WordCamp Philippines
Last week I was in Manila where I was lucky enough to attend WordCamp Philippines on behalf of Automattic (our parent company) and IntenseDebate. In case you’re not familiar with it:
WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.
I had a chance to speak to a group of around 150 Filipinos who are really into blogging (and WordPress in particular) which was a great honor and also great fun (I was the first speaker of the day!). My trip was rather timely now that we’re working to localize IntenseDebate, and it was especially fitting since a Filipino translation of IntenseDebate came in just days before I left!
Mozilla co-hosted the event, providing sponsorship as well of one of the speakers, Seth Bindernagel, Director of Localization at Mozilla. Seth delivered a presentation titled “A quick look into the Mozilla community through the lens of localization” which was right up my alley. I got a chance to talk to him at the event and will be spending a little bit of time with him in the near future to explore Mozilla’s approach to localization for projects like Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. As we continue forward with our localization, we will be looking at how we can take some of the lessons they learned and apply them to IntenseDebate.
By leveraging the experience of one of the biggest and most successful open source projects (other than WordPress of course!), we’ll be able to make the localization process easier for you and us, and make IntenseDebate a more “native” experience for everyone.
Please keep an eye on our blog for an upcoming post detailing the latest progress on our localization project.
And now to close out my post, I thought I’d share one of my experiences with the local cuisine: my first taste of a balut. (I’m the one on the left. 😉 ) Check out my full post on my blog.
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it's great to have you here in Manila! 😀
Cool! I hope you had fun. 🙂
Philippines has some of my favorite people in the world.
it really amazes me why foreigners find it a challenge to eat this delicacy. well i know it's a matter of culture so i guess i'm amazed at culture. 🙂
i notice some bottles of beer. how do u find our beers? seriously, i find it interesting what non-filipinos think about our beer. hehehe…
It's more a matter of it being so different to anything that we'd eat over here in the US (or in Australia, where I'm originally from for that matter).
I believe I was drinking a San Miguel in this video, which I quite like. I don't think I tried any other local beers though, so don't know about them. I love a good beer 😉