Balkans/Events:2010/Ljubljana
Ljubljana, the beautiful capital of Slovenia, has been declared as the next location for the second in a row Mozilla Balkans inter-community meet-up. All info on this page should still be considered as DRAFT(with some minor exceptions) as we're still in the planning phase.
Overview
The second Balkans Inter-Community meet-up will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the first week of December, 2010.
The event will consist of 2 parts: a public event and a contributor event.
The public event will take place in on Thursday December 2nd, and will be led by Mozilla Slovenia local community and Mozilla Staff. The aim of this presentation will be to present to a large audience the Mozilla project, a preview of Firefox 4 and explain how easy it is to get involved in the project.
The community component of the Balkan meet-up will take place on December 4th-5th 2010. Lead contributors from Balkan communities will be invited and sponsored by Mozilla Europe to participate in a 2-day workshop.
The aim of the workshop is to enable Mozilla communities in the Balkans to share and learn from each other's experience working on the Mozilla Project, improve collaboration in the future, and work on specific tasks, based on the 5 goals defined in the previous Balkan Meetup in Skopje and in light of the upcoming Firefox 4 release.
When
- Public event: Thursday December 2nd from 15h-20h (TBC)
- Contributor Event : Saturday December 4th from 9h to 17h and Sunday December 5th from 10h to 14h
Where
Venue (TBC)
Public event:
- Kiberpipa, the venue of Firefox 3 Release Party
- Jožef Stefan Institute
- Grad Kodeljevo
- Faculty of Computing and Information Technology
Contributor event:
- Kiberpipa, the venue of Firefox 3 Release Party
Information on Ljubljana
Format & Schedule (DRAFT)
Format
[Public event]: Presentations given by staff and local community to the general public (FREE and open to everyone who registers) in university auditorium + cultural center
[Contributor event]:
- Day 1:
- Morning: Goals overview, community presentations and discussions
- Afternoon: Work sprint (Bug triaging.fixing and specific l10n/SUMO/QA tasks)
- Day 2:
- Morning: Task review, discussion and goals update for the next 6 months
Schedule
As we're moving forward with planning, we're gonna make a table with all the talks and tasks for the contributor event. Until then, please use the Talks Proposal page to write in any idea you might have.
For all the other ideas, the ones that are not related specifically to meeting topics, use the Ideas page. On that page you're advised to put in suggestions for partying, food, general organization, tours etc.
Participants
Contributors
The following Balkan communities will each be represented by 2 lead contributors:
- Bosnian community [FILL ME]
- Bulgarian community [Ognyan Kulev]
- Croatian community [FILL ME]
- Greek community [FILL ME]
- Macedonian community [FILL ME]
- Romanian community [FILL ME]
- Serbian community [Milos Dinic & Marko Jovanovic(gotsrb)]
- Slovenian community [FILL ME]
Mozilla Staff
- William Quiviger - European Community Manager, Mozilla (TBC - contributor event only)
- Seth Bindernagel - Director of Localization, Mozilla (TBC - pubic event only)
See also detailed participants list
Practical Info
Accommodation
10 double bed rooms booked at Hostel Celica (Twitter) for 2 nights from 3rd - 5th December. It's a non-profit organisation founded by Student organization of University of Ljubljana and a former prison.
They have free Wi-Fi, but we have to use shared bathrooms. Double bed room is 24 EUR per person per night, self-service breakfast included.
Hostel Celica also offers shuttles from and to the airport. Price: 7 euros one way.
Hostel Celica, Zavod Šouhostel Address: Metelkova 8, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Phone: +386 1 230 97 00 Fax: +386 1 230 97 14 info@hostelcelica.com http://www.souhostel.com/
Travel
Participants traveling to Ljubljana by train, bus, or car are asked to purchase their own travel and request reimbursement after the meetup is over.
Those traveling by plane need to coordinate their travel with William. Please contact him as soon as possible to book your flights and avoid exorbitant prices.
All participants of the contributor event are asked to arrive in Ljubljana anytime on Friday December 3rd and leave Ljubljana on Sunday December 5th in the afternoon.
Please fill arrivals/departures table
Food
All participants will enjoy world-renowned Slovenian food throughout the contributor event. The following meals (including drinks) will be organized and paid for by Mozilla Europe :
- Friday (12/03) : Dinner
- Saturday (12/04) : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and şliboviţă
- Sunday (12/05) : Breakfast, Lunch
Sponsorship policy
Mozilla Europe will cover all accommodation, food and travel expenses during the contributor event. This includes hotel expenses from Dec 3rd to Dec 5th, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Reimbursement policy
All participants who requesting reimbursement for their expenses need to fill out the following form and send it to William (william [at] mozilla [dot] com) along with scanned copies of all their receipts.
Mozilla Europe Reimbursement Form
NB: Please make sure to get approval from William before making any purchase
Contact persons
William Quiviger [wquiviger at mozilla.com]
Milos Dinic [milos at mozilla-srbija.org]
Brian King [briks.si at gmail.com]
Matjaz Horvat [matjaz.horvat at gmail.com]
Communication
- Facebook event
- Hashtag (we used #mozbalkans10 for the first event)
- Mailing list
- IRC channel #balkans
- Bi-Weekly skype conferences
Mozilla Slovenija
To find more about Mozilla Slovenia, local Mozilla community and their work, please visit http://mozilla.si/