flickr…pictures from yesterday and the Gumi are forthcoming.)

  • Mozilla Gumi

    April 21st, 2007 by seth bindernagel with 2 comments »

    We are in Tokyo, attending the Mozilla Gumi 8.0 party. Seth S presented about Firefox 3 and I spoke about the Mozilla Community. There were so many great presentations by other members of the community. Experts presented on SVG, Javascript, new extensions and web apps, an explanation of Mozilla’s trunk, and more. Really very impressive stuff…Osaka was also an excellent visit. In addition to presenting to a joint meeting of Mozilla community members and the Nippon Sun User Group, we also had the chance to meet some of our key Japanese contributors who are maintaining the localized version of Bugzilla.

    Just a few observations as a visitor to Japan. Everyone seems to be incredibly friendly. The food is fresh and very tasty. I have tried to say yes to every suggestion, just to get the full perspective and experience. In some cases, it has left me tasting things like raw beef liver, sea urchin and fried crickets (OK, the crickets were actually in Taipei). Not surprising to me, every recommendation so far has led to a very positive experience.

    Additionally, the Japanese community is very hard working (probably also not a surprise). Hats off to our contributors, Kaori, Gen, Takita-san and all the community members for continually showing us hospitality and amazing dedication to Mozilla. Our visit has been seamless because of them.

    The community here is thriving and I believe we can do some good things to help empower everyone who is driven to contribute to Mozilla in Japan. The Gumi event has been fantastic and I think we have members here who we can support. It is my hope that the Japanese contributors will nominate many ideas for the program to support.

  • Taipei Wrap; On to Osaka

    April 18th, 2007 by seth bindernagel with no comments »

    Seth S, Gen and I finished up in Taipei on Tuesday. (Gen actually left on Monday.) To sum up the Taiwanese experience, I felt that the friends of Mozilla and everyone we met warmly welcomed us to their city and showed us a wonderful time. We had some time to see a few historic locations, like the National Museum and Chang Kai Shek memorial. We also spoke at the Blogger conference and then the Open Source Conference on Sunday.

    While we were in Taipei, we met with the Mozilla community members and learned a great deal from them about what they are doing to build and empower their local members. Tzu-Chiang Liu (T.C.) and Bob Chao have been been leading the charge for the Taiwanese community and have been doing a terrific job. T.C. gave some interesting background about the connectivity of the Taiwanese population. The Taiwanese population is ~24 million with nearly 99% of people having a land line telephone. A lot of people have mobile phones. Of the 24 million, TC said that 6 to 9 million people are online in some fashion. It is fair to say that most of Mozilla’s traction has been very viral and driven by the excellent work of our community there. Thanks T.C., Bob, Jose, O-Three and everyone else! Here are some photos from the visit.

    We hope to find good ways to support our active community members there. It is an admirable task localizing what we do into Traditional Chinese script and Mozilla is incredibly thankful for all they have done. You can see their work at http://www.moztw.org.

    Seth and I are now in Osaka preparing for our Firefox 3 and community talks before the Nippon Sun User Group.

  • Blogging from Taiwan

    April 13th, 2007 by seth bindernagel with 1 comment »

    We made it to Taiwan! Gen Kanai, Seth Spitzer, and I are in Taiwan, attending this conference for bloggers. Sspitzer will speak about Firefox 3 and I will be speaking about the Mozilla Community. We will also be meeting with very active Mozilla community members in Taipei. We’ll be traveling here and in Japan next week doing speaking at several different engagements. I’ll be blogging and posting photos throughout the trip.

    This trip comes off the heals of a busy week in Mountain View where we just completed our all-hands meeting. Late nights followed by a 13 hour flight is recipe for some serious jet lag. But, we’re up and at the conference, having some good conversations and meeting a lot of enthusiastic bloggers.