Balkans/Events:2010/Skopje

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 (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

See website here

Venue

Faculty of Electrotechnics and Informational Technology
St. "Rugher Boshkovikj" 1000, Skopje
Main building, in the amphitheater. 

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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:
  
  
  • Albanian/Kosovar community? (Bernard Nikaj & Shkumbin Brestovci(TBC))
  • Bosnian community (Kerim Kalamujic & Aleksandar Savic)
  • Bulgarian community (Emil Stanchev & Georgi Geshev)
  • Croatian community (Edo)
  • Greek community (Pierros Papadeas)
  • Macedonian community (Gorjan Jovanovski & Damjan Georgievski & Igor Stamatovski)
  • Montenegran community (Jovan Kovacevic (TBC))
  • Romanian community (Alina Mierlus & Nicolei Buculei)
  • Serbian community (Milos Dinic & Аleksandar Petrovic(TBC))
  • 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 (TBC)
  • Pascal Chevrel - Web Localization, Mozilla (TBC)

Everyone who is attending please fill out this table!

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

NOT FINAL, WILL UNDERGO CHANGES!
The meeting will be comprised of short presentations, workshops, discussions.

Time Slot	Meeting Room
09:00 - 09:45	Welcome talk - William Quiviger/Seth
10:00 - 10:45	Organization of Inter-community events
10:45 - 11:00	SUMO
11:00 - 11:05	COFFEE BREAK
11:05 - 11:50	Relations with other open source communities
11:50 - 12:35	Community Development and MCS
12:35 - 13:00	Marketing of Mozilla Products
13:00 - 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00	QA
15:00 - 16:00	L10n and l20n: Importance and Tech
16:00 - 16:15	COFFEE BREAK
16:15 - 16:45	Current and future status of AMO localization
16:45 - 19:00	OPEN DISCUSSION
19:00 - ∞ :)	Mozilla Night on the Town

Saturday, May 22, 2010

NOT FINAL, WILL UNDERGO CHANGES!
The meeting will be comprised of short presentations, workshops, discussions.

Time Slot	Meeting Room
09:00 - 09:30	Welcome talk - Mozilla Staff/Community Leaders
09:30 - 10:00	Mozilla and Opensource Meetups
10:00 - 11:00	Community Development and MCS
11:00 - 11:10	COFFEE BREAK
11:10 - 11:45	How can we grow our communities?
11:45 - 12:00	Legal questions i.e. domains, logos and more
12:00 - 13:00	Drumbeat
13:00 - 14:00	Open Discussion/Questions
14:00 - 15:00	LUNCH
15:00 - 16:00	Localization tools
16:00 - 17:00	Add-ons & their development
17:00 - 17:15	COFFEE BREAK
17:15 - 18:00	Mobile
18:00 - 19:00	Jetpack & Development

Sunday, May 23, 2010

General wrap-up and drafting of 2010 roadmap

Recommended topics

General:

• Mozilla and Opensource Meetups
• Drumbeat (Kerim)
• Legal questions i.e. domains, logos and more
• How can we grow our communities?
• Community Development and MCS

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
• 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:

Balkans 2010 video streaming

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
  
  
  • 2010-04-29 - Meeting Agenda
    

• Past Meetings 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

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

Logo Proposals

Contact People

[Gorjan Jovanovski - Local Community Leader] - +38977550399

Official Facebook Event

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113621925334160