Balkans/Events:2011/Sofia
based on CC work by Sweti
Overview
The third Balkans Inter-Community meet-up will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 4th-5th 2011.
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 Ljubljana. This meetup will also be an opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments, challenges, opportunities of the Balkan Mozilla communities, one year on.
The event will be followed by a public event, which will be a part of OpenCamp Sofia.
When
- Contributor Event : Saturday June 4th from 9h to 17h
- Public event: Sunday June 5th from 10h to 16h
Where
- Park-Hotel Moskva (Attention: Flash required!)
Participants
Contributors
The following Balkan communities will each be represented by 2 lead contributors:
- Albanian community [no one]
- Bosnian community [Aleksandar Savic, Nedim Zecic]
- Bulgarian community [Margarita Yordanova, Bogomil Shopov, Ognyan Kulev]
- Croatian community [no one]
- Greek community [Kostas Antonakoglou, Alfredos-Panagiotis Damkalis]
- Kosovo community [no one]
- Macedonian community [Taner Selim]
- Romanian community [Alexandru Szasz, Raul Malea]
- Serbian community [Oskar Ivanić, Saša Maletaški ]
- Slovenian community [Vito Smolej, Nino Vranešič]
- Turkish community [Selim Şumlu]
Mozilla Staff
- William Quiviger (France)
- Pierros Papadeas (Greece)
- Pike (Germany)
- Milos (Serbia)
- Gandalf (Poland)
- Chofmann (USA)
- Matjaž Horvat (Slovenia)
Format and Schedule
The meetup will span over 4 days:
- Day 1 (Friday): participants arrive and welcome dinner
- Day 2 (Saturday): Work day and evening Fx 5 party
- Day 3 (Sunday): Wrap-up and goals-setting and evening to rest (or to triage bugs!)
- Day 4 (Monday): departure of participants
Schedule
You can find the schedule here: Sofia schedule
Overall guiding questions and themes for discussion
Here are the over-arching questions asked during the first Balkan Meetup in Skopje that will help guide discussions:
- 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
Talk Proposals
See here for talk proposals
Practical Info
Accommodation
- Park-Hotel Moskva:
- http://www.parkhotelmoskva.net/indexEN.htm (Attention: Flash required!)
All rooms have air-conditioning, local heating, cableTV, free Internet, free mini-bar and a luxury bathroom (with bath-tub). The breakfast is included also into the price.
Travel
Participants travelling to Sofia by train, bus, or car are asked to purchase their own travel and request reimbursement after the meetup is over.
Those travelling by plane need to coordinate their travel with William. Please contact him as soon as possible to book your flights and avoid exorbitant prices.
If you are Mozilla staff, please book your own travel and expense your travel the stand way.
All participants of the contributor event are asked to arrive in Sofia anytime on Friday June 3rd and leave Sofia on Sunday December 5th in the afternoon.
For those of you who are arriving by plane transfer from and to airport will be booked.
Everyone should fill out their exact travel details in the Balkan Meetup Sofia travel table.
Weather
Map
Sponsorship policy
Mozilla Europe will cover all accommodation, food and travel expenses during the contributor event. This includes hotel expenses from June 3rd to June 5th, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Reimbursement policy
All participants who requesting reimbursement for their expenses need to fill out the following form and send it to William (william [at] mozilla [dot] com) along with scanned copies of all their receipts.
Mozilla Europe Reimbursement Form
NB: Please make sure to get approval from William before making any purchase
Communication
- Hashtag #mozbalkans11
- Mailing list
- IRC channel #balkans
- Bi-Weekly skype conferences
HELP
- If you need visa, other assistance, or any kind of information, please write to b@bgzilla.org or call: +359 888 098 768 - Bogomil Shopov
- In case of emergency call 112