Hey Gen -
I think Satoko's pretty much got it. Before the first Barcamp in 2006,
there really wasn't any open source community out there. The closest thing
was Pantip forums talking about PHP. Thailand was effectively a Microsoft
shop as they did a lot of promotions here with companies and schools. They
had effective evangelization & lock-in as so many sites would use
IE-specific features. You still can't use most bank websites without IE. :-(
So I think Open Source and Open Standards has shown itself to have
practical value once awareness was made that these were not just esoteric
options. The great work by the local translators getting Thai into Firefox
gave Thai's a sense of ownership in it and this pride factor is clearly
apparent. Had Mozilla simply paid a group to do it I don't think it would
have been as effective so it speaks very highly for your methods. This is
what our stated goals were when we kicked off the first Barcamp in Bangkok.
Next we're going to see if we can't build up a local entreprenuership
ecology leveraging what's been accomplished thus far. Should be
interesting...
-- Ben Scherrey
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:23 AM, 31o5 OHIRA <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure if it's related, but I saw a news about internet trend in
> Thailand. The most popular website is google.com now.
> http://www.newsclip.be/news/2009619_024275.html (sorry it's in Japanese)
>
> I remember few years (or months?) back it used to be pantip.com, sanook,
> msn etc. wasn't it? Most of the websites were just for IE when I first came
> to Thailand which is 5++ years back, not much easy CMSs to generate clean
> code, not much blogs, I used to felt Thai people like chatting more than
> blogging, but now I see many people blogging.
>
> Maybe I feel this because I didn't know much Thai techies when I first came
> here, but somehow I've been feeling something has been happening here in
> Thailand + SE Asia... excited, I'm kind of lucky to live here during this
> period :)
>
> satoko
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Gen Kanai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi BarCampers,
>>
>> I'm wondering if you can help me.
>>
>> Mozilla is seeing a significant growth in Firefox users in Thailand in
>> the past 3 months. Around 17% growth, which is one of the highest
>> rates.
>>
>> I know this is partly due to the hard work of the Thai Firefox
>> localizing team but do you know if there is another reason why Firefox
>> is particularly popular in Thailand right now? We are trying to find
>> out if there are any Internet trends in Thailand that we do not know
>> about.
>>
>> My colleague Ken Kovash is cc'd to this email so if you have any
>> thoughts, please reply to the group and cc Ken.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>> Gen
>> http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/category/thailand/
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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