Matthew shares his story of his startup dreams, tips for starting a startup, entrepreneurial attitude & inspirational stories at Roofcamp #9 - (07-28.10) BAREFOOT Headquarters Makati City.

Matthew Pontoles is the co-founder and a principal partner of Barefoot Investments LLC, an SME venture specialist focused on green and ethical businesses. Matthew is a tourism management graduate and sales management professional formerly of the Touch Group Plc’s international publishing division in London. Matthew is well-travelled and has built up an impressive number of contacts in Asia and Latin America, ensuring access to local intelligence and off-market real estate opportunities. [...]

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Filipino WordPress community will gather together for this year WordCamp Philippines 2010. This will be in College of Saint Benilde, Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines on the Saturday of October 2, 2010.

WordCamp Philippines 2010 Registration Now Open. This year, the organizers headed by Avatar Media promise a bigger and better WordCamp Philippines, featuring distinguished speakers and WordPress developer and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg will be back to attend the event. [...]

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What’s your favorite Content Management System (CMS) and why? These days, much of the world of open source has turned toward using CMS because it’s easy to use like novice web users can create a website almost like expert webmasters, Low startup costs give a competitive advantage when designs change & content stays the same.

A content management system (CMS) is a type of web-based software that plugs into your website in such a way that updating content becomes much easier than without it. [...]

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On 07, August 2010, Saturday, 6pm, there will be a WebGeekPH Meetup in G2iX Techbar, G2iX Office 5/F Orient Square Bldg., Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Celebrating the 1st year anniversary of WebGeek Philippines. This is our very 1st community meet-up event.

This Event is an unconference gathering born from the desire for people to inspire, influence & engage in an open exchange venue. Our goal for this meet-up is to inspire & motivate the WebGeek community. [...]

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Interview Via Email with Regnard Raquedan, an active IT community leader and advocate, Served as a Web/Online Marketing Consultant for Philippine companies and multi-national corporations, Award-winning web designer and Mozilla Philippines Community Leader.

What is Mozilla Philippines Community?
The Mozilla Philippines Community is the official community of Mozilla users and fans in our country. We believe this can be achieved via the spread of open tools like Mozilla Firefox, fitting these software via localization, and having relevant social interactions. [...]

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Interview Via Email with Randell Benavidez a Software Engineer. He co-founded NullPointer.ph and established the start-up company, Mudspring Software Inc. He is also a Sun Certified Java Programmer.

1. What is NullPointer.ph
NullPointer.ph (http://nullpointer.ph/) is a question and answer site for the Filipino developer community that’s free. It is a collaboratively built and maintained platform where Filipino developers can exchange knowledge, regardless of programming languages or frameworks being used, company, university, or level of expertise. [...]

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Want to be inspired? Inspiration is the main driver of change & Motivation is the activation or energization of goal-orientated behavior.

Watch this 11 Great Inspiration & Motivational tech videos about remarkable & success stories of people in field of web & technology. Including Steve Jobs of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Jason Fried (37signals), Gary Vaynerchuk, Seth Godin, Jimmy Wales, Scott Belsky of Behance, Guy Kawasaki, Larry Page Co-Founder of Google & more.

If you want to be inspired? Watch it now! share it with your friends & fellow webgeeks!
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WebGeekPH is almost one year old now, I’m very happy with my accomplishments from June 2009 to June 2010. Finally I reach now one of my first goal since 2007 when I was 18 y/o To became a webmaster of a community website.

Thank you to all members, friends, moderators & followers who have contributed to the continuing production of this community. To All WebGeeks! Always Remember, Let’s live our passion, Dream big, Work hard, Focus, Always learn, Always be humble, Always be kind, Be helpful & Take action!

Check this out: Big Collection of WebGeekPH Logos, Posters & Artworks
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Roofcamp #8 -  Brian Quebengco of Inovent & Bill Torres, MosCom Internet. Roofcamp is a venue for future looking, maverick, and fearless individuals sharing and distilling ideas from concept to reality. Who goes to Roofcamp? Technopreneurs, influencers, innovators, coders, designers, artists, VCs & Angels, philanthropists, startups, and other like minded individuals. Roofcamp is an unstructured gathering with a friendly yet intense atmosphere of open information exchange, debate, teaching, learning, and discovery. [...]

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DevFest events, scheduled to take place over the next few months at cities in Australia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, Israel, and Spain.

Google DevFest 2010 will focus on sharing latest offerings for Google developers that include: Chrome/HTML5, App Engine, Social APIs and Maps API. The format is a mix of technical breakout sessions and informal Q&A. Attendees can also engage with senior Google engineers during the event.

DevFest events are free to developers worldwide! Seats at the events are limited, however, so register early.
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This is another meetup everyday events like TechCrunch Meetup Manila, Linchpins are everywhere & other upcoming Meetup Everywhere by Meetup.com

Social Media Day – A day to celebrate the revolution of media becoming a social dialogue. Celebrate Social Media Day with Mashable by attending or organizing a meetup near you on June 30. [...]

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