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Last Saturday, 21^st of November 2009, the new Mozilla Philippines Community group held their first event 5 Years of Firefox in Manila!. My girlfriend, Sherlene and I still watched Twilight: New Moon at Glorietta 4 Cinemas, Regnard Raquedan was already at the latter half of his presentation about Firefox when we arrived at the venue.

Follow up:

The venue was sponsored by the good people of Asian Institute of Management or AIM, just in front of Greenbelt 1, Paseo de Roxas, Makati City. Allan Caeg was there as one of the organizers (and I have forgot his real name when I introduced him to my girlfriend, I know him more by his online handle wersdaluv ), he’s the only Ubuntu Philippines Community that arrived other than me (hmm…)

So, after Regnard presented the history and growth of Firefox, as well as the official launch of the Mozilla Philippines Community website, Globe Telecom followed and presented their latest product Web2Mobile.

What is Web2Mobile? It is a Filipino developed Firefox browser Extension (or Add-On) that will allow you to send text messages (SMS) and multi-media messages (MMS) without leaving your browser window. Cool eh? Maybe not because there is uLink and Chikka for our web2mobile needs.

This is where Olive Ruth Dag and J. Allen Santos (see above photo), the UP students who developed the extension for the Globe Labs Summer of Code program, made it different:

• Highlight any text on any website, right-click, and then hit ‘Send’. No more need to copy & paste or re-typing everything.
• You can also send any images, be it a photo or any graphics from any website. Just right-click on the image and again hit ‘Send’.

After the Globe presentation (good thing there were no QnA, I’ll be drilling the presentor with questions about their service ) what followed was the raffle.

For the first time I won! (I’m so unlucky when it comes to raffles) I got a Firefox ID lace (I now have two!) Sadly, Sherlene did not get selected (she’s the lucky one in raffles) but nonetheless it was good to be part of the launching of the ilippines Community.

You know, it is good to be part of Free/Libre Open-Source Software (FLOSS) communities. We may not be able to give back “code” but through these events and communities, we are giving back something even though it is something as small as showing our support by being present in these events.

Congratulations to the organizers of Five Years of Firefox in Manila and thank you to Mozilla for the freebies. Of course thanks goes to the sponsors as well - AIM for the venue and wifi, Globe Telecom for the food.

Photo gallery at Facebook.

* note: Photos will be added later.

Bloggers who attended:

• Joell Lapitan
• Juned Sonido
• Jane Uymatiao
• Rochelle Sy Chua
• Ia Lucero
• Eugene Alvin Villar
• Marvin Beduya
• JP Manahan
• Regnard Raquedan (organizer)
• myself and Sherlene

Give Web2Mobile a try: Download here. Visit the official community site at www.mozillaphilippines.org.

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