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Redon Skikuli
Dec 11, 2012, 12:27:38 PM12/11/12
to communit...@lists.mozilla.org, Sokol Dollani, Sanja Dibra
Dear Brian,
please also consider Albania/Tirana as a possible location for the next
meeting.
We are a new Mozilla community, but full of energy in order to promote
Mozilla more around here.
If the request gets approved this will help us be a bigger and stronger
community on a local basis.
Best,
---
Redon Skikuli
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1. Re: Balkan meeting - new proposal: Take Balkan meeting to
next level (Brian King)
2. Re: mobile app camp 30.11-2.12.2012 (Brian King)
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 23:04:05 +0200
From: Brian King <brik...@gmail.com>
To: Oskar Ivani? <oskar....@gmail.com>
Cc: Balkans <communit...@lists.mozilla.org>
Subject: Re: [Balkans] Balkan meeting - new proposal: Take Balkan
meeting to next level
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Thanks Oskar for the proposal and everyone for their feedback so far. Note
that no Balkans meeting is in the works yet.
I like the idea and scaling up the meeting and changing the structure to
make it more effective. I'm going to help with this, starting with a
meeting with Oskar and Ioana this week.
As for the location, it is a little too early to decide that yet. We'll
provide a place where locations can be nominated, and from that list one
will be chosen.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Oskar Ivani? <oskar....@gmail.com
>wrote:
> At MozCamp, Nino, Ioana and I have talked about Balkan meetings that we
are
> having every year and we discussed about how we can improve it.
> The idea was to make these meetings better, larger and more fun.
>
> We'd like to hear your feedback on how we can improve it. Thanks.
>
>
>
> *Take Balkan meeting to next level*
>
> *How should we improve Balkan meetings?*
>
> - the idea of new Balkans meeting would be sessions and workshops.
> Something similar to MozCamp. People from Balkans countries have different
> interests and different roles in contributing to Mozilla. Lets make 3 (or
> more) main sessions so people who attend to Balkans can decide which one
is
> closest to their interests.
>
> - Balkan meetings should be about sharing informations and experiences,
> learning, socialising, having fun and making new friendships.
> *
> *
> *Welcome to Balkans meeting session*
>
> Lets have a keynote, let's have an introduction (something like Community
> Quilt presentation) , let's meet each other and share some experiences and
> ideas.
>
> This welcome session would be an introduction to Balkan meeting.
>
> *Make three or more main sessions*
>
> Not all of Balkan meeting participants are interested in localization, how
> Pontoon works, or how can you run FirefoxOS on Linux. On previous meetings
> we had only one session which covered few topics.
>
> Making main sessions like we have on MozCamp will allow attendees to
choose
> which one they want to attend, so they can learn more about topics that
> they are interested in.
>
> This will make smaller groups of people who can work on something and will
> make productivity on meetings much higher. After this work groups there
> should be an output - analysis and Action Items
>
> Examples of main sessions:
>
> 1) Localization (l10n)
>
> - best practice
>
>
> - different tools / different projects
>
> 2) Community building, event organizing
>
> - identify community with fewer people - help them out
>
> 3) Develompment (B2G apps, ?)
>
> 4) Firefox - new features
> 5) Firefox OS
> 6) Marketing campaigns/insights?
> *
> *
> *Allow more participants*
>
> - on Balkans meeting, from each country we used to have two attendees, but
> new proposal would be to enable more attendees from each country. there
are
> countries that have more mozillians pretty much involved and some with
> fewer members.
>
> - more participants would mean more productivity, more ideas and
> suggestions and yes more fun .
> - Mozilla meetings give people "Mozilla spirit" and encourages people to
> get more involved with Mozilla.
>
> Main problem with maximum number from each community is budget.
> But, there are ways to save money and allow more people to attend.
>
> *How can we save money?*
>
> - use hostels instead of hotels (rooms with 4 or 6 beds?)
>
>
> - or even cheaper hotels
>
>
> - wisely pick restoraunts that are cheap but offer good venue and food
>
>
> - trade for good prices : promotion, reviews, etc - partnerships
>
> *
> *
> *4 days of meeting*
>
> Schedule
>
> - *First day*
>
>
> - if we use hostels, we can stay longer. First day is arrival and
> welcome evening event.
>
>
> - *Second day*
>
>
> - second day shold be a workshop day with pauses where we can make a
> small event like going to coffee shops and give out swag or something.
>
>
> - why making an event during workshop day? - because we need to get
away
> from work and free our minds. :) Event should take 2 hours (less or
> litle
> bit more)
>
>
> - *Third day *
>
>
> - whole day of workshop like second day, but also with event (or not).
