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Ideas for Improving Locale Management in Firefox

2012-05-24T12:45:00.001+07:00

Mozilla Firefox Localization project spans 90+ languages across the planet. If you haven't used Firefox in a different language, try downloading a language pack and change Firefox user interface language by editing general.useragent.locale preference setting using about:config. Captian Caveman created an easy to use Quick Locale Switcher Firefox addon for this purpose.

In this post, I'll explore some ideas to improve the locale management experience inside Firefox. The idea adds unified search, installation and language switching capabilities to Firefox Language panel. You will find Firefox Language panel under Tools > Addons menu. Currently the language panel on Firefox Nightly build looks like this.

Firefox Language Panel Mockup

The mockup below describes searching, installing and switching locales workflow. This is similar to existing Firefox Add-ons workflow.

Enable Firefox Language Tab:Make Tools > Languages visible at all times. Currently Firefox hides this dialog when no language packs are installed.
Switch Firefox Default Language: Default Language Switch button "Default Language is 'English (US)', Do you want to change the language of Firefox?"
Search Languages: Modify search box to limit search to language packs on addons.mozilla.org.
Language Management: Provide Switch Locale toggle button next to each installed language pack.
Switch Language for this session only:Allow users to switch locale for this session only.
Get New Language: List download-able Locale packs on the main screen.

Please share your thoughts, suggestion and criticism using the comment form below.

If you are a Firefox hacker looking for something new to hack on, this is your lucky day! .

Samsung Galaxy S2 Accessories For Presentations

2012-05-20T15:20:00.000+07:00

In this post we'll explore some effective presentations techniques using Samsung Galaxy S2 accessories. Use the Droid@Screen (See this blog post) program to display the mobile phone screen on my computer during my presentations. This program works by taking a continues series of screenshots of the phone screen. There are some problems with this design, there is noticeable delay during application interaction and the video performance is not great on my Lenovo X120e Ubuntu computer.

You can not demonstrate audio and video capabilities of the mobile phone using such software. Planning to give a talk about using Firefox Mobile with Android 4 screen-reader and existing solutions doesn't work for me.

Samsung Galaxy S2 HDTV Adapter

This adapter allow you to plug in your phone directly into HDMI large displays and digital projectors. The mobile phone AC charger powers the adapter and no additional audio cable is needed. The Samsung HDMI adapters are available for Samsung Galaxy phones and tablet models.

This works really great if you are planning to setup large screen display in a exhibition booth. Connect the phone to large screen display with HDMI cable and play your video demo in a loop.

Samsung Galaxy S2 Power Pack

The Samsung Power Pack comes handy when phone runs out of battery in the middle of the presentation. It does extend the battery life of the phone during the presentation or an extending application testing session.

Few caveats using these accessories. The HDMI adapter will not work when the phone is attached to the power pack .

This power pack has some issue with power sensing, sometimes it starts and stops charging with annoying beeps every 10 seconds. And you need to press locking mechanism tight to get the phone to charge. Hope someone at Samsung fixes this problem.

Unset Chromium as default browser on Ubuntu

2012-05-17T01:30:00.000+07:00

Dietrich Ayala brought this problem to my attention. For some reason Chromium browser constantly makes itself the default browser on Ubuntu 10.10 and later versions. This is annoying when you are testing Firefox Nightly Ubuntu builds. You can choose to remove the chromium-browser package, but that is not a solution.

First, I tried to reproduce this problem on multiple Ubuntu machines. To reproduce this problem, installed Firefox nightly using Firefox Nightly PPA. Remove any other browsers expect Chromium.

It took very long time to find the solution to this problem. The chromium-browser package adds /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache which supersedes the default system application settings. The solution is edit this file and make it read-only using chattr command.


$ sudo nano /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache 
[MIME Cache]
application/earthviewer=google-earth.desktop;
application/keyhole=google-earth.desktop;
application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml=google-earth.desktop;
application/vnd.google-earth.kmz=google-earth.desktop;
application/xhtml_xml=google-chrome.desktop;
text/html=google-chrome.desktop;
text/xml=google-chrome.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/ftp=google-chrome.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop;

#Remove all the google-chrome entries, like this.
[MIME Cache]
application/earthviewer=google-earth.desktop;
application/keyhole=google-earth.desktop;
application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml=google-earth.desktop;
application/vnd.google-earth.kmz=google-earth.desktop;

# Make it read-only even for super-user
sudo chattr +i /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

After making these changes. Open Firefox Nightly and make it the default browser. Now this system setting will remain unchanged.

