I had the privilege of representing Mozilla and my country, the Philippines for the third straight year in FOSSASIA. For the second year in a row, FOSSASIA 2017 was held at the Science Center Singapore from the 17th up to the 19th of this month. The theme for this year’s FOSSASIA is “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Personal Assistants at Asia’s Premier Open Technology Event.”
I gave an introductory talk about Rust (programming language) on the last day of the conference. My session was held at the Scientist of the Day area, just behind the Mozilla booth:
“FOSSASIA is the premier Free and Open Source technology organization in Asia for developers, designers, start-ups, and contributors. Projects at FOSSASIA range from open hardware, to design, graphics and software. FOSSASIA was established in 2009. The annual FOSSASIA took place in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Singapore. FOSSASIA meetup groups exist throughout Asia,” according to their website.
For this year, Mozilla sent an official delegation of seven (07) Mozillians from the Tech Speakers group.
Catch #Mozilla talk on #WebRTC by @trishulgoel 9AM at Fermi (3rd Floor) #FOSSASIA @mozTechSpeakers @mozilla
— Bob Reyes (@bobreyes) March 19, 2017
Learn how to Create Your Own #Pokemon World in web-based VR by #Mozilla @isantoshv 9:30AM at Fermi (3F) #FOSSASIA @mozTechSpeakers @Mozilla
— Bob Reyes (@bobreyes) March 19, 2017
Catch OpenSec & Why WebAppSec Matters by #Mozilla @mijanur_rayhan 11AM at Faraday (3F) #FOSSASIA @moztechspeakers @Mozilla
— Bob Reyes (@bobreyes) March 19, 2017
Learn more about #WebAssembly by #Mozilla @chikoski 12NN at Fermi (3F) #FOSSASIA @moztechspeakers @Mozilla
— Bob Reyes (@bobreyes) March 19, 2017
Hear #Mozilla @dikyarga talk about Tea Linux OS 12:10PM at Dalton Hall (3F) #FOSSASIA @moztechspeakers @Mozilla
— Bob Reyes (@bobreyes) March 19, 2017
Learn #Mozilla #Rust Programming Language in my talk 1PM at Scientist for a Day (back of @Mozilla booth) #FOSSASIA @moztechspeakers
— Bob Reyes (@bobreyes) March 19, 2017
Hear #Mozilla @dietrich talk about Integrated Physical Computing on the Web 1:45PM at Planck (3F) #FOSSASIA @moztechspeakers @Mozilla
— Bob Reyes (@bobreyes) March 19, 2017
Also worth mentioning are the number of Filipinos who flew all the way from Manila just to attend this year’s FOSSASIA — Mabuhay! All throughout the weekend, I was surprised to see more than ten (10) Pinoys, most of whom were sent by their respective (Philippine-based) companies to the conference.
Try #WebVR at the #Mozilla booth if you’re inside the Singapore Science Center now. We got awesome stickers, too! #FOSSASIA #FOSSASIA2017 pic.twitter.com/DUiG0zPxS3
— Bob Reyes (@bobreyes) March 18, 2017
Kids visiting the #Mozilla booth at #FOSSASIA trying #WebVR awesomeness pic.twitter.com/CSeRbexWVZ
— Bob Reyes (@bobreyes) March 18, 2017