[Video] MozKopdar Event in Bandung Introduces Boot to Gecko

Last weekend, id-Mozilla held a meet up event of MozKopdar Bandung, which is the first MozKopdar event held in Bandung. In addition to Bandung, this event was also held in other cities such as Jakarta and Bekasi.

MozKopdar Bandung took venue at Potluck Kitchen starting at 11 AM. This meet up event, as described by Fauzan Alfi – MozReps, was filled by introduction of Mozilla Student Reps as well as other various events such L10n Sprint or translating Firefox browser into local languages namely Bahasa Indonesia and Sundanese. The event was also filled by the announcement of the latest information on various Mozilla projects.

MozKopdar Bandung was also attended by Arky, Community Manager for Localization (L10n) Asia, who was present to help the translation process from the technical side as well as introducing Boot to Gecko (B2G), which is an open source operating system for mobile devices from Mozilla. Other information about B2G can be seen here and here. Moreover, Arky also explained the various processes and essential stages that can be done by those who are interested to help in the Firefox browser translation project.

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[Event] Technopreneur Talk

Batavia Incubator, in collaboration with Bandung Technology Institute, will hold Technopreneur Talk, a conference for young entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia. The first Technopreneur Talk will be held on May 12, 2012 in West Hall, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jalan Ganeca no. 10, Bandung.

As the name implies, Technopreneur Talk will present a series of speakers widely known in the technology field to be established entrepreneurs. They are Ebihara Takeshi (CEO of Rebright Partners as well as General Partner of Batavia Incubator), Ken Dean Lawadinata (CEO of Kaskus), Willis Wee (CEO of Tech in Asia) and Rama Mamuaya (CEO of DailySocial).

In this event, established entrepreneurs and supporters such as investors and journalists are expected to share their knowledge, feelings and passion to the young entrepreneurs in the industry with the aim to contribute in building a startup ecosystem.

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[EVENT] Mobile Game Monetization Tour

Beintoo and MoVend hold a tour titled “Mobile Game Monetization Tour”. Visiting three countries Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, this tour invites mobile application developers to share many things about the monetization of the mobile gaming application.

The tour is scheduled to start at Singapore. Previously, on Game Solutions Center’s page, there was information that this event will be held on May 15, 2012 but the page is no longer existed. There is no further information about this event in Singapore. In Malaysia, the tour will be held on May 17, 2012. Beintoo and MoVend are working with Code Android Malaysia to hold this event in Malaysia.

In Indonesia, this Mobile Game Monetization Tor is organized by Code Android Indonesia. The event will be held on May 18, 2012 at Bina Nusantara International University, The Joseph Wibowo Center of Advanced Learning, Jl. Hang Lekir I no. 6, Senayan – Jakarta. The event will take place in two sessions from 12 AM to 5 PM.

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[Event] Microsoft holds Developer Conference 2012

Welcoming Windows 8, Microsoft intends to introduce the new product to developers in Indonesia. Microsoft will hold Microsoft Developer Conference. In this Microsoft Developer Conference, developers in Indonesia will learn about the ins and outs of Metro application programming in Windows 8.

Microsoft Developer Conference in Indonesia will be held on May 1 and May 2, 2012 at the Mawar Room, Balai Kartini. The event on May 1 will take form as a seminar and the next day’s event will be a workshop. The keynote speaker in this event is Neil Hutson, Senior Director of Microsoft Corp.

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APMF Adds Big Break Session for Startup Pitches

Asia Pacific Media Forum (APMF) 2012 will spare one of its sessions to give a chance for 5 startups to do pitching. Named as Big Break, this session is held for the first time in the history of APMF. Association of Asia Pacific Advertising Media (AAPAM), as the committee of APMF, announced this in a press release received by DailySocial.

Asia Pacific Media Forum (APMF) is a place for executives and managers of advertising agencies, media, brand owners, media experts, research companies and academics from Asia Pacific regions and other parts of the world to discuss the dynamics of media industries in the world and the Asia Pacific region. APMF 2012 will be held in Nusa Dua Bali, on May 23-26, 2012.

