Balkans/Events:2010/Skopje

Brainstorming for the Balkans:2010 event

Name

• Balkans:2010
  
• Balkan MozFest
  
• Balkans:2k10
  
• Mozilla Balkans Meetup/Meeting/Gathering
  
• Moz-S.E.
  
• Mozillians@Balkans

Location

• Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.
• Sofia, Bulgaria (if we can choose)

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

Open event like FOSDEM. Need to get list of Mozilla Contributors that are coming (separate page).

• Which Balkan (and surrounding) countries are going to participate?
  • Albania
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Macedonia
  • Montenegro
  • Romania
  • Serbia
  • Slovenia

(Please add at least on representative of the local mozilla or free software community that you know or will be willing able to attend)

• The number of attendants (depends on both of the venue and Mozilla Europe budget; Gorjan needs to give us some estimates on prices)
• Number of attendants sponsored by Mozilla
  • How many fully sponsored attendants
  • How many semi-sponsored attendants
• Split the number to sponsor equal number of attendants for all communities on Balkans

Timing

• Date: 22 - 23 May (NOT OFFICIAL)
• Duration: 1-2 Days, probably Saturday-Sunday

Camp Location

Hotel offers

Skopje, capital of Macedonia

There are a couple of hotels in the center of the city.

Gorjan should investigate this. We need a brief hotels description, in terms of conf room size, spare beds at given time, location...

Conference rooms in hotels in Skopje can be quite expensive, and would attribute a too formal note on the whole event, the University should give a more informal and yet creative and open event.

Schedule

We will probably need 2 key notes from people involved at Mozilla, some community and technology evangelism. Localization and developer tracks as well.

• Keynotes - Mozilla
• Community Talks
• L10n Tracks
• Marketing
• Drumbeat (Kerim)
• Development

An hour of lightning talks will come in handy ;)

Schedule

Fun

Jovanovski: I had the idea of doing some sort of tattoo beach party Saturday night at a beach club, because we have I had a bunch of tattoos left.

Budget

Jovanovski: Give me the green light, and I'll look up hotels, prices, do bargains for massive booking and so on.

Other places to discuss

• #balkans channel on irc.mozilla.org

Meetings

2010-03-04

• Get a event name together
• Agreed on a date
• See if we can do it in the university campus to cut down costs and raise the 'sponsored' budget.

2010-02-25

• Think about increasing Firefox market share in the Balkans.
• Make the meeting open for all audiences that want to listed and attend.
• Focus on localization and spreading the word of localized versions of Mozilla software.
• Get people interested in contributing to Mozilla projects and it's mission.
• Have separate meetings for Mozillians to discuss our internal strategy and exchange ideas/experiences.