ClockworkMod (CWM) Recovery Backup and Restore Android Phone Firmware

2012-05-02T15:44:00.001+07:00

In my last post, I introduced ClockworkMod (CWM) Recovery to backup your phone firmware. It is a good idea to copy these backup files to your computer for safe keeping.

You will find the ClockworkMod(CWM) Recovery firmware backups in this location on your phones internal memory.



/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup

You'll need Dobrica Pavlinušić's shell script to copy the ClockworkMod(CWM) Recovery backups to your computer. For some unknown path related issue the standard Unix 'cp' will not work. You won't be able to copy these backup files to your computer, however you can copy files from computer to phone without any problem.

#!/bin/sh -x

sdcard=/sdcard/clockworkmod/

adb shell ls -1 -d $sdcard/backup/* | sed "s!$sdcard/*!!" | tr -d '\r' > /tmp/backup.android
ls -1 -d backup/* > /tmp/backup.disk
diff -uw /tmp/backup.android /tmp/backup.disk | grep -- '^-backup' | sed 's/^-//' | \
xargs -i sh -xc "mkdir -p {} && adb pull $sdcard/{} {}"

To restore your phone firmware from your backups. Copy the ClockworkMod(CWM) Recovery files to the backup directory on the phone. Reboot the phone into recovery mode and use the Backup / Restore option to restore the firm.

Lately, I use this technique to deploy Boot2Gecko quickly onto compatible phones when the Boot2Gecko builds breaks. The new B2GBuilds.org project started nightly build of Boot2Gecko, you might want to check it out. Personally I would prefer the B2GBuilds.org project builds Cyanogenmod style otapackages instead. Support for this is coming soon, watch this space.

Install Android 4.0 Cyanogenmod 9 Firmware on Galaxy S2 Phone

2012-04-27T07:21:00.002+07:00

There is lot of information on Internet about Cyanogenmod, after-market mobile phone firmware installation. However some of this information incomplete and misleading. My first attempt to install Cyanogenmod 9 phone failed. The phone screen played the booting animation in an endless loop. Let me share my installation notes here, this might save you from pulling your hair or worse chucking the phone out of the window.

Disclaimer: Installing third-party firmware will void your phone warranty and if something goes wrong it could make your phone unusable. The installation process will wipe data/apps, Please backup everything.!

Before you get started consider backing up your phone data using Samsung Kies or Android apps such as Titanium Backup. Alternatively you can copy the data manually by connecting the phone to your computer with an USB cable.

Prerequisites: What do you need?

Install Android SDK. We'll use the nifty adb program to manage the phone and debug any problems.
Install phone flashing program, Heimdall on Linux or Odin utility for Windows OS.
Download Clockwork Recovery recovery-clockwork-4.0.1.4-galaxys2.tar. (Please use GT-I9100G_ClockworkMod-Recovery-5.0.2.8.tar file for Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I1900G phones.)
Download latest Cyanogenmod9 from Cynogenmod download page.
Download gapps-ics-20120422 from goo.im.This package provides standard Google Android applications such as Google Play (A.K.A Google Market).

Installing Clockworkmod(CWM) Recovery

This is an essential tool for our work. The Clockwork Recovery is modified version of the kernel that provides advanced features such as backup/restore phone ROM's and installing Cynogenmod updates. If you plan to dual boot your phone with different Android versions or Mozilla's Boot2Gecko.

The first step to flash ClockworkMod (CWM) onto your phone using heimdall or 0din program.

Unzip recovery-clockwork-4.0.1.4-galaxys2.tar archive and flash it with heimdall command line flashing utility for Samsung phones.



# Download clockworkmod 
$ wget http://cmw.22aaf3.com/c1/recovery/recovery-clockwork-4.0.1.4-galaxys2.tar

# Unzip it 
$ unzip recovery-clockwork-4.0.1.4-galaxys2.tar


#Connect and reboot the phone into download mode with:
$ adb reboot download

heimdall flash --kernel zImage

Please wait for the phone to reboot. If it doesn't work the first time, try again.

Now you can boot into the recovery mode by pressing Volume Up, Home and Power buttons together until Galaxy S2 logo appears on the phone screen. You can navigation the recovery mode screen by using volume up and volume down keys and power button to select an option.

Backup your Phones original ROM

Restart the phone and enter recovery mode. Select Backup/Restore menu and choose Backup. This provide a safety net, you can always restore the original ROM in case the Cyanogenmod 9 installation fails.

