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 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.

Goals

• still work in progress here: goals brainstorming page.
• please consider to visit Reps event too

When

• 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.

Schedule

• Schedule can be consulted here. Some highlights:

Logistics / 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
  • All participants will share double rooms

Venue

The event will take place at the TechHub

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 (at La Placinte)
• Saturday (05/23) : Breakfast (hotel), Lunch (catering at the venue), Dinner (at City Grill)
• Sunday (05/24) : Breakfast (hotel), Lunch (catering at the venue), Dinner (at Caru' cu bere)
• Monday (05/25): Breakfast (hotel)

Reimbursement policy

• All participants who requesting reimbursement for their expenses need to add their expenses on bug #1157298. If you have any questions, please contact Ioana/ Konstantina or Francisco about it.
  • NB: Please make sure to get approval before making any purchase

Currency
Keep in mind that the Romanian currency is LEU. You can exchange your currency in either at the Airport or at the city.

Participants

Contributors

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

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

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.