Balkans/Events:2010/Skopje
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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.
Practical Info
Date and Location
The meetup will take place in Skopje, Macedonia and will begin on Friday 21 May, with a private Mozilla staff/community meeting, followed by a public event open to everyone on Saturday 22 May, and finish on Sunday 23 May, with a private wrap-up meeting with Mozilla staff and community. (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 Breakfast from 7:00 - 9:00 Check-in after 12:00 Check-out before 12:00 - 13:00
Venue
Faculty of Electrotechnics and Informational Technology St. "Rugher Boshkovikj" 1000, Skopje Main building, in the amphitheater.
WiFi
Free WiFi networks at the hotel named:
- merak1
- merak2
Ask Gorjan/Reception for password.
Free WiFi network at the University.
Attendees
The following Balkan communities will each be represented by lead contributors:
- Bosnian community (Kerim Kalamujic & Aleksandar Savic & Muris Herak)
- Bulgarian community (Emil Stanchev & Martin Linkov)
- Croatian community (Edo)
- Greek community (Pierros Papadeas)
- Macedonian community (Gorjan Jovanovski & Damjan Georgievski & Igor Stamatovski)
- Romanian community (Alina Mierlus & Anamaria Stoica)
- Serbian community (Milos Dinic & Ivan Milenkovic)
- 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
- Pascal Chevrel - Web Localization, Mozilla
- David Tenser - User Support Lead, Mozilla
Everyone who is attending please fill out this table!
Format and Schedule
The Balkan meetup will be comprised of 3 parts :
- Day 1: [Private event] working sessions led by staff and community
- Day 2: [Public event] presentations given by staff and community to the general public (FREE and open to everyone who registers) in university auditorium + workshops
- Day 3: [Private event] Wrap-up and Goals setting
Schedule
Contact People
Gorjan Jovanovski - Local Community Leader
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
Goals Brainstorming
- Goals brainstormed on Friday can be found here
During the event
Streaming
We're will be providing streaming to users that won't be able to attend the meet-up. For more info, follow the link below:
Fun
Friday: Mozilla Night out in the town
Saturday: Balkan Surprise :)
Communication
- Mailing list
- #balkans channel on irc.mozilla.org
Official Facebook Event
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113621925334160
Meetings
UPDATE: Meeting with the balkan community have been moved here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Balkans
-- We have met every Thursday at 19:30 CET. Meetings lasted for about an hour, depending on the circumstances. Notes from the meetings can be found below:
Meetings Notes
- 2010-05-13 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-05-06 - Meeting Notes
- 2010-04-29 - Meeting 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
- 2010-05-13 - Meeting Notes
Logo proposals
Aftermath
Slides, Photos, Blogposts etc. are linked here.