Firefox 4 Seoul Party Wrap-up

April 29th, 2011 by Channy Yun with No Comments »

Firefox 4 Seoul Party was held at Club Mansion, Hongdae in Seoul on April 23th, 2011. Over 120 Firefox fans enjoyed this event despite $10 entrance fee.

This event was fully organized by volunteers of Firefox 4 launching team and was great compared with Firefox 1, 2 and 3 launch party.

Especially Chris Jones, Andreas Gal of Mozilla Corporation and Eri Inoue of Mozilla Japan were joined us and celebrated Firefox 4 launching with Korean community.

Attendees got many Firefox SWAGs including team firefox sticker, button, arm band from Mozilla and good firefox4 sticker, file holder from Mozilla Japan. In addition, Daum.net – a strong sponsor for Mozilla – prepared mugcup and notebook and sponsored all budget of place rent and dinner. Thanks for all!

Before party time, we had developers meeting with Mozilla speakers for 2 hours. Over 50 people were joined and discussed with them for Firefox 5 features. Chris Jones spoke about Firefox's Out-of-tab process and graphic accelerations and Andreas Gal did about JägerMonkey and research topics such as Rust, DOM.js and Servo.

We started the party with ice-break questions to attendees. Four families accompanies with their kids and ten people have used Firefox from phoenix. One guy was single for 7 years and he got 4GB usb gift instead of girl friends!

Quiz time was also enjoyed, but there were few people to give correct answers. Please try it yourself.

  • What's name of the Firefox 4′s new feature grouping tab?
  • When was the Firefox 1.0 released?
  • How many languages supports Firefox 4?
  • What's a chapter and verse of Book of Mozilla in Firefox 4?
  • What's an animation movie appearing Red panda?
  • Who is a philosopher used term of Persona?

After the quiz time, we had cake-cutting ceremony to celebrate Firefox 4 launching with singing birth day song together. I thought this cake is the most beautiful in the world.

Traditionally we did the event of “Firefox is blank for me!” that attendees answered the blank as a meaning of Firefox. (You can see over 1,500 answers of Firefox official fan page in Facebook.)

It came to a great finale of the party with a short concert of Band Persona. It was great performance and this band will be official for Firefox Korean community. (You can see it in end part of party wrap-up video.)

Finally I thank to Chris, Andreas and Eri for visiting Korea, Mozilla's Gen Kanai, Mary Colvig and Korean volunteers for supporting event and all attendees.

You can feel a pleasant atmosphere to watch as following warp-up video and see the activity of Korean launching team too.

See you in Firefox 5 party soon!

more photos in Channy's Flickr, Eri's Picasaweb and Korean blog Ggogun‘s developer meeting (1), (2), Jukofe.

SUMO Korea – 100 documents for 2 weeks

January 7th, 2011 by Channy Yun with No Comments »

Although the activity of Mozilla Support(SUMO) project were widely spread in the world, there was no Korean activity yet. Surprisingly, a new community was launched during the SUMO 2.4 release and made incredible success in short time.

For 2 weeks after the new SUMO 2.4 release, they did localization of SUMO Korean interface and wrote over 100 localized documents. Especially, it owed 25 students of open source class in Jeju National University. Each students translated several English document into Korean as student projects.

Mr. Channy Yun, a lecturers of class and a leader of Mozilla Korea community reviewed localized documents and made interface translation. It's the first startup of SUMO Korea and some of students will continually manage this project by local mailinglist.

HTML5 in Korea

December 1st, 2010 by Channy Yun with 1 Comment »

Mr. Channy Yun, a leader of Mozilla Korean community was invited by Mozilla Japan in Firefox Developers Conference 2010. In this event, over 300 Japanese web developers were joined and learned Firefox 4′s new technologies including Panorama, mobile browser and HTML5.

As a keynote speaker, Jay Sullivan talked about beyond of Firefox 4 challenging in mobile, cloud, apps and social web environment. He gave insights for Mozilla's new mission in complex changes. Especially John Resig and 5 Japanese developers did a confrontation of 5 minutes presentation in session of “John Resig feat. Shibuya.js”. They included very funny ideas by Javascript including modulation of Javascript.

In lighting talk of final session, Channy Yun gave a presentation about HTML5 in Korea. Despite of IE-dominant market in desktop, for one year, it sold over 5 millions HTML5 capable smart phones (Android and iPhone). So HTML5 are very active in mobile and it will give effects to desktop browser market too.

HTML5 in Korea (2010)
View more presentations from Channy Yun.

After the conference, all of attendees joined bear party together and enjoyed good time with interesting presentations and lucky lottery. You can see photos in flickr and lighting talks (japanese) in YouTube.

Mozilla joins Future Web Forum 2010

December 1st, 2010 by Channy Yun with No Comments »

The future Web forum has been the annual workshop for global Web technology operated by local browser vendors and community since 2007.

In this year, it was held on Nov. 3th with Microsoft Korea, Mozilla Corporation and Opera Software Korea. In last year, we focused on browsers on mobile, but we got a subject of HTML5 support on modern browsers.

So many web developers and designers joined this event and the number of them reached over 200 people. Especially browser vendors prepare the new version competing together IE9, Firefox 4 and Opera 11. It also included HTML5 support on Webkit engines too.

You can see all of lectures via live stream archive (from 1:06:00 and in Korean) and short interviews of lecturers (in Korean) too.

Finally attendees were surprised at taking some of gifts that prepared by vendors including Firefox necklace, Opera red pocket and IE phone ring as a set.

Mozilla will keep watching to move open Web in Korea and support for developers to know the trend of global web technology.

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