JRSL Chile

This is the wiki page for a two-part Mozilla sponsored conference for the Mozilla Hispanic Community:

• Part 1: Mozilla Camp Chile from Monday, October 5 to Tuesday, October 6, 2009
• Part 2: Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre from Wednesday, October 7 to Friday, October 9, 2009

Summary

Mozilla is organizing a two-part conference for the Mozilla Hispanic Community:

• Mozilla Hispano Camp (October 5-6 2009)
• JRSL 2009 (October 7-9 2009)

Both events will take place at la sede Santiago Sur de INACAP in the city of Santiago, Chile. Information in this doc can be displayed in either english or spanish (preferably, both). Feel free to use the language you're most familiar with.

Communities to be invited:

• Mozilla Chile
• Mozilla Argentina
• Mozilla Brazil
• Mozilla Spain
• Mozilla Mexico
• Mozilla Bolivia
• Mozilla Perú
• Mozilla Paraguay

MozCamp Chile

• Goal
  • Bring together the Mozilla Hispanic community for two days to discuss how to improve and continue developing the community as marketshare and mindshare continues to grow.

Attendees

• A total of less than 25 people made up of
  • Mozilla Corporation employees
  • Mozilla Hispano contributors

Format

Two day conference with a keynote (by choffman) and talks about community development, l10n, marketing and add-ons. (more details to come)

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• Talks will be given and chosen by community members and MoCo.

Topics

• How organize so many spanish localizations. How to make easy for users to know differences between localizations. Do we need just a es-Latin American and just modified search engines? (Only one localization, and then have a country option like ubuntu installation process?)

• How can we collaborate to localize more addons?

• How can we have more spanish documentation about the process of creation of addons and proyects code (like Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.)

• Can we have a Mozilla Store with shipping process for LatinAmerica?

MoCo Talks

• Chris Hofmann - The Amazing Growth of Firefox in South America
  
• Seth Bindernagel - technical demo about L10n tools
  
• Juan Becerra- Getting Involved with Mozilla and QA
• Pascal Chevrel - Local Community building: European examples (Construir una comunidad Mozilla local: ejemplos europeos)
• Daniel Mills- Title and Description Needed
• Sarah Doherty - Community Marketing and Involvement

Facilities

Rooms and equipment furnished by INACAP free of charge.

Room and Board

• Rooms
  • Doubles covered by Mozilla
• Meals
  • Breakfast covered by the hotel
  • Lunch each day furnished by INACAP.
  • Dinner covered by Mozilla

Transport

• Airfare (coming soon)
  • Spain
  • Miami
  • Argentina
  • Colombia
• Around the City
  • Subway: $2 from the hotel

JRSL 2009

One of the newer open source and free software conferences in the Spanish speaking community, expecting 1500-3000 attendees in 2009. The conference is run by Chilean open source community organizations, one of which being Firefox Chile.

• Goal
  • Improve visibility of Mozilla Hispano in the hispanic Open Source Community and try to recruit community members to the project.

Mozilla Attendees

• A total of less than 25 people made up of
  • Mozilla Corporation employees
  • Mozilla Hispano contributors

Registration

No fees.

Format

Three day conference with a possible keynote (by choffman) and talks about community development, l10n, marketing and add-ons. (more details to come)

• • Talks will be given and chosen by community members and MoCo.

Facilities

JRSL facilities

Room and Board

• Rooms
  • Triples and Doubles covered by Mozilla
• Meals
  • Breakfast covered by the hotel
  • Lunch covered by Mozilla.
  • Dinner covered by Mozilla

Transport

• Airfare (coming soon)
  • Spain
  • Miami
  • Argentina
  • Colombia
• Around the City
  • Subway: $2 roundtrip (per person) to conference.

Talks proposals

• Firefox Chile: Firefox Chile Love!, "No Funciona" Project
• Mozilla Perú: Localizing "Mozilla": Beyond documents and strings
• Mozilla Perú: Open Local Experiences: sharing the nitty gritty of spreading Firefox in your local community
• Mozilla México: Localizing Mozilla at America, a lot of languages.
• Mozilla México: The "Firefox en la escuela/Firefox back to school" project.

Participants

Mozilla

• Chris Hofmann - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketing_Workspace#Chris_Hofmann
  
• Seth Bindernagel - Seth Bindernagel is Director or Localization at Mozilla. Prior to working on localization, he launched Mozilla's Community Giving program, which empowers Mozilla community member and helps amplify their contribution by providing strategic support. He went to graduate school at Berkeley. He presently lives in San Francisco, California.
  
• Juan Becerra - Juan works a quality assurance engineer at Mozilla, and has been involved in the project for a few years, testing different products and projects, maintenance and security releases, as well as new features testing, among others.
• Pascal Chevrel - Pascal Chevrel manages Web localization (worldwide) for Mozilla and community growth in Europe as well as press spokesperson for the Spanish market. Pascal is also a contributor in the French and Spanish communities as member of the Mozilla Hispano and MozFR projects.
• 'Daniel Mills'- BIO NEEDED
• Sarah Doherty - Sarah works as a Marketing Manager at Mozilla driving the events program and contributing to the development of new programs in community marketing.  Although Sarah is fairly new to Mozila, she has been working in high tech marketing for several years at companies including Adobe, Apple and Seagate.
  

Participants from Mozilla México

• Enrique G. Rodríguez
• Julian Ceballos
• Ricardo Meza
  

Participants from Mozilla Argentina

• Guillermo Movia
• Marcelo Poli
• Hernán Rodríguez Colmeiro

Participants from Mozilla Perú

• Percy Cabello
• Santiago Gonzales
• Daniel Yucra
  

Participant from Mozilla Bolivia

• Victor Hugo Acosta Ortega
  

Participants from Mozilla Paraguay

• Eduardo Urcullú Madrid
• Lourdes Lorena Castillo Alvarez

Participants from ChileMoz

• Eduardo Escárez
• Emilio Sepúlveda