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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. | 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. | ||
= 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. | |||
* Define what is unique to the Balkan region (ie. region-specific market research) | |||
* Actively recruit new active contributors | |||
* Organize large events called Mozilla Balkan meetups in each Balkan country | |||
* Ensure that [[Balkans/Localization | Firefox and Thunderbird are localized in every Balkan language]] | |||
* Create infrastructure which will foster collaboration of all Balkan communities | |||
= Communities = | = Communities = | ||
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List of all active contributors on Balkans can be found at [[Balkans/Contributors|contributors page]]. | List of all active contributors on Balkans can be found at [[Balkans/Contributors|contributors page]]. | ||
= | = Join us and get involved! = | ||
If you want to get involved, have some proposal(s), need some help or just wanna chit-chat, use one of these: | If you want to get involved, have some proposal(s), need some help or just wanna chit-chat, use one of these: | ||
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If there is an event in your region and you are planning to speak about Mozilla, or there will be an event and it will be nice for Mozilla to attend, please enter the [[Balkans/LocalEvents |information here]] | If there is an event in your region and you are planning to speak about Mozilla, or there will be an event and it will be nice for Mozilla to attend, please enter the [[Balkans/LocalEvents |information here]] | ||
= | = Weekly Calls = | ||
Every two weeks, an open conference call is organized for status updates on different on-going projects and followed by discussions/brainstorms. | Every two weeks, an open conference call is organized for status updates on different on-going projects and followed by discussions/brainstorms. | ||
Revision as of 22:48, 28 February 2012
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.
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.
- Define what is unique to the Balkan region (ie. region-specific market research)
- Actively recruit new active contributors
- Organize large events called Mozilla Balkan meetups in each Balkan country
- Ensure that Firefox and Thunderbird are localized in every Balkan language
- Create infrastructure which will foster collaboration of all Balkan communities
Communities
- Albanian community (TDB)
- Kosovar community
- Bosnian community
- Bulgarian community
- Croatian community
- Greek community
- Macedonian community
- Romanian community
- Serbian community
- Slovenian community
- Turkish community
List of all active contributors on Balkans can be found at contributors page.
Join us and 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
Local Events
If there is an event in your region and you are planning to speak about Mozilla, or there will be an event and it will be nice for Mozilla to attend, please enter the information here
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:
- Monitor the mailing lists above for information about the calls (time, system used, iniciator). - For those that can't make the call or want to participate via IRC, join us in #Balkans on Mozilla servers(irc.mozilla.org).
Next meeting:November 21st, 2011
Past Meetings
June 28th, 2011
June 28th, 2011
May 26th, 2011
March 29th, 2011
March 15th,2011
February 1st, 2011
January 18th, 2011
November 30th, 2010
November 23rd, 2010
November 09th, 2010
October 26th, 2010
October 12th, 2010
September 28th, 2010
September 14th, 2010
August 31th, 2010
August 17th, 2010
August 3rd, 2010
July 22nd, 2010
June 15th, 2010
June 29th, 2010
Meet-ups (Mozilla Balkan)
Every once in a while we try to hold a community event somewhere on a rocky Balkans. So far 3 events have been held. Brief descriptions of them can be found below:
Mozilla Balkans:2011 - Sofia, Bulgaria
The meet-up took place in Sofia, Bulgaria in June. As always, both Mozilla contributors and staff joined their forces in helping local communities grow faster and collaborate better among themselves. Schedule for this event was discussed at Sofia Event Page.
Mozilla Balkans:2010 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
The meet-up took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia in early December. As always, both Mozilla contributors and staff joined their forces in helping local communities grow faster and collaborate better among themselves. Schedule for this event was 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