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)
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