Balkans/Events:2010/Skopje

Brainstorming for the Balkans:2010 event

Name

• Balkans:2010
  
• Balkan MozFest
  
• Balkan MozCamp (probobly not)
  

Location

Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.

Goals

• What are the local Mozilla communities
• How to enlarge local communities and how can people get envolved
• Mutual cooperation
• Promoting the Mozilla and its projects on Balkans
• Why would a one contribute to Mozilla projects

Attendees

Open event like FOSDEM Need to get list of Mozilla Contributors that are comming

• 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: End of May, Early June maybe?
• Duration: 1-2 Days, probably Saturday-Sunday

Camp Location

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...

Schedule

The Schedule is currently being prepared. If you have any questions about it,  
please contact one of the members of the programme committee (we need one)

• Keynotes - Mozilla
• Community Talks
• L10n Tracks
• Marketing

An hour of lightning talks will come in handy ;)

Maybe we can launch call 4 papers (Bogo)

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 meet in

• #balkans channel on irc.mozilla.org