Balkans/Events:2010/Skopje

Balkan Inter-Community Meetup

Skopje, May 21-23, 2010

Overview

The Mozilla Balkan Inter-Community Meetup is the second of a series of community gatherings aiming to bring together lead contributors of different communities for a day of presentations, discussions and workshops. The aim of the event is to enable Mozilla communities in the Balkans to share and learn from each other's experience working on the Mozilla Project and improve collaboration in the future. All participants are asked to help each other define joint quarterly goals for the year.

Date and Location

The meetup will take place in Skopje, Macedonia and will begin on Friday 21st and finish on Sunday 23rd of May, 2010

Accomodation proposals

Balkans:2010/Camp_Location

Venues proposal

Balkans:2010/Venues

Goals

• What are the local Mozilla communities
• How to enlarge local communities and how can people get and stay involved
• Mutual cooperation
• Promoting the Mozilla and its projects in the Balkans
• Why would one contribute to Mozilla projects
• Examine Firefox market share in the region, and work on strategies to consolidate/improve
• Share l10n experiences and promote the value of native speaking users

Attendees

• The following Balkan communities will each be represented by 2 lead contributors:
  
  
  • Albania (anyone?)
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina (Kerim Kalamujic & Aleksandar Savic)
  • Bulgaria (Emil Stanchev & Georgi Geshev)
  • Croatia (Edo)
  • Greece (Pierros Papadeas)
  • Macedonia (Gorjan Jovanovski & Damjan Georgievski & Igor Stamatovski)
  • Montenegro (Jovan Kovacevic (TBC))
  • Romania (Alina Mierlus & Nicolei Buculei)
  • Serbia (Milos Dinic & Аleksandar Petrovic(TBC))
  • Slovenia (Matjaz Horvat & Brian King)

• Mozilla Staff participating:
  
  
  • William Quiviger - European Community Manager, Mozilla
  • Seth Bindernagel - Director of Localization, Mozilla
  • Kadir Topal - Support Community Manager, Mozilla
  • Zbigniew Braniecki - Community Ninja, Mozilla (TBC)
  • Pascal Chevrel - Web Localization, Mozilla (TBC)

Format and Tentative Schedule

The meetup will be comprised of 3 parts :

• Day 1: working sessions on the first day
• Day 2: presentations given by staff and community to the general public (university auditorium) + Drumbeat workshop ?
• Day 3: Wrap-up and Goals setting

Friday, May 21, 2010

The meeting will be comprised of short presentations, workshops, discussions.

Time Slot	Meeting Room
09:00 - 09:45	WELCOME Breakfast
09:45 - 10:00	Welcome talk - William Quiviger/Seth Bindernagel
10:00 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:05	COFFEE BREAK
11:05 - 11:50
11:50 - 12:35
12:35 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:15	COFFEE BREAK
16:15 - 16:45
16:45 - 19:00	OPEN DISCUSSION
19:00 - ∞ :)	Mozilla Night on the Town

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Public Event

Sunday, May 23, 2010

General wrap-up and drafting of 2010 roadmap

Recommended topics

General:

• Mozilla and Opensource Meetups
• Drumbeat (Kerim)
• Legal questions i.e. domains, logos and more
• How can we grow our communities?
• Relations with other open source communities

More Technical:

• Localization tools
• Development
• Add-ons & their development (talk to Brian)
• Mobile (talk to Brian)
• Jetpack (talk to Brian)

Internal:

• L10n and l20n: Importance and Tech
• SUMO
• Marketing (Gorjan)
• Community Development and MCS
• QA
• Organization of Inter-community events
• Current and future status of AMO localization

Please add your name next to the topic you wish to talk about

Schedule

Fun

Place your ideas for a fun night! :)

Other places to discuss

• #balkans channel on irc.mozilla.org

Meetings

We're meeting every Thursday (might be changed at times) at approx. 19:30 CET. If you want to attend the meeting, just visit #balkans channel on irc.mozilla.org IRC server and ask for more info. Meetings last for about an hour, depending on the circumstances. Notes from previous meetings and agenda for the next one can be found below:

• Future Meetings
  
  
  • 2010-04-15 - Agenda

• Past Meetings Notes
  
  
  • 2010-04-08 - Meeting Notes
    
    
  • 2010-04-01 - Meeting Notes
    
    
  • 2010-03-04 - Meeting Notes
    
    
  • 2010-02-25 - Meeting Notes

Logo proposals

Logo Proposals

Contact People

[Gorjan Jovanovski - Local Community Leader]