JRSL Chile

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This is the wiki page for a two-part Mozilla sponsored conference for the Mozilla Hispanic Community:


Summary

Mozilla is organizing a two-part conference for the Mozilla Hispanic Community:

  • Mozilla Hispano Camp (October 5-6 2009)
  • Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre (JRSL) 2009 (October 7-9 2009)

Both events will take place at la sede Santiago Sur de INACAP in the city of Santiago, Chile. Information in this doc can be displayed in either english or spanish (preferably, both). Feel free to use the language you're most familiar with.

Communities invited:

MozCamp Chile

Our goal is to bring together the Mozilla Hispanic community for two days to discuss how to improve and continue developing the community as marketshare and mindshare continues to grow.

MozCamp Chile will be a two day conference focusing on community development, l10n, marketing and add-ons. Please take a look at the schedule for additional details.

Schedule

Day 1: Monday, October 5th

Time Slot Topic
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome Talk - Sarah Doherty
09:45 - 10:30 Get Involved with Mozilla and QA by Juan Becerra
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 12:00 Get Involved with Community Marketing by Sarah Doherty
11:30 - 12:15 Labs Update by Daniel Mills
12:15 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 - 17:00 Open Discussion
17:00 - 00:00 Open Night


Day 2: Tuesday, October 6th

Time Slot Meeting Room
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote - The Amazing Growth of Firefox in South America by Chris Hofmann
10:00 - 10:0 L10n Tools Technical Demo by Seth Bindernagel
11:00 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 12:00
11:50 - 12:35
12:35 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 16:00 Local Community Building: European Examples (Construir una comunidad Mozilla local: ejemplos europeos) by Pascal Chevrel
16:00 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 - 17:00 Open Discussion
17:00 - 00:00 Open Night

Venue

Rooms and equipment furnished by INACAP free of charge.

Topics

  • How organize so many spanish localizations. How to make easy for users to know differences between localizations. Do we need just a es-Latin American and just modified search engines? (Only one localization, and then have a country option like ubuntu installation process?)
  • How can we collaborate to localize more addons?
  • How can we have more spanish documentation about the process of creation of addons and proyects code (like Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.)
  • Can we have a Mozilla Store with shipping process for LatinAmerica?

MoCo Talks

  • Chris Hofmann - The Amazing Growth of Firefox in South America
  • Seth Bindernagel - L10n Tools Technical Demo
  • Juan Becerra- Getting Involved with Mozilla and QA
  • Pascal Chevrel - Local Community building: European examples (Construir una comunidad Mozilla local: ejemplos europeos)
  • Daniel Mills- Labs Update
  • Sarah Doherty - Community Marketing and Involvement


Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre (JRSL)

One of the newer open source and free software conferences in the Spanish speaking community, expecting 1500-3000 attendees in 2009. The conference is run by Chilean open source community organizations, one of which being Firefox Chile.  We will be there to improve visibility of Mozilla Hispano in the Open Source Community and try to recruit conference attendees to the project.

Registration

Registration is free.  Your name has already been preloaded into the system and you can pick up your badge on Wednesday, October 7th when JRSL starts.

Schedule

Three day conference with a keynote (by choffman) and talks about community development, l10n, marketing and add-ons. (more details to come)

  • Link to Google Doc.

Venue

JRSL facilities

Talks proposals

  • Firefox Chile: Firefox Chile Love!, "No Funciona" Project
  • Mozilla Perú: Localizing "Mozilla": Beyond documents and strings
  • Mozilla Perú: Open Local Experiences: sharing the nitty-gritty of spreading Firefox in your local community
  • Mozilla México: Localizing Mozilla at America, a lot of languages.
  • Mozilla México: The "Firefox en la escuela/Firefox back to school" project.
  • Mozilla Argentina: Drumbeat - What is and what could we make in hispanic communities
  • ChileMoz: "Escudero Project" - Helping the users to help themselves and improve support.
  • Proyecto Nave (from Spain): When users knowledge are basic: use MiniLitmus!

Participants

Community Members

You can consult the participant's list.  Attendees are encourages to fill in their description.

Mozilla Corporation

  • Chris Hofmann - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketing_Workspace#Chris_Hofmann
  • Seth Bindernagel - Seth Bindernagel is Director or Localization at Mozilla. Prior to working on localization, he launched Mozilla's Community Giving program, which empowers Mozilla community member and helps amplify their contribution by providing strategic support. He went to graduate school at Berkeley. He presently lives in San Francisco, California.
  • Juan Becerra - Juan works a quality assurance engineer at Mozilla, and has been involved in the project for a few years, testing different products and projects, maintenance and security releases, as well as new features testing, among others.
  • Pascal Chevrel - Pascal Chevrel manages Web localization (worldwide) for Mozilla and community growth in Europe as well as press spokesperson for the Spanish market. Pascal is also a contributor in the French and Spanish communities as member of the Mozilla Hispano and MozFR projects.
  • Daniel Mills - BIO NEEDED
  • Sarah Doherty - Sarah works as a Marketing Manager at Mozilla driving the events program and contributing to the development of new programs in community marketing.  Although Sarah is fairly new to Mozila, she has been working in high tech marketing for several years at companies including Adobe, Apple and Seagate.

Travel and Accomodations

All travel and accommodation costs for participants who have received a personal email invitation by Mozilla will be covered.  All invited participants will be staying in the Hotel Diego de Velazquez. An email containing detailed information on their hotel will been sent to each invited participant after registration.


Room and Board

Rooms and Room Share

  • Participants will be asked to share a double room with twin beds. Participants who do not wish to share a room are free to stay in a single room but will be asked to pay for a percentage of the cost of their room.


Meals

  • Breakfast covered by the hotel
  • Lunch each day furnished by INACAP.
  • Dinner covered by Mozilla

Transportation

By plane

Participants flying to Santiago are asked to contact Sarah Doherty as specfied in the email they receive after confirming their registeration.

Train/Bus

Invited participants who are traveling by train or bus are asked to purchase their own tickets. Mozilla will fully reimburse them the week following the Mozilla Camp.

Reimbursement policy for travel

For those sponsored participants who have purchased their own travel, please fill in the Travel Expense Form (PDF ) or (XLS) and Wire Transfer Information form (PDF) or (XLS) and send to Sarah Doherty (sarah at mozilla dot com). Also, please make sure to send Sarah a scanned copy of ALL receipts relevant to your expense form.

Sponsored participants will get full reimbursement via wire transfer.

FAQ

Who are the JRSL/MozCamp Chile contacts?

Emergency Information

What if I want to come early or stay late?

Weather in Santiago

Tourist Places to see in Santiago

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