Community/South-Asia/Inter-Community-Meetup-2013

Mozilla South Asia Inter-Community Meet-up 2013

NOTE: THIS IS AN INVITATION ONLY EVENT.

Kathmandu, Nepal, 23-24 February, 2013

Overview

The first Mozilla South Asia Inter-Community meet-up will take place in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 23-24 February 2013, with the coordination from Mozilla Nepal Regional community. It will bring together community leaders from the South Asia, including paid staff from across the SAARC countries, to meet for 3 days of presentations, breakout sessions and discussions to plan the implementation of the Mozilla South Asia community road map for 2013 and ensure that the regional community is fully aligned with greater engagement efforts across the Mozilla organization.

The aim of the workshop is to enable Mozilla communities in the South Asia region to share and learn from each other's experience working on the Mozilla Project, improve collaboration in the future, and work on specific tasks. The event will be focused on operations & roadmap planning for each existing local communities of the South Asia.

South Asia is a unique region with diverse cultures and with a great community presence. The three day meet will help nurture, plan and motivate the regional communities to collaborate, develop and grow.

Agenda

Format

The core goal of this event is to determine the near-future action planning in South Asian region. Hence, this is a leadership meetup. Although, we'll have the opportunity to flaunt Mozilla presence in a public cross-community FOSS event at Open Data Day, on the afternoon of 23rd Feb.

In this public event for Open Data Day (ODD), with the assistance of Mozilla Nepal community, we can spread awareness about Mozilla project, Firefox Mobile & Desktop, Firefox OS, Webmaker, and how easy it is to get involved in it.

Expect expectations from you. Represent your community, be proactive. Prepare to talk about your focus area, your contribution, new ideas you'd like to get a feedback on, or want to suggest changes on how something has been done in the community.

Schedule

• Friday [Feb 22, 2013]:
  • 20:00-22:00 - Introduction & Community Dinner

• Saturday [Feb 23, 2013]:
  • 8.00-8.45 - Breakfast
  • 9:00-12:00 - Regional Communities' Activity Reporting
  • 12:00-13:00 - Lunch
  • 13:30-18:00 - Open Data Day (Public Event)
  • 19:00-20:00 - Breakout Sessions
  • 20:30-21:30 - Dinner

• Sunday [Feb 24, 2013]:
  • 8:00-8:45 - Breakfast
  • 9:00-12:00 - Local Communities: Challenges and Success Stories
  • 12:00-13:00 - Lunch
  • 13:00-15:30 - Community Collaboration
  • 15:30-16:00 - Tea/Break
  • 15:00-18:00 - Roadmap Planning for Mar-Nov, 2013
  • 19:00-20:00 - Breakout Sessions
  • 20:30-21:30 - Dinner

Participants

Contributors

Following are the attendees who'll represent their own communities:

• Bangladesh community
  • Ashickur Rahman
  • Mahay Alam Khan
  • Robin Mehdee

• Community India
  • Dwaraka Nath
  • Gauthamraj Elango
  • Priyanka Nag
  • Rajesh Ranjan
  • Soumya Deb
  • Vineel Reddy Pindi

• Nepal Community
  • Avash Mulmi
  • Avinash Kundaliya
  • Prakash Neupane

• Pakistan community
  • Huda Sarfraj

• Sri Lanka community
  • Danishka Navin
  • Sureshkumar P.
  • W. H. Kalpa Pathum

Mozilla Staff

• Gen Kanai - Asia Community Manager, Contributor Engagement Team, Mozilla

Venue

Address

Hotel Yak & Yeti
GPO Box no. 1016
Durbar Marg, Kathmandu, Nepal

Tel: +977-1-4248999, 4240520
Fax: +977-1-4227781/ 4227782

Website: http://www.yakandyeti.com

Places related to our event:

• Tribhuvan International Airport: http://goo.gl/maps/Ozt8B
• Hotel Yak & Yeti: http://goo.gl/maps/ljPkq
• Local Development Training Academy (Venue for our public event): http://goo.gl/maps/HmuHf

Accommodation

Twin sharing hotel rooms booked at Hotel Yak and Yeti for 3 nights from 22-25 February (mid-day to mid-day).

There is complimentary Wi-Fi, morning breakfast, Airport pickup/drop included.

The check in starts at 1pm. If you should arrive sooner you can store your luggage in out luggage room. Reception is open 24/7. Check out is before 11am. Breakfast is included from 7.30 to 11 a.m.

Travel

Nepalese participants, travelling to Kathmandu by train, bus, or car are asked to purchase their own travel and request reimbursement after the meetup is over.

All guest participants of the contributor event are expected in Kathmandu by afternoon on Friday, 22 February and leave Kathmandu on Monday, 25th February by the noon (unless opted of extended stay on their own).

Please fill arrivals/departures table

Communications

Contact persons

Soumya Deb [debloper at gmail dot com]
Gen Kanai [gen at mozilla dot com]
William Quiviger [wquiviger at mozilla dot com]

Social Media

• [link Facebook event]
• Twitter/Flickr Hashtag: #mozillaSA13
• [link Mailing list]
• IRC channel #saarc

Getting Around

Food

All participants will enjoy Nepalese, as well as continental foods throughout the event. The following meals will be organized and paid for by Mozilla:

• Friday (22 Feb): Dinner
• Saturday (23 Feb): Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
• Sunday (24 Feb): Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
• Monday (25 Feb): Breakfast

Weather

• 6-14 Degree Centigrade

• The winter season will just start to end at the end of February. It would be sunny and warm during day but at nights/mornings it still would be cold (~10-12 C @ Night).

• More information here.

Local Transportation

• The Nepalese volunteers will try to manage all the travellings for the guests. The hotel will provide us with vehicles too.

• In case anyone needs to travel by their own, the hotel will have public taxis for rent which may not work on meter fare but will fix their rate for the travel.

• Its suggested not to take other means of public transport like buses & micro-vans.

Need to Know

• Kathmandu suffers from 12 Hours of Loadshedding daily. But no need to worry for our event as hotel will have generator backups.

• Food here may feel a bit spicy to some people but is manageable.

• In case anyone is away from the hotel and doesnt know how to return back, always ask some people how far the hotel is before renting a taxi so that you will have idea of whether it really is necessary to rent a taxi or not.

• This one is a personal suggestion: It would be better to have at least one person who speaks Hindi in the grooup while travelling separately because almost all people can understand Hindi here even if they do not understand English, so it can be easier to communicate.

Map

Places of Interest:

• Narayanhiti Palace Museum (Just across our hotel): http://goo.gl/maps/8yANp
• Central Zoo (3-4 minutes walk from our Public Event Venue): http://goo.gl/maps/vjmVy
• Thamel Area (Tourist area, about 10 minutes walk from our Hotel): http://goo.gl/maps/8BJyZ
• Kathmandu Durbar Square (Historical place): http://goo.gl/maps/Qf7Td
• Lalitpur Durbar Square (Historical Place): http://goo.gl/maps/EFTZF
• Bhaktapur Durbar Square (Historical Place): http://goo.gl/maps/XUIfa
• Swayambhunath Stupa (Buddhist + Hindu Shrine): http://goo.gl/maps/L9f56
• Pashupatinath Temple (Temple of Lord Shiva): http://goo.gl/maps/yKhQ5
• Bhimshen Tower (Climb the tower to see whole view of KTM): http://goo.gl/maps/nXwSP

Sponsorship policy

Mozilla will cover all accommodation, food and travel expenses during the contributor event. This includes hotel expenses from 23-24, breakfast, lunch and dinner. You're on your own for extended stay. Please notify the travel agent to have your flights booked accordingly with your preferred date.

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