Balkans/Events:2011/Sofia/Aftermath/Meetup Notes

Saturday Notes

- William & Bogo Intro - New Faces = Let's introduce ourselves! - Community Update

   Slovenia

   ⁃    All here except Brian
   ⁃    Many presentations in Univ
   ⁃    Firefox 4 Party had huge attendance
   ⁃    #fail to establish connection with najdi.si 

   Greece

   ⁃    Representation on all local events
   ⁃    Weekly physical meetings will be done
   ⁃    Vibrant l10n team
   ⁃    mozilla.gr
   ⁃    demo party ideas

   Romania

   ⁃    10 active contributors
   ⁃    Roles should be assigned
   ⁃    Website transition from drupal to WP
   ⁃    More pages in English
   ⁃    Fx4 Party has big
   ⁃    Social Media outreach

   Bosnia 

   -    Firefox l10n done
   -    Thunderbird l10n on the way
   ⁃    SuMo l10n
   ⁃    Social Media outreach
   ⁃    Fx4 party
   ⁃    New local website (new look!)

   Bulgaria

   ⁃    Delegation of activities (l10n etc)
   ⁃    Offline campaign for fx4

   Serbia

   ⁃    News and social outreach
   ⁃    Support was a focus
   ⁃    L10n had some hiccups 
   ⁃    Updated website

   Kosovo

   ⁃    Two big events (fx4 party)
   ⁃    Mozilla Days
   ⁃    Thanked Albanian Translation team
   ⁃    Social Media is the way of organizing
   ⁃    Planning next big events
   -    Needs it's web site, Milos had to clear things with Mozilla

   Turkey

   ⁃    5 people but very active
   ⁃    Mostly l10n
   ⁃    Social Media outreach (new attempts on marketing)

   Israel

   ⁃    Simplifying l10n =  bringing new contributors
   ⁃    More ideas on how to grow

   Macedonia

   ⁃   l10n of Fx done by Free Software foundation
   -   Bday party + presentation done on Fx4
   -   Recent 3 breakins of mozilla.mk, maybe a wordpress 0day hack, moved to Drupal for now

- ReMo Update - L10n Update

   7,000,000 + active users in Balkans

   More than double over the past 3 years

   Mozilla World Ready

   A project to provide a global perspective for mozilla projects concerning 1l0n

   Changes on release cycle

   Pontoon

   horv.at/pontoon <Try it!

   L20n update

   Vito - l10n from localizer's POV

Reality Check FULL OF TYPOS PLEASE HELP post it notes reflecting the current situation

   Good

   More community meetups

   We do everything as community and we are really productive

   ReMo project is going to rock

   Meetings help contribs being more motuvated

   MozBalkans meetup speitit

   Mentorship

   Increased No of contribs

   Community is growing

   More people are using community webs

   Communication and familiraity in the community

   It is good to be heard and listended and see your impact

   Recruiting new contributors

   Local events

   Firefox 4 campaign

   Is great that mozillians are so cautious about l10n

   Over progress so far

   Firefox has more improvements

   Firefox is back in the Game

   Keyboard shortcuts

   AdBlockPlus

   Firefox Sync

   Pretty much everything (logos, graphics, thunderbird and content dev)

   Bad

   Communication

   Skype calls

   Using IRC

   Meeting medium/tools

   L10n

   localizers should not be expected to have programming skills

   translation procedure is too complicated

   l10n needs too many tool (all you need is a browser)

   weird l10n file formats

   doesn't support updating l10n

   lack of translation memory

   lots of unfinished l10n

   Community

   Low participation for the balkans call/apathy

   Loneliness isolation no movenmet

   Edo discouraged about mozilla / l10n team

   not enough enthusiasm

   Albania has very low delegation

   Delegation is low

   Headcount is low

   People do not know how to start contirbuting

   Our calls are not so good

   All the time we are repeating

   l10n is always the focus

   We need more managers to help starting locales

   Product Marketing

   Mozilla monster logo is terryfing

   Restarting firefox when installing addons

   Thank you

   Geeky Friends introducing me to Mozilla

   All those who organize Moz Balkans

   Balkana mOzilla community for orgniinz 

   Bogo for orgnainzgn

   for the presentations on every mozilla balkans meetup

   Bogo Georgy Emo

   Bogo Vito for driving the meetup planning

   Microsoft IE6 such a bad browser

   Fedora for making me a mozilla contributor

   Bogo and Ganfdalf

   to people to show the ways to help others

   for understanding being part of Mozilla

   Willam & Pierros for making ReMo 

   Miloc and Pascal for their assistance

   Slovenian community for support

   Seth for all of his team building efforts

   WilliamQ, WillamR, Kerim , Milos , Mary

   William for the Post-it idea

   Ideas

   Feature requests

   Awesome bar needs to pull results as you are typing

   Product 

   lets grit the release the numbers and swith to a feature driven release model with silent updates

   Make Fx not comperable to any browser

   Mozilla has bad support on Linux (open source people are our best friends)

   Thunderbird for mobile

   Rememeber all my installed addons and prefs after clear install

   L10n

   Automatic translation for webpages like in google chrome

   Let locarizers do l10n instead learing who-is-doing-what etc

   Centralization of l10n

   Comm

   Atract more contrbs for marketing

   Poppularize in business envitroment

   More live local community meetings

   Next organizer should lead the community till next meeting

   Mozilla Balkans Demo Party

   Better way to collaborate

   Share with everyone, time you can spend in Mozilla each week

   Heavy usage of Events Calendar

Discussion on Post-its Meeting on Skype?

   Kostas suggested to move on IRC

   Gandalf agreed and said they are doing the same for aviary.pl

   Bogo said that IRC takes a lot of time

   Chofmann asked what we did on the meetings

   William outlined the structure

   Nice quality on skype *but*

   No notes have been taken so far

   Rotating leadership did not work out

   Pierros suggested one leader till the next event

   Chofmanm suggested to start planning for next event from now so we can focus on the content of it (Vito agreed)

   We should prepare presentation for each meet-up (every community)

   Pushing responsibilities to the edges (WilliamQ)

   We should make talk schedules(Chofman)

   Record the meetings... so that no-one misses them

Last Session

   Chris:

   Mozilla logo 

   Restartless installation of addons

   Organizing Meet-ups >> good thing

   Axcel

   Translation tools