Installing CyanogenMod9 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich(ICS) on Samsung Galaxy S2

Connect your phone to your computer and transfer the previously downloaded files Cyanogenmod 9 and Gapps files. Restart the phone and enter recovery mode by pressing Volume Up, Home and Power buttons together. Follow the steps below to install the Android ICS on your phone.

Select wipe data/factory reset
Select wipe cache partition
Select Advanced Menu and choose wipe dalvik cache
Select Install zip from sdcard and choose update-cm-9-XXX-XXX-XXX-signed.zip file.
Select Install zip from sdcard and choose gapps-ics-2012XXXX-signed.zip file. Reboot phone

That's all folks! Don't forget to share you experiences by leaving a comment here.

Building Boot2Gecko(B2G) on Ubuntu

2012-03-26T11:10:00.001+07:00

You heard about Mozilla Boot2Gecko(B2G) mobile operating system. Boot2Gecko's Gaia user interface is developed entirely using HTML, CSS and Javascript web technologies. If you are an experienced web developer you can contribute to Gaia UI and develop new Boot2Gecko applications with ease. In this post I'll explain how to setup the Boot2Gecko (B2G) development environment on your personal computer.

You can run Boot2Gecko(B2G) inside an emulator or inside a Firefox web browser. Using Boot2Gecko(B2G) with QEMU emulator is very resource intensive, so we will focus on the later in this post. I'll assume you are comfortable with Mozilla build environment. So, get that pot of coffee brewing and prepare for a long night of hacking.

Building Boot2Gecko(B2G) Firefox App

Before you start, let us make sure that you have all the prerequisites for building Firefox on your computer. Please have a look at the build prerequisites for your Linux, Window and OSX operating system.



# Let get the source code 
# Download mozilla-central repository 

$ hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central mozilla-central

# Download the Gaia source code 

$ git clone http://github.com/andreasgal/gaia gaia

# Change directory and create our profile 

$ cd gaia 

$ make profile 


# Change directory into your mozilla-central directory

$ cd mozilla-central


# Create a .mozconfig file inside your mozilla-central directory: 

$ nano .mozconfig 
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=../b2g-build
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j9 -s"
ac_add_options --enable-application=b2g
ac_add_options --disable-libjpeg-turbo
ac_add_options --enable-b2g-ril
ac_add_options --with-ccache=/usr/bin/ccache 

# Build the Firefox B2G app and wait for the build to finish 

$ make -f client.mk build 


# Create a simple b2g bash script to launch B2G app; change paths you suit your environment
# Note: Have to use to -safe-mode option due to bug on my Ubuntu box 
 
#!/bin/sh 
export B2G_HOMESCREEN=http://homescreen.gaiamobile.org/
/home/arky/src/b2g-build/dist/bin/b2g -profile /home/arky/src/gaia/profile

If everything goes well. You should have boot2gecko running inside a firefox now.

Customizing Firefox B2G App

For better Boot2Gecko (B2G) experience, we will customize Firefox features offline cache and touch events using a custom Firefox profile.

Create a Custom Firefox Profile

You can use dist/bin/b2g -ProfileManager option to launch Firefox Profile Manager. Create a new profile called 'b2g'. Now we can add customizations to this new profile.

On Linux computers, the profile is created under ~/.mozilla/b2g/ directory. You can find the information about location of firefox profiles for your operating system here.

You launch B2G with your new custom profile using the '-P' option. Modify your B2G bash script and add the custom profile option. dist/bin/b2g -P b2g

Disable offline cache

Create a user.js file inside your custom 'b2g' firefox profile directory. Add the following line to disable offline cache.

user_pref('browser.cache.offline.enable', false);

Enabling Touch events

Add the following line in your user.js file inside your custom 'b2g' Firefox profile directory to enable touch events.

 user_pref('dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled', true);

That's it. You now have a Boot2Gecko(B2G) running inside Firefox on your computer. Happy Hacking!

Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-i9100G: Review, Firmware, Software Update, Rooting

2012-03-09T17:05:00.000+07:00

Mozilla Mobile Test Drivers program lent me a Samsung Galaxy SII mobile phone to test the nightly builds of Firefox Mobile. This Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) phone runs off a powerful dual core A9 1.2 GHz processor with a good responsive capacitive touch screen. The device is impressive and attracts a lot of attention everywhere.

Samsung Galaxy S2 Android 4.0 (ICS) Update

~~On March 10, 2012~~ Samsung will release an firmware update for Android 4.0 code named Ice Cream Sandwich. You will find the upgrade information here on Samsung website.

