Mozilla @ SLSU Student's Day 2013

SLSU - Student's Day
Southern Leyte State University, Hinunangan Campus, 
Hinunangan, Southern Leyte, Philippines
March 07, 2013

Students from Southern Leyte State University  is celebrating its annual SLSU-Student's Day  this coming 07th day of March 2013. As a part of the celebration, SLSU Student Reps will be putting up a Mozilla Booth wherein they shall be rendering free services that shall cater to the Mozilla-related needs of the participants, like helping them install Mozilla applications on their netbooks and sharing to them basic information about Mozilla, FirefoxOS, the Mozilla Student Representative Program and other Mozilla products.
This event is organized by our awesome Mozilla Student Reps from Southern Leyte State University namely Mark Edward Romualdez Sanchez, Janryl Celis Ligas and Marlon Relacion Luzano.

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.

ReMo - Mozilla Reps

One part of the sfd this year was the introduction for ReMO or the Mozilla Representative.
As a fresh grad of BS Computer Engineering, I'm interested in joining as ReMo.
I'm a Volunteer Student Assistant in our school, EARIST during college days, I'm willing to pursue my journey to contribute to my school and community.
I'm sure being a ReMO helps me a lot when organizing events.
I love to be a ReMo hopefully someday.

Anybody there who is interested can apply online at ReMo Wiki Page


ReMO - Overview
Source: ReMo Wiki Page


The program, also known by its codename ReMo, aims to empower and support volunteer Mozillians who want to become official representatives of Mozilla in their region/locale and wherever they go.

Community is the backbone of the Mozilla project. As the Mozilla project grows in scope and scale, community needs to be strengthened and empowered accordingly. This is the central aim of the Mozilla Reps program: to empower and to help push responsibility to the edges in order to help the Mozilla contributor base grow.

The Mozilla Reps program provides a simple framework and specific tools to help volunteer Mozillians become official representatives of Mozilla in their region. Anyone who is passionate and knowledgeable about Mozilla and who is ready to dive deeper into the project can sign-up to the program. The Mozilla Reps program helps push responsibility and authority further outwards, to more Mozillians, making it much easier for volunteers organize and/or attend events, recruit and mentor new contributors, and support their local communities better.

A Mozilla Rep agrees to take on the following responsibilities:

  represent Mozilla in their country/region
  promote the Mozilla Project and our mission
  build on and support existing/future local community efforts and programs
  inspire, recruit and support new contributors
  support and mentor future Mozilla Reps
  document clearly all his/her activities

An "open" and "structured" program

The Mozilla Reps program is open to anyone who is:

  passionate about the Mozilla Project
  knowledgeable of the Mozilla organization, its mission, its products and its community
  willing to communicate to as many people as possible and keen to inspire people to contribute to Mozilla

Although anyone can sign-up to become a Mozilla Rep, that doesn't mean you automatically become a Mozilla Rep after submitting your application. Because Mozilla Reps are entrusted with new responsibilities and special tools to manage budgets, events and swag, each application is carefully reviewed by the Mozilla Rep council and each applicant, if shortlisted, must pass a short a short interview before officially becoming a Mozilla Rep.