Balkans

This page can be considered home of a Balkans' communities initiative to work together on a well defined goals with a purpose to improve and grow.

Communities

• Albanian community (led by Besnik Bleta)
• Kosovo Community (led by User:H4ck3rm1k3 James Michael DuPont and FLOSSK Team)
• Bosnian community (led by Kerim Kalamujic)
• Bulgarian community (led by Bogomil Shopov)
• Croatian community (led by Edo)
• Greek community (led by Pierros Papadeas)
• Macedonian community (led by Gorjan Jovanovski)
• Romanian community (led by Alina Mierlus & Anamaria Stoica)
• Serbian community (led by Sasa Maletaski)
• Slovenian community (led by Matjaz Horvat & Brian King)

List of all active contributors on Balkans can be found at contributors page.

Goals

Beside the goals which are the same for Mozilla as a community, we have defined a several more concise ones to lead us on our way to spread the word about Mozilla, enlarge our communities and make our ecosystem even better.

The goals you can find below are defined in Skopje, during our last inter-community meet-up, and are supposed to be achieved in next 6 months:

• Define what is unique to the Balkan region (ie. region-specific market research)
• actively recruit new active contributors
• organize large event
• ensure that Firefox and Thunderbird are localized in every Balkan language
• create infrastructure which will foster collaboration of all Balkan communities

Get involved

If you want to get involved, have some proposal(s), need some help or just wanna chit-chat, use one of these:

• IRC Channel: #balkans (connect to irc.mozilla.org)
• Mailing list: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-balkans

Bi-weekly calls

Every two weeks, an open conference call is organized for status updates on different on-going projects and followed by discussions/brainstorms.

How to join the meetings:

- Free Skype dial-in: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369 and then 340#
- For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #Balkans on IRC (irc.mozilla.org).

Next meeting: September 28th, 2010 @ 8pm CET

Past meetings (w/ notes):
September 14th, 2010
August 31th, 2010
August 17th, 2010
August 3rd, 2010
July 22nd, 2010
June 15th, 2010
June 29th, 2010

Meet-ups

Every once in a while we're going try to hold a community event somewhere on a rocky Balkans. Brief descriptions of past as well as future events can be found below:

Mozilla Balkans:2010 - Ljubljana, Slovenia

The meet-up will take place in Ljubljana, Macedonia and began in late November. As always, both Mozilla contributors and staff will join their forces in helping local communities grow faster and collaborate better among themselves. Schedule for this event is not yet definite, and will be discussed at Ljubljana Event Page.

Mozilla Balkans:2010 - Skopje, Macedonia

The meet-up took place in Skopje, Macedonia and began on Friday 21 May, with a private Mozilla staff/community meeting, followed by a public event open to everyone on Saturday 22 May, and finished on Sunday 23 May, with a private wrap-up meeting with Mozilla staff and community.

Session slides, photos and posts can be found here