Android 4.0 promises to offer better accessibility and internationalisation support. You can navigate the android phone built-in screen reader using touch gestures. There is much better rendering support for Asian languages and additional Unicode fonts are bundled with the release.

Cyanogenmod Firmware for Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100G)

The Cyanogenmod has been boon for mobile phone technophiles. The project provides customised firmware for wide variety of phones. Unfortunately Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-i9100G) is not well support by Cyanogenmod project. Why? Samsung had changed the hardware specification of this model and none of Cyanogenmod developers have this phone model to work on.

Last week, Yang and I spent an afternoon looking for compatible firmwares to root Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-i9100G) . After few failed attempts we found that MyGKernelV1.1.1_CWM5.tar version managed to give us root access to the phone.

Installing Boot2Gecko on Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100G)

You have heard of Mozilla Boot2Gecko. The Mozilla entry into smart phone market was unveiled at Mobile World Congress last week. Build with HTML5, CSS and Javascript, it allows web developers an open phone stack for their applications.

The Mobile World Congress Boot2Gecko videos shows a Samsung Galaxy S2 running Boot2Gecko. You should take note that this Samsung Galaxy S II model is GT-I9100. The Boot2Gecko developers use Samsung Galaxy S2 as their development platform.

Since Cyanogenmod scripts are used for Boot2gecko installation. You won't be able to install it on Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100G) without lot of hacking. Recently there has been a lot of talk about people dying to install Book2Gecko on Samsung Galaxy S2. Caveat Emptor.

How to display your Android screen on your desktop

2012-03-06T15:32:00.001+07:00

A good screen capture tool is essential for Android developers. It is invaluable while making presentations as I recently discovered during my talk about Firefox Mobile Testing.

Thanks to flyingclimber for introducing me to Droid@Screen. This tool enables you to display your android screen on your desktop in portrait/landscape mode and does image scaling too. Making screen shots and videos of your android device is also supported. If the video performance is not so good, try changing the frame-rate settings.

To use Droid@Screen, you need Java and Android SDK installed on your computer. Download this droidAtScreen-0.5.1.jar file from here and run it by typing this command in your terminal. Make sure you have enabled 'USB Debugging' on your Android device.


# Download the program 
$ wget http://blog.ribomation.com/download/http://blog.ribomation.com/wp-content/files/droidAtScreen-1.0.1.jar

# Launch Droid@Screen from command-line
$ java -jar droidAtScreen-0.5.1.jar

The software prompts you for the location of your Android SDK adb.

Connect your phone and select the device name from the Droid@Screen menu. And you are done.

Video Tutorial of Droid@Screen

Firefox Developer Tools at FOSS@HUS

2012-03-04T07:30:00.000+07:00

FOSS@HUS is annual technology festival organized by the Hanoi University of Sciences, Hanoi. This event encourages the students of the university to learn and contribute to the Free and Open Source software. This year, the event featured talks on Fedora community, LibreOffice, Open Street Map (OSM) and Open VoIP solutions.

Mozilla Firefox Developer Tools

The Mozilla Firefox Developer tools talk introduced the features that help accelerate web development. The Mozilla Firefox design is driven by user needs. The new developers tools are good example of such focus. The talk encouraged audience to download the Nightly, Aurora builds of Mozilla Firefox and try out Web Inspector, Web Console, Scratchpad Javascript editor and Style inspector. Written in Javascript these web developers tools are great for budding Firefox hackers.

Firefox Web developer tools

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Yang helped translate the talk in Vietnamese

The FOSS@HUS organisers and speakers

Barcamp Saigon (Winter) 2011

2012-03-03T15:13:00.001+07:00

Attending Barcamp Saigon gives you a glimpse of the new Vietnam. As you travel from the Ho Chi Minh city center towards the RMIT International University, the overloaded motor bikes and street hawkers in large conical hats are soon replaced by swank cars and posh apartment buildings. The Barcamp Saigon registration desk was already bustling with people when I arrived at RMIT campus. Everywhere you look, you will see fresh young faces. You can see the aspiration of the country in the faces.

Traveled from my home in Hanoi to attend Barcamp Saigon on December 11, 2011. Walking through the main hall of the Barcamp Camp, you'll see students, IT professionals, expats working in technology startups. The Barcamp Saigon itself is organized by a group of expats and local volunteers.

