Presentation at WordCamp Philippines
Gen and I attended WordCamp Philippines and I presented today to the audience of about 100-150 people. The purpose of our visit and participation was straightforward:
- To gain further insight into the landscapeof the Web and Internet in the Philippines;
- To assess whether or not a localized version is something our community here mightpursue;
- To meet our community of campus reps and others.
It’s been a steamy (as in the humidity), but amazingly kind reception here and we booked our schedules full with meetings and events. That’s all Gen’s amazing work.
As for my WordCamp chat, here is my presentation. I started by taking the audience through our open web demos (video, canvas, svg, css, js etc. thank you Paul Rouget…), and then honed in on describing our Mozilla community, using localization as an example of how we are a global community of passionate contributors working to promote Mozilla’s mission.
My call to action was two-fold: the blogging community can help promote the Open Web through their blogs, AND, if people feel empowered to do so, let’s start a localization for Filipino users.
Feedback from these local bloggers was energetic, questions were poignant, and the message was embraced. My prediction, a Mozilla community here is going to take off if we continue to nurture, empower, and participate.
I am trying to embed the presentation here, based on some code that Gen shared with me, but it looks like it is not working.
Hi Seth,
It’s a great privilege of seeing you guys visiting us here in the Philippines and sharing some new stuff about Firefox. We learned a lot about the Open Web and we are looking forward to see more of it in the next few months.
Keep up the good work guys!
Looking forward for the Mozilla community here in the Philippines.
Jake Fadallan
Graphic/Web Designer
marketingvalet.com
Hi Seth!
Great presentation. Loved the demos.
I hope I can work with you soon on Mozilla projects for the Philippines.
Hi Sir Seth!
It’s our pleasure to have you here in the Philippines. I love FireFox and I hope I can do something to contribute to it’s plan of localization or in anyway that I can. Maybe I can start by promoting it through my blog, though I know that Filipinos are starting to switch to Mozilla Firefox.
Thanks again!
Rowell Cruz
Web Designer/Developer
Hi Seth, Migs here (host of wordcamp).
Loved your presentation. It was very interesting and i must say that you really captured the interest of the all of those who joined wordcamp.
Though I’m using another browser on my lappy from time to time, i’m a big firefox fan. And my blogs will be open to promote firefox and stuff that mozilla will provide the Filipino internet community.
See you again soon.
Hi Seth,
Thank you very much for supporting WordCamp Philippines. It was great meeting you and Gen.
Til next time…
Be well! ^^