>
>
> - *Fourth day*
>
>
> - fourth day would be a day for closing Balkan meeting and having PHUN.
> Planned sightseeing and going out.
>
>
> - NEW : have an open workshop with local FOSS Communities
>
>
> - NEW: events like free hugs from Firefox Mascot or giving free
stickers
> are very good to make our products more popular
>
>
>
> *Next meeting*
>
> - next Balkan meeting is proposed to be in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
> - should we have two meetings per year, or? If yes, when?
>
>
> --
> Oskar
> _______________________________________________
> community-balkans mailing list
> communit...@lists.mozilla.org
> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-balkans
>
--
Brian King | Mozilla Reps Mentor
https://reps.mozilla.org/u/brianking/
------------------------------
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 23:06:51 +0200
From: Brian King <brik...@gmail.com>
To: novica <nno...@gmail.com>
Cc: Balkans <communit...@lists.mozilla.org>
Subject: Re: [Balkans] mobile app camp 30.11-2.12.2012
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Great!
Don't forget to use the resources just posted at:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/11/firefox-os-video-presentations-and-slides-on-the-os-webapis-hacking-and-writing-apps/
More test phones will be rolled out here in Europe soon and hopefully we'll
be able to get one into your hands.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:16 AM, novica <nno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And now something relevant to Mozilla,
>
> In Skopje, between 30.11-2.12.2012 there is an event called mobile app
> camp. It's a business oriented event about mobile devices and apps.
>
> http://mobileappcamp.org/
>
> Damjan Georgiveski (gdamjan on irc) is scheduled to have a presentation on
> FirefoxOS / Boot2Gecko.
>
> --
> nnvc
> ______________________________**_________________
> community-balkans mailing list
> community-balkans@lists.**mozilla.org<communit...@lists.mozilla.org>
> https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/community-balkans<
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-balkans>
>
--
Brian King | Mozilla Reps Mentor
https://reps.mozilla.org/u/brianking/
------------------------------
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Redon Skikuli
e-mail: rski...@gmail.com
LinkedIn: al.linkedin.com/in/rskikuli
please also consider Albania/Tirana as a possible location for the next
meeting.
We are a new Mozilla community, but full of energy in order to promote
Mozilla more around here.
If the request gets approved this will help us be a bigger and stronger
community on a local basis.
Best,
---
Redon Skikuli
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <community-ba...@lists.mozilla.org>
Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Subject: community-balkans Digest, Vol 30, Issue 3
To: communit...@lists.mozilla.org
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When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Balkan meeting - new proposal: Take Balkan meeting to
next level (Brian King)
2. Re: mobile app camp 30.11-2.12.2012 (Brian King)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 23:04:05 +0200
From: Brian King <brik...@gmail.com>
To: Oskar Ivani? <oskar....@gmail.com>
Cc: Balkans <communit...@lists.mozilla.org>
Subject: Re: [Balkans] Balkan meeting - new proposal: Take Balkan
meeting to next level
Message-ID:
<CAKDKSNVGiineLgkVTGAkg50_...@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Thanks Oskar for the proposal and everyone for their feedback so far. Note
that no Balkans meeting is in the works yet.
I like the idea and scaling up the meeting and changing the structure to
make it more effective. I'm going to help with this, starting with a
meeting with Oskar and Ioana this week.
As for the location, it is a little too early to decide that yet. We'll
provide a place where locations can be nominated, and from that list one
will be chosen.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Oskar Ivani? <oskar....@gmail.com
>wrote:
> At MozCamp, Nino, Ioana and I have talked about Balkan meetings that we
are
> having every year and we discussed about how we can improve it.
> The idea was to make these meetings better, larger and more fun.
>
> We'd like to hear your feedback on how we can improve it. Thanks.
>
>
>
> *Take Balkan meeting to next level*
>
> *How should we improve Balkan meetings?*
>
> - the idea of new Balkans meeting would be sessions and workshops.
> Something similar to MozCamp. People from Balkans countries have different
> interests and different roles in contributing to Mozilla. Lets make 3 (or
> more) main sessions so people who attend to Balkans can decide which one
is
> closest to their interests.
>
> - Balkan meetings should be about sharing informations and experiences,
> learning, socialising, having fun and making new friendships.
> *
> *
> *Welcome to Balkans meeting session*
>
> Lets have a keynote, let's have an introduction (something like Community
> Quilt presentation) , let's meet each other and share some experiences and
> ideas.
>
> This welcome session would be an introduction to Balkan meeting.