There are Job boards advertising new positions in startups, online book seller Tiki.vn's booth, RMIT education booth and free coffee from a new cafe outlet in the main hall. The Kindle Fire on display at Tiki.vn's booth was certainly drawing quite a lot of interest. Judging by the Barcamp talks, there seems to be a marked interest in the technology, gaming and entrepreneurship.

Event Registration Desk

Main Hall

Barcampers at the opening Session

Voting for the Talks

Electronic Arts (EA) talk

Technology Entrepreneurship, Startups, Angel Investors in Vietnam

Internet Governance in Vietnam

Skunkworks.vn Gamification talk

Javascript Libraries Talk

The Javascript talk in Vietnamese attracted a large crowd. Talking to people at the barcamp made me realize the need for Mozilla developer engagement in the region. My conversation with the Ubuntu community members, Teachers, Students expressed their interest for such engagement. Later on I meetup with Lilly Nguyen from UCLA to learn about her experiences with FLOSS communities in Vietnam.

Mozilla Engagement at Barcamp Saigon

We managed to schedule two Mozilla talks at Barcamp Saigon. Participants learnt about the story behind Mozilla project and how to contribute to Mozilla software. Vu Hung gave a talk about Mozilla Vietnamese localization project and I talked about testing the latest Firefox Mobile for Android.

The Mozilla Story

Mozilla Vietnamese Localization

Vu Hung contributes Vietnamese translations to Mozilla Firefox and other FLOSS projects such as LibreOffice. In this Vietnamese language talk he explained various aspects of Mozilla Localization; the software and the challenges of localization. Thanks to volunteer efforts Mozilla Firefox is available in Vietnamese. The talk encouraged people to join and help translate Vietnamese localization of Mozilla software.

Vu Hung Localization talk

Testing Mozilla Firefox Mobile

The talk introduced the Mozilla Mobile Test Drivers program. The program aims to attract early adopters to try out Firefox mobile nightly and report problems. The response was positive, there were very few Android devices capable of running Mobile Firefox around. However I except this to change very soon here in Vietnam.

Firefox mobile Get, Set .... Test

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We had good number of people attend the talk. Ubuntu Vietnam community was also present in the room. At the end of the session I invited Ubuntu Vietnam community to briefly present their work to the audience.

Ubuntu-VN Community Talk

Developing IT Community in Saigon

Unlike other barcamp talks, this interactive session discussed various ideas for developing an active IT community in Saigon. The participants decided to start a new community called 'Creative Saigon' to further this goal. I was really happy that my suggestion 'Creative Saigon' got the most votes. Guess the offer of 'Free Beer' also helped.

Towards the end of the discussion, I put forth a challenge to be pro-active about developing the IT community by starting right now. Would anyone join me for the first Beercamp Saigon next day?. As expected no one showed up at the Beercamp Saigon expect for my friends from Hanoi Lilly and Mieh. As of writing this post, Beercamp Saigon is a regular event in Ho Chi Minh City.

Wrapping Up The Barcamp

The highlight of the evening was not announcing results for the best barcamp talk, but blowing up the digital projectors light bulb in the main auditorium. The MC decided to play the Korean Girl Band 'Bring the boy out' video while waiting for the results. That was one *hot* video indeed.

Taking the feedback from the barcampers was important part of the evening. We heard people share the best and worst thing about the Barcamp Saigon. The Barcamps regular fixture Preetam Rai encouraged everyone to participate in the upcoming Barcamps in Cambodia. Someone asked 'What about Barcamp Hanoi?' Well, we are going to have one in the next few months.

Let us hear some feedback

Barcamp's changed my life

I didn't get my Barcamp Saigon T-shirt

Preetam Rai at Barcamp Saigon

Come join us at Barcamps in Cambodia

Updates From Vietnam

2011-12-05T12:47:00.001+07:00

Greetings from Vietnam. Let me give you a quick update from Vietnamese Mozilla Community. Vu Hung shared his Mozcamp experiences and the Mozilla goodies at the informal gathering of Open Source communities in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Few days ago, I met Tuan and Yang to talk about Mozilla community activities in Vietnam. We spent the afternoon discussing ideas for more user engagement, Localization and future events in Vietnam. Mozilla community is well organized in the north Vietnam (Hanoi), however we haven't had much success in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon).

I'll be traveling to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) this weekend to participate in BarCamp Saigon Winter 2011. Planning to meet some of the open source community members at the event and hopefully build an active Mozilla community in Saigon.

Back in Hanoi next week for the FOSS@HUS on December 17, 2011. The annual Open Source fest at Hanoi University of Science (HUS), Hanoi, Vietnam.

