15-16 September 2007: Mozilla 24 Event

15-16 September 2007: Mozilla 24 Event

'Mozilla 24' is a worldwide, 24-hour open discussion that connects community members, academics and Web visionaries from Asia, America and Europe, in person and over the broadband video WIDE network. The event will feature industry leaders who will present on Web trends and technologies that will help shape the future of the Web. The next session on Europe-Asia Open Source will be held for two hours and forty-five minutes at the following locations:

3:15 - 6:00 pm on 15 September at AIT, Bangkok
5:15 - 8:00 pm on 15 September in Tokyo and Kyoto
10:15 am - 1:00 pm on 15 September in Paris

Venue: Bender Auditorium, AIT

Enquiries/Reservation: sec@interlab.ait.ac.th or call 02-524 6613

The press release for the event is on Mozilla Corporation Press Center.
http://www.mozilla.comm/en-US/press/mozilla-2007-08-10.html

For 'Mozilla 24' details visit http://www.mozilla.comm/en-US/

Program Title: Open Source and Localization: A Europe and Asia joint workshop

Part 1 - Program Description: Six leading members of European and Asian open source and/or free software organizations or businesses will answer five questions about their own organizations.

We hope to show the variety of organizational models and business models for successful open source organizations in Europe and Asia as well as their similarities.

A limited number of questions will be answered by the presenters. We hope that this will lead to additional innovation in open source in Asia, Europe and beyond.

Speakers (in alphabetical order):

  • Francois Bancilhon, Chief Executive Officer, Mandriva (presentation from Paris)
  • Pierre Beaudoin, President, Wikimedia France (presentation from Paris)
  • Tristan Nitot, President, Mozilla Europe (presentation from Paris)
  • Charles-H Schulz, Lead of the Native-Language Confederation, OpenOffice.org (presentation from Paris)
  • Virach Sornlertlamvanich, President, Thai Open Source Association (presentation from Bangkok)
  • Larry Stefonic, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific MySQL AB; President, MySQL K.K. (Japan) - (presentation from Tokyo)

    Moderator

    :
    Gen Kanai, Director of Marketing, Mozilla Japan (moderation from Tokyo)

    Part 2 - Program Description:

    Mozilla's open source software is available in well over 50 languages around the world. In fact, every version of Firefox or Thunderbird outside of the English version is localized by volunteers around the world. Three key Mozilla employees who help to manage the volunteer localizers in Europe and Japan will share their processes and procedures for how to localization is possible in so many languages for Mozilla. With this information we hope to see more volunteers to help with localization at Mozilla and we hope to spur additional localization efforts at other open source software projects.

    Speakers:

    • Dr. Axel Hecht, member of the Board of Directors, Mozilla Europe
    • Pascal Chevrel, Website Localization Coordinator, member of the Board of Directors, Mozilla Europe
    • Tomoya Asai, Localization Manager, Mozilla Japan