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 21st and finish on Sunday 23rd of May, 2010
Accomodation proposals
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 2 lead contributors:
- Albania (Besnik Bleta (TBC))
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (Kerim Kalamujic & Aleksandar Savic)
- Bulgaria (Bogomil Shopov (TBC) & Pavel Peev (TBC))
- Croatia (Edo & Sasa (TBC))
- Macedonia (Gorjan Jovanovski & Damjan Georgievski, and maybe we can squeeze Igor Stamatovski)
- Montenegro (Jovan Kovacevic (TBC))
- Romania (Alina Mierlus & Nicolei Buculei)
- Serbia (Milos Dinic & Аleksandar Petrovic(TBC))
- Slovenia (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 (TBC)
- Pascal Chevrel - Web Localization, Mozilla (TBC)
Format and Tentative Schedule
The meetup will be comprised of 3 parts :
- Day 1: working sessions on the first day
- Day 2: presentations given by staff and community to the general public (university auditorium) + Drumbeat workshop ?
- Day 3: Wrap-up and Goals setting
Friday, May 21, 2010
The meeting will be comprised of short presentations, workshops, discussions.
| Time Slot | Meeting Room |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | WELCOME Breakfast |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Welcome talk - William Quiviger/Seth Bindernagel |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | |
| 11:00 - 11:05 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:05 - 11:50 | |
| 11:50 - 12:35 | |
| 12:35 - 13:00 | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | |
| 16:45 - 19:00 | OPEN DISCUSSION |
| 19:00 - ∞ :) | Mozilla Night on the Town |
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Public Event
Sunday, May 23, 2010
General wrap-up and drafting of 2010 roadmap
Recommended topics
Please post topics you would like to address here:
- Community Development and MCS
- L10n and l20n: Importance and Tech
- Marketing (Gorjan)
- Drumbeat (Kerim)
- Development
- Localization tools
- SUMO
- QA
- Organization of Inter-community events
- Mozilla and Opensource Meetups
- Relations with other open source communities
- Current and future status of AMO localization
- Legal questions i.e. domains, logos and more
- How can we grow our communities?
- Add-ons
- Mobile
- ...please add more topics...
Fun
Place your ideas for a fun night! :)
Other places to discuss
- #balkans channel on irc.mozilla.org
Meetings
- Future Meetings
- 2010-04-01 - Agenda
- Past Meetings Notes
- 2010-03-04 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-02-25 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-03-04 - Meeting Notes