Community/South-Asia/Inter-Community-Meetup-2014

Mozilla South Asia Inter-Community Meet-up 2014

NOTE: THIS IS AN INVITATION ONLY EVENT.

Kolkata, India 25-26 January, 2014

Overview

The second Mozilla South Asia Inter-Community meet-up will take place in Kolkata, India on 25-26 January 2014, with the coordination from Mozilla India Regional community. It will bring together community leaders from the South Asia, across the [South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooperation | SAARC countries], including contributor engagement & community building staffs to meet for 2 days of presentations, breakout sessions and discussions to plan the implementation of the Mozilla South Asia community road map for 2014 and ensure that the regional community is fully aligned with greater engagement efforts across the Mozilla organization.

The aim of the workshop is to enable Mozilla communities in the South Asia region to share and learn from each other's experience working on the Mozilla Project, improve collaboration in the future, and work on specific tasks. The event will be focused on strategizing & roadmap planning for each existing local communities of the South Asia.

South Asia is a unique region with diverse cultures and with a great community presence. The meet up will help nurture, plan and motivate the regional communities to collaborate, develop and grow.

Agenda

Format

The core goal of this event is to determine the near-future action planning in South Asian region. Hence, this is a leadership meetup.

It'll be mostly a round-table conference, with agendas raised & checked off; along with some BoF sessions among the main focus-group members.

Expect expectations from you. Represent your community, be proactive. Prepare to talk about your focus area, your contribution, new ideas you'd like to get a feedback on, or want to suggest changes on how something has been done in the community.

Meeting Notes & recording: TBD

Schedule

• Friday [Jan 24, 2014]:
  • after 12:00 - Checkin at the hotel/venue
  • 18:00-19:00 - MozCafe & Introduction
  • 20:00-22:00 - Welcome Dinner

• Saturday [Jan 25, 2014]:
  • 8.00-8.45 - Breakfast
  • 9:00-10:30 - Community Introduction
    • About Community
    • Last year's activities
    • Challenges and Success Stories
  • 10:30-11:00 - Tea Break
  • 11:00-13:00 - Cross-community brainstorming
    • What a Million Mozillians would do?
    • Which ideas from other communities would you want to implement in your region?
  • 13:00-14:00 - Lunch
  • 14:00-15:00 - Raise-a-topic
    • Gathering discussion topics on Sticky-notes' wall
    • Filtering, selecting & prioritizing topics to discuss
  • 15:00-18:00 - Discussion on the list of selected topics
  • 20:30-22:00 - Dinner

• Sunday [Jan 26, 2014]:
  • 8:00-8:45 - Breakfast
  • 9:00-11:00 - Firefox OS launch prep
  • 11:00-13:00 - Cross community collaboration
  • 13:00-14:00 - Lunch
  • 14:00-16:00 - Contributor pathways, recognition & leadership development
  • 16:00-16:30 - Tea/Break
  • 16:30-18:00 - Event Briefing & Roadmap Planning for 2014
  • 19:00-20:00 - Breakout Sessions
  • 20:30-22:00 - Dinner

• Monday [Jan 27, 2014]:
  • 8:00-8:45 - Breakfast
  • Till 11:00 - Checkout

Logistics

Map

Will be continuously updated, please check back every once in a while:
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z_ozZBhQRlZI.kxzZJ3eah7w4

Travel & Airport

[Coming Soon]

Venue & Accommodation

The Gateway Hotel, EM Bypass
1930, Rajdanga Main Road
Kolkata 700 107, India
Tel: +91 33 66660000
Fax: +91 33 66660100

Twin sharing hotel rooms are booked for 3 nights from 24-27 January (mid-day to mid-day).

Breakfast is open from 7.30 to 11 a.m.
The check in starts at 1pm, check out is before 11am. Reception is open 24/7.
If you arrive sooner or leave later, you can put your luggage in the hotel's cloaking room.

Communications

Contact Persons

Event Pilot: Soumya Deb <debloper@gmail.com>
Coordinator: Priyanka Nag <priynag@gmail.com>
Co-planners: Vineel Reddi Pindi <pindivineelreddy@gmail.com> and Mahay Alam Khan <mahayalamkhan@gmail.com>
Supervisors: Gen Kanai <gen@mozilla.com> and William Quiviger <wquiviger@mozilla.com>

Social Media

• IRC: #saarc
• Hashtag: #SAMeet

Food

All participants will enjoy Bengali, as well as continental foods throughout the event. The following meals will be organized and paid for by Mozilla:

• Friday [24 Jan]: Dinner
• Saturday [25 Jan]: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
• Sunday [26 Jan]: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
• Monday [27 Jan]: Breakfast

Weather

Tropical warm-winter, little chance of precipitation. More information: http://weatherspark.com/averages/33920/1/Kolkata-Calcutta-West-Bengal-India

Local Transportation

• The landmark for the venue is "Ruby Hospital", "East Kolkata Township"
• If ever confused, the venue is just beside the southern part of EM Bypass
• There should be available bus services to and from the location, as well as cabs
• To visit the South Kolkata, best is to take a westward Bus to "Gariahat Crossing"
• The nearest Metro stations are Kavi Subhash, New Garia or Shahid Khudiram, Garia
• With Metro, you can go to Esplanade for Downtown Kolkata, or upto Dumdum for North Kolkata
• Alternatively, you can take a bus to Ballygunge station & then take local-train to Sealdah Station

Protips & Trivia

When in Kolkata, don't forget to:

• Try Fuchkas – The Kolkata version of the street food gol gappa available all over India, fuckas are much tangier spicier and out of this world!!
• Shopping at Gariahat – Gariahat is the shopping hub of south Kolkata. It is a shopaholic’s paradise, being the retail hub of Saris (from West Bengal and all over India), cosmetics, electronics, etc.

Warnings and Dangers:

• Drink bottled water (check to confirm seal has not been broken). Do NOT drink tap water or any water served in a restaurant in a glass unless you saw it being poured from a sealed bottle.
• Bring stomach medications from home that you know work, just in case.
• Kolkata is mostly full of beggars. Mostly they are attracted to the foreigners. Please avoid them as much as you can so else they can spoil your peaceful visit to Kolkata. If you give money to one of them, the whole flock will come and chase you.
• The traffic in Kolkata is chaotic. There are no "zipper-method" when two cars want to drive at the same time. They use the horn all the time, or at least every 5 seconds.

Map

Places of Interest:

• Fort William (http://goo.gl/uSsmQf)
• Howrah Bridge (http://goo.gl/AGd8Nn)
• Victoria Memorial (http://goo.gl/rhIbh4)
• Marbel Palace (http://goo.gl/rE8d1v)
• Birla Planetarium (http://goo.gl/Khes08)
• Eden Gardens (http://goo.gl/m6ysz3)
• Saheed Minar (http://goo.gl/GQYrk9)
• Zoological Gardens (http://goo.gl/0qKtL3)

Sponsorship policy

Mozilla will cover all accommodation, food and travel expenses during the contributor event. This includes hotel expenses from 25-26, breakfast, lunch and dinner (plus Welcome dinner on 24th & Goodbye breakfast on 27th). You're on your own for extended stay. Please notify the travel agent to have your flights booked accordingly with your preferred date.

Aftermath

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