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PINPON Wins Mindtalk AppsDay 2012 Malang Chapter

Mindtalk AppsDay 2012 which was held in two cities, Yogyakarta and Malang are over. After the announcement of Yogyakarta chapter winner, Mindtalk today announced the winners of Malang chapter on the official channel at #MindtalkAppsDay. As we mentioned in previous articles, the enthusiasm of Mindtalk AppsDay 2012 (Malang chapter) which was held on 14th to 15th April 2012 was very surprising.

The numbers of developers who follow the hackathon were higher than Yogyakarta. There were 48 people (individually or in groups), and they produced 14 pieces of applications which have been worked for over 24 hours non-stop.

Here’s a list of 2012 Mindtalk AppsDay winners (Malang chapter):

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[EVENT] Augmented Reality and Technology Xperience 2012

AR and Co., an augmented reality technology provider company, will be holding a series of event related to augmented reality. The event, called Augmented Reality and Technology Xperience (ARTX) 2012, includes exhibition, seminars and application development competition. ARTX 2012 will be held at Kampus Anggrek, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta on June 15 – 16, 2012.

What is augmented reality (AR)? You can read the old post here and the follow up here on DailySocial. Examples of AR application can be seen on Toresto application that has been discussed on DailySocial here.

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Winners of MIKTI and Square-Enix Game Ideas Competition

MIKTI announced winners of game ideas competition for mobile phones (Android) in collaboration with Square-Enix. MIKTI-Square Enix Game Idea Competition 2011 was held at the end of last year and its selection made since September 2011. DailySocial had attended the promotional event of this competiton at ITB in August last year.

After the selection period, judging and announcement of 10 finalists, finally 3 winners were selected and officially announced. In a press release on MIKTI’s official site, the announcement actually had been done in March but apparently the press release was not made available on MIKTI’s official website until April.

The three winners are Whizzy Wazzy (Manticore Studio) as the champion, Beat The Flooder! (Hendri Kusuma Firdaus) as runner up and Buzway Bhablass! (Manticore Studio) as second runner up. The winners will receive prizes totaling US$3,000.

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A Note from Mindtalk AppsDay 2012 in Malang and Potential of Local Developer

Mindtalk recently held hackathons in two cities; Yogyakarta and Malang. Last week, we reported about Mindtalk AppsDay 2012 in Yogyakarta. We didn’t get the chance to attend Mindtalk AppsDay in Malang, but the event was broadcast on MIndTalk in its #MindtalkAppsDay channel and Stasion community’s official Facebook Group timeline.

Mindtalk AppsDay 2012 in Malang was held on April 14-15, 2012. The event was not that different with the hackathon held previously in Yogyakarta where developers were challenged to create an application using Mindtalk’s API for 24 hours nonstop.

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Game Developers Gathering 2012 Presents DeNA, Mochi Media and Touchten

This time comes news from game development world in Indonesia, namely the coming of an annual event Game Developers Gathering 2012. The event will be held for the fourth time in Jakarta and will take place at Multimedia Nusantara University at Gading Serpong on May 26, 2012.

This year’s Game Developers Gathering 2012 will be attended by several speakers who have been in the game development world for a while. Some of them are Kris Antoni (CEO – Toge Productions), Toshihiko Suyama (Director of Marketing Development – DeNA), Eri Chen (Team Lead – Mochi Media), Gregorius Martinus (Lead Artist – Boomzap), Ronald Widjaja (Game Producer – Faunia Rancher), Anton Soeharyo (CEO – Touchten) and Wilson Tjandra (Art Director – Mintsphere).

There will be some highlighted activities in this event, namely ‘seminar, public lecture, sharing session’ with game animation practitioners and venture capitalists that will be present and share their knowledge of the gaming industry. Other highlighted activity is ‘work showcase’ where students and professionals will demonstrate their talents in game development.

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