Idea behind a local floss group

[jamesmi...@googlemail.com]

Just a short idea :

A local FLOSS group, promoting free libre open source and also open
knowledge has the advantage of acting in the interest of the people of
the area. It is independent of a single project, yet works to help get
people started on partner projects (debian, fedora, openstreetmap,
wikipedia, firefox etc).

For such a group to be effective, it needs to have a NGO status, or
work with another NGO (mozilla bosnia) inside a working group. The
group should be doing the following things :

1. raising money for events (a yearly software conference)
2. organizing training for FLOSS topics in the country( inviting
speakers to come when they are in the area)
3. getting a hacklab or other type of location started.
4. providing a central address for people to come to : IRC channel,
facebook pages, google plus, webpages.
5. Coordinating Localization

Most of these things are being done already by other groups, such as
the debian and mozilla team in bosnia. This group would have members
of both and also bring in international support.

The most important lesson learned in kosovo is that we need to find
young talented people who willing to learn and to give them a chance.
Many of them are not software developers or even experts in
localization. But people who are willing to work on organizing events,
building communities and doing beginner tasks. We need to provide an
infrastructure to motivate and bring in the young people into such an
organization and give them a chance to be successful.

I have started this project in Bosnia after my discussions with Kerim
Kalamujic from Mozilla bosnia. I hope we can build a team and work on
organizing a conference in Bosnia.

thanks,
mike

[Aleksandar Savić]

yes kerim told me , and this is really great initiative , i also tried
to research what is needed to create FOSS in bosnia but I didn't found
any useful resources for me in that time , I also talked with genth ,
altin and heriod on previous balkans events and i really like what
they did and i wanted to do so also here. so at the and I'm for this
initiative too . Count on me!

P.S: Mike, thanks for starting this discussion

On Dec 15, 8:41 am, "JamesMikeDuP...@googlemail.com"

[Besfort Guri]

Yeah if you any think for me I will help you, with what I can.

Besfort from Kosovo ... :D

2011/12/15 Aleksandar Savić <aleks...@mozilla.ba>

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[Gent Thaçi]

I am happy to help!

[Mike Dupont]

Well the first thing is to get all the people in team together.
then we need to also restablish people in the #bosnia channel on
irc.freenode.net there are always people coming there.
then we need to create a bank account for collecting funds, this could
be managed by the mozilla bosnia NGO for example.
then we will start to collect money, once we get enough for a
conference we can get moving.
mike

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Gent Thaçi <gent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am happy to help!

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[Dan Brickley]

On Dec 16 2011, 1:57 pm, Gent Thaçi <gentth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am happy to help!

Likewise, if I can. I'm more on the open standards / data side of
things, but it's all part of the same wider movement...

How active is the LUG http://linux.org.ba/?c=meetings&language=bs ?
http://linux.org.ba/index.php?language=en says it meets weekly ...
(but the page is 5 years old).

Dan

[Aleksandar Savic]

TBH, never heard for some biger action or any activity , mayybe I'm not
updated on their activites but as I hear from friends that ar
participating in ubuntu comunity , fedora ans others they only register
as coordinator and don't do anything special :S , I'm not sure in this
but that is what I get (feeling of course :D )

Aleksandar
On 3.1.2012 21:32, Dan Brickley wrote:

[Mike Dupont]

Look, I have seen similar problems before, but that does not mean we
give up. Important is we work on funding a yearly conference, that
should be our first goal.
mike

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Aleksandar Savic <aleks...@mozilla.ba> wrote:
> TBH, never heard for some biger action or any activity , mayybe I'm not
> updated on their activites but as I hear from friends that ar participating
> in ubuntu comunity , fedora ans others they only register as coordinator and
> don't do anything special :S , I'm not sure in this but that is what I get
> (feeling of course :D )
>
> Aleksandar
>
> On 3.1.2012 21:32, Dan Brickley wrote:
>>

>> On Dec 16 2011, 1:57 pm, Gent Thaçi<gentth...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I am happy to help!
>>
>> Likewise, if I can. I'm more on the open standards / data side of
>> things, but it's all part of the same wider movement...
>>
>> How active is the LUG http://linux.org.ba/?c=meetings&language=bs ?
>> http://linux.org.ba/index.php?language=en says it meets weekly ...
>> (but the page is 5 years old).
>>
>> Dan
>
>

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