Opera in Southeast Asia

Friday, 26. January 2007, 10:19:14

Opera's Vyoma Kapur went personally back to her hometown in Singapore and hosted a Web Standards Conference in the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) last Tuesday, 16th Jan. 2007. This was the first time ever Opera had done something in Southeast Asia. With more than 100 people present, we exceeded the target of 70 attendees .

There were two speakers- Lucian Teo from the Web Standards Group, Singapore and Michael Smith from Opera, Japan. Lucian gave an introduction to Web Standards and its state in Singapore. Michael explained the Web Standards situation with really interesting analogies. He also showed Opera's commitment to Open Standards and a demonstration of the browser.

Check out the Web Standards Group, Singapore here. They recently had their first meetup - kudos to that! Images have also been uploaded .

Leaving Las VegasMy trip to Opera HQ by FluffyBunny

Comments

is there any plan for China?

By yiluxslex, # 26. January 2007, 11:08:48

cool, welcome to my hometown (Singapore), i like your web browser very much, anyway how you find singapore a tiny island with such a big heart citizen? I hope you will visit Asia like hong kong, malaysia....

By juf2006, # 26. January 2007, 14:35:24

Cris writes:

how can i help promote opera in sg? besides referring?

By anonymous user, # 26. January 2007, 16:40:49

marwan_alzaree writes:

cool, welcome to my hometown (Singapore), i like your web browser very much, anyway how you find singapore a tiny island with such a big heart citizen? I hope you will visit Asia like hong kong, malaysia..

By anonymous user, # 29. January 2007, 00:59:44

I'm so sad that my blog(my.opera.com/hanvord) has been banned today!
Who can tell me why?

By why-banned, # 29. January 2007, 14:05:44

I was last week in singapure. Yes! :-D

By berlinmagic, # 31. January 2007, 23:30:12

Singapure? Singapore!

By _allesaufkredit_, # 1. February 2007, 14:50:43

Brilliant! I wish i could have been there as i live in Singapore- I am very fond of Opera !

By bigloada, # 3. February 2007, 16:35:03

Singapore,Beautiful place!

By shyzj, # 5. February 2007, 13:02:31

any plans to go to hong kong?

By tsangcym, # 6. February 2007, 09:18:02

I appreciate Singapore so much.....

By darude727, # 6. February 2007, 23:22:38

Yes Singapore is a beautiful place indeed! Warm and always buzzing with activity... i'm originally from Singapore so I thought I'd bring something in my hometown. Hence the Web Standards Conference.

If any of you are interested in promoting Opera, please send me a message on my blog or email me at vyomak@opera.com and I'll send you some promotional stuff... including t-shirts!!

We aren't doing anything in Malaysia or Hong Kong anytime soon, but if any of you in those countries (or any other country) would like to host a meetup, do let me know and I'll help you along. You can read a meetup-hosting guide here where you'll find more details:

http://my.opera.com/community/promote/events/

Cheers,

Vyoma

By MissPlaced, # 8. February 2007, 12:40:44

Bilzrocker writes:

wut bout in India..??

By anonymous user, # 8. February 2007, 15:42:01

s.kiron writes:

good opera live forever opera enjoying opera hardworking opera

By anonymous user, # 9. February 2007, 17:06:58