Ubuntu in Mandalay, Myanmar

2011-12-05T12:10:00.000+07:00

ThanYalZin Min sends us this picture from Ubuntu day in Mandalay, Myanmar. You can see Min sporting the cool Mozcamp t-shirt in the photograph.

Mozilla Rep Chit Thiri Maung is planning the future Mozilla activities in Yangon and Mandalay. This year we launched the Mozilla L10N team during the BarCamp Yangon 2011.

You can follow Mozilla Myanmar Community here on their twitter page. I hope to see more Mozillians in Myanmar next year.

BarCamp Vientiane 2011

2011-11-28T13:29:00.001+07:00

The beautiful city of Vietiane hosted the second Barcamp Vientiane on Novemeber 19, 2011. Vientiane is capital and the largest city in Laos. Thomas Wanhoff the organizer of the event helped us distrubute Mozilla swag at the event. Unfortunately I couldn't attend Barcamp Vientiane this year but I hope we'll have more mozillians in Vientiane next year.

FOSS Asia 2011

2011-11-27T20:49:00.001+07:00

Vu Hung, Mozilla Vietnamese Localization contributor from Hanoi participated in FOSS Asia 2011 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He shares his experiences in this blog post.

Here is a short report for what I (Vu Hung) did present in FOSSASIA.

Arky, who has been helping our open source comminities, especially in building Mozilla community in Vietnam was the best person to give a talk on that, but he was busy with an event in Eupore, so there I go :)

The theme of the event is "mobile".

I had 2 talks and a workshop in this event.

Mozilla:

An introduction to Vietnamese translation for Mozilla products.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/vuhung16plus/an-introduction-to-vietnamese-translation

Narro is the tool the translation, and not like for translating .po file Mozilla has a special format for language files so Mozilla team (Arky is one of them) had developed Narror to help translators.

Mozilla mobile technologies
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/vuhung16plus/mozilla-mobile-technologies

The title of the present was made by Ms. Phuc but the content of the talk focuses on the technologies that Mozilla is using, this will help audiences (mostly students) have a basic knowledge on what is used and cooked in Mozilla.
I also pointed out that Mobile/Smartphone, cloud computing and open web are the trends that Mozilla is working on.

Mozilla mobile technologies

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LibreOffice

Sides: http://www.slideshare.net/vuhung16plus/mobile-libreoffice
I introduced two projects that LibreOffice is working on at very begining stage:
LibreOffice on smartphone (Android) and LibreOffice on the cloud. Imagine that the share of PCs is decreasing, while the number of (smart)phones and tablets are increasing.

LibreOffice/ODF on Smartphone/Tablet/Cloud

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Workshop

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/vuhung16plus/informationmanagementwithredmine-thai-nguyenfossnguyenvuhung2010112101-5877449
My talk is based on the talk I have presented at Thai Nguyen university. The goal of the workshop is to show how to manage IT projects in an agile way.
I have covered a lot of facets in software and non-software project management. 100+ audiences have attended the workshop: Thank you for joining the workshop :)

FOSS Asia 2011 Photos

You can view the FOSS Asia 2011 event photos on Vu Hungs Flickr stream.

Mozcamp Asia 2011

2011-11-25T18:02:00.001+07:00

Mozcamp Asia 2011 was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 18-20 November 2011. The two day event was packed with interactive presentations, discussions on new products, engagement opportunities, and community building.

Mozilla communities from various Asian countries participated in this event. You view more information about various communities and their activities on the Mozilla Asia Community Quilt.

The event theme was "Many Voices, One Mozilla", and had three broad tracks of engineering, training and regionalization, the content for this MozCamp is now available online here

Kick-starting Mozilla Communities with Localization Sprints

2011-11-19T14:47:00.001+07:00

The talk was delivered at Mozcamp Asia. It describes the efforts to start new L10n communities and reviving those that lost core contributors.

Kick-starting Mozilla Communities with Localization Sprints

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2011-11-07T12:39:00.000+07:00

Barcamp Phnom Penh 4 event is mentioned on this weeks Mozilla Contributor Engagement Video. You can find photos and presentation from Barcamp Phnom Penh 4 in this blog post.

You can view this video on Youtube. Don't forget to subscribe to Mozillians Youtube channel.

