MozTour@Leyte Day02 - 03 AUG 2012

Day 02 – 03 AUG 2012: MozTour@SLSU

The day started with a breakfast at the Palermo Hotel, after a couple of minutes we ride Potpot (Bicycle with sidecar) going to Van Terminal at Baybay,Leyte. After an hour, we arrived at Bato, Leyte and transfer to a public utility bus that will bring us to Sogod,Southern, Leyte. We take a lunch at Mang Inasal at Gaisano Mall at Sogod Southern, Leyte, after the lunch, we ride a tricycle going Southern Leyte StateUniversity (SLSU). I just surprised when we asked the guard that we’re looking for Mr. Alex Bacalla at IT Bldg, the guard instantly know that we’re from Mozilla.

We have almost two hundred attendees including the faculty and staff. 

I don’t expect to have that much attendee, as I only had few sign up from Eventbrite and almost a hundred in Facebook event page.

The program is started with a prayer and followed by our national anthem. 

Then it’s my turn to introduce our Team, Lead-Localization Robert “Bob” Reyes, Lead-Student Reps Kemuel Joseph Domanog, his sister JoyceDomanog Mozilla Phl Volunteer and yours truly Melchor “Chor” Compendio ReMo. Unfortunately our Community Manager Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, Jr. had to take his flight back to Manila that’s why his not with us.

Our first speaker is Bob Reyes for the keynote followed by the introduction of localization, HTML5 Cross Platform Mobile Development and of course, the Firefox OS (B2G). 

The next speaker is Kemuel for the ReMo and the Student Reps campaign, 

Ms Joyce also gave her short talk on why she is joining the ReMo program.

One of the questions they ask to us is how they can participate/contribute the program as their location is geographically far from Manila. (something like that). This question I think makes all of us (ReMo) shares some answers and ideas. Basically we’ve explain that it’s not how far is your place is, as long as you have the net connection and a heart to shares and evangelized the Mozilla’ mission. 

The faculty and student from SLSU are thankful that we select them to visit; despite of how far we’ve travel. The program is ended with goup picture taking. 

We also had a chance to talk to the SLSU President Gloria Markines Reyes, Ph.D.

By the way, the swags are cool, they love to have the Lanyard, stickers and the pins, and of course the T-shirts.

 (All photos courtesy of Kemuel Joseph Domanog @kidium)

MozTour@Leyte Day01 - 02 AUG 2012

Leyte is one of the seven thousand one hundred seven islands (7,107) in the Philippines; it's geographically located at the eastern part of Visayas region and composed of two provinces, namely Leyte (Northern Leyte) and Southern Leyte.

MozTour@Leyte is divided by two major events, first is the MozTour@VSU, Visayas State University, at VISCA Baybay Leyte and the second which is the MozTour@SLSU, Southern Leyte State University, Sogod Southern Leyte.

Day 01 – 02 AUG 2012: MozTour@VSU

Together with my fellow Mozilla Rep (ReMo) we touch down at Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport in Tacloban City at around 7:00AM. Our team is composed of Community Manager Eusebio “Jun” Barrun Jr., Lead-Localization Robert “Bob” Reyes, Lead-Student Reps Kemuel Joseph Domanog his sister Joyce Domanog Mozilla Phl Volunteer and yours truly Melchor “Chor” Compendio ReMo.

From the airport, we took a jeepney ride to Van-Van Tours terminal at Tacloban City, the van will take us to Baybay City for about 3hrs or about 107km with partly zig-zag mountain side road trip.

(Photo courtesy of Kemuel Joseph Domanog @kidium)

Our first stop is in Baybay Leyte to have a lunch at Andok’s. After a couple of minutes we took a multicab (smaller jeepney) going to Visayas State University.

The audience are much excited than we are, it is unexpected to have more than 200 participants including the students, faculties, school staff and provincial government representative (roughly 100 participants signed up to Eventbrite and Facebook event page).

The program is started with a prayer lead by a student and followed by our National anthem.

 (Photo courtesy of Kemuel Joseph Domanog @kidium)

The first speaker is our Community Manager Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, Jr. for his short keynote, after 2 hours of unstoppable presentation and question and answer portion, the audience are still awake and exited for the next speaker which is the Lead-Localization Robert “Bob” Reyes 

(Photo courtesy of Kemuel Joseph Domanog @kidium)

to introduce the localization program of Mozilla, he also presented the overview of HTML5 Cross Platform Mobile Development and of course, the Firefox OS (B2G). 

(Photo courtesy of Kemuel Joseph Domanog @kidium)

The last speaker is Kemuel Joseph Domanog for the Student Reps program. Kemuel also shares his experience why and how he is joining the Mozilla Representative, ReMO. I also gave a short talk as an organizer of this event; I thank all the people behind this event to make it successful. The faculty and school staffs are also thankful that we select VSU to visit despite of how far we've travel to get on their place.

In this way I can assure that the people in VSU felt that they are important to us, as it is. This is our mission to spread the Mozilla’s mission and to reach out even in rural areas like in Leyte.  

 (Photo courtesy of Kemuel Joseph Domanog @kidium)

The program is ended with a picture taking with the students and faculty members. 

Photo courtesy of Robert “Bob” Reyes @bobreyes

VSU-DSCT Dep't Head Prof. Winston Tabada takes us to their Shuttle for a short Tour of there 1,479.086 hectares campus area.

 (Photos courtesy of Kemuel Joseph Domanog @kidium)

Mozilla Tour @ Leyte, Philippines

August 2-4, 2012


































Itinerary

MozTour @ Leyte

Day 1 - Aug 2,2012: MozTour @ VSU
Visayas State University (VSU), Visca, Baybay, Leyte
http://www.vsu.edu.ph/vsu/index.php

Day 2 - Aug 3,2012: MozTour @ SLSU
Southern Leyte State University (SLSU), Sogod, Leyte
http://www.slsuonline.edu.ph/

Mozilla Campus Tour @ EARIST 67th Foundation Day

Mozilla campus tour at EARIST, Nagtahan Sampaloc, Manila last January 25, 2012, We've started at arround 8:30am during its 67th Foudation day.

We've given cool swag to almost a thousand EARIST students, we also shared the Mozilla story and the Mozilla Firefox Manifesto videos. They were amazed that Mozilla believes "priciple over profit", and of course most of them uses Firefox because it's safe, fast, simple, free and open source. All in all Mozilla Firefox is "ASTIG!".


Thanks to all the Volunteer Student Assistant who helped this event successful. Thanks to Anna and Raymark for the pictures.

Mozilla Philippines Get together

Thanks to my Mozilla Rep Family. Thanks to Sir Bob for the pictures. More info at Mozilla Philippines.