>
> *Make three or more main sessions*
>
> Not all of Balkan meeting participants are interested in localization, how
> Pontoon works, or how can you run FirefoxOS on Linux. On previous meetings
> we had only one session which covered few topics.
>
> Making main sessions like we have on MozCamp will allow attendees to
choose
> which one they want to attend, so they can learn more about topics that
> they are interested in.
>
> This will make smaller groups of people who can work on something and will
> make productivity on meetings much higher. After this work groups there
> should be an output - analysis and Action Items
>
> Examples of main sessions:
>
> 1) Localization (l10n)
>
> - best practice
>
>
> - different tools / different projects
>
> 2) Community building, event organizing
>
> - identify community with fewer people - help them out
>
> 3) Develompment (B2G apps, ?)
>
> 4) Firefox - new features
> 5) Firefox OS
> 6) Marketing campaigns/insights?
> *
> *
> *Allow more participants*
>
> - on Balkans meeting, from each country we used to have two attendees, but
> new proposal would be to enable more attendees from each country. there
are
> countries that have more mozillians pretty much involved and some with
> fewer members.
>
> - more participants would mean more productivity, more ideas and
> suggestions and yes more fun .
> - Mozilla meetings give people "Mozilla spirit" and encourages people to
> get more involved with Mozilla.
>
> Main problem with maximum number from each community is budget.
> But, there are ways to save money and allow more people to attend.
>
> *How can we save money?*
>
> - use hostels instead of hotels (rooms with 4 or 6 beds?)
>
>
> - or even cheaper hotels
>
>
> - wisely pick restoraunts that are cheap but offer good venue and food
>
>
> - trade for good prices : promotion, reviews, etc - partnerships
>
> *
> *
> *4 days of meeting*
>
> Schedule
>
> - *First day*
>
>
> - if we use hostels, we can stay longer. First day is arrival and
> welcome evening event.
>
>
> - *Second day*
>
>
> - second day shold be a workshop day with pauses where we can make a
> small event like going to coffee shops and give out swag or something.
>
>
> - why making an event during workshop day? - because we need to get
away
> from work and free our minds. :) Event should take 2 hours (less or
> litle
> bit more)
>
>
> - *Third day *
>
>
> - whole day of workshop like second day, but also with event (or not).
>
>
> - *Fourth day*
>
>
> - fourth day would be a day for closing Balkan meeting and having PHUN.
> Planned sightseeing and going out.
>
>
> - NEW : have an open workshop with local FOSS Communities
>
>
> - NEW: events like free hugs from Firefox Mascot or giving free
stickers
> are very good to make our products more popular
>
>
>
> *Next meeting*
>
> - next Balkan meeting is proposed to be in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
> - should we have two meetings per year, or? If yes, when?
>
>
> --
> Oskar
> _______________________________________________
> community-balkans mailing list
> communit...@lists.mozilla.org
> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-balkans
>
--
Brian King | Mozilla Reps Mentor
https://reps.mozilla.org/u/brianking/
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 23:06:51 +0200
From: Brian King <brik...@gmail.com>
To: novica <nno...@gmail.com>
Cc: Balkans <communit...@lists.mozilla.org>
Subject: Re: [Balkans] mobile app camp 30.11-2.12.2012
Message-ID:
<CAKDKSNU+6XZDmH6BC6kgDiU8BEJ+q3zNCjvoORZ2P89VKi=D...@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Great!
Don't forget to use the resources just posted at:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/11/firefox-os-video-presentations-and-slides-on-the-os-webapis-hacking-and-writing-apps/
More test phones will be rolled out here in Europe soon and hopefully we'll
be able to get one into your hands.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:16 AM, novica <nno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And now something relevant to Mozilla,
>
> In Skopje, between 30.11-2.12.2012 there is an event called mobile app
> camp. It's a business oriented event about mobile devices and apps.
>
> http://mobileappcamp.org/
>
> Damjan Georgiveski (gdamjan on irc) is scheduled to have a presentation on
> FirefoxOS / Boot2Gecko.
>
> --
> nnvc
> ______________________________**_________________
> community-balkans mailing list
> community-balkans@lists.**mozilla.org<communit...@lists.mozilla.org>
> https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/community-balkans<
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-balkans>
>
--
Brian King | Mozilla Reps Mentor
https://reps.mozilla.org/u/brianking/
------------------------------
_______________________________________________
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communit...@lists.mozilla.org
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-balkans
End of community-balkans Digest, Vol 30, Issue 3
************************************************
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---
Redon Skikuli
e-mail: rski...@gmail.com
LinkedIn: al.linkedin.com/in/rskikuli
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