Barcamp Phnom Penh 4

2011-10-28T13:08:00.000+07:00

Travelled to Cambodia to attend Barcamp Phnom Penh 4 this week. It is the second largest Barcamp in Asia, over 1500 people attended the event this year. The barcamp's are user-generated conferences (or unconferences) with open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. Barcamp Phnom Penh 4 attracted dozens of foreign barcampers from all over the world. The barcamp featured talks related to Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Android Development, Web Technologies, Mobile App development, Security, Mapping Technology and Localization.

The young and enthusiastic team of volunteers led by Be Chantra organized a great event. Quite impressed with the spirit of Cambodian youth and zest for learning. Last month Mozilla helped organize the Open Cambodia event. My trip to Cambodia is to engage the Mozilla contributors and kickstart Mozilla Khmer Localization (L10n) team.

Mozilla Khmer Localization (L10n) Sprint

Open Institute has been developing KhmerOS to provide local language computing environment for Cambodia. However their decision to change the name of Mozilla Firefox and other Open Source software has fractured the contributor community. I hope the Mozilla Khmer Localization(L10n) sprint and my interactions with KhmerOS team would pave way to remedy this situation.

Vannak (@evannak) of KhmerOS project has been spearheading the Mozilla Khmer Localization(L10n) work. The sprint was delivered in English and Khmer by Vannak and me on the first day of the Barcamp Phnom Penh 4. After my presentation, Vannak did a practical demonstration of Khmer localization by translating Firefox strings using Narro web based translation tool. A lively discussion about the linguistic nuances of Khmer language followed.

The response to the sprint was very positive. Many people expressed their interest to join the Mozilla Khmer Localization (L10n) team. We hope to organize more such events to engage the contributors in Cambodia.

Mozilla Khmer L10n presentation, Barcamp Pnnom Penh 4

Mozilla Khmer Localization Sprint

Vennak (Mozilla Khmer L10n Team)

Khmer Localization Using Narro

Barcampers Enjoy Khmer Food

Barcamps are great!

Khmer Translation Talk

Google App Engine talk by
Guy Flysher (Google)

Localization of 'Open Data' Cambodia
by John Weeks

KhmerOS's Norbert Klein makes a point

Khmer Unicode on Android by
Stephen Gibberd (finder.com.kh)

Mobile Learning with iPad by
Adrian Tan (Square Crumbs)

Help Test Narro Online Translation Tool

2011-10-02T09:49:00.000+07:00

Narro is a web application that allows online software translation and coordination. Some of the Mozilla L10n teams use this tool for their localization work. The tool was developed by Mozilla Romanian L10n team member Alexandru Szaz to make localization simple and easy to use.

Please take a moment to test the Narro 2.0 and report any problems and offer feedback to make Narro better.

https://l10n.mozilla.org/narro/projects.php

Please use Narro issue tracker file to your bug reports.

http://code.google.com/p/narro/issues/list

Mozilla Contributor Engagement Video Update

2011-10-01T03:45:00.001+07:00

Featured in Mozilla Contributor Engagement Video update during my visit to Mozilla San Francisco Office.

You can view this video on Youtube. Don't forget to subscribe to Mozillians Youtube channel

Software Freedom Day 2011

2011-09-24T13:54:00.000+07:00

Software Freedom 2011 is a yearly celebration for Software Freedom! Every year there are thousands teams organizing Software Freedom Day in different countries and cities. Let have a look at Software Freedom Day 2011 event in India, Singapore and Vietnam.

Chennai, India

Dwarak published his Software Freedom Day 2011 experiences in this Mozilla India blog post. Mozilla project won the best stall award.

Hanoi, Vietnam

Ha Quang Duong gave a talk about Mozilla L10n activities in Vietnam. Mozilla swag was given away at the event, Thanks Yang for taking care of Mozilla swag distribution.

Photos by Phan Trọng Khanh

Singapore

Preetam Rai represented Mozilla at SFD2011 in Singapore. You can view more picture of the event on Preetam's facebook album.

Malaysian Newspaper Interviews Mozilla Rep Hilary Ho

2011-09-21T02:50:00.000+07:00

Malaysian Mozilla Rep Hilary Ho Jia Hao was interviewed by English-language Malaysian newspaper New Sarawak Tribune . Here is short excerpt of the interview.

Mozilla Firefox recruiting contributors

Mozilla Firefox, a well known and widely used web browser is planning to set foot in the state by recruiting local contributors to make the web browser more user-friendly and community-based.

A representative of Malaysia Mozilla and Mozilla Web Programmer, Hilary Ho Jia Hao, 21, when met by New Sarawak Tribune yesterday said the recruitment is open to everyone who has interest in making the web browser more local based with no limitation on the recruitment as long as they are able to contribute.

