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...

Talks

• 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