Balkans/Events:2010/Skopje
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| 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 21 May, with a private Mozilla staff/community meeting, followed by a public event open to everyone on Saturday 22 May, and finish on Sunday 23 May, with a private wrap-up meeting with Mozilla staff and community. (take a look at downtown Skopje trough the interactive webcam)
More about Skopje, Getting Around, Maps and Phones.
Accommodation
Hotel Skopski Merak Adress: St. Anton Dukov 27, 1000 Skopje Phone: ++389 2 3090 755 info@hotelskopje.com.mk Breakfast from 7:00 - 9:00 Check-in after 12:00 Check-out before 12:00 - 13:00
Venue
Faculty of Electrotechnics and Informational Technology St. "Rugher Boshkovikj" 1000, Skopje Main building, in the amphitheater.
WiFi
Free WiFi networks at the hotel named:
- merak1
- merak2
Ask Gorjan/Reception for password.
Free WiFi network at the University.
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 lead contributors:
- Bosnian community (Kerim Kalamujic & Aleksandar Savic)
- Bulgarian community (Emil Stanchev & Georgi Geshev)
- Croatian community (Edo)
- Greek community (Pierros Papadeas)
- Macedonian community (Gorjan Jovanovski & Dragan Gelevski & Damjan Georgievski & Igor Stamatovski)
- Romanian community (Alina Mierlus & Nicolei Buculei)
- Serbian community (Milos Dinic & Ivan Milenkovic)
- Slovenian community (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
- Pascal Chevrel - Web Localization, Mozilla
- David Tenser - Mozilla
Everyone who is attending please fill out this table!
Format and Schedule
The Balkan meetup will be comprised of 3 parts :
- Day 1: [Private event] working sessions led by staff and community
- Day 2: [Public event] presentations given by staff and community to the general public (FREE and open to everyone who registers) in university auditorium + workshops
- Day 3: [Private event] Wrap-up and Goals setting
Recommended topics
General:
- Mozilla and Opensource Meetups
- Drumbeat (Kerim)
- Legal questions i.e. domains, logos and more
- Promoting local community
- Community Development and MCS (Milos)
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 (Gorjan)
- Current and future status of AMO localization
- Relations with other open source communities
Please add your name next to the topic you wish to talk about
Schedule
Streaming
We're gonna need to form a team responsible for seting-up, maintaining, testing and working on providing streaming to users that won't be able to attend the meet-up. For more info, follow the link below:
Fun
Place your ideas for a fun night! :)
Communication
- Mailing list
- #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
- 2010-05-13 - Meeting Agenda
- 2010-05-13 - Meeting Agenda
- Past Meetings Notes
- 2010-05-06 - Meeting Agenda
- 2010-04-29 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-04-22 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-04-15 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-04-08 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-04-01 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-03-04 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-02-25 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-05-06 - Meeting Agenda
Mailing List
So here is the official mailing list, all who are interested may subscribe:
http://mozilla-hr.org/mailman/listinfo/balkans_mozilla-hr.org
Logo proposals
Contact People
[Gorjan Jovanovski - Local Community Leader] - +38977550399