A student of Cognitive Science at Univerisiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Ho revealed that there are more than 40,000 people in the world who are involved in it.
Read the full interview on New Sarawak Tribune website.

Mozilla Localization Camp, Hanoi

2011-08-22T13:47:00.000+07:00

Last week we organized the Mozilla Localization(L10n) sprint at iWay in Hanoi. The event is first in series of Mozilla Localization (L10n) sprints across Asia. The sprints try to increase contributions to mozilla localization and engage Mozilla Localization (L10n) contributors.

Few active contributors from various localization projects; Tuan(Fedora), Vu Hung(Mozilla), Yang (Ubuntu) and Dung (Sahana) joined the sprint. The small gathering of experienced contributors provided an interactive sessions. We expected more participant however those who confirmed their participation at Mozilla Localization coffee meetup didn't show up. The sprint lasted for more than 3 hours. Later we head to nearby Bia Hoi for round of beers and light lunch.

Narro is web based wiki-like collobrative translation tool. The participants of the sprint were happy with simple interface of Narro. They quickly understand the basics of Narro. I explained how to use commenting, review and voting options to do peer review of the localizations and pointed out feature that would speed up localization. Working with Narro with increasing connection time-outs. During the Narro downtime, Tuan and Vu Hung shared their translation workflow. Tuan found Narro easy to use than Pootle and Yang suggested numerous improvements to the Narro UI and workflow.

Clearly the positive response to the mozilla localization sprint. Tuan expressed interest to talk about Mozilla localiztion at SFD 2011 and having more community driven localization sprints. The goal of such sprints to generate interest and have more community driven localization events.

ICANN 41 Singapore 2011

2011-08-22T13:34:00.000+07:00

The five day Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 41 meeting was held in Singapore on 19 – 24 June 2011. The ICANN meetings are held three times each year in different regions of the globe. The meeting has pre-meeting workshops, working group sessions and ICANN's annual general meeting. It is a good opportunity for NIXI fellows to have face-to-face discussions with various people dedicated to the guiding of the future of the Internet.

The ICANN 41 meeting is of particular significance to those concerned with the subject of Internet governance. The controversial new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) was approved by the ICANN board at this meeting. The internet pundits predicted before the event that "Internet is poised for potentially one of its biggest shakeups in years". Being part of this historic moment and to watch the ICANN board vote to expand TLD space was an experience that I will cherish. It really motivated me to play an active role in future ICANN activities.

Another important topic at ICANN 41 was Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). The ability to have country code top-level domain (ie. www.example.com) displayed in non-latin alphabet would bring the local language computing to full circle. We now have complete operating systems, word processors, web browsers and email clients available in local languages. With implementation of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) computer users can surf the web and email in their local language.

The Internationalized Domain Names(IDNs) implementation poses certain complex linguistic and technical problems. At ICANN 41 various IDN Variant TLD case studies were presented. Of particular interest was the Arabic and Devanagari language case studies. The problems faced by various IDN variants are similar however there seems no consensus on how to address them. Presentation and transcripts from these meetings are available here.

Jothan Frakes presentation on Universal Acceptability, The Public suffix & IDN Whitelist was really good. I never realized that Mozilla Firefox supported IDNs. Later I met up with Frakes to understand the internals of Mozilla Firefox IDN support.

Universal acceptability, The Public suffix & IDN Whitelist

James Galvin (Afilias) IDN e-mail solution was perhaps the most practical demonstration of IDN Email support. I hope to test Thunderbird Aurora with IDN email addresses with help of Afilias in the future.

In future, I would be participating in IDN working groups with special emphasis on IDN support for Mozilla Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client. Also work with various Indian language IDN variants groups. Document various technical solutions and provide support using existing workarounds.

Syafiq Mazli's Mozilla Localization Camp (Malaysia) Report

2011-08-16T00:53:00.001+07:00

You can read Syafiq Mazli's report about the Mozilla Localization Camp at the Barcamp KL 2011 here.

Salam,
Good Morning,
Here the report for this event by chronology time.
There has two session, introduction talk session and sprint session
0700 Hours
- Wake up and prepare for out Me,@umarzuki and Arky @playingwithsid. From *Mozilla Base Camp* like Arky said, to MMU Cyberjaya.
0845 Hours
-Arrive at Faculty of Information Technology, MMU Cyberjaya.
0900 Hours
-Bring out bag of Mozilla Swag and straight to counter for registration. Surprisely, there are many crowd arrive before us. Haha. We quite late.

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