Balkans/Events:2015/Bucharest

Mozilla Balkans Community Meet-up

București/Bucharest, May 22-24th, 2015

Bucharest, the capital of Romania has been chosen as the next location for Mozilla Balkans inter-community meet-up. All info on this page should still be considered as work in progress. If you have any questions or concerns please mail Ioana Chiorean ( ioana at mozilla dot ro)

Overview

The Balkans Inter-Community meet-up 2015 will take place in Bucharest, Romania, on May 22-24th.

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.

When

• Schedule can be consulted here. here. Some highlights:
• Friday May 22- Arrival Day ( dinner with all participants)
• Saturday - May 23rd - First day of meetup
• Sunday - May 24th - Second day of meetup
• Sunday evening/ Monday May 25th - Departure day.

Where / About Bucharest

• All information about locations and maps are available here.

Accomodation

• Participants will stay at Hotel Novotel Bucharest City Centre
  • Adress: Calea Victoriei 37B București 010061

Participants

Contributors

• The following Balkan communities will each be represented by local contributors:
  
  
  • Albanian community - [Kristi Progri, Redon Skikuli ]
  • Bosnian community - [ , ]
  • Bulgarian community - [Pavel Ivanov, Miroslav Yovchev]
  • Croatian community - [Nikola Henezi,Ana-Maria Antolović]
  • Greek community - [Alfredos-Panagiotis Damkalis, Gian Konstantinidis, Christos Bacharakis | Konstantina Papadea (org)]
  • Kosovar community - [ , ]
  • Macedonian community - [Novica Nakov, Goce Mitevski]
  • Romanian community - [Florin Bogdan Strugariu, Cristian Silaghi (sp.), Marcela Oniga, Alexandra Lucinet]
  • Serbian community - [Aleksandra Uzelac, Marko Andrejić, Vanja Tumbas]
  • Slovenian community - [Gašper Deržanič, Nino Vranešič, Goran Kohek]
  • Turkish community - [ , ]
  • Montenegrian community - [ , ]

Mozilla Staff

As functional team there will be present employees from:

• Participation Team
  • Konstantina Papadea
  • Francisco Picolini
• Quality Assurance
  • Marcia Knous
• Support
  • Madalina Ana
  • Michal Dziewonski
• Localization
  • Francesco Lodolo
  • Matjaz Horvat
  • Axel Hecht

Goals

• still work in progress here: goals brainstorming page.

Other logistics

Food

All participants will enjoy world-renowned Romanian food throughout the contributor event. The following meals (including drinks) will be organized and paid for by Mozilla:

• Friday (05/22) : Dinner
• Saturday (05/23) : Breakfast (hotel), Lunch, Dinner
• Sunday (05/24) : Breakfast (hotel), Lunch, Dinner
• Monday (05/25): Breakfast (hotel)

Reimbursement policy

• All participants who requesting reimbursement for their expenses need to fill in a bug for it ( in case mozillian is also a Rep ) or contact Ioana/ onstantina or Frnacisco about it.
  • NB: Please make sure to get approval before making any purchase

Contact persons

• Ioana Chiorean - ioana at mozilla dot ro - phone numbers will be provided in mails.

Communication

• Reps event
• Hashtag: #mozbalkans
• Mailing list
• IRC channel #balkans
• meetings

Mozilla Romania

To find more about Mozilla Romania, local Mozilla community and their work, please visit http://mozilla.ro/ and also https://wiki.mozilla.org/Romania

Aftermath

Please check the Aftermath page.