Balkans/Events:2015/Bucharest

Mozilla Balkans Community Meet-up

București/Bucharest, May 22-24th, 2015

Bucharest, the capital of Romania has been chosen as the next location for Mozilla Balkans inter-community meet-up. All info on this page should still be considered as DRAFT(with some minor exceptions) as we're still in the planning phase.

Overview

The Balkans Inter-Community meet-up 2015 will take place in Bucharest, Romania, on May 22-24th.

Lead contributors from Balkan communities will be invited and sponsored by Mozilla Europe to participate in a 2-day workshop.

The aim of the workshop is to enable Mozilla communities in the Balkans to share and learn from each other's experience working on the Mozilla Project, improve collaboration in the future, and work on specific tasks, based on the 5 goals defined in the previous Balkan Meetup in Skopje and in light of the upcoming Firefox 4 release.

The event will be preceded by an informal public event, which will take place in on Thursday December 2nd, and will be led by Mozilla Slovenia local community. The aim of this public event will be to present to a large audience the Mozilla project, a preview of Firefox 4 and explain how easy it is to get involved in the project.

When

• Public event:
• Contributor Event :

Where

Format & Schedule (DRAFT)

Format

[Public event]: Presentations given by staff and local community to the general public (FREE and open to everyone who registers) in university auditorium + cultural center

[Contributor event]:

• Day 1:
  • Morning: Goals overview, community presentations and discussions
  • Afternoon: Work sprint (Bug triaging.fixing and specific l10n/SUMO/QA tasks)
• Day 2:
  • Morning: Task review, discussion and goals update for the next 6 months

Schedule

Please find the detailed schedule here.

Work Sprint

For this meetup, we'll be focusing the afternoon of Saturday on "getting things done" where Mozilla staff will be leading several work sprints where all participants will be expected to get a specific number of tasks done by the end of the day. These tasks will be defined and explained at the outset by each work sprint leader.

Talks and Tasks Planning

As we're moving forward with planning, we're gonna make a table with all the talks and tasks for the contributor event. Until then, please use the Talks Proposal page to write in any idea you might have.

For all the other ideas, the ones that are not related specifically to meeting topics, use the Ideas page. On that page you're advised to put in suggestions for partying, food, general organization, tours etc.

Participants

Contributors

The following Balkan communities will each be represented by local contributors:

• Bosnian community []
• Bulgarian community []
• Croatian community []
• Greek community []
• Macedonian community []
• Romanian community []
• Serbian community []
• Slovenian community []
• Kosovo community []

Goals

Goals will be announced here after the end of the brainstorming session.

In the meantime you can check goals brainstorming page.

Practical Info

Food

All participants will enjoy world-renowned Slovenian food throughout the contributor event. The following meals (including drinks) will be organized and paid for by Mozilla Europe :

• Friday (05/22) : Dinner
• Saturday (05/23) : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Sunday (05/24) : Breakfast, Lunch

Map

Points of interest

Sponsorship policy

Reimbursement policy

All participants who requesting reimbursement for their expenses need to fill out the following form and send it to --- along with scanned copies of all their receipts.

NB: Please make sure to get approval before making any purchase

Communication

• Reps event
• Hashtag (we used #mozbalkans for the first event)
• Mailing list
• IRC channel #balkans
• meetings

Mozilla Romania

To find more about Mozilla Romania, local Mozilla community and their work, please visit http://mozilla.ro/

Aftermath

Please check the postmortem page.