Mozilla Developer Roadshow - Hong Kong

[ intro music ]

I am Daisuke Akatsuka

I am from Japan.

And I am Brian Birtles,
and I am from Australia

but also working in Japan.

And today we are presenting
on web animations

and introducing the web standards
and also the Firefox developer tools

for working with animations.

[ in Japanese: ]

So, my name is Kristopher Ho.

My Chinese name is Chun Yat Ho,

based in Hong Kong.

I was born here

and my parents decided to
send me to Blackpool in England.

to a boarding school... so...

Then, I came back five years ago.

and I've just been freelancing
and just doing projects

for magazines and brands -
I work a lot with Nike.

My name is Charis,
I live in Hong Kong.

During the day, I develop websites.

In the evenings, I organize a meetup
called "Harbour Front"

and, besides that,
I've ran my first conference in June

and I'm planning to do
the second one next year.

My name is Hui Jing.

I'm a front-end designer and developer
based in Singapore

and I work for a start-up
called Wismut Labs.

So, we're both browser engineers,

which is little bit different to
web developers.

There's a bit of a gap there

and it's really through events like this
that we can bridge that gap somewhat

and share our knowledge
and try to sympathize a bit more

with our web developers
who we're building the web platform for.

[ in Japanese: ]

There's a lot of things going on:

we're just finished doing
a lot of performance work.

So now we're going back to
adding more animation features,

especially this Javascript animation API -
the web animation's API.

We'll be building on that

and also building on the developer tools
for animations as well.

[in Japanese:]

A-Painter is something very different,
you know.

I've never tried it before.

I'm so used to doing something
two-dimensional,

like when I draw,
everything is 2-D,

no matter what kind of surface.

So, when we were trying the VR

and all of a sudden
you have to think about

the whole flow - like, from what angle
and what directions.

It gives this sort of like
interaction - it's very different.

It's like you're actually
inside your painting,

because you can actually walk into it.

It was definitely an eye-opener
when it comes to like...

as a new media for artwork.

And, when I paint or when I draw,

I just take a picture
and I post it online,

and the interaction is kind of one-way.

It's just like: you look at that

and you had no idea about the process

or you know just like
the thing is just really flat.

But, with VR,
people can actually experience it.

It think it's the experience
that you get to share with your audience.

So, the audience gets to see it
from your point of view.

Then, it becomes at like
another level of interaction

and it's definitely something I think

it's going to be really interesting
in the future.

It's really important for Mozilla
to be out here as well

because you want to get
more developers involved.

You want to get more people into the web.

You want to have more people
using all the new technologies.

And, what I really like about
Mozilla being in Hong Kong

is when you're in the West,
there's so many events

and there's so much
and the quality is so high

and that just doesn't exist here yet.

And, when you see a company
like Mozilla coming here

and they're just running their event,
that makes a huge difference.

And, that's also what you can see
when you have like 150 people

and you're just enjoying talks,
I just find that really great.

The Roadshow has take place
in five different cities:

Singapore, Vietnam,
KL [Kuala Lumpur], Penang

and this is the last stop - Hong Kong.

I've been on all five of them
and I think it's really important

that an organization like Mozilla
hosts events like these

simply because there aren't that many
web design and developer conferences

in this part of the world.

So, even though it seems that

Southeast Asia is treated
as one whole region,

each individual country has
their own unique audience

and local developers
actually behave differently.

And, I think it's great that
Mozilla is doing events like these

in Southeast Asia as so to
provide a voice from our region

back to the people
who are building the Web.